Neighborhood Drama!
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Jan 19, 2011 at 3:43am
If I'm not mistaken, a FedEx van just roared around the corner and smashed right into a car beneath my window--a cop car!!! Excuse me while I do what everyone in my neighborhood's doing--time to hang out the window and watch this!
Update: Sadly, I was mistaken. I don't know what happened, but it looks like the FedEx guy had nothing to do with it. Beats me what all the yelling and sirens were for.
Go back to work, everyone.
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May '10
Re: Neighborhood Drama!
Thank goodness for your update, Claire - I was loading the car with eggs to go deface the nearest FedEx drop box. Given all the negative feelings your post incited, I can only assume you're in collusion with UPS.
I'm appalled.
Nov '10
Re: Neighborhood Drama!
"I was in the kitchen, I heard the crash, and I hung out! No, no officer, listen to me, I was in the kitchen, on my laptop posting on Ricochet when I heard the noise and came to the window and hung out!"
Sep '10
Re: Neighborhood Drama!
I lived in downtown Cairo for a year on the sixth floor of a building on Sabri Abou Alam. In Cairo cars are parked on the sidewalks so close to buildings pedestrians have to walk in the street. On one side of this building was a short one-way street that some saw as a shortcut out of the traffic jam on Sabri Abou Alam, so they would try to race through the wrong way if it was clear. Another car or two would inevitably follow this impetuous lawbreaker. All too often several cars from the legal direction would trap the cars head to head. Then the impasse would back up onto the main streets causing further problems.
From my sixth floor view I had this kind of entertainment almost daily.
Jun '10
Re: Neighborhood Drama!
Was there an aluminum walker stuck in the grillwork of the FedEx truck? If not there's nothing to see.
Re: Neighborhood Drama!
I bet there was something to see, and if I hadn't had my nose buried in Ricochet, I might have seen it. I sure heard it. But I was too late. And what happened will, alas, remain forever a mystery. To me, anyway. All I know is that the FedEx guy was innocent, because you could not possibly barrel into a cop car and then bribe your way out of it that fast.
Jun '10
Re: Neighborhood Drama!
Claire: Show some journalistic restraint and get the facts before you wake us all up.
May '10
Re: Neighborhood Drama!
From the scene of the disturbance.