Went to see Fun with Dick & Jane tonight. Hollywood has run out of ideas, but Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni, and Alec Bladwin are good enough to remake a story about Robin Hood, Maid Marion, and Prince John and make it fun. Really takes the piss out of corporate excess and finances, and I guess you all know how I feel about that now.
However, we went to see it in Masterton, and when we were driving back to the In-Laws through Carterton, I noticed some objects in the middle of the road, well before Heather did I might add, and she was driving.
The objects were signs from the Caltex station South of the town centre. Non-reflective signs set up in the middle of each lane at an unlit section of High St, and it was pouring with rain.
I got Heather to stop and I jumped out to shift the signs, and as we stopped a Nissan Terrano drove out of the service station with its lights off, drove North and then parked in the driveway next to the Park. I moved the signs, and from the pitch black vacant lot next to the service station a voice called out, "You ruined our fun arsehole."
I yelled back, "Very f__king funny pencil dick", and walked onto the lot. Stupid I know but I was channelling Quasi. They ran off.
We drove off, and the next vehicle I saw was a scooter heading North. I decided to get even, so I swapped places with Heather, drove back into Carterton and as we got to the Park, the Nissan lights up and drove South. I managed to read the license plate (WA1296), and pulled a u-turn to confirm the license plate and make and model. Mr Terrano suddenly started obeying road rules, and eventually pulled off in to a side street.
I rang the Masterton Police from the In-Laws and they said that they'd been trying to catch people in the act doing that very thing in that place.
I hope they get the bastards. That scooter would have centre punched a black sign advertising LPG. You seriously couldn't see them very easily, and I only caught a glimpse when a car heading North went onto high beam, and outlined the signs. They would have done either no, or very superficial damage to a car, but a scooter would have been messy. Bastards. Small-minded jerks.
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