Let’s keep up the momentum Austin!

It's almost 8am. Are people just stuck at the parking lot?

Just some classy north ATX neighbors flushing their car fluids into our sewage, putting all of the local wildlife and pets at risk. As long as you clean it out of your own driveway, right? Just 5 dudes sitting there like they didn’t even do anything wrong. Absolute Trash. Has been reported to 311

Saw these guys doing God knows what on a very chaotic Sunday in Austin

If you are angry about the 0.01% buying local law enforcement and our roads for F1, aside from voting over the next week or so for people willing to stand for the community, please feel free to post a comment here for APD:

[Edit - not only did this link come down, they removed the “Contact” link from the dropdown menu on the upper right of www.austinpolice.com. Snowflakes.]

https://www.austinpolice.com/contact

Sample text:
“Police” escorts for F1 attendees should be limited to follow posted speed limits and running without sirens. A millionaire sitting at a stoplight or driving the speed deemed to be the maximum safe speed on highway 71 is not a public emergency and dilutes the authority of unmarked emergency vehicles running sirens during a true emergency. If APD is not allowing officers to provide these escorts, it is at minimum turning a blind eye to blatant reckless driving and public endangerment on the part of other off-duty officers. This type of behavior only serves to further reduce support, respect, and trust of APD.”

There are no songs with lyrics f—k the fire department.

ETA: this has nothing to do with taxpayer money or funding for APD. This is about off duty peace officers (not just APD) taking up side hustles that allow the ultra wealthy to endanger the rest of us with reckless driving while APD turns a blind eye - as they have to most traffic enforcement since COVID. I get that some of you are in favor of APD getting alternative revenue streams. Are you also in favor of renting out the US Air Force or maybe TxDoT? APD (and the Air Force and TxDoT) are publicly funded agencies that exist to provide a service to ALL of us. They are not meant to generate revenue. The laws passed to establish them or that govern them exist to facilitate provision of that service. We call soldiers that play bodyguard to billionaires on weekends “mercenaries”. We don’t authorize them to invade other countries in their free time to make extra money. If peace officers want to moonlight to provide escorts to the wealthy, have at it - in their private vehicles, and follow all of the same laws that the rest of us are bound to follow. Don’t threaten the public with fines or arrest if they fuck up your side hustle. No complaints then. But fuck anyone that says a millionaire gets precedence over the rest of us or gets to endanger the rest of us. What’s next - “Doordash +++ ULTRA” where you can pay more to have an off-duty peace officer escort your dinner to you in record time by blowing through stoplights and doing 120 on the freeway? So dumb!

Caught him in my shed and released in my garden (didn't want him trapped in the shed). Really cool teeth, I've never gotten a very good picture of them until now. The teeth are shaped like little castles if you look closely enough. Please ignore my gardener nails.

Forewarning I did not steal this. It was placed on my door awhile ago with no knock and I left it until it was decently cold in hopes the original person who ordered it would pick it up. I knocked on my neighbors doors and they didnt know anything or didnt answer. Sorry Ryuya, I hope you got a refund!

We were all really touched by the gesture. I was uncontrollably smiling for like 30 mins after and I even called my friend to tell them about it when I got to my car. I love Austin. We will be paying it forward <3

Recently, I just realized that I have access to New York Times and Wall Street Journal through Austin public libraries and I do not need to pay any subscription fees.

Just wonder what other benefits are provided by city of Austin that you didn’t realize before, not limited to libraries, any public services and benefits are welcome to share.

I saw a blue slammed Chevy Silverado with a loud exhaust driving like a fucking lunatic behind me. I got out of his way maybe a minute before he slammed into you. I have video of him for you to send to your insurance company while he was briefly ahead of me. I saw the collision in my mirrors, since I was paying attention to him when he was behind me again and knew he would do something stupid. I unfortunately don't have footage of the actual collision.

If you were involved in this, I have his license plate and can be your witness for insurance. DM me for my contact info. I called 911 to report this, and even though it seemed he hit you at close to 25 mph and you may have been hurt, APD told me police were preoccupied, even though he waved a gun at me through his window because he presumably knew I was driving slowly to get his plate number. Whatever. I will be submitting whatever info I have to APD on the online reporting form. When I do that, I can send you the info to send to your insurance.

I'm sorry I couldn't stop. There was no shoulder. By the time I was able to get the guy's plate, I was too far from you anyway. Hopefully APD at least sent someone to check on you, and I hope you are okay.

I was half hoping there’d be cash in there, but this was a nice note too!

Since all of our law enforcement are busy ubering.

This was over at the parking lot under Mopac next to the tennis court at Austin high school

Given all the things this weekend figured a good Saturday to record a time lapse. Unsure exact start/end times but capture frequency is once every 2 seconds so this should be about 5 hours of elapsed time - 1 hour for every minute. Captured on GoPro 13.

For F1.

Saw this beauty twice this morning flying over the lake. Both times it was run off by an Osprey. Just after this they had a mid air fight. I’m over the moon right now!