Casualty of a Hit and “Propped Up”
I saw the poor thing on the side of the road near a bus stop, casualty of an over night hit by a car I assumed. About 2 hours later, on another pass down this street on my route, it was “propped up” on the bench. I saw it, and did a double take. I had to pull over and check this one out again. Not only had it been picked up from the road (eww-gross ) who ever did it, stuck a cigarette in its mouth, and a crumpled pack in its paw. [Warning: Contains Pictures]
I thought, ok, before it bloats and gets really gross on the bench, I should call this in. The neighborhood it was in, has a lot of senior housing, and I could just see someone having kittens when they saw that! My dispatcher thought I was joking, and couldn’t stop laughing. So I took pictures with my cell phone, and sent one to her. She in turn called the city, who were also laughing really hard too from what she later told me.
Dec 17th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
LOL.
Dec 17th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
That’s beautiful, just beautiful. I’d love to know where this was – it says route 16 and the author mentions senior housing – was it on University and Fairview?
I’m going to be laughing about this one for a while!
Dec 18th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Very funny. If you’re ever on RAGBRAI (the bike ride across Iowa) there’s a team called Team Roadkill that dresses up and puts stickers on all the roadkill, so you’ll find snakes with tophats/etc. But that’s at an event, not just at the busspot.
Dec 18th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
It was on the 615, not the 16. It was near Hopkins Sr High school. The housing area is called Greenbriar. The 9 runs through there too.
Scooter: that is too funny!!!!
Dec 23rd, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I just updated the post so it’s categorized under Route 615…thanks for clarifying Melody, and thanks for the great photos!
Sep 3rd, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Rodney….this is the one I was talking about