Guerilla, Um, Something

I was just downstairs on the street, getting a sense of how much wind I'm either going to be fighting or sailing in front of on the ride home (a lot), when an unremarkable blue Buick drove by with letter-sized printer paper glued in both side windows and in the rear window. I didn't catch the rear win, but the two side signs said, respective, MICROWAVE WEAPON, and VAGINAL BURNS.

I've seen people do weird things in their cars before. The one that comes to mind is a car I saw not too long ago that was festooned with signs bemoaning the inadequate care of a local hospital, and specifying in minimal detail injuries suffered by a family member in that hospital. Names were named. Crimes were specified. An effete protest, perhaps, but a concrete protest for concrete reasons just the same.

These signs, though, lack all referent, are utterly protean and almost otherworldly (not to mention transparently paranoic), they scream incoherently.

And those pages were placed so as to reduce substantially the driver's lateral visibility to an extent any urban cyclist would notice and fear. It was positively creepy. But while I'm not thrilled to be sharing a road with this person, I wouldn't mind buying him or her a drink. There's a hell of story there; I can't even begin to imagine.