Demons At Poe's Graveside?
Sunday, June 7, 2009
An amusing anecdote from "Eight-Stone Press" talks of demons circling the graveyard vicinity of Edgar Allan Poe. What are these monsters? Tow trucks, apparently. It seems the ceaseless quest of the state for more revenue and pristine streets is unfazed by waking the dead in the nearby Baltimore cemetery, which includes a headstone to one of weird literature's masters. The Eight-Stone blog has this to say:
Around 3:55 p.m. every week day, the tow trucks begin circling the cars unwittingly parked in the "NO PARKING 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m." zone in the vicinity surrounding Poe's grave, in Westminster Burying Ground, on Baltimore's west side. Sometimes, when the clock strikes four, they'll follow behind the meter-maid, tag-teaming the sorry bastards and hauling them away two at a time until such time as their cash-only ransom is paid in full. My coworkers, accordingly, have dubbed them "Edgar Allan Tow."
-Grim Blogger