Toto, I’ve a Feeling We’re Not in Kansas Anymore

This was my view while eating a MacDonalds grilled chicken sandwich close by to the Ebbets Field Middle School. There’s an SUV burning behind the fire engine. Look just below the Ladder 113 sign and you can see the flames. At one point they were shooting up higher than the truck.

I sat there wondering about the shock the owner would have retuning and seeing this.

After a while another SUV made a u-turn and parked behind the burned out one. It’s difficult to see that the men are wearing yarmulkes. It’s obviously their car.

Soon the NYPD arrived on the scene. Was this a hate crime of some sort? Cars don’t usually ignite by spontaneous combustion. I’d love to read the police report on this since I couldn’t hear the conversation. Wadda ya think?

So here’s an example of photo journalism while sitting in a MacDonalds. Only in New York! These photos are a good example of why NYC is the street photography capital of the world. Go on Flickr and you’ll see. There are a flock of talented photographers walking the streets with their cameras at the ready.

Incidentally, my truck was parked only a few spaces away last Saturday.