One interesting thing about working Saturdays and Sundays back in the day was seeing people moving their belongings, with sofas and chairs and bedframes and dining room sets piled high atop their buddy's pickup truck (hint: if you own a pickup, don't answer your phone on Fridays). If not a pickup, people would pile all their earthly belongings on station wagons, SUVs, four-door Impalas and I don't know what-all else.
A sure sign of moving day was coming home on Saturday afternoon and seeing sofa bolsters and cushions, cabinet drawers, and, occasionally, an entire portable wardrobe strewn alongside the roadway. Hint: if you think you've tied the load adequately, grab more rope and tighten it up some more. Nothing is worse that setting up the couch in your all-new domicile, only to find that it's short one cushion.
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Trooper Cunningham pulled over a guy (of course) driving a truck with an SUV hanging out of its back end not long ago on Highway 97 north of Okanogan.
"I suppose it's moving season," said the trooper.
One single packing strap was embracing the SUV, the kind of strap that might hold a bureau, but not a car. The unidentified driver got a ticket for failing to secure a load and fined $139, KXLY-TV reported.
And, to no one's surprise, the driver didn’t have a valid license. And the rented U-Haul was overdue for return. Both vehicles were impounded.
If you're going to be dumb, don't be stupid about it.
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