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Re: WIFE SPEEDS TO SAVE STRICKEN HUSBAND: BICYCLIST EXPENDABLE

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From: Jake Donwawgo
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:48
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"TLittle" <mail@mail.net> wrote in message
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>
> Jake Donwawgo wrote:
>
> > "TLittle" <mail@mail.net> wrote in message
> > news:42B87EEE.1C9F1E1F@mail.net...
> > >
> > > A WOMAN IN A HURRY ALLEGEDLY KILLED BICYCLIST
> > >
> > > Christina Jewett
> > > Sacramento Bee
> > > June 21, 2005
> > >
> > >
> > > SACRAMENTO - A man who called 911 while having chest pains in a
Wal-Mart
> > > parking lot also phoned his wife, setting her on a wild tear Sunday
> > > night that resulted in a fatal hit-and-run, according to authorities.
> > >
> > > "She was on a mission, she was not going to be stopped - a very
bizarre
> > > story there," California Highway Patrol spokesman Max Hartley said.
> > >
> > > The trek began about 10 p.m. Sunday, Hartley said, when Nicole Meshell
> > > Patterson, 34, received the call from her husband. She didn't have a
> > > vehicle, so she took a van belonging to a neighboring day care center,
> > > rammed through a locked gate at Mission Avenue and sped onto El Camino
> > > Avenue, Hartley said.
> > >
> >
> > She was trying to save her husband who was dying,
> >
> > The bicycle was invisible at night, it did not have any night markings
or
> > light on and did not try to avoid the car, so he is mostly to blame.
> >
> > She should have called 911 for her husband.
> >
> > The bicyclist should have had reflectors on, and headlight, and tail
light,
> > and should not have crossed in front of the moving car, in spite of what
a
> > green light says.  A dead dumbass now.
>
> Hmmm.... article states: "Witnesses said she failed to stop for the red
light
> at Watt Avenue at 10:34 p.m. and struck an adult bicyclist, Hartley said."

You skipped the part where she said she did not see him at all

>
> To which Jake "Albert Einstein" Donwawgo responded: "should not have
crossed in
> front of the moving car, in spite of what a
> green light says."

Expecially when the bicyclist sees a car coming, why didn't he stop? He was
drunk too?

>
> Well, from Jake "Albert Einstein" Donwawgo's "logic"  one can conclude
that the
> safest course of action for anyone and ANYTHING with the green light at an
> intersection is to simply sit there and DO NOTHING EVER

That is your thinking, oh shallow turd-boy , not mine.


>because one can never
> be sure if there's gonna be a panic stricken individual ready to run the
> crossing red light "legitimately" because they have just cause based on an
> emergency.
>
> Well guess from now on I'll just sit at a green light in my car AND DO
NOTHING
> cause goddamned if there might not be someone ready to run the crossing
> redlight cause he or she has a "legitimate" emergency they have to attend
> to.......


It will keep you safe, until you get run over from behind.
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