The eagle really flew, seventy feet he figured, still attached to a piece of shattered two by eight. Landed on the asphalt edge of Crowdon Road and smashed into about two dozen pieces.
Camaro made it another eighth of a mile before it accordion folded against the brick wall that separates Traller Nursery and Flowers from Art Laise’s property.
Art heard his eagle mailbox first… no,he heard the car speeding, he’d say later, but people sped down Crowdon all the time, because that stretch was deserted all the way to Benton.
Hitting the mailbox was new.
Wrigley Warren was the first cop on the scene.
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