In Goodhue County, detours are for other people

Goodhue County is looking for the driver of a Ford Focus who couldn't be bothered with detours, it reports on its Facebook page.

Substantial damage was caused to the CSAH 6 concrete overlay project today when a white Ford Focus drove around multiple sets of barricades and through the fresh concrete. Please contact the Sheriff’s department with any leads at 651-385-3155. As taxpayers this concerns everyone so PLEASE keep your ears open and help us catch this irresponsible driver!!!

It shouldn’t be too hard to find. It’ll be the one with lousy gas mileage because of the hardened concrete in the wheel wells.

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Bob Collins

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Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.