Only in Austin?

When we lived in New York, I would see things that would make me say "Only in New York," like the old man who drove up onto the sidewalk, came inside of the scaffolding, ran someone down, and then sped away...they had Mass plates, so go figure.

Corrie and I saw a cool thing the other day that I'm not sure I've seen before.



If you can't tell, that's a dude with his cat hanging out on his backpack. After talking to this gentleman we figured that he was probably passing through, as in has no permamnent lodging, and his cat is like his dog in that it provides company and entertainment.

I've seen people walking cats before, and someone once on the subway with their cat chilling on their lap, which is actually kind of like this guy, but still...

In case you're curious, I ran after the van that ran the guy over on the sidewalk, got his license plate number, and called 911. I told the officers I could pick the guy out from a lineup when they asked, though I never had to.

Two days later, I, the good citizen, was slammed onto the hood of a local police car in my ghetto neighborhood right as school was letting out and illegally searched just because I talked to some of my young black neighbors. The cops, in an unmarked car, thought I was buying pot from the boys. Their search of my person yielded proof of what I had been telling them, that I was just going to the bodega to buy paper towels for dinner.

Only in Brooklyn?