Deponija

Safe path termination: informal settlement encounter, flight response activated.

deponija

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Observation Log: Deponija Discovery
COS:B System Errors - Safe path termination: informal settlement encounter, flight response activated
"""

class DeponijaBoundarySequence:
    def __init__(self):
        self.location = "South Danube bank to Deponija, Belgrade"
        self.timestamp = "2025-11-22T15:04+02:00"
        self.coordinates_start = "44.8269° N, 20.4517° E"
        self.coordinates_deponija = "44.8328° N, 20.4589° E"
        self.settlement_type = "Landfill informal settlement"
        self.response = "Flight"
    
    def observe(self):
        return """
Walking along the south bank of the Danube,

I pulled my collar up against the cold wind.

Chinese construction workers laughed
on the other side of a thick green fence.

Pleasant enough.

Then the path ended.

Not gradually—
just stopped.

I threaded through woods,
came upon ingenious shacks
made from old vans,
repurposed metal,
whatever held.

But I noticed the rubbish first.

Piles of it
extending from the landfill site.

Mountains of plastic and rot.

And people lived here.

In this.

Open sewers.

Children running, shouting.

Dogs barking.

Plastic fluttering like flags
from every improvised structure.

Deponija.

I suddenly felt vulnerable.

Afraid.

Three men by a brazier,
shirtless despite the cold,

watching me.

Boys whistling—
signals?

I picked up my pace.

Strode purposefully

back toward the buildings I recognized,

back into what I understood
as civilisation.

I don't know if the danger was real.

I don't know if my fear was fair.

I only know I left.

Quickly.
        """

if __name__ == "__main__":
    observation = DeponijaBoundarySequence()
    print(observation.observe())
    print(f"\n# Logged: {observation.timestamp}")
    print(f"# Path Start: {observation.coordinates_start}")
    print(f"# Deponija: {observation.coordinates_deponija}")
    print(f"# Settlement Type: {observation.settlement_type}")
    print(f"# Response: {observation.response}")