3 February, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Tonight on the bus ride home, my friend and I were discussing which Los Angeles freeway interchange would be the best if you wanted to drop a body from an off-ramp or overpass onto the freeway and have lots of cars run over the splattered remains.  [And since it's SoCal, no one would probably even stop to help.]  Since my friend and I are both American, we were talking about this pretty loudly and people started to turn around and look at us.  I think they were freaked out, thinking we were a couple of assassins.  We didn’t bother to set the record straight.  All Americans are violent killers at heart – let’s keep that stereotype afloat.

If there are any SoCal folks out there who might know of such an interchange, give me a holler.  There needs to be grass or some sort of greenery off to the side of the freeway, because people picking up trash will discover the body there, thinking it’s the remains of an animal.  Having a well-known landmark nearby would be helpful too.

Oh yeah – this is for my novel.  I’m not planning on killing anyone.

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1. Ken Says:

   February 4th, 2010 at 3:44 pm

   From reading your past comments, its something of a period piece, set when, 90s? I think this is important, because twenty years ago there weren’t anywhere near as many surveillance cameras.

   It’s a given it would have to be at night if you wanted a sporting chance of getting away with it.

2. Anglofille Says:

   February 4th, 2010 at 4:25 pm

   Most of the novel takes place in 2006-7, but my character was born in 1973, so there are flashbacks to the 70s, 80s and 90s.

   A friend of a friend suggested this freeway interchange:

   http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsgeorge/918119072/

   I think I might go with this one. They will definitely dump the body at night. They don’t get caught or seen by anyone, but I can take a few artistic liberties!

3. Caroline Says:

   February 4th, 2010 at 7:15 pm

   Do you intend to drop Michelle Obama off the freeway in your novel? I gather you are not a fan. How about Carla Bruni-Sarkozy or Simon Cowell?

4. Anglofille Says:

   February 4th, 2010 at 8:30 pm

   I’m not a fan, but I don’t wish her ill! Good heavens.

   Only fictional people get dropped off freeways. Rapists, for example.

5. william Says:

   February 5th, 2010 at 3:29 am

   I seriously do not want to piss you off based on all of the research you have been doing for your novel! LOL!

6. Anglofille Says:

   February 5th, 2010 at 8:39 pm

   Ha ha! But you’ve actually been reading it for me, so at least you can confirm to everyone else that the novel does exist and that I’m not just making it up.