At 4:42 am on a July morning, angry clouds swirled and twisted as the sun behind a curtain of storm cover, began to light the sky.  A loud boom and a flash of lightning hit the Fisher Body 21 building and illuminated it like a Christmas tree for a solid ten seconds.  It was so beautiful to see the mother of all Detroit structural eyesores, shine as though rapture was going to take place at the site where chassis for Cadillac’s prestigious cars were once made.  It has since become a haven for urban dwellers that tag walls and break windows, those who harvest metal to earn money and those without a place to live. 

            A semi carrying canisters of Nitrous Oxide slammed into the back of a livestock transporter full of pigs being taken to slaughter to make things like bacon, bacon dates, bacon bits, canned hams, ham sandwiches and so forth.  The livestock transporter swayed hard to the left and then back to the right until the back end swung around and knocked the cab on its side.  Sparks flew as the two large vehicles slid for the length of two football fields.  A motorcyclist hit a large sow that had been released from the carriage and was running toward the motorcycle.  It took several seconds for the brain of the motorcyclist to accept that a herd of pigs were running full boat towards him at daybreak, with a really angry sky and cars dodging animals and other cars on interstate 75.  The motorcyclist hit a pig and flew over cars, over the barrier wall for the freeway and experienced the sensation of flying down a rollercoaster until he landed on the back of a scavenger’s truck that just happened to be driving under the freeway, filled with metal and a bedbug infested mattress to break his fall and save his life.

            A car full of potential terrorists that had flown from the middle east to Canada, had hit some strip clubs and Caesar’s Windsor casino before crossing the bridge to America to Punish Americans for infidelity to god, over indulgence and a lack of discipline and morals, for their weaknesses in giving in to cravings and twisted sexual desires and the idiocy of what they have seen on satellite television on Maury Povich’s paternity and infidelity shows.  Infidels to be sure.

             The Church Bus on the way to a retreat in the Upper Peninsula hit a two hundred pound plus hog and propelled it through the air and through the windshield belonging to the men on a mission to punish Americans for being Americans.  They took it as a sign from Allah that maybe they were doing the wrong thing.  They rationalized that if during a severe storm, Allah sends a pig through your windshield, forcing you to touch a forbidden and dirty, bloody animal during Ramadan, and then maybe it would be best to return home or at least back to Windsor.

            A notoriously morally corrupt State Trooper who had a knack for stopping attractive young women who were sure to be given a DUI for leaving the casinos drunk in the early morning hours, was touched by the storm and ensuing calamity of flying and running pigs, car crashes and leaking nitrous oxide.  The truck with nitrous oxide that hit the livestock truck that caused the motorcyclist to fly onto a bed on the back of a beat up old truck, which distracted the church bus driver, who hit a pig that sent the pig through the windshield of wannabee terrorists (you’re not actually a terrorist unless you’re successful) who then hit the state trooper’s vehicle that was parked on the shoulder while he received oral sex from a young woman who could never have afforded the $10,000.00 in fees for a DUI, all exited their cars and watched the former Marine turned state trooper, walk through the pile up of cars with his zipper down and his bloody detached cock in his hand.  The youth pastor of the church bus that was on it’s way to bring troubled inner city youth to a place they could have only dreamed of, exited the bus through a window and began to scream at the clouds.  The minister truly believed that Christ had returned and took what he needed and had left the rest for Satan to sort out.  The minister tried to quickly reason why it was that he had come up short.  Was it the underage girl he had a relationship with when he was young and impressionable at the tender age of thirty-four?  Was it the years of anti-war protests, LSD and free love back during the Vietnam days?

            “You cannot leave me!  I have walked the path I was shown and have shared your message for you.  I have acknowledged my sins and have asked you to become my personal savior.  How could you forsake me?”

            The wannabee terrorists, the church campers, the truck drivers all stood around as the skies poured rain, became windy and brought about hail.  Within minutes, the skies cleared and the nitrous oxide leaked and was inhaled by all that converged around the trucks.  At first a few people near the leaking tanks of laughing gas, began to giggle and then others whose days and lives were temporarily ruined came over to see if the group of people were laughing or crying.

By the time the paramedics arrived, they found a rather diverse group of stunned people laughing and hugging one another.  No apocalypse, no rapture, just a really bad start to a day in July.  A day when pigs flew over Detroit.