We're So Drunk

November 21, 2007

There's drunk, and then there's falling down, utterly shitfaced, unholy and deathly drunk. Mammoth's cops came across the latter last week. Maybe the guy was bummed over the snow situation. Or the 13 percent bed tax. Or USC's season. Or he could have been one of those people in the lottery to get one of those 10 new liquor permits and just got tired of waiting. Who knows? So this guy was staying at an motel that was not identified in the police report. He was so polluted he could not leave his room. The motel people freaked out, natch, and called Mammoth's Finest. What they found was a dude whose blood alcohol was .57 percent -- a historic high for Mammoth, and that's really something.

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Our Stupid Street

November 3, 2007

It's good to hear that Mammoth is about to do something about our big, stupid street. That would be Meridian Blvd., which isn't a "boulevard" in any real sense except that it's lined with trees. Meridian, which runs from Old Mammoth Road up to Chair 15. is more like a runway. It has four traffic lanes, no sidewalks to speak of except up by the golf course, and it has a preposterous traffic light at Minaret Rd. It's a boulevard in the same sense that U.S. Hwy. 395 is a boulevard. Meridian has a 40 miles-an-hour speed limit and no sidewalks, so the moms with their strollers, the dogs with their humans and the pedestrians with their sneaks have to dodge drivers who are often generous in their interpretation of 40 miles an hour. In 2009, though, sanity might make a stand, right there at the corner of Meridian and Minaret.

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