While I was filing my nonsense about a soccer game, I also was watching a white Bronco crawling along deserted L.A. freeways.
The union has appealed the termination of the colleague, Tony Platell, who said he was dismissed for disobeying an order to remain at a desert freeway checkpoint where six suspected illegal immigrants were picked up.
The California Department of Transportation will in June begin buying land to build a 63-mile high desert freeway.
The opening riffs of "Legacy" by roughneck biker band The Gone Jackals play as Ben's magnificent, exhaust-laden metal beast of a motorcycle screams down a desert freeway, terrorising a hover-limousine.
The opening riffs of "Legacy" by roughneck biker band the Gone Jackals play as Ben's magnificent, exhaust-laden metal beast of a motorcycle screams down a desert freeway, terrorizing a hover-limousine.
The freeways were deserted and airlines were grounded, but Hypermart was full.
Everything was deserted, except for people fleeing towards the freeway.
Streets are often all but deserted at night, and the district is crisscrossed by freeways whose ramps make navigating its vertiginous one-way streets tricky for the uninitiated.
At 6 o'clock on a Sunday morning, the San Bernadino Freeway heading east from Los Angeles toward the San Gabriel Mountains is deserted, and the strip malls and subdivisions that sprawl along the hillsides are still blanketed in the gray sleepiness of night.
