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and then, in a second, my bike was destroyed

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2014.09.23

The movie "Pay the Ghost" cost me my bike today when one of their truck drivers crushed it. I wish I had a camera on hand, the damage is far worse than I've ever seen in one of these events. The frame is cracked into three pieces. Miraculously, the ring-and-post survived unscathed. Also, my kryptonite lock, which bore enough weight to cause the chain stays to bend around it, survived intact. The lock still works!

Happily, the production company noticed me puttering with the thing and approached me. Looks like their insurance will be buying me a new bike. Goodbye, bike.

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong