Monday, August 21, 2006

And no-one noticed .....


This was the end product of 6 hours spent fiddling about. I didn't see the impact but I heard it from our flat and stuck my head out of the window to catch sight of a puff of artificial smoke rising from the crash site.
Local traffic here is down to 10% its normal volume due to the holiday exodus so few cars were passing by and those that did, hardly gave a second glance to this "accident".

Bumps, scrapes and bashes are acceptable collateral damage in Paris, to such an extent that the frequent accidents around the fairground racetrack of the Arc de Triomphe are considered so humdrum and inarbitratable (This word should sooo exist - just like "explorativity". I bet there's even a book about that.) that Insurance companies have decided to split liability 50-50, whoever caused the accident.

p.s. The film is called "Fragile(s)". Ahhh, the wonderful subleties of grammar.

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