Originally Posted by
buzzman
- I've found two dead bodies in the Charles River on my commutes.
- Pulled one living bridge jumper with a broken leg from the Charles,
- found a woman lying unconscious on the bike path who's pedal had come off of her brand new bike,
- had a guy jump from the bushes in full camouflage gear in the middle of the night,
- watched a hawk almost snag a squirrel only to have the squirrel run up a tree and do a gymnastic leap back at the hawk,
- had a squirrel that was being pursued by a cat run into the front wheel of my folding bike- not a pretty sight,
- had a rabbit jump across the path in the middle of the night right at eye level with serious hang time inches from my face with the two of us eyeballing each other,
- once, at 2 am while riding in a tough neighborhood, saw a spectacular car crash as a car being chased by a cop collided with a building and then the cop car went into the back of it- I stopped my bike aghast as the criminal leapt from the wreckage opened the unconscious cop's door and took his gun and ran,
- was passed by a limousine with Nelson Mandela in it- who waved at me,
- was stopped very early one morning in Newport, RI on my way to work because they were shooting a film and sitting in the old Model T next to me was Laurence Olivier, who also waved at me...
I've been cycle commuting for 37 years, if I thought about it long enough I could make a really long list of weird stuff.
I've commuted along the Charles for 7 years, and I can't, for the life of me, remember anything quite like what you saw! Geeze! 2 dead bodies? One bridge jumper? The only thing I ever saw was a bunch of drunk MIT students rolling a student, lengthwise, along the Mass bridge doing that "smoots" thing.