Digital Wanderer

I’m voting for the bees.
Because everything is bullshit except the bees.

Well, except that Cilēvičs from Harmony seems likeable.

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I came home from work and went to walk the dog. On my way back, there was a man sitting on my bench. He said, "Can I ask you a favor?".
Then he handed me his mobile phone and asked me to call an ambulance. Suspiciously, I replied, "Can’t you do it yourself?", because he looked perfectly ordinary and not particularly ill,  and I’ve grown suspicious lately. The man replied, "I feel really bad, I can’t, my wife went to the pharmacy to get some Corvalol".

If this had happened in Moscow or St. Petersburg, I probably would have hesitated some more, because I’ve been frightened by all sorts of horror stories about scammers. But here, I grabbed the phone, trying to remember what number to call. I dialed 112 (I think they introduced it here two years ago), asked for an ambulance, was put through, explained what was happening, then explained it again because the connection was bad. His wife arrived and asked me to stay there because she was scared. I stayed for a little while; the ambulance arrived almost immediately. He seemed to feel better, but they took him in just in case.

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Live reporting from the scene! Everything happened 8 minutes ago.
Outside my window, I periodically hear the farting sound of a souped-up engine without a muffler. Every time, I expect it to be followed by the sound of smashed metal and glass.

And there you go, I finally got what I was waiting for. Some psycho crashed into a car right by my house on the turn near Iki. I dashed out onto the balcony. I managed to see how this psycho, after sitting there for a bit, tried to flee the scene and seemingly immediately crashed again (lightly). Then he drove off with a horrendous farting noise. He returned a minute later, driving past my house. I managed to make out that the car was heavily dented, the engine definitely took a hit. That's probably why he was driving in first or second gear. In that gear, he turned the corner and disappeared from sight. The police showed up 4 minutes later, the crowd of onlookers has reached 50 people and continues to grow.

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