Catastrophe
I was walking home from walking a dog (Yes, I dogwalk to make extra cash) Thursday morning, when I saw this amidst flashing lights:
That’s right. It’s a car. That drove through a deli in Park Slope. Now let’s rewind about 30 minutes earlier before I had walked the dog.
I was walking to the person’s house a little before 9am that morning. Literally, it was probably 8:57am. I was famished. My stomach was cramping, I was so hungry. And I passed this deli…Deli In The Slope. I desperately wanted an egg sandwich, but I had promised to be there by 9am and didn’t want the poor dog waiting any longer to pee. Plus, the place didn’t look open, which I thought was odd for a Thursday morning. So I forged ahead…and it’s a good thing I did. If I hadn’t, it’s very likely that I would have been on the sidewalk at the time this car crashed through the window.
I don’t know all the details, except that the man driving had a heart attack when he crashed and is currently in critical condition. But I do know, according to one report, that he crashed at 9:02am. I missed this by a matter of minutes. Which is terrifying.
May 20th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
That actually happened to me once, too. My Mom and I were in a Target a few days before Thanksgiving. When we walked in, everything was peachy and, so far as we could tell, remained so throughout the duration of our shopping excursion. With the exception of one rather ominous and mildly hysterical PA announcement to the store manager, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. When we left, however, we arrived at the front of the store to see the entire entrance missing and a gaping hole where it had been about 20 minutes earlier. The strange thing was, we hadn’t heard a thing from inside the store, which to this day I haven’t been able figure one out. I heard on the news later that night that a young many had been terrorized several neighborhood stores in this manner before, before eventually settling on a Circuit City. That’s why, when I saw those huge concrete pylons at the entrance to Epcot, I had a sneaking suspicion what they were there for. I’m glad you’re alive, though.
May 26th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Whoa!! Scary!! So glad you were on a schedule…yikes…