bridgecity's Diaryland Diary

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Safe

In my part of town the freeway system is close-in. Loops inside loops inside loops. Its as crazy as any freeway; people trying to run across during rush hour, throwing computer moniters off overpasses, motorcycle gangs doing 120, etc.
Things fall out of the back of trucks constantly. Recently I saw a large safe, about 50 feet past the on-ramp sitting upright on the median. Very large, possibly a gun safe. The door to the safe was wide open and looked like it was pried or cut by tools and ultimately mangled, as happens sometimes while breaking into a safe.
For whatever reason, I was picturing a safe someone was transporting, unknowingly falling out the back of a truck, a band of homeless people seeing it and dragging it to the median and making every possible attempt to open it.
Later, thinking a little clearer, I figured someone stole the safe, broke into it while it was in the back of a truck, got whatever was inside and dumped it out the truck while going up the on-ramp in the night, then dragged to the median by a band of homeless people or possibly city workers.
A lot more things than you’d figure around here involve bands of homeless people.

3:57 p.m. - 2024-04-01

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