Traffic School

This episode of Traffic School begins with what sounds less like a legitimate radio program and more like two men standing outside a post office trying to resurrect the concept of 19th-century bounty hunting. Wanted posters come up almost immediately, along with the horrifying realization that Speaker 1 apparently considers himself an “outstanding young man,” despite the conversation rapidly turning toward suspicious behavior, mysterious electricity usage, heat sensors, and a house glowing so brightly that the government apparently needs to be informed. The conversation then takes a hard left into neighborhood fire trucks, elderly neighbors, Arizona vacations, and an absolutely bizarre story that is teased but never fully revealed because apparently even Traffic School has standards somewhere deep beneath the basement floor. Then, suddenly, it is time for actual law questions.

The first major legal crisis involves a supposed dine-and-dash, except the alleged criminal mastermind insists he actually paid. During a birthday dinner for Peaches, the restaurant payment system apparently displayed multiple tickets, the correct bill was selected, the payment was processed, the waitress confirmed everything was fine, and everyone left. Later, however, the crew discovered that another group had apparently departed without paying, while a friend had paid the original bill. The payment itself initially showed as pending, creating a spectacular bureaucratic nightmare in which one person had apparently paid, another person had apparently paid, and everyone was now wondering who had technically stolen dinner from whom. The discussion spirals into whether dine-and-dash can become theft, whether intentionally entering a business with the plan to steal food could constitute burglary, and whether eating more than $1,000 worth of food would transform the situation into grand theft. The answer, delivered with the confidence of a man who has already been accused of crimes he didn't commit, is essentially: Carl, stop committing felonies.

The episode then produces an incredible flashback involving Pizza Hut and a police captain who generously offered to buy pizza for everyone after a day at the gun range. The captain paid for his own meal and the lieutenant's, then apparently vanished into the sunset while everyone else assumed the bill had been handled. The waitress eventually stopped the remaining group and revealed the horrifying truth: the captain had not actually paid for everybody. He had merely paid for himself and one other person, leaving the sergeant to discover that he had accidentally inherited an entire restaurant bill. It becomes a masterclass in the ancient law-enforcement technique of saying, “The other guy said he was paying.”

Then comes an actual public-service announcement: school is back in session. Drivers are urged to watch the yellow flashing lights because ignoring them may result in the sudden appearance of red and blue flashing lights. The hosts discuss people flying down Alameda Road, children riding bikes and skateboards, kids on electric scooters, and the general nightmare of trying to navigate roads while children are simultaneously excited about returning to school and apparently operating under the assumption that traffic laws are more of a suggestion. The conversation emphasizes defensive driving, paying attention, adding time to your commute, and remembering that Idaho is still in the “100 deadliest days of driving.”

Then the show returns to the crucial matter of parking your car facing the wrong direction. Apparently this is generally governed by city ordinance, leading to a story about Burley enforcing the rule with enough enthusiasm to become a recurring character in the episode. Speaker 1 recalls parking backward in front of his own house, only to have an officer come to his door and inform him that his vehicle was illegally positioned. Unfortunately, the story gets worse because the car also contained a garbage bag full of beer cans from band practice. Although the beer cans were apparently leftovers from the previous night and the driver wasn't intoxicated when confronted, the visual of a police officer approaching a car parked illegally backward in front of a house containing a suspicious bag of beer cans is objectively spectacular. Somehow, he received only a warning.

That leads into the bizarre discussion of seat-belt enforcement, including the claim that a seat belt violation is generally a secondary offense but that Burley apparently operates according to its own mysterious gravitational field. The hosts joke about officers finding additional reasons to initiate a traffic stop, including broken taillights and speeding. A story about an 80-mph freeway on-ramp then gets dragged into the conversation, with the horrifying realization that admitting “I'm used to getting on the freeway at 80” may not be the optimal strategy when speaking to law enforcement. The segment eventually clarifies the distinction between primary and secondary offenses and whether passengers or drivers can be cited when children aren't properly buckled.

And then everything gets weird.

The hosts suddenly ask whether guillotines are legal to possess. Nobody seems entirely certain, but the working theory is essentially that owning one may be legal while using it is where the problems begin. This leads directly into a story about a man who allegedly drove from California to Washington, D.C. with a gigantic guillotine mounted on the back of a flatbed truck. The group becomes increasingly fascinated by the logistical nightmare of transporting a giant head-chopping apparatus across the entire country without being stopped, especially because the guillotine apparently towers over the truck and might have presented a potential height violation. The conclusion is that even if the authorities weren't concerned about the historical implications of the device, somebody should probably have noticed the enormous guillotine sticking into the sky.

The episode then receives a call from Deborah, who asks whether it is legal to have a hangman's noose hanging from the ceiling of your house. This question somehow leads to the revelation that Deborah owns multiple coffins built by her deceased husband, keeps swords and axes around the house, used to have a guillotine in her living room, got married on Halloween inside a funeral home while everyone was dressed in black, and apparently considers this all perfectly normal. The hosts attempt to process the fact that this is a real person's actual home while Deborah calmly explains that she and her husband simply loved Halloween. The conversation eventually becomes an accidental architectural tour of what may be the most intimidating house in Pocatello.

That naturally leads to human remains. Another caller asks about transporting a casket or skeleton in a privately owned vehicle. The discussion distinguishes between decorative or 3D-printed skeletons and actual human remains, before the hosts discuss Idaho's law concerning human remains taken from graves or burial sites. Lieutenant Crane explains that, as of July 1, Idaho made it a felony to own, sell, or lease human remains taken from a grave, and that advertising them for sale is prohibited as well. The discussion then somehow turns to Facebook Marketplace and the horrifying possibility that someone might actually be browsing local listings for human bones.

The skeleton conversation gets even darker when the hosts discuss excavators who have accidentally uncovered human remains in the region. In those cases, Idaho State University was reportedly brought in to help determine details such as approximate age, sex, and time period. The discussion then drifts toward old mining areas, remote mountain locations, unidentified skeletons, and the possibility that somebody could stumble across remains that might be connected to an unsolved case. Suddenly Traffic School has transformed from a show about traffic citations into an extremely low-budget archaeological investigation.

Carl then calls back with perhaps the most deranged family request of the entire episode: his relatives allegedly asked him to dig up his own grandmother so the family could redo the funeral. Lieutenant Crane explains that exhumation is not something you simply decide to do on a Saturday afternoon; there are legal procedures and court orders involved. Carl, understandably, declines the opportunity to personally excavate his grandmother. This sparks a conversation about historical grave robbing, people grinding up mummies for bizarre medicinal purposes, and the truly disgusting history of human remains being treated as commodities. Carl then delivers the day's most important public-service announcement: don't buy body parts.

As if the episode hasn't already crossed every conceivable line, Peaches calls from vacation. We learn that he is apparently selling off his possessions, writing some kind of manifesto, and living through what sounds like an aggressively dramatic personal reinvention. The hosts also revisit his birthday gift: a gigantic blue inflatable anime woman, which is described in increasingly ridiculous terms and treated as both a meaningful birthday present and a potential future Facebook Marketplace listing. The conversation then veers into whether the inflatable woman could somehow qualify as a passenger in a carpool lane, which is exactly the kind of legal question that only Traffic School could produce.

Peaches' actual traffic question involves a teenager tailgating him, flipping him off, and taunting him at a red light. He wonders what would happen if he got out of his car and taunted the teenager back. The answer is essentially that while being insulting isn't necessarily itself the crime, physically escalating the confrontation is an extraordinarily bad idea. The group then imagines bringing the inflatable anime woman into the confrontation as a fake girlfriend, which somehow becomes an elaborate attempt to shame the aggressive teenager by pretending the inflatable woman is appalled by his behavior. At this point, Traffic School has officially entered a dimension where legal education and inflatable anime-based conflict resolution coexist.

Steve O. from Mudvayne then asks whether there should be legal roadside combat for road rage. His proposed system involves two angry drivers pulling off the road, signaling their willingness to fight, and settling disputes through some kind of modern-day trial by combat. The hosts enthusiastically imagine little colored flags or flappers on cars to indicate when someone wants to duel. Eventually they acknowledge the obvious flaw: physically attacking another driver is still going to land you in serious trouble, regardless of how emotionally satisfying it might feel after someone has been driving ten miles under the speed limit. The fantasy continues through old-fashioned saloon duels, gloves being slapped across faces, and the possibility of challenging the wrong person and immediately discovering that your opponent is significantly better at fighting than you are.

Finally, Donna calls with a legitimate question about a flashing school-zone sign in Rigby. The answer is refreshingly straightforward: if the posted sign says the reduced speed applies while the lights are flashing, then that reduced speed applies while the lights are flashing, even if there are no children visibly standing around at that exact moment. The show closes with another reminder to drive carefully over the weekend, followed by an announcement about the farmers market, where tickets to the Museum of Idaho, Idaho Falls Zoo, and Yellowstone Bear World will be available while donations are collected for the Idaho Food Bank. After approximately an hour of discussing dine-and-dash accusations, illegal parking, seat belts, guillotines, skeletons, coffins, grave robbing, funeral-home weddings, inflatable anime women, roadside combat, and the importance of not buying human body parts, Traffic School finally reaches the only reasonable conclusion: today's show was interesting.

What is Traffic School?

The official replay of the weekly KBear 101 live call-in show featuring Viktor Wilt and Lieutenant Marvin Crain of the Idaho State Police. Join the show with your questions live every Friday morning at 8:45AM at RiverbendMediaGroup.com!

Speaker 1: Arrest this man. He looks gilly. Yeah, he's he's harassing me.

Speaker 2: I've seen guys look like him before.

Speaker 1: I'm a very outstanding young man. Yeah.

Speaker 2: Used to be hung up at the post office.

Speaker 1: Yeah, we do need to bring bring back the good old-fashioned wanted posters.

Speaker 2: I used to love that in junior high going in there and looking at him, go, those are some bad boys.

Speaker 1: That's right there. Well, dead or alive. Look at that handsome fella. Time to do some bounty hunting. Heck yeah. Oh yeah. So how's Lieutenant Graham today? Hey, it's raining. It's raining. Good.

Speaker 2: If you ever open a window in here, you'd know that.

Speaker 1: I don't like to really do anything relating to outside.

Speaker 2: No, let's correct that. You just don't like to do anything.

Speaker 1: That too. That too. I was looking at the list of tasks for the day, and I'm like, ugh. Why? And then I gotta go to the farmer's market tomorrow.

Speaker 2: You're the furthest thing I've ever seen from a farmer. What?

Speaker 1: You just don't know. You just don't know what I farm. Well, maybe inside. Please don't visit my house. Produce.

Speaker 2: Why do you use more electricity than anybody else on your block? It's on a very strict timer.

Speaker 1: It And spikes at this time every day. Yep. Don't do that, people. You'll get in trouble. They're watching.

Speaker 2: We brought a heat sensor through your neighborhood. Man, your house was glowing.

Speaker 1: That's why we just do it at the transmitter sites. There you go. Lots of cooling and there's enough power and heat going through there you'll never know. I pulled up at my house after work yesterday and uh there was a fire truck in the cul-de-sac. Three fire fighters or whatever. They looked like cops. They're called heroes. Heroes. Okay, there we go. And I'm like, everything okay, dudes?

What's going on? You know, I I live with a or surrounded by a bunch of old people. So I'm like, oh no. Who died in the neighborhood? Uh they were just testing fire hydrants. So they just opened it up, made a mess and left.

Speaker 2: Does that group of people go down to Arizona with you? Uh to your special place.

Speaker 1: No, that's that's different. That's different old people. That's different old people. They are old. They're just not my neighbors. And you go down to Arizona, you know, often enough. I know I know that. Everybody's got their, you know, fun activities they enjoy doing when on vacation when far away from home.

Speaker 2: I don't think it's hanging out with nude old people.

Speaker 1: Hey, you gotta try everything once, right? Well, it might you suddenly discover it's your thing. You're like, I've been missing this my whole life. What do I do? I'm the coolest guy here. All right. Um I think Victor and I could work our way around that story. It's a tough one, but there are ways to do it. It would be very hard to work around that one. Yeah, there were certain aspects that are the funniest parts that I go, all right.

How do we get that across to the listeners? That is an amazing story. Very shocking story you just told us.

But you all just have to wonder. It's traffic school powered by the advocates time, everybody. 208535-1015. The number to call if you'd like to ask us something about the law. Jay, do you have something you want to ask Lieutenant Crane about?

Speaker 3: We wrote something down a day or two ago. Do you remember what we're talking about? Oh, yeah, we did.

Speaker 1: We did take a note. I think. Did you spell it right? Probably not. I think it was yesterday that we did that. But okay, we got a caller. That will give me some time to figure out what that was. All right, K-Bear. You are live on traffic school powered by the advocates. Who's this?

Speaker 4: How much is a ticket for a dine and dash? Maybe that's what it was. A dime.

Speaker 1: It might have been something relating to a dine and dash, which reminds me. Yeah, I need to make some phone calls today. Um, Oh!

Speaker 2: am I amongst a thief?

Speaker 1: An accused thief. Did you forget something? We'll we'll get into it in a minute. What what is the charge for dine and dash? A misdemeanor theft or something?

Speaker 2: Theft. Did you do it on purpose? Okay. If you done it on purpose, it's a burglary.

Speaker 1: Uh wow. Well, no. And no. I didn't do it at all. All right. I was at an establishment that I won't throw under the bus.

Speaker 2: Poor mom and pop's place that they can't pay their bills.

Speaker 1: Oh, no, this is this is a national chain. They should have blood.

Speaker 3: Victor doesn't like good food. What do you go to a mama pop's place?

Speaker 1: It was Peach's birthday celebration.

Speaker 2: You stiffed him for everybody's meal. Because Peaches can't eat a lot.

Speaker 1: He used to, but now he's you know Peach is losing his mind. We won't get into all that. He's writing a manifesto. He's selling all his possessions. He's off for a week.

I don't know. So there you go. Uh crazy Carl.

It would be a uh theft. No, I go to this uh establishment. We you know, have a meal. You gotta pay with the little thing at the table.

So the thing was popping up with multiple tickets. And I'm like, all right, this one's ours, right? To the waitress. And she's like, yep. So I pay it.

It's kind of weird. And I'm like, okay, the payment went through, right? She's like, yep, you're good to go. So we leave. I guess about 15 minutes later, she comes back to the table because everybody else stayed. And uh she's like, Oh, those guys left without paying. I told him they did, but they didn't. So uh a mutual friend of ours, he pays our bill. I find out about it yesterday from Peaches. He's like, dude, you left without paying.

Speaker 2: And like, no, you paid a lot.

Speaker 1: I was like, I did pay. And I even asked specifically if the payment went through. So I pull up my app, you know, and there's the charge, you know, pending, call the place.

They're like, well, until it's gone through, we can't do anything about it. So then later in the afternoon, payment went through. So I paid. I have proof. And they charged him too. So yeah, we've got to like work as a team now. So can you charge them for theft? Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2: They got you. No, we just go there to eat today.

Speaker 1: But I Made me very grouchy yesterday morning for you know, one of the first things I hear is you're a dining dasher. Can't win. So there you go, Carl.

Speaker 4: So I eat a lot. If I ate over a thousand dollars, would that become a felony? Wouldn't that be grand theft?

Speaker 2: Anything you do is a felony, Carl.

Speaker 4: Everything I do is that felony.

Speaker 2: There's a lot of uh things that would go into that, right? First of all, if you went in there and you had told somebody prior to going in, hey, I'm gonna go in and eat uh food and leave without paying. You entered there knowing you're gonna commit a crime, that'd be a felony, that'd be a burglary. Now that'd be interesting to go into court and push that off. I'm sure that'd get reduced down to a misdemeanor. But anytime you enter a building and plan on committing a crime, that's a burglary. Uh so be cautious on that.

Now, not saying that would happen, but if you went in and caused a certain amount of damage or loss in value, yeah, it could be a felony too. I mean, yep.

Speaker 1: Yeah, it was the slowest dining dash ever, just slowly strolling out with the leftovers.

Speaker 2: I years ago, now I feel bad about telling the story because my boss is now passed on, but we were all out at the gun range, and I said, Man, you know what would be good, captains if we all stopped at Pizza Hut when it was still open on Broadway, and we all get some pizza, and you take the guys out of gals, and it'd be good to visit with each other and team up here, and so he's like, Yeah, that's a great idea. And he goes, you know what? I'll get every you let everybody know I'll get their pizza today. And I'm like, that's perfect. So I tell everybody, hey, captain's buying pizza, everybody made a pizza hut when we get done, we hurry and eat. He he uh says, Hey, I gotta take off. And I'm like, okay, so I see him go up to the register, I see he pays and leaves. So I get to get up to leave, and uh the lady's like, hey, hey, where do you think you're going? And I said I said, Didn't didn't he pick up the bill? And she's like, Yeah, for him and the lieutenant, but he said, You're the sergeant, you got yours and everybody else's have to remember that technique.

Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that guy Brian over there, he's got money. He enjoys paying my bill.

Speaker 4: Hey, pay it backwards, right? Exactly. Uh oh. So uh just a quick public servants announcement. Uh school's back in session, so watch out for the yellow blinking lights, or you're gonna see red and blue blinking lights. Uh yeah. I don't know. That's a good thing. A lot of people.

Oh man. No, you know, I I see so many. I drive by Alameda Road and people just flying through there. And uh, you know, about once a week we'll see an officer sitting on the corner, and then people slow down, but yeah, watch out for the kids, you know.

Speaker 2: You know what I find out from talking to Carl? He's everywhere but work.

Speaker 4: Hey You're work harder at not working, you know. You you get a method going. So uh uh quick traffic school question. Uh say you pull up to your house and you park on the wrong side of the street, like facing the opposite direction. Uh do officers really enforce that? I mean, what's the ticket for that? Parking in the wrong direction.

Speaker 2: Th that comes from a city ordinance most of the time. And so it depends on what the city ordinances are, and it depends. I I've seen cities that enforce that, and uh depends on I and I see the cities that don't. So yeah, it would be an ordinance uh violation.

Speaker 1: I know one dump of a town that enforces that, so do I. That'd be uh burley. Because As I was parked in front of my own house in a neighborhood, and uh they certainly walked up to my door, you know. They notified you first. Uh yeah, they they did uh come up to the door and go, you know you're parked illegally.

Speaker 3: I'm like You're sure it wasn't the smell of the cloud emanating from the house that you lived in. No, but what does that like?

Speaker 1: story What does make the story kind of funny is at the time we were having band practice at a place where we had to like clean up when we were done.

Speaker 2: No kidding had called no commonality.

Speaker 1: Well we couldn't like leave the garbage there. So we had a garbage bag in my car that was just not like pack shake and no, no. It was it was beer cans. It was beer cans and a certain way. With wants in them. So he let he had looked in the window.

Speaker 2: It was all your base players.

Speaker 1: Actually, That's always a the base player.

Speaker 1: And so you're like, well, what's up with all what's up with all these beer cans? And I'm like, well, you know, at the place we jam at, we can't leave the beer cans there. So I was gonna throw them away, but clearly I was in a hurry to just get home, the hands parked illegally backward in front of my house. I'll go turn it around.

Speaker 1: So uh I guess you know, that they were in the back, you know, and I I wasn't like hammered, hadn't been driving because it was like the next day or something, but

Speaker 2: you did that night, but not when they were there.

Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Exactly. But he did not give me a ticket, gave me a warning. What a nice guy. Yeah. I've gotten a few warnings in Burley. Uh I got pulled over once for uh not wearing a seat belt.

Speaker 2: You can't be pulled over for no seat belt.

Speaker 1: In Burley you can. What they do is then they make something else when you go I'm trying to get to work, sorry. I I was in a hurry. And then they go, Well, you were also speeding. And I'm like, I saw you there. I'm not gonna go speeding past you.

There's nobody out right now. This is the main road in town. I know the speed limit. Speaking of that, you know, you were talking about school zones on the main road in Burley is an elementary school, and it doesn't have a school zone in front of it. Like uh you can just barrel past 30 miles an hour. I'm not the person who wants to hit kids at high speed, maybe other people in Burley, but town's a mess.

Speaker 2: So let's clarify that to the listeners. A seat belt is not a primary offense, except in Burley. Yeah. In California. Unless you're Victor.

Speaker 1: Then it's all of a sudden, oh, did you notice your tail light was broken out? Yeah. As you walk up.

Speaker 1: Oh, that just broke. All of a sudden. Weird.

Speaker 2: When Victor's like, I was not speeding, your tail lights broken out. No, it's not. Officer walks back. Yes, it is.

Speaker 1: But I should have remembered instead of you know, the other time I got pulled over in uh Pocatello on the freeway because I barreled up to 80 miles an hour on the or on the on-ramp. And uh, you know, I was like, Oh, sorry, I'm just you know, used to getting on the freeway at 80. Oh, you make a habit out breaking the law. I should have just said, No, I didn't, because uh apparently no, I didn't works in Burley. I didn't get a speeding ticket or a seatbelt ticket.

Speaker 2: So back to that seat belt, secondary fence, need to have a primary fence to make the stop. And then once you make the stop on a primary offense, you can enforce a seatbelt citation. Gotcha. There you go, Carl.

Speaker 4: So is is is no I didn't. I would that work.

Speaker 2: Well, now the question becomes if you're a passenger in the car not wearing your seatbelt, and the driver gets pulled over for speeding, can you get a seatbelt ticket?

Speaker 1: I would assume the passenger could, right? The passenger can.

Speaker 2: Now it's juveniles in the passenger seat, not wearing the seatbelt, you can also cite the driver for not having the juveniles buckle up for being a bad parent.

Speaker 1: Remember when I used to let you ride on the deck of the back window? Oh yeah. Good thoughts, you guys.

Speaker 1: Yeah, you too, Carl. I hope you have a good weekend, man.

Speaker 4: All right, you guys do it, man. Have a good one. We'll talk to you soon. See ya. All right, later, man.

Speaker 1: Good riddance. You leave. You get. Jade Davis has exited the studio. All right. 208-535-1015, the number to call for traffic school powered by the advocates. I did find the question Jade and I were going to ask you about. Are guillotines legal to possess?

Speaker 2: I don't know. That's a hard one for Army Dan, because I don't know the download the rule, but I would say you could probably possess them. Just don't use them.

Speaker 1: Okay. Well, I did you see the story about the guy who drove from California to Washington, DC with a guillotine on a flatbed on the back of his truck. Let me pull up the picture because I'm like, how did this guy deliver a message? Well, they they didn't get that far in the story, but you know, when you get near uh like the White House, they tend to pick you up when you have a guillotine on a flatbed. Um, but how the guy made it across the whole country.

I I just don't know how you would not get pulled over at some point for. Let me see if we got one here. Yeah, look at this thing. Look at it.

Oh, geez. Now it won't let me see. It wants me to buy a subscription.

I'm not buying a subscription. Look at that thing. It's like that is big. And it's sticking way up over the top of the you can see the you know uh roof of the truck there. How do you make it across the entire U.S. driving like that?

Speaker 2: That looks like a height violation. Where is our commercial vehicle specialist?

Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. I mean, there's numerous problems here. It does look like a height violation. You're not gonna be able to go under any bridge, and it's a guillotine. It can chop people's heads off.

Speaker 2: That's why they're afraid to stop in there. Like, I'm not getting in that.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess that's a good point. Somebody driving with a guillotine might be a little bit uh unhinged.

Speaker 2: Let's see, I don't have any backup. You just keep going.

Speaker 1: 208-535-1015 is the number to call for traffic school powered by the advocates. Uh, let's see. Anybody uh give me any questions online? Didn't look like it. Thanks, listeners. Thanks for helping. Uh we really need you to call us.

208-535-1015. All right. Yep. Not a single comment. Thanks, Facebook. Probably not pushing my post because it's not uh, you know, enraging enough. If you want to get some action on Facebook, you gotta make people mad. Um, any messages of importance for the community. I know we are coming up on the uh Labor Day weekend next weekend.

Speaker 2: That, and I think Carl brought it up. Schools are back in session. Those that are not are starting this week. Please be aware. Uh drive with safety and and drive out in front of your hood, be a defensive driver. These kids are gonna be excited, even though the parents aren't sending back to school, and maybe 50% of the kids aren't. There are gonna be those that are excited and they're just gonna be trying to get to school.

They're gonna be riding their bikes, gonna be riding their skateboards, gonna be riding their little electric scooters, whatever they're riding, they're gonna maybe not be paying the best attention. And boy, that would be a tough one to live with if you accidentally hit one of them.

Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, that'd be terrible. So please be cautious, everybody. And uh, yeah, we're still in the middle of the hundred deadliest days of driving.

Speaker 2: We just had a fatal again yesterday, and uh, we're on crashes this morning. We need to add some time in our travel, become more of a defensive driving group, and uh pay attention and and focus on what we're doing at the time.

Speaker 1: There you go, everybody. And if you don't call us, we'll just end this freaking show early. Right now, because I'm running out of ideas. Did not take enough notes throughout the week. Um I wish you could just tell the story you were telling me in Jade lost the air. That would be the the one of the craziest things that had ever been told on radio. Come on, people 208-535-1015. Um, yeah, I don't know, Lieutenant Craig. There we go. Thank goodness. Uh K-Bear, you were live on traffic school. Who's this?

Speaker 4: This is Deborah again.

Speaker 2: Hey, Deborah. Deborah, we love it when you call. Yes, thank you.

Speaker 4: Oh, I love you guys. You guys are awesome. Thanks. Hey, I got a stupid question. Is it illegal to have a hangman's news hanging from your ceiling in your house?

Speaker 2: This is the thing. In today's environment, probably not a wise idea, right? What you have in your personal home is totally different than what you have out in the public. But I think there's been some things in the news that let you know that that's not the best option. Yeah.

Speaker 4: Well I have a lot of coffins that my dead husband built. And I just um Do

Speaker 2: you want to sell them to Victor in his neighborhood? Yeah. Yeah, they're pretty comfy. Well, his neighborhood's getting a little eldery.

Speaker 1: Oh, jeez.

Speaker 4: And another question I have where I drew I drive uh side dun for a construction company here in Pocatello. Would it be illegal if I put a sign on the back of the truck that said if you're riding my blank, yes. I will not go faster.

Speaker 1: I would assume you could put that on.

Speaker 2: You can put that on there. Yep. I've seen them. Oh, you have? Yep, I've seen that sign. Oh, wow.

Speaker 4: Maybe I I don't think people can read.

Speaker 1: But maybe. Some can't. I mean, it's obvious because uh I'm on Facebook and maybe they're good at reading headlines, but not articles. Yeah.

Speaker 4: Well, I just wondered if if having a hangman's news hanging from my ceiling is illegal.

Speaker 1: And it sounds um like it might be unsettling to some people. Yeah. And uh, but if you got coffins all over the house, I I don't know.

Speaker 2: That might be the least of their words.

Speaker 1: What's inside the coffins, Deborah?

Speaker 4: I have swords and axes and my dead husband and He's not there. We got married on Halloween. Dressed all in black.

Speaker 2: There is a lot keeping your dead husband there.

Speaker 4: Oh no. Well, he I cremated his he's in uh thank you. But uh we got married on Halloween in the funeral home. Dressed all in black.

Speaker 1: Now, funeral homes generally, from my experience, everything to do with them is extremely outrageously priced.

Speaker 4: Um, No, I uh it was colonial funeral home, and uh Jerry Cleaner uh didn't charge us anything to get married there. Hmm. All right, great guy. Ravonda, you listening?

Speaker 2: But we did sign a contract for the future.

Speaker 1: And even the judge that married us was dressed all in black. Very nice, very nice.

Speaker 1: Well, um I had never thought of that as an option for a wedding venue, so it's good to know. I mean, anything to save money. Wedding venues are expensive.

Speaker 4: Well, we just love Halloween, and that was our favorite day of the whole year. And uh I used to have a guillotine in my living room too that you built.

Speaker 2: This is a house that the kids are even scared to go Halloweening at.

Speaker 1: Never know what's going on behind you know the neighbors' closed doors.

Speaker 4: Well, I have swords and axes and all kinds of stuff in my house.

Speaker 2: Pocatella police take note if you ever serve a search warrant on Deborah's house.

Speaker 1: But really, I'm a very nice person. Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 1: You are you certainly are

Speaker 4: well thank you so much for taking my call and uh be safe out there. I appreciate all you do for us to keep the law and keep us safe. And Victor, be good.

Speaker 1: I'll try to be good and you be safe too, just inside of your own home.

Speaker 4: Yeah. Take care, guys, and I love the show. Thank you so much. Thanks, Deborah. You have a good weekend. You too. Bye bye. Bye.

Speaker 1: K-Bear, you're live on Traffic School, powered by the advocates. Who's this?

Speaker 4: All you know is peaches, always listening.

Speaker 1: Peaches always. Oh, on vacation.

Speaker 1: Don't worry, I gave Lieutenant Crane the warning we're gonna send in a a welfare check on you before you get out of town.

Speaker 2: He's got a bunch of things for selling now. Give me one order now, two now, two hundred dollar bid now. Give me two.

Speaker 1: I don't think he has anything left to sell.

Speaker 4: You know, and he wrote Well, I do I do have that gift you gave me. I could sell that.

Speaker 1: Oh, yes. Uh, for you know, I mentioned Peach's birthday celebration where I dined in Dash. Yes. Uh, we did uh get him a very, you know, meaningful and special gift for his 30th birthday. Uh I'm gonna call it a blue anime inflatable woman. There's other words for it, but uh they sound dirtier. So Pizzas needs a pale.

Speaker 2: Now he's not gonna date at all.

Speaker 4: Uh so my question was is that uh yesterday, driving back from my lunch break.

Speaker 2: Oh no, hold on. Let's address the elephant in the room first. When you go to a multi-person lane, she doesn't count as a qualified woman.

Speaker 1: That's what Jade told him to do yesterday.

Speaker 4: I was I was gonna bring her to California with me.

Speaker 2: Boy, is your mom and dad gonna be proud when they meet their new daughter-in-law. Her name is Candy, you know.

Speaker 3: So yesterday my lunch break, I was driving back, and uh some like teenager was tailgating me, and I gave him like the like back off signal, and he started flipping me off. And we got to a red light. I get to the left, I go to turn left, and he's like taunting me. He's full on saying, Yeah, get away, give me the double finger. Uh what's the offense if I got out of my car and like taunted him back?

Speaker 2: Nothing offensive about doing that, but it sure would be fun to watch him wet himself.

Speaker 1: Oh, geez, the guy is large.

Speaker 2: I I met the driver ahead of you. I was trying to get your attention. I wanted to buy your lunch today.

Speaker 4: Especially if I brought out my new pal, and I was like, hey, you're gonna do this in front of her.

Speaker 2: I have got my girlfriend with you, boy. This behavior is uncalled for.

Speaker 1: You don't act like that in front of a lady.

Speaker 4: I draw a shock look on her face. Look, she's so appalled.

Speaker 1: I almost said something, and I'm glad I do. didn't. Don't they usually have a face like they always look appalled? Uh that was pretty much that was just my question there. So that was it. All right, Peaches. Well, you travel safe, man, and uh you get. I'm gonna try to get the CSA with this thing and my CPAP, so We'll let's see how it goes. All right, man, let me know. All right. Uh peace out. K bear, you're live on traffic school, powered by the advocates. Who's this?

Speaker 4: Uh, this is Steve O the Mud Vane guy. Steve oh, what's up, dude? Oh uh well he kind of touched up on my question. I I got into a similar situation where your friends bought you a gift?

Speaker 1: Well, no, nobody ever offers to buy me a gift. That'd be nice. Yeah.

Speaker 1: Um well uh we'll try to make that happen for you. Same something. Same exact same exact present.

Speaker 2: Thanks for saying sucking the happiness out of the room.

Speaker 1: Well, yeah, no, well, I have a question. Um has there ever been an instance where they would legalize like roadside combat for just road raids? Like somebody's going five, ten miles below the speed limit in front of you, you flip them off and pull over to the side of the road, let's do trial by combat.

Speaker 2: You should have little flappers on your car. You turn yours green, I turn mine green, pulled over. There you go.

Speaker 4: Is there ever been anything like that? Or is that anything that could or would ever be able to happen?

Speaker 2: I think back in the 1800s on horses. Yeah.

Speaker 1: Or duels outside of the saloon. Meet me at noon. Yeah.

Speaker 4: Right.

Speaker 1: Let me get my gloves smack you with it.

Speaker 4: Okay. I just, you know, there's these people who drive like 10 miles below the speed limit. It's supposed to 35, they're going like 20, you're just like, can I just pull you out of your car and choke you for a minute, please?

Speaker 2: You can't do that.

Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd end up uh going to jail. Yeah.

Speaker 2: That's when you wish you live back in the olden days when there ain't enough room in this down for the two of us. Right.

Speaker 4: You know what? if you could cause somebody to not do that again, Wouldn't you feel like at least a little bit vindicated for it? I mean, it was worth it because now they're not gonna piss somebody else up.

Speaker 2: My luck would be I'd challenge somebody and get him out of the car and be hoy's gracie.

Speaker 4: Right? They're not like, oh, you want to do this? You're like, not anymore.

Speaker 2: They'd be like, who's funning now?

Speaker 4: You're saying, only if I can get a picture of you choking me out, please. And an autograph on there, too.

Speaker 2: How did you choke me and break my ankle both at the same time?

Speaker 4: I swear that bruise is already there. Well, good to hear from you, Steve. You guys too. Have a good day. You two once again, go mudvane. Go more bird! Go Mudvern.

Speaker 1: K-Bear, you're live on traffic school, powered by the advocate's injury attorneys. Who's this? This is Robert. Robert, what up?

Speaker 4: So my question is is what's the legality of having a casket or a skeleton in the back of a curse that's privately owned. Privately owned.

Speaker 2: You can have a casket in there all you want. Now the skeleton would become a concern because we can't have human remains like that in that form or fashion unless they're uh cremated.

Speaker 4: Or what if you have like uh 3D printed are you?

Speaker 2: Oh that yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 1: Now what if you uh I actually saw a news article about uh some legislator in Idaho trying to And you just read the headline? Yeah, I just read the headline. Uh but they she's trying to make it so you can't have uh any kind of human body parts um period. You'd make it a felony to sell, own, buy, or lease any artifacts or human remains taken from a cairn, grave, or burial site.

Speaker 2: I think there's already laws on that. You can't have human remains, and if you do like a school for study, they have all kinds of documentation that they gotta have with them to maintain those remains.

Speaker 1: Yeah, like let me see if I could bring up the the article here. I don't want to watch a video.

Speaker 4: I was going to say, no, I don't fall to just the One of the local curiosity songs is having issues with that.

Speaker 1: Yeah, because like, I think that they even interviewed Shadow Domain in that article because um I and I think they mentioned that they like used to sell like human bones and things. Um and the article did mention like sometimes, and it's a weird thing to pass down, but people have had full skeletons passed down to them from uh other family members. Um And I don't know, I haven't looked on Facebook market locally to see if we've got human bones available for sale, but you know, she makes it sound like you you can.

Speaker 2: So as of July 1st, they passed a new law. Uh says that it is a felony in Idaho to own sell or lease human remains taken from a grave.

Speaker 1: So it it actually passed. Okay. I thought they were just talking about passing.

Speaker 2: And you can't advertise them for sale either.

Speaker 1: So yeah, better take down the the listings on Facebook market immediately. Coffins are good to go, though. Fair enough. All right, man. Well, I guess I better go clean out my basement.

Speaker 4: Oh, thank you

Speaker 1: in the closet there, it! dang it. That skeleton looked so cool, propped up against the wall.

Speaker 2: It's interesting as our area grows in the last probably 10 years. I've had two different occasions where I have friends that are excavators, and they've both hit human remains that have been buried back early in our early time in our area here. Really?

Yeah, and they got the Idaho State University um on board, and they were able to tell approximately what year, how old the person was, what sex. It was crazy. Wow. That is pretty crazy.

Speaker 4: Oh, and you're in the stomping grounds, but then speak face.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I had somebody tell me once that they were where were they? They were out somewhere like Stanley area or you know, way out in the mountains, old mining towns, four-wheeling, and that they uh saw some like a real old skeleton just in the weeds. And I was like, Well, did you call somebody? No. That could be an unsolved crime. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: We still have you know the Stephanie Crane homicide or missing person. I let me say it that way. Uh the Stephanie Crane missing person case going up in the Custer County area. So really Yeah.

Speaker 1: well, maybe I'd hit that person up and be like, you know, maybe do you if you remember what random spot that was out in the middle? the middle. Awesome. I would assume it must have been like you know, close to some kind of old uh building or mining shaft or something. Yeah, because it, you know, I would imagine they weren't just trudging through the trees, but I don't know. So yeah, gotta get rid of your skeleton, man.

Speaker 4: Oh, that's not fun. All right, dude.

Speaker 1: We'll appreciate the call today. Yes, sir, thank you. K-Bear, you're live on traffic school, powered by the advocates. What's up?

Speaker 4: Oh man, so my grandma passed away.

Speaker 1: Hold on, Carl. Hold on, Carl. I got a question.

Speaker 2: Have you Have you quit talking since the last time you we hung up with you? Or you just spend Teddy.

Speaker 4: You mean to Anybody else or anybody else or just myself.

Speaker 2: You thought you were on the air this whole time. Right.

Speaker 4: Oh man. So my uncle, my uncle comes up from Las Vegas, and he's like, I'm here now. We're burying grandma. None of the other family present. My own mother and my aunt comes up and goes, hey Carl, would you be a deer and go dig up grandma so we can redo the funeral? I'm pretty sure that would be a felony, wouldn't it?

Speaker 2: I mean, you can get an order through the judge as far. I'm just talking law enforcement here, but you can get an order through the judge to go dig dig somebody up if need be. But yeah, you can't just go get them yourself.

Speaker 4: No, I mean it's your own family. I'm looking at these guys going, I'm not gonna do that. Dig up grandma, you kidding me.

Speaker 1: Couldn't you just do a funeral without digging grandma?

Speaker 2: Take a nice picture.

Speaker 4: Yeah. That picture on the mantle, take that with you.

Speaker 4: Oh, my Oh my word. Yeah. No, that's crazy.

Speaker 2: So grave robbing used to be a huge thing, right? Back in the early. Right. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1: Grind up them bones and make some snake oil. You know, cure everything.

Speaker 4: That's so gross. People used to grind up mummies and use them, you know, as like weird uh medicines. People are dumb. Weird, weird.

Speaker 2: How did we get to where we are today?

Speaker 1: Dumb and gross. Yeah.

Speaker 4: I I had uh uh I had a mortician friend of mine in Vegas, and her coworker was stealing the gold fillings, and he melted them down into this huge like clump of gold and tried to take it to a pawn shop, and they're like, okay, where'd you get this? I'm pretty sure he caught a felony and got fired. Uh oh, yeah. That's just Mormon. Yeah. Wow. Crazy. Oh, man. Yeah. Don't buy body parts, people. Don't be weird.

Speaker 2: Our public service announcement from Carl.

Speaker 4: I mean, you know, just don't buy body parts.

Speaker 1: Now I've got to check Facebook Marketplace. Skull.

Speaker 4: I betting I'm betting money that you'll find something.

Speaker 1: Uh lots of animal skulls, but uh, I don't see any human skulls yet. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4: Oh my word. Yeah. Right on. Hey, you guys have a good weekend, man. Don't buy dead bodies. Yes.

Speaker 1: Don't plan on it. All right. Peace, Carl. Well, today's show is interesting. Is that what they call it? You never know what you're gonna get on traffic school powered by the advocates. All right, we'll do one more. K-Bear, make it snappy. Who's this? This is Donna.

Speaker 2: Donna, what's up? She started this, man. Hey, No, that was Deborah. Deborah. Deborah, that's right. Yeah. Sorry, Don. I owe you an apology, and I'm so sorry.

Speaker 4: Yeah, it's okay. I'll accept it. Okay. Okay, I live on 200 north in Rigby. Not sure what elementary school it is. But the lights are flashing all the time. Are you required to do the miles an hour when there's no?

Speaker 1: Well, we lost her, but we I can answer the questions.

Speaker 2: So if there's a sign there that says this is the speed limit when the lights are flashing, then it's the speed limit when they're flashing. Even if the kids are not there. 3 a.m. Yep. They'll get you.

Speaker 1: All right. Well, thank you as always for swinging over and hanging out, Lieutenant Crane. Hope you have a great weekend. Uh, if you want to come see me at the farmers market tomorrow, be there nine to noon, hooking up tickets to the Museum of Idaho, the Idaho Falls Zoo, Yellowstone Bear World, and we're taking donations for the Idaho food bank. You're busy. I am. Like I told you, Jade, he comes in here, gives me all this additional work.

He's harassing me. You know, I never get to sleep in. So, yep, that's where I'll be. Everybody be safe this weekend, and uh, we will be back with some tunes in just a second. Uh see you later, Lieutenant. Craig. Hasta luego. Traffic School is a production of River Bend Media Group. To get more info on the show or to contact us, hit up our website, Riverbend Media Group.com.