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Day 17 – Local Man Still on Hillcrest Roundabout
Marvin Alamo left his home on 4988229933551177 Road at 4:15 pm on July 9 to get a bottle of wine. Along with him in the pickup was his dog who is also known as Marvin.
When he approached the roundabout at Hillcrest and Miami it seemed clogged and cumbersome and he entered despite his better judgement and acute survival instincts learned during his 50 plus years working for the gov’ment.
That was 17 days ago and both of the Marvins are still going round and round unable to exit the roundabout, even at night when traffic dies down.
“I could have taken Townsend Avenue but the traffic is backed up to Otter Road,” he said during an interview with KBLA, an oldies station that dabbles in local news. “With all the unbridled growth here, somebody needs to figure out the flow. Highway 550, out of the city’s jurisdiction is a potential disaster.”
On day 11 Marvin’s wife, Evelyn, managed to get close enough to hand him a two ham sandwiches (one for the dog) and a thermos of coffee.
Marvin blames the incident on his momentarily hesitation to negotiate San Juan Avenue earlier in the day.
“I lost momentum and was swallowed up,” he quipped. “I just kept yielding and yielding.”
He almost made it out on Wednesday but a Dodge Ram with a weasel at the wheel cut him off. Later he barely escaped a collision with an onion truck that had just entered the fray.
Meanwhile round and round he goes on the merry-go-round of asphalt screaming “Cree el grade!” at the top of his lungs to the bewilderment of passersby.
“After 56 years together, I didn’t even know Marvin spoke Spanish,” said Evelyn
Local authorities, concerned that the incident could hurt tourism plan to rescue Marvin tomorrow from above the round-about employing three helicopters and a runaway truck ramp on loan from C-DOT.
-Jack Spratt
“Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte, former French Emperor before his team was destroyed in Russia.
