Uncategorized RoadWhinge on 19 Feb 2007 04:34 pm
Scorched Earth
There seems to have been a subtle change in the landscape where I live. The police - or someone - are evidently becoming much quicker at removing abandoned and burnt-out cars from the country lanes.
Where before the oxidised shells of stolen, abandoned and torched, vehicles would litter lay-bys and field entrances for days, now it seems that the wrecks are whisked away before anyone actually sees them. The only (unmistakable) sign of what occurred is a roughly car-shaped and sized patch of scorched earth or melted tarmac.
These burn marks appear literally overnight, but without any evident associated car wreckage. The superstitious yokels are becoming uneasy at this unaccustomed efficiency on the part of whatever clean-up agency is at work.
There are even rumours of witchcraft or aliens…