My boss and I were on our way to an interview, walking the 15 minutes from the station to the meeting offices. We were crossing the street, about to slip behind a car stopping at the stop line when the car exploded in a shower of glass.

With one more step, we would have been rained with glass. Shocked, we saw a metal railing pushing out of the newly destroyed back window of the car. It looked like a lawnmower push handle. The mower must have reversed into the the window with the sudden stop of the car at the intersection.

‘What’s that madwoman doing?’ Jonathan exclaimed as the car drove off. It left behind mass of glass on the road.

After the next block, we saw that the woman had pulled into the side street. She was trying and failing to break off protruding shards of window glass.