Aftersmash

The building I work in has been getting a number of upgrades lately. I hear that there are new owners who want to spruce it up. For the longest time there has been a large brick tower that has a rotating sign on it in the front. At least the sign is supposed to be rotating, but except when the wind blows, I haven’t seen it move in half a year. In fact, I think I’ve seen pigeons sneak into it.
This afternoon, at about 5:00 a large crane came and started to tear it down. It was so cool! It banged around the fiberglass panels on the rotating cube on the top. Eventually that came down in pieces. Then it started scraping away at the bricks. With one particular motion, the entire thing shuddered and a horizontal crack appeared as the top half rotated relative to the bottom.
Unfortunately, I had decided to throw a party today so I couldn’t stay to watch. I hear that it eventually did go down in a big crash.
I do feel sorry for the pigeons though. While work was still going on, I saw one poking through the rubble. I hope it hadn’t left anything important in there.
But after being in Venice, I don’t seem to have a lot of sympathy for the sky-rats.