Philly's finest.

On my daily bike ride to campus today I noticed that many of the traffic lights were out. Not blinking, just dead. This actually happens quite a lot along Spruce street, for whatever reason (probably construction at Penn). Anyway, half a dozen lights were out including the one on the South Street exit from I-95. It was a little chaotic, as it always is in a city when lights don't work, and especially on rainy mornings.

So I''m thinking: this must have just happened and the city will respond to it soon. Sure enough, up at the next broken light there's a police car with lights on. But oddly enough, the car wasn't there about the taffic lights. It was there to block people from using 33rd street which was closed off for construction.

Twelve feet away from a chaotic intersection without any traffic lights a police officer was sitting in his parked cruiser. As I peered in the window I saw he was playing windows solitare.