rbgarr
05-24-2007, 09:38 PM
THUMP!! THUMP!!
The nearby hospital is adding a wing so we've been hearing ledge being dynamited for the last few weeks, but usually the blasts come one at a time. When I heard the double thump it was unusual and came from a different direction, so I looked up from painting the boat but didn't think too much about it.
A while later, three police cars roared by our house with sirens screaming. The speed limit is 15 mph on the hilly curves but that didn't faze them as they slid to a stop down the street blocking the road. I could see their lights flashing behind the rose bushes at the edge of the cove, so I walked over to see what was going on.
It turned out that a scrap metal dealer from a nearby county decided that two eight foot, four blade bronze wheels ($20,000 each) that belonged to a local tug company were available for the taking. He winched them out of their storage yard onto a tilting flatbed truck and took off... but failed to secure them, and as he took the turn at the intersection down the street the wheels slid off the bed and cartwheeled across an absent neighbor's yard. Talk about unwanted landscaping! Rototiller maximus. The dealer was frantically trying to winch them back on the truck when the cops showed up.
It turned out the flatbed truck was 'borrowed' too.
Ah, small town life! I just wish I'd actually seen the props churning their way across the lawn. :D
The nearby hospital is adding a wing so we've been hearing ledge being dynamited for the last few weeks, but usually the blasts come one at a time. When I heard the double thump it was unusual and came from a different direction, so I looked up from painting the boat but didn't think too much about it.
A while later, three police cars roared by our house with sirens screaming. The speed limit is 15 mph on the hilly curves but that didn't faze them as they slid to a stop down the street blocking the road. I could see their lights flashing behind the rose bushes at the edge of the cove, so I walked over to see what was going on.
It turned out that a scrap metal dealer from a nearby county decided that two eight foot, four blade bronze wheels ($20,000 each) that belonged to a local tug company were available for the taking. He winched them out of their storage yard onto a tilting flatbed truck and took off... but failed to secure them, and as he took the turn at the intersection down the street the wheels slid off the bed and cartwheeled across an absent neighbor's yard. Talk about unwanted landscaping! Rototiller maximus. The dealer was frantically trying to winch them back on the truck when the cops showed up.
It turned out the flatbed truck was 'borrowed' too.
Ah, small town life! I just wish I'd actually seen the props churning their way across the lawn. :D