1946 - Caterpillar Diesel D7 tractor with loading attachment loading debris for a project pulling up street car rails on Market Street in San Francisco, California. The 660 volt trolley wires overhead mean extra care must be taken in handling rails. This tractor is obviously a hazard to navigation, but at least it is being dangerous in full daylight, where you can see what is going on. |
Since then it seems that most every day on my early morning, five mile urban jaunt, I see at least one person that is walking along the street, or crossing in the middle of the block, dressed all in dark clothes. I want a paint ball gun that shoots balls of fluorescent dye so I can tag these morons.
This morning (7:30AM) I am on the return leg of my trip, sitting at a stop light, and I notice the sky is gray, not black. That's weird. It's been totally black for the last two months. How could it be gray? Winter solstice hasn't gotten here yet, the days are not getting longer. Could it be that we have been blanketed with clouds for the last two months, clouds so thick no sunlight could get through them?
Yes. Paint balling ninja pedestrians, good idea. I just missed one on a otherwise empty 6 lane city street they apparently thought standing on a lane marker provided them super powers. I had no idea they were their till I almost nailed them with my side mirror, if I had lane changed they'd be toast.
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