Photos from in and around the capital of Queensland, Australia.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Xpress Inconvenience
A car almost ploughed into our local shop yesterday, taking out the awning, the phone box and the bin. I don't think there was anyone in the phonebox at the time.
Cara, we must live so close to one another! Your photos area often around my 'hood'. We don't live far from this shop. I hope they can resurrect the awning - the billy tea sign should be heritage listed!! What a shock! Poor little shop
Cara I went by at about 9:30 on Sat morning. No sign of the car. Apparently it happened about 3am. It must have made a huge noise. I didn't hear anything up my way - I'm a couple of blocks east but at 3am there's not much competing noise.
I am just across the road from the shop but our place faces the other side... We'd had a pretty big night on Friday, getting a babysitter for the night, working late and gate-crashing our Indian neighbours in the wee small hours - who unfortunately for us had already cooked and eaten. We hung out on their balcony anyway with a few coldies, overlooking the shop. We must have missed the accident by about an hour.
Oh, is that what happened? I noticed the awning was gone and the phone box was a pile of rubble and glass, but somehow did not connect these two things...
That was a pretty impressive take down by the car!
ReplyDeleteCara, we must live so close to one another! Your photos area often around my 'hood'. We don't live far from this shop. I hope they can resurrect the awning - the billy tea sign should be heritage listed!! What a shock! Poor little shop
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ReplyDeleteI went by at about 9:30 on Sat morning. No sign of the car. Apparently it happened about 3am.
It must have made a huge noise. I didn't hear anything up my way - I'm a couple of blocks east but at 3am there's not much competing noise.
I am just across the road from the shop but our place faces the other side... We'd had a pretty big night on Friday, getting a babysitter for the night, working late and gate-crashing our Indian neighbours in the wee small hours - who unfortunately for us had already cooked and eaten. We hung out on their balcony anyway with a few coldies, overlooking the shop. We must have missed the accident by about an hour.
ReplyDeletelucky no-one was in the phone booth
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bupbE-i-IY
Oh, is that what happened? I noticed the awning was gone and the phone box was a pile of rubble and glass, but somehow did not connect these two things...
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