Where There's Smoke, There's... A Garbage Truck?

Montreal, QC - EvilGentleman - Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 : goo

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I was looking out my window at the highway when suddenly, everything turned white. Since Montreal does not get snow in August, I took a closer look. A cloud of white smoke was moving down the highway, the smoke totally blocking all vision to the drivers on the road, and even making it pretty foggy on my patio. I jumped in my car to find the source of the smoke.

A block down, I could see a garbage truck pulled over on the side of the highway, smoke slowly ceasing to come from under its hood. I pulled over at the Esso station across the street and watched, then decided to go take a picture. As I walked up the truck, the crazy driver restarted it and took off down the highway again, smoke billowing just as bad as before.

I went around to the highway ramp to follow him, and found him parked a mile down the road, with two fire trucks working to put out the fire, or whatever it was that was causing the smoke. He was very lucky that he wound up stopping the second time next to a highway ramp that was across the street from the fire station.

I doubled back and told the police what I had seen from a mile back, and on the way back to my car, I took this final shot of the tow truck getting ready to tow him.

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