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featherynscale ([personal profile] featherynscale) wrote2006-03-03 02:45 pm

I swear to you this is true

Today, as I was driving to lunch, I encountered a traffic snarl on 69 Highway, just south of College Blvd. Now, this in and of itself is not alarming. There has lately been a lot of construction in that area, so slowdowns are not unknown. And yet, this was different.

As I inched my way southward, I thought, "There must have been an accident." And when I got there, I saw that this was true, in a way. I soon saw the grisly scene -- a box of teddybears had fallen, perhaps from the back of a truck that was stopped on the roadside. Dozens of teddy bears littered the road, some whole, with glassy eyes staring at the heavens balefully, some in parts, bleeding polyfill all over the pavement.

Some motorists had stopped, and were attempting to help a befuddled policeman clear the plushie carnage. I just drove on by, laughing and laughing.

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2006-03-03 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
It was terrible. I just have a particularly awful sense of humor.

[identity profile] next-bold-move.livejournal.com 2006-03-03 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
It also made me smirk a little. But also...sad.

I'm conflicted.

[identity profile] next-bold-move.livejournal.com 2006-03-03 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I just hope none of them were Real.

[identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com 2006-03-03 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
They were all individually packaged and sealed, identical from the teddy-bear factory. None of them were Real.

[identity profile] next-bold-move.livejournal.com 2006-03-03 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
That's good. When you said "box of teddy bears" I imagined someone moving in an F-150 and losing his/her child's teddy bear collection off the back due to hurried moving.

If they were unowned-by-children bears, then it's definitely funny. :)

american ?

[identity profile] teross50.livejournal.com 2006-03-03 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
did you ascertain, if any of them were illegals bing smuggled from Mexico?Was INS on the scene?