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Utopia Talk / Politics / The wildebeest and the crocodiles
Paramount
Member
Sun Sep 19 15:09:54
The Willis Avenue Bridge, a 3,000-foot stretch of asphalt and beige-painted steel connecting Manhattan and the Bronx, is the perfect place for an ambush. The narrow bike path along its west side is poorly lit; darkened trash-strewn alcoves on either end are useful for lying in wait. All summer, food-delivery workers returning home after their shifts have been violently attacked there for their bikes: by gunmen pulling up on motorcycles, by knife-wielding thieves leaping from the recesses, by muggers blocking the path with Citi Bikes and brandishing broken bottles.

“Once you go onto that bridge, it’s another world,” one frequent crosser said. “You ever see wildlife with the wildebeest trying to cross with the crocodiles? That’s the crocodiles over there. We’re the wildebeests just trying to get by.”

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USA, 2021.
Rugian
Member
Tue Sep 21 06:24:44
Are you asking us to comment on the crime part or the "delivery apps suck" part?
Paramount
Member
Tue Sep 21 07:37:25
I don’t know. I mostly thought that the guy gave a funny description of his workday.

It is also kinda shocking that these delivery workers, just like wildebeests, find safety in numbers. That they have to cross the bridge as a herd to minimize the risk of being attacked by crocodiles.
TheChildren
Member
Tue Sep 21 12:44:34
lol 4th world nation status confirmed yet again.

cant even just walk home without enterin da law of da jungle.

every day a true survival day.
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