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Fraught circle
Jul. 21st, 2008 12:56 pmForgot to mention that on Saturday I hauled some water to the tree in the traffic circle at the bottom of the hill. An older guy in a pick-up stopped and said, "Don't get yourself killed!"
I laughed. "You're not going to punch me out, are you?"
"Not today, I guess," he said, and he drove on.
For those not in Seattle, this was in reference to James Paroline, who was killed last week while watering a traffic circle. It's a bizarre story, in which he had set out traffic cones to protect his garden hose while he was working in the traffic circle, got into a verbal argument with a couple of young women who were unhappy about the traffic cones, and then was punched by a guy and fell to the ground, where he struck his head. He later died from head injuries. The guy who threw the punch, Brian Keith Brown, has turned himself in.
Anyway, it's big news around these parts, and I'm sure most locals reading this will have immediately understood the joke in my interaction with the guy in the pick-up. Needless to say, I won't be putting out any traffic cones when I work the circle.
I laughed. "You're not going to punch me out, are you?"
"Not today, I guess," he said, and he drove on.
For those not in Seattle, this was in reference to James Paroline, who was killed last week while watering a traffic circle. It's a bizarre story, in which he had set out traffic cones to protect his garden hose while he was working in the traffic circle, got into a verbal argument with a couple of young women who were unhappy about the traffic cones, and then was punched by a guy and fell to the ground, where he struck his head. He later died from head injuries. The guy who threw the punch, Brian Keith Brown, has turned himself in.
Anyway, it's big news around these parts, and I'm sure most locals reading this will have immediately understood the joke in my interaction with the guy in the pick-up. Needless to say, I won't be putting out any traffic cones when I work the circle.
