CRASH!

I got one of those discomforting phone calls last night from my roommate last night as I was finishing up at work.

"COME HOME, NOW!" was his opening line.

A truck, presumably stolen, had cut through the parking lot of the building next to ours, blasted through the fence and crashed into our building. Our neighbor in #3 (we're #4) was asleep when the truck slammed into his bedroom wall. The driver fled on foot. Our neighbor is fine, though he and his upstairs neighbor obviously had to be evacuated from the building. There's some major damage to the brickwork, though amazingly, the truck itself sustained very little damage. We need to get a buildings inspector out to verify the stability of the rest of the building.

Everyone's fine, though. Could have been much, much worse.

Photos of the damage HERE

Roomie got photos before they towed away the truck, I'll try to get those up later on tonight.