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Look how they massacred my boy!!

Posted in Ranting and Raving, tagged , , , , , on November 8, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Whoomp! There it is..

“Hit the gas, Harold!! The feral cats have hammers and they’re coming for us!!”

What do you mean the mailman won’t deliver now??

It’s the most dangerous intersection on Whidbey Island.

If you’re a mailbox.

Trying to live as a receptacle for bills and political ads?

Don’t park your tuchus where Sherman Road drops down to meet Madrona.

Three times now … THREE TIMES … someone operating a motor vehicle has hit the mailbox serving 165 Sherman, otherwise known as Coupeville Sports World Headquarters.

The first time, the tourist with the too-wide turn stopped to apologize and arrange to pay for the damage.

The second time was an Island Transit bus, and SPOILER ALERT, Island Transit has yet to make good on its promise to repair the damage.

Now, as of Thursday night, I’m pretty sure this mailbox is finally down for the count.

Did Moron #3 stop? No, they did not.

Did they scratch up their vehicle nice and good? One certainly hopes so.

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Tricky corner, big crash

Posted in Not sports? Tough!, tagged , , , , on June 19, 2022| Leave a Comment »

A semi-truck crashed into the Penn Cove Pottery building Sunday morning. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)

It’s a magnet for out-of-control vehicles.

For the second time in the last three months, Penn Cove Pottery was invaded by a runaway vehicle, with a semi-truck crashing into the building’s southwest corner Sunday morning.

The driver was pulled out of his truck by passerby, and firefighters responded quickly to put out the fire.

The crash follows on the heels of one in mid-April, when a truck slammed into a wooden building right next to the business, which sits on Penn Cove, at the bottom of a curve.

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