From The Telluride Marshal's Dept.

Dec. 16

FLATTENED STOP SIGN: A man was driving a tractor-trailer without a license, and he ran a stop sign. Not, like, he blew through the intersection. He ran over the actual sign with his truck. Let's consider this incident, ponder what it means:

Could it point to the limited influence of agreed-upon laws in the face of brute physical force, for the way in which laws are necessarily provisional when humans find a locomotion commensurate with their capacity for desire?

Could it mean the language failed? What are words anyway? What can the letters S-T-O-P do against 12 or 16 cylinders?

Could it mean legal conventions are ultimately useless? Might not the sign just as easily have read Geneva Convention? The Bill of Rights!? Civilization?!?

Or could it just mean that some biscuit-head was driving a big 'ol truck without having one clue how to do it. Here's a tip, turkeyspank: the gas is on the right, the brake is on the left, and S-T-O-P spells stop.