DeeKnow’s Grotto

OK its definately official now. Hamilton has gone totally fucking crazy with this unceasingly hot weather. Last week there was the case of the woman who had allegedly been sexually violated and called 911 only to be told to walk down to the Dinsdale police station. Then on Friday on the way to the Eastside tavern for lunch we see two cop cars up on the curb outside the Work and Income office where it turned out one of the staff had just been stabbed by an irate customer.

Finally on Saturday I'm riding over the Cobham bridge and see a temporary orange road-works type barrier where the middle guard rail of the bridge normally is and it turns out a car went crashing through it and off the bridge early on Saturday morning resulting in the deaths of three passengers. God only knows how the hell the whole friggin car load didnt perish with a drop like that, 20m down into the middle of a wide river. Terrible bloody tragedy.

I stopped by on the way to work this morning and it just seems amazing that the car managed to hit the barrier on what is basically a straight approach to the bridge. Something had to have gone wickedly wrong inside that car.

The fatalities were all current or ex Melville high students, as am I. And as it happens when I was a teen a friend of mine topped himself by slamming his car at top speed into the embankment at the other end of the same bridge. Freeked us out at the time as I'm sure loads of the students at Melville are at the moment.

9:37:15 PM