Got meself some tickets

Yeah, I'm just a bit excited:
...and yeah, I know they're in the stratosphere, but who the hell cares? It's Penn-State-freaking-Football!

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No tickets for you

Talk about bursting my bubble. I got two letters in the mail today. One addressed to me, the other to my wife. The return addresses were the PSU alumni Blue Band ticket office. Of course, I got really excited. We've been able to get great homecoming tickets every year, and was thrilled to see PSU beat Michigan... finally, revenge.

But no:

"Penn State Alumni Blue Band Member:

Due to the demand for Penn State Football tickets this fall, we are unable to accommodate your request for the Michigan Game. We received more requests than tickets available.

Thank you for your interest in Penn State Football.

Penn State Ticketing Services"

I guess giving four years to upholding one of the greatest Penn State traditions... The freaking Blue Band! wasn't good enough. I was music section leader, a marching guide, and volunteered for most everything. We had to suffer through those terrible, horrible years of football. We had to stay happy, and try our hardest to keep the fans upbeat. Imagine what we felt when we had to stand out there for post game after a loss, having to play our songs and pretend we were happy. Now put that into Michigan Stadium in 2002, Ross-Ade Stadium in 2003, The Horshoe in 2004, and Michigan again in 2005. Yeah, it was bad.

I won't even really get into the fact that we've been paying dues to the Blue Band Alumni every year.

So that's where Penn State is. I won't tell you how to feel about it. Maybe you were lucky enough to get tickets. Good for you. It's just a little upsetting right now that it doesn't mean squat if you were in something like the Blue Band your entire Penn State career. But what do I know? Sorry, I had to rant.

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State College's finest at it again

When one Penn State student was issued a jaywalking ticket this week, it must have been like getting hit by a b-- er, ooh, wait.

Not that I want to inundate the Web with this story, but I feel this is just so outrageous, I can't let it go. You've most likely read about the Penn State student who was hit by a vehicle while trying to catch a CATA bus on W. College Ave. Then, while in the hospital, the officer who responded to the scene issued her a jaywalking citation. What a royal jackass.

I promise, this won't take long. If there were a small-town equivalent to the Bush-Cheney administration, it would be the State College Police department. It's almost as if their sole mission is to generate as much revenue as possible from tickets and citations, mainly given to college students--students who are the singular force behind the central Pennsylvania economic structure, and keeping these low lives employed. I can't tell you how many times I was ticketed less than five minutes after a College/Beaver Ave meter expired.

Here's another great one from the SCPD: I was driving down W. College Ave, and got to the intersection with Blue Course Drive. While waiting at the light, a maroon Dodge minivan traveling Southbound on Blue Course proceeded to make a U-turn at the intersection. A police cruiser was DIRECTLY BEHIND THIS VAN. Remember that, it's important later in this story.

So my girlfriend and I were kind of laughing that the cop didn't even notice this person making an illegal U-turn (a moving violation). Just as the van finished the turn, our light turned green. We made the right onto Blue Course, not too far from the van. Then, the cop actually makes the same U-turn as the van, and started to speed up. Obviously, he was going to finally make the traffic stop and nab the van's driver. NO! He pulled me over, and in a condescending tone asked me if I knew U-turns were illegal. I was ready to flip a shit on this guy, but I simply told him that the van that was right in front of his eyes made the turn, and that it's probably too far gone to do anything now. Thankfully, he believed us. To this day, I don't know what that cop was looking at. All I know is that if the rest of the SCPD is as alert as this winner, we're all in trouble.

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