Thanks to John for sending:
“This has gone too far. No idea what this thing is, but it has 8 legs and is not a Daddy Longlegs. It’s at least 4 inches long and is menacing me from the corner of my bedroom.”
What the Helen of Troy is This
Thanks to Kelsey for sending:
“This just popped up over Georgetown/Rosslyn ish area. Haven’t noticed it before. Looks like it’s starting to be lowered already. Any idea what it is?”
At first I thought it’d be the imagining balloon we often see but this balloon looks a bit different. Anyone else see this one?
Thanks to all who messaged us about this slightly unsettling scene last night:
Anyone hear a loud, high-piercing, one-note siren in Dupont around 18th and S St, NW that lasted around 5 minutes just now? Was it a building alarm?
— PoPville (@PoPville) March 23, 2020
Apparently it was just a siren that was malfunctioning from a firetruck. Good thing we bought all that toilet paper.
A reader reports 12:45pm: “Someone on the tracks of the red line between Judy square and union station. He’s walking.
Just shut down third rail power. The train stopped for a minute or so when he got on the rail, and the conductor starting shouting through the PA system to get off the rail. Before that they had the lights on in the tunnel and were following him at a walking pace as he walked along the rail. I didn’t see him on the platform, and he disappeared like 100 yards before getting to union station. It turns out he got out on the platform and went up and out onto Mass ave.
via MPD
From MPD:
“Thursday, February 27, 2020
A Roman Arms Micro Draco 7.62 caliber semiautomatic rifle, a Glock 17 9mm caliber handgun, and a Smith & Wesson M&P .380 caliber handgun (all pictured above) were recovered in the 2400 block of 14th Street, Northwest. CCN: 20-035-548″
14th and Belmont Street, NW during a previous incident
“Dear PoPville,
I wanted to pass along an alarming article published by the Washington Post two days ago which outlines an FBI raid that was performed at our apartment building Capitol View on 14th a couple of weeks ago. A man who is allegedly part of the extremely infamous Triad Chinese organized crime gang apparently abducted someone and held them against their will at our apartment building until the FBI figured it out, and surrounded and raided the premises. We saw FBI agents with bullet proof vests on as we arrived at our building that day, but did not get any details as to what was going on.
If you read the article, it is really unbelievable. There were Uzi’s and really hardcore drugs found in his apartment. (more…)
screenshot by Plah
Plah writes: “@PoPville Who else saw the man riding a horse up M St. NE?!? #dchorsewatch2020”
It’s been a minute since we’ve had a sighting but it always brings such joy.
screenshot by Eric House
And of course curiosity: (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
It’s just so interesting and I really want to understand why.”
Ah the cloud car, not the corn car, though this cloud has gone from black to white. When the cloud was black “It was part of a campaign by enviro groups to get automakers to drop efforts to roll back clean car standards”.
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West Virginia and Florida Ave NE. Photo by @seanmaiwald
Ummm, thanks to Mathew for passing on from Sean: “Coronavirus supply store???”
Photo by @seanmaiwald
After looking inside, I can’t tell if this is like the “microscope store”, straight up art, straight up entrepreneurial (ie selling cold water on a hot day) or straight up bat shit crazy. I guess we gotta find out the prices…
RudeHaggis with this curious find yesterday. Any ideas or should we just turn this into a straight up caption contest?
“Dear PoPville,
Any idea what’s being put up in Union Station atrium? Middle area is partitioned off.”
USRC reports that they are: “happy to announce that from February to July, all the damaged marble floor tiles will be replaced. This conservation work is being undertaken by Promacs LLC.”