Let me explain to you why this is the cutist thing ever:
Last Thursday night/Friday morning, some severely confused/crazy woman allegedly noticed a person drop his keys near 22nd and Bartlett as he was fumbling them out of his pocket to unlock his car. Before he could see where they fell, she snatched them up and waited as the befuddled would-be driver retraced his steps to see if he had left them somewhere behind. Utilizing this moment of vulnerability, the woman opened the car, started it, and made her swift getaway–DOWN THE BARTLETT STREET SIDEWALK!
She wasn’t a very good driver and couldn’t quite navigate the narrow sidewalk, slamming back and forth into the trees that lined the walkway and the walls of the neighboring homes, obliterating the little sidewalk community garden that residents had planted there and maintained over the years. When she finally slammed into a dumpster and realized she was stuck, she aborted the car theft and jumped out, attempting to escape on foot. Congrats to our pal Tava for waking up from all the commotion and calling the police, who apprehended the woman shortly thereafter.
Now, back to the tree bandages. The neighbors have been trying to save the garden and the trees that were injured during this attempted vehicular herbicide, and they’ve fashioned these adorable tree slings to help the little guys recover. In the meantime, they’ve been working to replant the garden and re-erect the tiny fences that lined the sidewalk. So much love for a neighborhood garden! Get well soon!
That’s a really inspiring story — thank you, Bartlett Street people! That street is one of my favorite green alternatives to Mission.
This was the biggest scandal to hit this block since the Emanuel Baptist Church double-murder of 1895: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Durrant.
That, and the occasional public puking incident.
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