Carlo didn’t see the fight at first, he saw the ice cream truck with all the kid’s backs to it, ignoring it, some of them pointing at the edge of Buddon Park.
He thought someone might have gotten stuck in the little drainage ditch. That happened twice in his lifetime, once to Lyle Pitniak the night of Lyle’s bachelor party.
Carlo parked, one over from his house, in front of Grappia’s. because a panel truck was parked in front of his.
He looked toward the park and saw a woman’s naked breast.
Didn’t take him long to realize that breast was attached to a body that was in a fistfight.
Took another minute for Carlo to realize the owner of the breast was fighting a man, his neighbor Shin Lasky.
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