A horrifying experience

It is autumn now, the daytime gets shorter and the temperature plunges as it gets darker.

Note; Japan denpends on nuclear power (not 100%). So, due to that fact, having no streetlights in certain areas is not uncommon here.

That means, the only light I could depend on that evening were starlights as well as my bicycle lamp which is kinetically driven.So I cycled along the roads, with a few cars passing by every 1 to 2 minutes <-- that is a long time ya know...

I cycled and cycled... passed through a forest... down the hill...
whoooo... i finally saw some light... University Hospital... turned right....

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lights again!! ... petrol stand.... turned left....

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The brightest ever!!  ... Family Mart (convenience store) ...turned right...

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  along a road with paddy fields on both sides... (everything is black in colour at this hour)

*dum dee dum dum...*

cycle......cycle.....

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uh oh... T-junction... I dont recall seeing this on the map?!!

I was supposed to cross a bridge at one point, then reach a traffic light. I can't see the river cos it was so dark and I couldn't hear the river flowing cos rivers here are soooooooooo wide... (because I'm near the sea remember?)

No more lights cos I had to stop my bicycle. Kinetically driven lamp, remember?

Ok, waited for a car or a scooter to pass by and shine at the roads. (scooters are more commonly used here)

....And so came a car coming from the front.... ooo... its the bridge!! .... its coming from the bridge...

uh... i sensed someone's presence... turned my head right...

ARRGGHHH!! ..... WHAT THE ???!!!!!! ...

4 scarecrows...
more like scaredrivers... stood up high next to me .. just an arm's length away...with banners held in their 'hands'

ok, here's a comic to give you a clearer picture ...

wouldn't it be better if i filled black onto the canvas in MS Paint and paste it here ?

  < --- i waited here ... car came and shone ...

I've been next to these things for so long and i didn't notice until the car lights shined at them !!

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ish!!.... He's the chosen Mr Miyazaki!! ... ahaha..... nah... they're asking you to put on your seatbelts... don't drink and drive...

good thing i wasn't robbed or molested by these scarecro... uh..... scaredrivers...

weird japanese people.... but funny...

This is not my first time cycling in this darkness... but I will never do it in Msia...but still, I was on my bike, right next to these things...