Electric Josh

The crawler excavator was at it again today, methodically knocking down most of the rest of the building across the street. At one point, the operator triggered an avalanche of the enormous pile of scrap metal atop the one corner of the building being wrecked. The noise of it alerted us that something super cool was happening, and since the avalanche lasted almost ten seconds we missed very little. The two-story pile slowly fell three stories, kicking up a big cloud of gray dust (which I'm sure was perfectly safe), and the excavator's operator backed his vehicle up several feet in order not to be crushed by the debris. Immediately realizing he had an audience including not only most of his coworkers but also everyone near a window office in my building, he flexed his arms for us like Hulk Hogan. We all laughed and applauded, and the demolition continued. It was fantastic.
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