you can't walk thru a crime scene

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Today was another in a extended series of walks in the 'hood. So tired of the hood. But I have no motivation to go anywhere that involves a car. So the 'hood it is.

Today on the radio's traffic report they said that the Five Points was closed for an accident. Okay, I'll go see how many cars were crunched. Well the answer would be zero.

As I approached the Five Points I could see a cop car blocking Broadway and directing the traffic up the Wyandotte Street hill. As I got closer to the intersections I could see a police van at McD's. All the roads blocked off. Yellow tape everywhere. Cop cars around the perimeter. When I reached the intersection I saw flip flops, spilled coffee and a book bag. My worse fears about this intersection had come true. It wasn't an accident. It was a PEDESTRIAN accident.  It could have been me.

As I was processing the information and kind-of staring at the cop directing traffic, I heard a voice. It was the school crossing guard. "Do you need to cross?"

"Yes"

"Which way?" I pointed to the transmission place. "Cut across the lawn and come up here. You can't cross down there." So I walked up the hill and crossed at the alley. And then went back down. As I was crossing I heard the crossing guard yell "Girls, you can't cross there today. You need to come up here." She was going to have a long morning. I did not since the second one on the McD's corner.

I checked the paper online before I started writing this. The person was killed. "There but for the grace of god go I." I've had many a close call.