Allright, heres was my event of the week, if not for the entire year. Way early Tuesday morning, around 4 A.M, I couldn't sleep in my town house apartment so I went down to the kitchen to eat something and go back to bed. My waffle had no sooner popped up from the toaster did the power go completely out and right afterwards I heard this very loud "BAAAANGGG.....BOOOOOM!!!!
"WTF was that?" I wondered, never heard that with a power outage. Grumbling that now I had no power to see to even freaking jam up my waffle, I improvised in the dark and went back upstairs to try and sleep before I had to hit the road in a few hours for work.
Got up and found the power was STILL out 3 hours later. Bitching and cussing knowing that my milk wouldn't be cold anymore and I couldn't make coffee, I grabbed all my gear and headed to the work van and when I rounded the corner I saw this, and was in utter shock.
Apparently, after talking with power company guys and several of the neighbors I got the basic story. Two VERY drunk gals had sped through the 3 way stop across from our parking area, jumped the first grassy median, missed two cars by feet in our parking lot, jumped the sidewalk, took out a transformer box, kept going and took out half our playground area, STILL kept going, took out a SECOND power transformer box and was only stopped by the large Ponderosa tree, preventing her from going through the small alleyway and hit an occupied house!!
Apparently, half the neighborhood were woken up from the sound and a few pointed flashlights out in the grassy area to see what the hell was going on and saw two girls clamoring out of a totalled sedan buried into the tree. The girls apparently freaked and one shouted out
"Get the beer, lets run and we'll call the car in stolen!"
The girls then hobbled away before someone driving by noticed the accident and then saw the girls hobbling and running way. He rushed back to inform the police he saw two very belligerant girls walking around. The cops called in backup and picked them up at the park a few blocks away
Needless to say, half the apartment complex and the other side of the block were out of power for nearly most of the day while the power company had to dig up both trenched transformers and replace damaging cabling to restore power. The playground is now off limits to the kids and my landlord is majorly pissed and I don't wanna think of how big of a bill its gonna be from the utility company. The power company guys were also NOT very happy to be doing this kinda cleanup work in the early morning. Amazingly, these girls didn't injure or kill anyone which in of itself is a miracle. One of the power guys made an ever scarier thought:
"If this had happened just a few hours earlier, there might have been kids on that playground"
When asked, another power guy said that each transformer box packs around 12,000v of AC power and is filled with mineral oil to keep it cool. He said the girls are damn lucky to be alive not only from the wreck, but not to have gotten electrocuted as the car drove over both transformers.
The police estimated she was traveling around 50-60mph to do that kinda damage and the brakes were never touched, she was that drunk, though he didn't state what her blood alchohol level was, but it had to be pretty damn high to cause all this and think walking away was a good idea, not to mention to call and file a false stolen car report.
In otherwords, if your gonna drink, use some farking common sense and get a ride home or JUST DON"T DRIVE! You make everyone's lives miserable one way another when you drive drunk