Brown Motion

News readers are some of the lowliest of us.  They basically read a screen called prompter verbatim.  Sometimes they are not awake and they read whatever they want.  Sometimes they have never heard that word before and they make up shit. An example of this dumb read it as you see it is when they announce to the world that somewhere in Boonseville a traffic light is malfunctioning and the police (mind you it has to come from the authorities) have asked people to treat it as a four way stop. Four way stop refers to a street crossing another street where all vehicles approaching the intersection  from the four directions are required to make a full stop at the stop sign.  But to use that phrase willy nilly without considering if the situation warrants it is where I get annoyed.  What if it is a T junction?  Then there are no four way stops.  How do you handle this situation now? What if there are more than two streets crossing at that light? ...