Dead body on highway I-75/I-85 North-Old National bridge
Dead body?? Shit, I mean, Nextdoor is a pretty active online portal for people who like to gossip and meddle around in other peoples’ business as well as go off to the extreme on trite details. And admittedly, for no other reason than the aforementioned things is precisely why I still have my Nextdoor account to my old neighborhood, because just about every single day, something is posted that validates my decision to move when I did, and is a constant reminder of just how good it was that we moved when we did.
Usually, and I know, because I keep a written record of all the asinine headlines, things are often revolving around suspicious persons in the neighborhood, bitching about the HOA, or the unfortunate amounts of crime present in the hood.
But dead bodies now?? Shiiiit.
Naturally, I wanted to find out the context of this supposed dead body, and sure enough, the news was thankfully on it; I mean, on the south side of the Metro Atlanta area, it’s usually a Christmas miracle when any modicum of media actually goes down there for anything other than the airport, or some super tragic crime.
But it turns out that some guy decided to run from the cops when they saw him on the street and recognized that he had an open warrant for his arrest. And somewhere along the chase, he decided that getting plowed into by insane Georgia highway motorists was better than getting apprehended, and his lifeless carcass clogged up the roads for 2-3 hours and ruined the days of quite a many motorists, one for having to witness a dead body, and two, because they were probably 2-3 hours behind on where they were hoping to get.
I couldn’t imagine what I’d do if I got caught in this traffic if I were still living in the south side. I would undoubtedly go insane from anger at getting caught in this, and quite possibly rage myself into some sort of physical altercation. I mean, I’ve been caught in 60 minutes of bullshit, but never anything 2-3 full hours long.
Thankfully, I no longer live in this part of town, and hopefully I won’t be subject to this kind of nonsense. But thanks to services like Nextdoor, I can at least be kept abreast about shit like this and constantly remind myself of one of the few very good decisions I ever made in my life.
Funny thing is, this wasn’t bigger news, not just because it was on the south side of town, but about the same time out in another county, a fucking tiger was spotted running around in the suburbs. Like, a real-life, actual large cat tiger, orange furred with stripes zoo animal. Imagine driving around in the suburbs and seeing one of those things just meandering by on the side of the road. As if we were in India or something, and not a suburb of Georgia. Unfortunately for the tiger, it attacked a dog on private property, and the police gunned it down. 🙁
But yeah, just another crazy day in Atlanta, y’all.
