There was an unexpected traffic jam in downtown Colorado Springs on Saturday. The pileup along Cascade Avenue didn't have to do with construction, a horrible crash or some other inconvenience: These motorists waited in their vehicles for up to an hour or more on purpose. Each vehicle hauled boxes of old documents to be shredded at Saturday's "Letter Rip" event to help prevent identity theft. But was the wait worth it? "I hope so," said Todd Boesdorfer, who had been waiting in the line for about an hour and was about 20 vehicles away from the shredder at 1:30 p.m. "We wanted to get some junk out of the house, old tax returns, four years of our old receipts," he said. Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette