Last Night's Amusing Event on the LFP....

Coming home last night @10 pm from River North I almost decided to take Dearborn (North) but decided at the last minute to jump on the LFP at Oak.

Turned out to be a brisk but beautiful ride home on a deserted LFP.

Maybe 40 feet short of the parking entrance at North I see a small passenger car - clearly not CPD or Parks Dept - driving right at me down the middle of the path. It was only going maybe 5-6 miles an hour so at first I wasn't terribly worried.

When he saw me oncoming he thew the car in reverse and drove back on the path to the entrance gates where he struggled to turn around.

I thought he might of been drunk so I went over to the driver's side window (rolled down) thinking I could help him out of the car or at worst report him.

I told him you aren't supposed to be driving on this path - that he could easily kill somebody who was not expecting a vehicle - and in a Southern drawl thick as molasses he explained he was from Arkansas (as his plates showed) and had no idea where he was.

The guy could not have been nicer - and more sorry - so I pointed him onto LSD going North and that was that.

Good times.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on December 2, 2016 at 3:58am

Wow!

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Permalink Reply by Mark on December 2, 2016 at 4:32am

I had a similar encounter with a lost cabbie on the LFT just south of Recreation Drive. This was after a heavy snow and with high snow banks where the LFT crosses the Belmont Harbor entrance. It was dark and I could see how it may have been confused as a 4-way intersection and the guy was looking for a way out to the south, which there isn't of course.