The Blog of the Angry Tiki

Have you ever experienced road rage?
Submitted by Question of the Day.

Every day. 

Where you live where I do, you encounter people crossing 3 lanes of traffic in one pass, driving in the emergency lanes, stopping in the middle of the highway to read a sign and check a map (or take a picture under an arch that spans the road), reversing on an off ramp/on ramp because they realized they were on the wrong one, driving with their hazzard lights blinking when it rains, going 50 mph in the fast lane (on a 65 mph limit), and slowing down to an almost stop (or stoppng) when trying to merge with highway traffic.

Every freakin' day.

Went to a going away lunch for my co-worker and friend, Aaron, at the Kona Cafe at the Polynesian Resort.

For some reason, we only go to 2 different places for going away or welcome lunches.  Awhile back I decided that I was just going to go down the menu.  The last entree that I had on the list was today's entree.  There was a reason I was leaving it for the end and I didn't care for it.

So I had room for dessert and played dessert roulette with that menu.  The Kona Cone came up and this was it.  The person across from me heard me order it and got one too.  She foolishly thought that I knew what it was.

A waffle cone with chocolate and vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, suger mickey sprinkles, a dark chocolate mickey head emerging from the top, surrounded by a cloud of blueberry cotton candy, and a handful of M&M's.

Way too much sugar for any one person... my stomach is aching now.  Good, though.

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Kona Cone

I'm still pretty tired from Sunday and haven't had much time outside of work to write an update about this until now.

I wasn't around the firework accident Sunday night, but saw the whole thing.  What is weird is that Doug, Todd, Lipman and I kept mentioning all night that some of the pyro was awfully close to the crowd when it was going off and that the winds were blowing debris towards the crowd as well.

Anyway, at the end of the entire event, there was a huge pyro display.  Large fireworks were being set off from right outside of the bowl behind the entrance/exit stage.  There were also fountains around the perimeter of the bowl (these weren't very far from people who were sitting in the tip-top rows).

They also had cables strung from the stage to the lighting rigs at the top of the bowl at the other end of the bowl.  Basically, these ran the length of the stadium and went over the crowd.  The cables had rocket type fireworks on them that were supposed to shoot down the length of the cables starting at the lighting rigs and ending on the sides of the stage.

We were in the 2nd tier of the stadium not quite in the end zone and not quite on the side of the field.  We were in that little corner area.  We were also on the opposite side of where the accident happened.

After the 3 count, we got up and left our seats and slowly made our way down to the little landing that separates the 2nd tier from the 1st tier.  Doug and I made it down there first.  Lip and Todd were still navigating the crowd.  Doug and I just watched all of the pyro.  Stuff was going off all around and then the rockets started.  I immediately saw one go straight down into the 3rd tier underneath the lighting rig where the cable was anchored.  I then saw another one almost make it the entire length, but then it dropped down into the 1st tier.  The third tier area was more of less clear of people, but the first tier was not.  That one hit right in the middle of people who were jammed together trying to leave.  Doug and I both looked at each other and remarked that we just saw several people get hurt.

Based on the news reports, the cables failed and that is what caused the fireworks to go into the crowd.  With the tension that cables are under it would have been like a whip going through the crowd too.  Some of the news reports are saying that the cables were hot and they burned people.  That may be true, but I'm betting that the cable marks on people weren't due to a burn as much as being lashed by the thing.

We were all OK.  It is a shame that the accident happened, but it also could have been a lot worse.

Wrestlemania

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Show us a beverage you absolutely can't stand the taste of.

That would be wine.  I can drink it.  I can pick up on the notes.  I can do all of that and appreciate it. I just don't like it.  I really dislike reds.