When you live in small town, when anything out of the ordinary happens it get written up in the local paper. In the big city not so much.
A few weeks ago I was awaken at 4 am to a loud explosion. I could see out my window flames rising 20 feet into the air. It was the next street over, near the delivery truck entrance for the Ralph’s supermarket. The big 18 wheelers are always backing into that driveway (beep-beep-beep) so I thought maybe one of them hit a natural gas meter or something. The fire department quickly arrived and put out the flames. The next day I went over and could barely tell there had been a fire. A palm tree well down from the entrance had some burn marks. It must have been a car parked on the street that exploded. Not just burned, but exploded. Was it a mob killing? Check the papers the next few days…not a word.
Early yesterday morning I was driving home and I see a pickup truck sitting flat on its roof at the intersection of Fountain and LaBrea. Very nice truck, extended cab, black. Near by a small car showing signs that it had been clipped. Firemen and paramedics standing around. That one did make the news.
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