• FlashMobOfOne
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    293 days ago

    A few.

    I was in San Juan once and, walking back to my cruise ship, saw a van jump a curb, slam into a police vehicle, and then the driver hopped out and jumped off the pier into the ocean.

    The first time I visited Los Angeles and saw literal garbage piled 2-3 feet high on public sidewalks. In the days after I saw the tent cities. (I’m from Kansas City, where garbage is very well managed and tent cities are a rarity.)

    I once saw a very tall, dark shape in the woods getting chased by cows. It might have been Bigfoot. It might have been a bear or a deer that reared up on its hind legs. It was too far away for me to say for sure.

    • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 days ago

      LA is aggressively overrated from everything I’ve heard. NYC prices, Kansas City Indianapolis infrastructure, Manilla tidyness. The weather is nice, I guess.

    • @tunetardis@lemmy.ca
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      83 days ago

      Your first one reminds me of something that happened awhile back. I was at a donut shop staring out the window when a scruffy dude in a pickup truck slammed into a traffic light, tipping it over across the street.

      Now as it happens, said donut shop was a watering hole for police officers (yes, the stereotype is real), and about a dozen buff uniforms trotted out within seconds. The guy climbed out of the truck and tried to light a cig and it fell out of his mouth as he saw them rushing up.

    • Theo
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      53 days ago

      Would cows chase away a threat? Genuine question because I am curious. I can’t imagine it.

      • @Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        63 days ago

        Cows also tend to be very curious. If you walk into a pasture and start doing something weird then most of the cows will usually run over to see what you’re doing.

        It could have just been a person running through the woods and the cows were running after them to see where they were going.

      • FlashMobOfOne
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        43 days ago

        I honestly don’t know. That’s just what I saw. Maybe they were running from it.