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Swap Box survives building collapse

We love a parade!As you’ve probably already heard, the building upon which the Swap Box is mounted suffered a partial collapse yesterday!

Fortunately it was an interior collapse, and the Swap Box is okay. It’s cordoned off so nobody can get at it anymore, but it’s still there and it’s still okay.

The last thing I put in it was cosmetic fingernails that looked like spiderwebs, and that was just an hour or two before the building collapsed. They’re probably still in there, if anybody wants to sneak under the police tape and grab ’em.

Firetrucks everywhere, but no fire anywhere!I passed through Bank and Somerset again about an hour after the collapse, and I have to say I’ve never seen so many fire trucks in one place in my life. There were probably thirty of them, stretching down Somerset Street, as well as several on Bank Street. Plus there were cop cars and ambulances and media vans and spectators with umbrellas and a down-and-out guy in army fatigues pretending to be a cop and not letting people get anywhere near the Swap Box. There was everything except a hotdog stand!

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