Two Dotish old Men a Carnival Thing.

On Sunday morning on my way back home to Cap-De-Ville from Point Fortin via the Guapo/Cap-De-Ville main road, I got a taste of what I would call Carnival dotishness.

This should have been a normal Sunday morning drive back home, this was not to be soon we realized that cars were starting to slow down and stop. The first thing that came to mind was car accident further up the road, reason being today carnival Sunday nuff drunk people on the road and not more than 4 months ago a car flipped over mashed up a wall and the driver was killed within this same area.

I got out the car and started to walk only to realize it was not an accident but two vehicles parked on the bridge whose drivers decided that they not moving a fire truck from Point Fortin fire station and a private citizen "Mr. Mitchum".


By this time people from the neighborhood were out at the roadside, passengers and drivers had exited their vehicles. People pleaded with the drivers of both vehicles to reverse but both said that they were in the right and that they were not moving.

This was the position of the vehicles on the bridge. The cab and the front tyres of the fire truck was on the bridge and the car (an old model sunny) was three quarters of the way on the bridge, a little over 10 feet before he would exit the bridge. The drivers of both vehicles were older men, the driver of the sunny was the elder of the two both stubborn old men.

The police arrived about 20 minutes after I arrived on the scene. The people voices were sometimes raised passionate that the fire truck should reverse; it had the least distance to reverse about 15 feet where as the car about 30 feet. The lawmen talked with the drivers of both vehicles, people shouted " that why it have so much crime in the country big people no common sense" "too much damn pride" said another. These two men serve as a bad example to all young people.

This is an example of how most of the people in the protective services treat the public. They thump their chest "I am the Law clear the way when I come through, I am right all the time". They show little respect to the citizenry. It would have taken less than a minute for the fire truck to reverse instead of this almost two hour showdown before high noon.

Eventually the firemen were persuaded (after the police realized that the crowd passionate people was getting bigger) by the police men to reverse which took all of ten seconds and vehicular traffic was flowing again.

A little excitement in Cap-De-Ville was nice... Carnival Nice eh!