Motorcade Madness
While the protest with the Vanderbilt Students for Nonviolence (VSN) raged outside the SLC, the real insanity started only after General Petraeus had left the stage. A group of us freedom fighters were walking back to Towers after making our voices heard when we were attacked!
It all happened so fast, but I remember that we had just started crossing 24th Avenue when a motorcycle cop almost hit us. He was going way over the 15 mph speed limit (nice enforcement VUPD…) and then– imagine this– he stops in the West End intersection! I mean can you believe this shit?
After abusing his authority and stopping in the intersection, he turns toward the traffic and stops each car with a mere hand gesture. Some people!
As he raised his hand to stop the traffic, and as we began to wonder what had possessed this policeman to cause a traffic pileup, we turned around and were clipped by not one, not two, but SIX Cadillac Escalades going at least 85 mph through Vandy’s campus. The only thing I can remember was the sound of “Big Pimpin” blasting out of the last Cadillac’s windows at the level normally reserved for a Friday frat party. And as quickly as we caught a whiff of whiskey and cigar from one of its open windows, the motorcade was gone.
Damn you, Petraeus! My clever and witty sign, which I had spent hours agonizing over during our VSN planning meetings, was smashed, along with my sense of confidence in our cause. Because, lets face it, how cool would that be to have the police, Cadillac, and Mr. Jack Daniels all working for you? So, General, any chance you could deliver an internship offer along with a Get Well Soon card to my hospital room? Working with you may be better than the Peace Corps after all…
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