Reports of my orbital bombardment have been greatly exaggerated · 7:41pm Mar 18th, 2014
So I'm a taxi driver. I just got back from work. I work the day shift, which means I get up at the ungodly hour of two forty five ante meridiem... but if you want to catch a few airport calls right off the bat, you gotta get up pretty early in the morning. That's just the way it is. Anyways, I was lucky enough that I got a call to go pick up a bunch of pilots from a local hotel and transport them to the airport. I love pilots because you never know what part of the world they just came back from, and they have the most amazing stories. They also tip using all sorts of foreign currencies, which I set aside for posterity. Before we go any further I'd just like to point out that these were intelligent, responsible, and highly skilled men and women who are not given to exaggeration or palaver and every last one of them was stone cold sober as a judge (well okay, they'd gotten totally tanked the day before, but not the day of. We can't expect them to completely miss out on St. Patrick's day, after all).
It's about five or six o'clock. The sun has yet to rise. The sky is still midnight black. Just as I begin driving onto the rotary that leads to the highway, the pilot next to me points ahead and shouts "what's that!?" We all look up and see a gigantic ball of molten fire dropping straight down from the sky. It's directly ahead of us, in the dead center of our field of view. Couldn't miss it if you tried. In reality, it's probably a few kilometers away... but right then and there, I was convinced it was going to slam onto the roof of the building across the road and create a mushroom-shaped cloud of fire surrounded by several expanding saturn-rings of energy. We watch it fall for a few seconds, awestruck. I try not to panic and lose control of the vehicle because we're approaching highway speeds. The fireball falls about halfway towards the ground, then breaks apart and sputters harmlessly into a couple short-lived embers.
Not many fanfiction writers can say they survived an extinction event, eh? Now if you'll excuse me, I have to check the news. I heard on the radio that it--whatever it was--was visible for kilometers around, but that nobody knows what it was. If I begin to exhibit strange and mysterious superpowers, I shall update this post immediately.
That is all. Carry on.
"I love driving pilots because they have great stories and interesting monies!"
Go on...
"When I drove some pilots today the sky exploded!"
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Oh my... I certainly hope you're feeling alright.
I did a little research and this article came up. It seems to coincide with your report.
1936129 That says it happened at 7:40, by which point the sun would almost certainly have risen. (Admittedly, in Seattle, it's not always easy to tell.)
1936216
Yes, I noticed that difference myself, but the rest seems to fall into place mostly well. And if the two events aren't one and the same, then does this mean...? I shudder to think about it!
1936268
Seems to fit the description better. Nice.
Shame about the other event, however...
1936268
That's a relief. For a moment, I was afraid it was a jet going down in flames.
1936268
"They described it like the sun dropping out of the sky."
Sounds like a fanfic to me.
1936544
So what you're saying is, DuncanR didn't find Flight 370...
1937169
That would be quite the navigational error. o_O
1936122
I guess this time I gave the pilots an interesting story to tell.
1936129
This news report sounds about right. If the meteor was visible throughout the province, then it was probably nowhere near me... relatively speaking. But I still count myself lucky to have seen it so clearly. It was quite impressive.
1936544
There wasn't an insignificant chance of this being the case, either... Moncton city is quite close to the airport, so we see planes fly over all the time. I could immediately tell this was different,though: whatever it was, it was falling straight down. Or... straight towards us. Or away from us. There was perpendicularity involved, is what I'm saying here.
1936715
>Sounds like a fanfic to me.
This is what us writers have to compete with: Reality. It ain't always easy.
1937002
There's a first time for everything, I suppose. Though the "jaw dropping awe" might go away, I hope the "quiet appreciation for the natural world" never fades.
1937169
Sorry. Not my hemisphere of expertise. Perhaps you're thinking of some other canuck.
I only heard about this myself yesterday, from a passenger. Scary thought.
1936715
PP stahp
stahp giving me ideas
I have HR2 to write
1939470
GET IN LINE BUDDY BOY
1940289
If you're writing this, I hope you're doing it as the obvious crossover.
1940476
No, it's for you to write. :B I have probably 300 unused story ideas by now.