not something you see every day on the commute

This is why it took me about an hour to get home from work yesterday. What was frustrating is that when I finally did get home, I didn't see anything about it on the news (perhaps I just missed it) or on the internet, so I had no idea what it was about. The whole road had been lined with tour buses since the previous afternoon. I thought it was part of a protest, perhaps related to the high fuel prices--but couldn't be sure.
I got these pics from here.



▲ '목장원유가 현실화, 경영회생 대책 촉구 전국 낙농육우인 총궐기대회가 열린 17일 오후 서울 여의도 문화광장에서 참가자들이 타고 온 버스가 원인모를 화재로 타고 있다. /뉴시스
There was a fire on one of the buses used by a group of protesters (three groups protesting issues related to dairy farmers and alternatives for failed business owners) on Yeoeuido on June 17. Nobody knows the exact cause of the fire.





It took me about an hour to get to work also yesterday. In almost the same area, there was a bus stopped, a motorcycle with a white line painted around it just behind the bus, police, an ambulance just pulling up (that had passed me about 10 minutes - and only 500 meters back. Cars don't pull over for ambulances here). There was also a body that had been covered completely by a yellow tarp. A simple equation to remember: Motorbike + bus = death. I guess the slow arrival of the ambulance really wasn't an issue for the poor guy.

For both of these events, though I had my camera with me, I didn't take a picture. For the morning commute, it just wasn't right. For the afternoon commute, I had my camera ready, but right when I got close, a bus blocked my view in the lane between us.