He stopped in the street in his big truck. He got in his lift basket.
Even though the state is in debt and the city will cut police and public defendants and food stamps and health care for the poor so they just might die, while the evil filthy super rich won't get any tax increases - I get a brand new light bulb just out my window to keep me awake all night !!!
back down again
and then he drives off real fast as if he is ashamed (this is an action shot) ...
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Watch it, Peter. If you are seen taking pictures of a municipal truck like this, you may be hauled in and tortured by the CIA. ;-)
lol..that is what I was thinking!
We should NOT be discussing this...WE'RE ALL going to be taken away!
Just because your paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't really out to get you.
Exactly, Elizabeth. Some lacky is probably C&P'ing every comment we make on Peter's article and cataloging our icons. Crap. There goes my chance for a job in the state dept.
i was too but then again, it's your right to take photos from within your dwelling...right???
they'd haul me off and then bring me back. they wouldn't keep me long
Well, Dawn, I guess that would be true if Peter was taking pictures of his MatchBox maintenance truck on his kitchen floor, but it may be a little questionable if he's taking pictures of the White House doings out his window. You never know now, do you? ;-)
i agree sheryl ;-) nope, you never know
he'll prob. know soon enough :D
WE'LL only know when he quits coming to Gather....then it will only be speculation...
O.o
Oh My God, the excitement! How can anything you do today top what just happened?
Looks like you'll just have to shoot it out again. Wonder what you'll shoot it with this time?
lol :D let them replace it again.
THIS time, have a video camera handy.
He should be ashamed. If there was another streetlight within 50 feet, it didn't need changing.
Hooray for the innocuous Gather photo essay !!!
ha ha
Wait, was the worker a Republican or a Democrat? Did you catch his religious persuasion? Was he pro-choice or pro-life? ;-)
I was going to yell at him if he believed in God ...
Maybe he WAS God...and there shall be light and all.
THAT'S why he was so old looking, and so fast !!!
lol sheryl! let there be light. funny peter, woot. doesn't surprise me though they'd fix that st. light instead of some other well needed things
Must have lights every two feet, streets without holes be damned!
LOL! Lots of excitement there!
This is MY big question: Are his suspenders crossed in the FRONT too? I don't believe I've ever seen such a big boy wear them like that.
God ... you're becoming like some people who post about every aspect of their day... the kind that make me wanna throw up in my mouth a little.
Article 1) "I just made lunch. What is your favorite lunch meat?"
Article 2) "My youngest son just pooped and here's a photo essay about it. Have you pooped today and what did your poop look like?"
Article 3) "I need to go to the grocery store. Do you like to shop at grocery stores?"
Yeah, how did you know they change my lightbulb every day !!!!
Oh I know all.
NOOO! They don't even usually include the photos, just the title..."My Son Pooped."
I suppose we DON'T want gather photo essays of a lot of things ...
Honestly, what good is a poop article without supporting photo documentation?
I caught GOD on film, going up and down and making light, and looking old. I don't know why that isn't good enough.
i enjoyed it. your commentary was what set the essay off. i had a laugh, thanx peter
Absolutely, Peter. The last time God was caught on film, George Burns was alive.
so true!!
Grrr, that would drive me nuts. Get blackout curtains!
Oh my he moves QUICK!!
I couldn't snap fast enough. It was like a nature show.
very funny
Meanwhile, I've had friends in less than wonderful neighborhoods who couldn't get their streetlights fixed for MONTHS at a time, not a ONE. Being poor AND living in a poor area are apparently enough to get you COMPLETELY ignored. Meanwhile, my family, also poor, just happens to live in a relatively "affluent" area, that used to be farm land, and we can't get lights turned OFF. We also live close enough to the fire station that several times a week we hear the trucks going by, of course the KIDS love it.
better watch it they might just come and take you away :P you spy you :P
I'm sure you don't remember Philco TV and radios but when I was a little kid we lived above the Philco store and my bedroom overlooked the Philco store sign. That thing was bright.
Don't you still have that Red Rider BeeBee gun? How in the world do you spell beebee? Is that right? Peter, I can't see the dictionary in here, can I borrow your light?
b.b. ???
I commisserate, I have a mercy light right outside my window, and theif away lights over all of them. I hope for some darkness at night where I am moving.
'mercy light'? 'theif away lights'? Lights have names now? Isn't that taking things a bit far?
Can't help it, that's what they sell under. I agree it's silly.
I am so pleased you are The Eye In The Sky for the rest of us. But I think you should have chased him (on foot) to see where he went next.
Hey, at least he wore suspenders to protect you from looking at crack....when he bent down.
Actually at one time my late Dad was an electrician for Pinellas county, back in 1980 the cargo ship, Summit Venture hit the Sunshine Skyway bridge. Mylate Dad climbed up to the top of what was left of the bridge to string the anti collision lights. 35 people died in that tragedy. A bit of trivia, a body of somone who was murdered and dumped there before the accident was discovered. I often wondered if the accident hadn't occured it it would have been discovered.
EEeeeeeekkkk
You are a lucky lucky man!
Wow! It's sure exciting where you are!
LOL, now THAT was exciting!!!!!! Whatever will you do to top that? I would suggest shooting it out, but, I think that they are using stronger globes, so, you might just need to borrow my 38.....
The comments are as funny as the post....lol, too funny, thanks for the photos, very interesting, how, some areasl get a light changed so quickly, just one, I have never seen anything like that! yet other areas, go for years, with no lights at all, and they are a bit intimidating in the day time, much less at night! lol, there is no rhyme nor reason with the gov'ts thinking
'Tis a spy cam rather than a new bulb. They are going to take photos of you to sell for Big bucks when you become more famous...Hmmm... I think they can see right into your bathroom, peter!
I better put on some pants
some pants and underwear, lol :D know you better than that
LOL, Penni! Eeeek!
Amusing post, Peter. How boring is your life that you have time to photograph the dude who changes streetlight bulbs? :)
It was GOD, we decided.
Okay, so how boring is your life that you have time to photograph GOD changing your street light? LOL! (Sounds more interesting that way, I have to admit.)
How many city workers does it take to change a lightbulb while Peter Joseph Swanson takes surreptitious pictures from his apartment window in order to create a riveting photo essay?
Answer: Don't ask, don't tell. ;-)
Were they installing secret spyware into the street light? ha ha ha
PJS, man, you gotta get out more...
On our street we like the lights, we call and get them replaced. Of course the police dispatcher's brother lives next door to us.
Peter, congrats! This story came alive with your photos!
Your life is too fantastic, though plagued with the tragedy of a giant night light.
the better to make hand shadows with (take pictures!).
LOL lucky you!