forgetting what you're doing while you're doing it, or losing one's train of thought mid-sentence due to excessive marijuana consumption.
I think that is exactly what has led to the formation of the Big Dig of Baltimore. This is what I am calling the sink hole that has formed in the road next to a metro station. It is even carving out a portion under the Metro station, scarily enough.
Now this may not be the BIGGEST pothole you will ever see in your life. What is astounding to me is two things: 1) It has been here over a year. 2) There are no safety concerns whatsoever.
I pass by this deliberately to see how its doing. I also want to check for any homeless people that may have fallen in and can't get out, or don't want too.
It is actually looking a little better as someone decided to use it to dispose of excess concrete. There have been all sorts of interesting things showing up in there, other than the usual litter. Hair weaves, clothes,and rats.... And someone decided that a caution cone served a better purpose inside the Big Dig than out of it.
I also check it for Mini Coopers, Fiestas, Fiats,and Smart Cars. I pretend it is a trap. Actually, more than one poor soul has had their car jacked up by it.
Only in Somalia, Haiti, and South America, and now Baltimore, can you find sink holes in the road that are left there to trap cars so they can be used in the police force. Clever method, but dangerous.
How does Godzilla's toilet bowl miss the attention of the city?
That pothole has been there for well over a year, I remember sometime in the beginning of spring in 2012 a car driving right into it.. he had to get pulled out with a tow truck... probably did some frame damage on that car...
ReplyDeleteI watched that pothole form from a lil crack along the sidewalk to a full fledged car eater.
So two days after I published this post, the Big Dig has been filled. Total coincidence probably. But I kinda miss it. Now where will the homeless people store their cones? I just hoped that they also fixed the water problem that created it.
ReplyDeleteif you feel like it you can check out my blog I am your compadre spirit. Go to Google and enter the phrase only the destitute walk. First read the About Me section then goto my original blog post back in April 2007. You will get more of a sense of context by starting with the older blog post I grew up in Baltimore and then was pretty much forced to come back in 1995...
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