Oops
March 21, 2008
On my stroll to Umeda earlier this week I noticed a construction site and beside it, a half-torn down building. There’s usually nothing strange about this but I also noticed about half a dozen police officers and a couple of police cruisers in the area, lights on. I also notice one TV camera pointing at the busted up building. There were at least two dozen people around the area watching and taking pictures with their cell cameras along with a helicopter hovering above.
Hum… this isn’t your regular torn down building. Upon closer inspection, I realize that this half-torn down building still had a lot of stuff inside. I could see office furniture and some paperwork still inside. Furthermore, only the back was completely torn down – the front was kind of intact. Also, the whole thing was leaning dangerously towards the sidewalk and street.
Then I realized it. The construction site beside this building must’ve accidentally destroyed this building! Judging from the city workers that were just arriving at the scene, it probably happened not long before I happened to walk by. I wonder how it felt for the people in the building at the time to have a crane accidentally hit structure causing it to come crashing down. It reminded me of that crane accident in New York.
I forgot to catch the news later that day so I really have no idea how the accident went down, no pun intended.
