[UA] The Metal Eaters (was Steampunk)

[Stuart Anderson]

Royal Minister of Stuff wrote:

> > Hey, that's a good idea. I should find a way to use
> > it with the tow lot
> > thingie.
> >
> What would be even cooler would be if the metal eaters
> looked like the old half-jacked cars you see in a lot
> of major US cities.  One of the big symbols of urban
> blight is a car up on blocks in the middle of the
> street or one with smashed windows and an eviscerated
> dashboard.  It would be spooky to walk down a street
> one day and see one of these things, but see two right
> next to eachother when you walk the other way.  You
> just get this sense that they're growing.

It's even spookier for me to be driving home, through rows of trailers,
realization gradually dawning on me that I'm only safe because my neighbors
have struck some dark bargain with these creatures. Children of the Camaros.

--Stu


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