omg! breaking local denver news!

I still haven't seen a lot of Denver. In fact pretty much all of seen is the 1.5 mile corridor between the Marion House and the office. But today, within that corridor, I think I saw something approaching news! Breaking news even, because I saw it happen.

I was on the 16th Street mall shuttle, just leaving the Market Street station. Another mall shuttle was coming towards the one I was riding on as we crossed Market, and then suddenly swerved to dodge an orange traffic cone on 16th and took out an entire fancy-pants lamp post! It was crazy!

I decided to take some pictures and pose as a grizzled liveblogger. So I busted out my cellphone and here's what I got:





You may be thinking - WTF is a park ranger doing in the pedestrian mall? That's actually my bus driver. Yeah, that's Denver.

While I thought the whole thing was pretty funny, especially since no one was hurt and the accident happened rather inexplicably, the last laugh was on me, because after the 'crash' the shuttle service ground to halt and I ended having to walk the whole length of the mall. The weather was decent tonight though, so it wasn't the worst thing in the world.

So yeah, local content. Enjoy.