The following story is mostly true,
just slightly abbreviated for impact, so to speak.
A few years ago a person was killed
while sitting in his car waiting for a street light to change. I
didn't know him, I just read about it online. At the time, Los
Angeles was having a particularly bad case of the Santa Ana winds,
and things were being ripped apart all over the city, and one of the
worst dangers is that an older tree or branch will be torn off and
smash into something and that is what happened here. To avoid this
sort of thing is the reason that the city and local communities send
out units to trim older trees while everyone complains that their
favorite tree is being mangled. The city tries to prune the trees
before something breaks off in a storm and hurts someone and then
they get sued. Obviously they missed one.
The man was sitting in his car waiting
for the light to change near the Sepulveda dam, out in the valley,
and BANG a tree dropped on him without warning and killed him.
So I told a friend in Los Angeles this
story. "A man was waiting at a street light in his car," I
said, "and a tree fell on him and killed him."
"Oh my god!", said my friend.
"Thats terrible! What kind of car was it?"
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