As I mentioned in a post last week, I’m now living very high up in Parkdale. The division between private and public is severely blurred at this height — I get to watch people do all sorts of things like hang their laundry on their balconies, argue over who caused the fender-bender, or as I witnessed yesterday, a sporting fight on a patio roof (with someone filming it).
This rooftop is about a block away and quite active — sometimes folks are watching the sunset or lighting fireworks (lots of leftovers from Canada Day it seems). The fight I captured yesterday was the third bout I’d seen since I moved in last week. I’m not sure if its for practice or YouTube or some DIY video to sell to rage-induced teens, but these guys really beat the crap of each other (though, they do stop and talk every 5 minutes or so).
At ground level, when I walk by a house and see the curtains closed I often wonder what’s going on behind them. Up here on the 24th floor, it’s like the curtain has been fully drawn back on the window to the city and a hundred little stories are revealing themselves.
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Well, we’ll now know what happenned to you if you suddenly disappear without a trace.:-)
I figured that if Torontonians ever lived vicariously through Street Fighter II, they’d do it in Parkdale.
that’s kinda hot…
The first thing about rooftop fighting is: don’t talk about rooftop fighting.
Fight Club 🙂
Face it Matthew – you’re a big perv.
Cool! Totally Fight Club. they aren’t even wearing wraps.
Wow. Gayest Spacing Wire post ever! Awesome!
It is probably some kind of “training for UFC” amateur hour. I met two 14 year old boys on the bus the other day that had visible bruises and wounds, I listened to their conversation and it turns out the wounds were incurred in mixed martial arts sparring.