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Bob Novak Hits Pedestrian, Drives Away | 198 comments (198 topical)
time for a story (5.00 / 1) (#116)
by Capt Howdy on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 03:19:42 PM EST
I have an EMT in my family and he told me this story. but it actually ended up being "dramatized" on one of "those" shows.
a woman in a jeep was making a left turn and was hit by a car coming the other direction and knocked out of her car.  apparently she not only did not make left turns well but did not wear seat belts.
anyway
coming along behind her was an old man driving an old pickup truck. this guy was sort of well know in the area for being "not quite all there".
so, he runs over the woman and one of her legs ends up getting wrapped around his back axle and he DRAGS her about her about ten miles on the pavement (she is conscious at least some of the time beating on the side of the truck and screaming) then turns off on a GRAVEL road for about a mile, pulls into his driveway, gets out of the truck and runs away and hides in the woods.
the neighbors eventually heard the woman screaming and called 911.  she lived but lost the leg.
btw
I also remember the story about the homeless man stuck in the windshield and I agree with the other commenter, I am pretty sure drugs were involved.


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Stress does strange things (none / 0) (#120)
by Fabian on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 03:37:11 PM EST
to people.

Some people become heroes and others, cowards.

(BTW - wear your seat belts and helmets.  Don't wanna read about you in the news.)

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no kidding (5.00 / 1) (#127)
by Capt Howdy on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 03:51:52 PM EST
Im an old biker living in yet another state that doesnt have helmet laws.
frigging stupid afaiac.
I would never never never ride on a street without a helmet.  and I get so sick of the rubes grinning at me for wearing one and showing the bugs in their teeth.


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Pet peeve (none / 0) (#130)
by Fabian on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 03:57:58 PM EST
Parents who ride their bicycles with their kids.  The kids have helmets, the parents don't.  I hope they have their wills and Living Wills as well.

I've only tumbled twice, and each time I was glad I had my helmet on.

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this morning coming to work (5.00 / 2) (#132)
by Capt Howdy on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 04:02:52 PM EST
I passed one where the parent had a helmet and the kid did not.
no kidding.  I wanted to scream obscenities out the window.
coming from California, or at least learning to ride a motorcycle in California, you learn the importance of helmets and other protective gear.
an EMT friend out there said they were very happy when those one piece riding suits became fashionable because they kept all the pieces in one place.
EMTs tend toward gallows humor.  its an occupational hazard.


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The local paper (none / 0) (#137)
by Fabian on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 04:18:56 PM EST
did a piece on super speeders - people who speed in excess of 20 mph over the posted speed.  The EMTs and police agreed on one thing - in accidents over 90 mph, there are no survivors.  Cars just aren't built to do that.  

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Bob Novak Hits Pedestrian, Drives Away | 198 comments (198 topical)

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