On Thursday May 24, I found myself downtown Toronto visiting Reactor Art & Design. At about 4:30 pm when I left their office, I along side tens of thousands of downtown employees, discovered that the subway service wasn’t operating. This being rush hour the taxis and busses quickly filled up. As the masses of people me included began walking north to see if any other stations were working, one could see the fibers of social structure begin to fall apart. People were literally going nuts. I personally witnessed some people desperately trying to pry the doors open on taxis already filled with pasengers. People were shoving and pushing as they made their way through the crowd slowly moving down Yonge Street. No one seemed to know what was going on. Some were saying that specific stations were operating, others were saying none were working. What resulted is a crowd, resembling the armies of Mordor wandering, yelling and franticly zigzaging in all directions all throughout downtown. All in all my usual 40 min trip took about 3 hours but I arrived home safe and sound without any bite or scratch marks, all though there were few close calls.
