Coupla years ago, when lovely Wentzville was doing a special event, there was a serious traffic backup. All the way up one of the exits, and at least a quarter mile on a highway... I get to the bottleneck, and there are two cruisers and three officers watching a traffic light cycle. With no cars at all coming from three of the directions. I yelled over to ask "hey, are you guys going to direct traffic? You've got a dangerous situation here!" and one of the ossifers stalked over, all 5'5" of her, and proceeded to start asking for my papers, and commence a buttchewing... Then the light changed, and I pointed, and said "I better go - it's green" and left. I stopped and talked to a fellow who looked like chief type at the town center, but I don't figure anything happened. The highway was a darn scary thing, what with a curve, and the folks suddenly trying to get over...