My Brother, Action Hero

My brother rides his bike home from work 5 days a week and happens to ride it directly under the 35W bridge in Minneapolis that collapsed yesterday. Thinking it just another normal day, he got to the bridge mere minutes before it crumbled. There he sat on his bike, wondering if he would brave it, knowing it was last minute. And, throwing caution to the wind, he peddled that Huffy straight under and, arriving home, saw the news that the bridge had fell.

"Had I known," he said, "I would have taken a different route." But that's just my brother being modest; like any action hero making it up as he goes along. Don't be surprised to see him on CNN wielding a bullwhip and fedora with his own John Williams' theme blaring over Wolf Blitzer's voice.

Heh. "Wolf Blitzer."
--Alex Sandell