Not So Famous…

Ever wonder what kind of church or people Jude was talking about when he wrote,

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones…But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. They said to you, In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.

Ever wonder?

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One of the blogs I frequent, ggKimmieGal, has a great post up regarding jerks on the road. It reminded me of an incident I witnessed on the way home from Nightwish in Orangevale that I fully intended to post here, but forgot about.

I believe we had just stopped for Rockstars to keep us awake on the way home, and we were on out way back to the freeway when we saw some guy turn left into a parking lot, RIGHT IN FRONT OF A COP. When I say “right in front of a cop”, I mean that the cop had to SLAM on his brakes to avoid hitting the guy, who made his turn right behind someone else, like he didn’t want to wait for oncoming traffic to pass by.

We kinda freaked out, thinking that maybe the cop had actually hit the guy. We pulled forward to the stoplight and kept an eye on the cop. Man, he flipped around really fast, blew through the light to make a u-turn and turn into the driveway in search of the right-of-way offender. The jerk had pulled into a parking space as if to say, “ha ha, you can’t pull me over if I’m parked!” Wrong.

The cop jumped out of his car, hand on his gun and cautiously approached the vehicle while his partner got out of car and stayed behind it, using the car for cover. It was kind of surreal. You can’t be too careful, I guess, but it seemed as though the cops were sure this guy was going to jump out of his car, guns blazing.

People turn like that in front of me all the time, and I don’t mind saying that it was more than a little satisfying to see this guy do it in front of a cop. I’m not going to go vigilante, but I won’t tell you that the thought has not occurred to me with the sheer number of people I see on a regular basis who think the rules just don’t apply to them.

Anyway, it was an interesting, satisfying incident. I’m sad to see that I didn’t get to stay there and watch how the whole thing played out, as my light turned green, and I really needed to get home and sleep. (Us old people can’t stay up like we used to be able to.) But I’m glad I got to witness it.