October 11, 2011
4. Newblog2011: 10/11/11 Stalked by a streetsweeping machine
This morning, I walked into Cambridge and was sitting on a bench on the sidewalk on Mass. Ave. Nothing was open yet.
At 6:43 a.m., a large, streetsweeping machine drove up the street next to me and swept the road along the edge between the road and the sidewalk.
It was back at 7:00 a.m., did the same stretch of road near me again, then did a U-turn in the middle of Mass. Ave., where there is no legal U-turn to make, swept a short stretch of the other side of the road across from where I was sitting, did another U-turn in the middle of the street, and then drove back by me and swept the same stretch of road a few feet away from me that it had just done twice in less than 20 minutes.
The machine said “Pelican” on it.
A little more than an hour later, on a side street a few blocks away from Mass. Ave., I was waiting at an intersection to cross the street. The streetsweeping machine drove up again and swept the street and the side of the sidewalk a few feet away from me and then drove a few yards up the street perpendicular to where I was going, where it stopped.
I crossed the street with the light. Once I got across the street, I heard noise and stopped. I looked back; the streetsweeper had started to back up. It went in reverse and drove backwards along the stretch of street where it had just been, in front of where I had been standing before I crossed the street, and then it swept that section of street again.
Copyright L. Kochman, October 11, 2011 @ 1:14 p.m.
4. Newblog2011: 10/11/11 Stalked by a streetsweeping machine
This morning, I walked into Cambridge and was sitting on a bench on the sidewalk on Mass. Ave. Nothing was open yet.
At 6:43 a.m., a large, streetsweeping machine drove up the street next to me and swept the road along the edge between the road and the sidewalk.
It was back at 7:00 a.m., did the same stretch of road near me again, then did a U-turn in the middle of Mass. Ave., where there is no legal U-turn to make, swept a short stretch of the other side of the road across from where I was sitting, did another U-turn in the middle of the street, and then drove back by me and swept the same stretch of road a few feet away from me that it had just done twice in less than 20 minutes.
The machine said “Pelican” on it.
A little more than an hour later, on a side street a few blocks away from Mass. Ave., I was waiting at an intersection to cross the street. The streetsweeping machine drove up again and swept the street and the side of the sidewalk a few feet away from me and then drove a few yards up the street perpendicular to where I was going, where it stopped.
I crossed the street with the light. Once I got across the street, I heard noise and stopped. I looked back; the streetsweeper had started to back up. It went in reverse and drove backwards along the stretch of street where it had just been, in front of where I had been standing before I crossed the street, and then it swept that section of street again.
Copyright L. Kochman, October 11, 2011 @ 1:14 p.m.