Author Topic: cleveramerican was nearly killed by drunk driver last night. (Read 8855 times)

happy1ga · « **Reply #25 on:** November 25, 2009, 04:10:03 PM »

There was one sentence that immediately caught my eye in the OP.

He was wearing his DU shirt.

Uh, if you are grief-stricken and worried your dad might not make it, why in the world would this thought be in your head? Maybe I just dont get these people at all, but that would definately not have been in any kind of true story I told. Is it to garner more sympathy? Make it seem more realistic? Or is this a true, but really odd story?

franksolich · « **Reply #26 on:** November 25, 2009, 04:41:34 PM »

Quote from: BlueStateSaint on November 25, 2009, 11:23:35 AM

He wants the attention Pam's getting . . .

Aren't I good at subtly encouraging the primitives to do certain things?

Chris_ · « **Reply #27 on:** November 25, 2009, 05:42:41 PM »

Quote from: Texacon on November 25, 2009, 10:24:13 AM

I won't speculate as to the 'truthiness' of the post but one thing does bother me;

How do you get that much information on the other driver that quickly?

KC

Exactly what I was thinking.....Smells of

to me......

miskie · « **Reply #28 on:** November 25, 2009, 05:53:59 PM »

I have done some digging, and so far have not managed to find this story - which is odd because putting pressure on Massachusetts' inability to remove licenses from problem drivers and get mandatory testing for older drivers is something that the Commonwealth's Tebaggin' hate radio listening, knuckle-draggin' rethugliKKKans do every day. And since I spend my time listening to Boston area Hate-Radio with all the other teabaggers, I should have heard this story several times over the last 24 hours.

I will keep looking though, because I really find it hard to accept that anyone would be so vile as to report this as it would be an act of fraud.. But then again, this is DU were talking about...

miskie · « **Reply #29 on:** November 25, 2009, 05:55:54 PM »

Quote from: Odin's Hand on November 25, 2009, 02:05:34 PM

I think we are ALL wondering that, slackmaster. What IS a 9-time DUI offender, with a manslaughter conviction, doing outside of a jail cell and how come no media outlet in the Boston-area is reporting on it?

If the person is an elderly AARP card carrying member, they wont. Elections are coming up and the AARP has powerful friends here.

kenth · « **Reply #30 on:** January 13, 2010, 04:41:39 PM »

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7454323

Update to the story. It was a bit too boring to merit it's own thread after I finally read it.

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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-13-10 10:19 AM
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November 24, 2009 a day that changed my life. Updated at 11:52 AM

It was a day like so many others, I went to work and came home to have supper of tacos with my wife an three daughters, just like I always do.
After supper I was looking forward to sitting down with my feet up and watching Hardball.
My beautiful wife reminded me of an important town meeting where a vote would decide weather or not a new high school would be built.
I knew this was big and the anti-everything crowd would be out in force to squash it.
A neighbor called to make sure I was going, I told him I was.
I took ten minute to collect my thoughts and made some notes of what I wanted to say.
(Government is about priorities, what priority can possibly be ahead of our children's education..)

My turn came and I let fly like Mussolini from the balcony, stunned some and pleased some others who know me.
The vote was taken and it passed, the next step towards a new high school would be taken.
I felt great, pleased with myself that maybe I had had some small part in getting it done.
This was why I love town meeting, people CAN be convinced.

Hopped in my car and headed home to share the good news with my family.
I thought about stopping to buy a blueberry pie to celebrate but decided against it.
I need to drop a few pounds.

As I came through town, I was sitting at a red light about third in line...
a blue Buick rammed into my passenger door at full speed..broken glass everywhere I spit out a few bits
I know it was a Buick because the grill emblem was right next to my head. I looked at it.
a next bit is foggy but I remember being pressed up against the drivers door and waiting for somebody to come and help me.

I also have a brief glimpse of being loaded into the helicopter which landed on the town common.
I thought wow they landed on the common right near the pick up after your dog sign.

This is all I can recall about the accident.....

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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-13-10 11:02 AM
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10. she was returned to jail Updated at 11:52 AM

she was out on bond for drunk driving when she hit me.
she had been released 1 year prior to my accident for an earlier fatal drunk driving accident
she was on parole
she was arrested for drunk driving, arraigned and released on a bond 4 weeks prior.
she was scheduled to return to court the following Monday,she knew she was going back to jail.

she duped a neighbor into borrowing her car and had spent a few hours in a bar hammering down hi-balls.

they are going to add another ten years onto her sentence, which doesn't help me much.

I have forgiven her, because its easier for me. Its too much work and goes against my nature to carry hate, I have to focus on my recovery.

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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-13-10 11:22 AM
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20. a full recovery is not truthfully in the cards Updated at 11:52 AM

I'll never run another marathon
I'll never ski again
I'll never play ice hockey again.
I'll never ride my motorcycle again.

My recovery depends entirely on me and a bit of luck.

I vow to work as hard as humanly possible to recover as much of my former physical abilities as anyone can.

Meh.

IassaFTots · « **Reply #31 on:** January 13, 2010, 04:47:36 PM »

Uh. If he is upset about not getting any money from her about this, well, isn't that what PIP is for?

The Village Idiot · « **Reply #32 on:** January 13, 2010, 04:58:35 PM »

Spend whose money on a new high school?

The Village Idiot · « **Reply #33 on:** January 13, 2010, 05:00:08 PM »

Quote from: Odin's Hand on November 25, 2009, 10:20:55 AM

Guys, don't you think that a nearly fatal DUI wreck, with the driver being arrested for 10 DUIs in the past, would be in the news somewhere in Massachusetts? If you can track down the story, I've tried multiple searches now, I'd like to see it. I can't come up with anything on it.

Nah, a lot of accidents never get reported

Odin's Hand · « **Reply #34 on:** January 13, 2010, 05:03:17 PM »

Quote from: FGL on January 13, 2010, 05:00:08 PM

Nah, a lot of accidents never get reported

Umm, about every newschannel I can think of would be hot and bothered about reporting on a story which nearly had a fatality in this instance and the driver involved was a 9-time DUI offender with a manslaughter conviction and was also intoxicated during this very accident.

The Village Idiot · « **Reply #35 on:** January 13, 2010, 05:06:18 PM »

Quote from: IassaFTots on January 13, 2010, 04:47:36 PM

Uh. If he is upset about not getting any money from her about this, well, isn't that what PIP is for?

what town is this?

LC EFA · « **Reply #36 on:** January 13, 2010, 05:09:24 PM »

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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-13-10 10:19 AM
Original message
November 24, 2009 a day that changed my life. Updated at 11:52 AM

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My turn came and I let fly like Mussolini from the balcony,

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What a oddly appropriate analogy.

The Village Idiot · « **Reply #37 on:** January 13, 2010, 05:11:22 PM »

Quote from: LC EFA on January 13, 2010, 05:09:24 PM

What a oddly appropriate analogy.

very much and he almost ended up on a lampost it sounds like.

PatriotGame · « **Reply #38 on:** January 13, 2010, 06:31:26 PM »

Mini Cooper AND a DUmp t-shirt?
Poetic justice I say.

There is ZERO chance a drunk moonbat with nine priors and a manslaughter/vehicular homicide would be out on the streets. Even in the socialist state of gross political correctness Massachusetts.

Pathetic bouncy but laughable attempt for additional victim cred with the DUmp t-shirt lie.

PatriotGame · « **Reply #39 on:** January 13, 2010, 06:38:31 PM »

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cleveramerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-13-10 10:19 AM
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November 24, 2009 a day that changed my life. Updated at 11:52 AM

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My turn came and I let fly like Mussolini from the balcony,

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What a oddly appropriate analogy.

My mental image of that was the moonbat hanging upside down by a rope, flying across the auditorium while the voters spit on him. Just like his hero from 1940's Italy.

GOBUCKS · « **Reply #40 on:** January 13, 2010, 07:16:14 PM »

Mussolini, in a DUmp t-shirt. What kind of dipshit would go to make a speech at a town meeting, hoping to impress and sway the opinions of his fellow citizens, dressed in a DUmp t-shirt? If he's actually injured, it's far more likely he got liquored up, or high on weed, and trashed his scooter.

LC EFA · « **Reply #41 on:** January 13, 2010, 07:24:14 PM »

Quote from: GOBUCKS on January 13, 2010, 07:16:14 PM

Mussolini, in a DUmp t-shirt. What kind of dipshit would go to make a speech at a town meeting, hoping to impress and sway the opinions of his fellow citizens, dressed in a DUmp t-shirt? If he's actually injured, it's far more likely he got liquored up, or high on weed, and trashed his scooter.

The fact he was wearing his DU t-shirt was important enough for the OP to mention it twice.

Carl · « **Reply #42 on:** January 13, 2010, 07:31:11 PM »

If someone was a victim in an accident that is a terrible thing and wouldn`t make light of it.

However I am a bit suspect because in their efforts to be too authentic sometimes in their ignorance they goof up.

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As I came through town, I was sitting at a red light about third in line...
a blue Buick rammed into my passenger door at full speed..broken glass everywhere I spit out a few bits

That would mean a car at an intersection would have had to cut the corner by almost 40 feet.
Think about the nature of a town and an intersection,we have all been there,and picture the path the car would have to travel from his right to have done this.

BEG · « **Reply #43 on:** January 13, 2010, 07:32:24 PM »

I can believe the story about the drunk driver having all the priors and still be out of jail. Actually I don't know if I believe he was even hit by a drunk driver and I definitely don't believe the part about the town hall meeting but I digress......

My step-sister is an alcoholic, has been arrested and spent time in jail several times yet they let her out time and time again. She has been hospitalized so many times it isn't even funny (sometimes for falling down and seriously hurting herself, sometimes because her blood alcohol level was so high she needed hospitalization). She has been detoxed (in the hospital, in jail or in rehab) more times than I can count yet as soon as she gets out she is back to drinking. The day after Christmas she called (my step-dad (her dad) and my Mom were here), her mega alcoholic boyfriend was in a "coma" and in ICU. She was a slobbering mess. Turns out his blood alcohol level was .48, you read that right .48. Neither of them work, he is a diabetic and has liver problems (the liver problems are from his drinking). She is but a shell of her former self. She had a nursing degree but they took her license away (thank god). She had a husband and children, now they are out of her life (to be truthful her husband was a complete asshole and probably contributed to her alcoholism). She has nothing but a drunken boyfriend. He has a house which is going to be foreclosed on soon. For money he is selling all of his collectables (mainly old cameras and stuff). They both go to AA (when they feel like it) but they don't want to help themselves so it isn't going to work.

I guess I'm going off topic but I don't understand addiction. My brother was addicted to drugs, then he died of a methadone overdose, my step-sister is an alcoholic (as is my dad and my step-dad was...well I don't know if you ever stop being an alcoholic) and she is going to die from it, her boyfriend is definitely going to die from it, her mother died an alcoholic, my other brother is addicted to gambling and use to do pot all the time (he smokes cigarettes one after another now), I know several other addicts, mainly alcoholics. My Mom's good friend (Shade met her at my brothers funeral) overcame her alcoholism only to switch her addiction from alcohol to shopping. I would say she is a borderline hoarder but she isn't dirty like what you see on the show Hoarders.

Once we went to lunch with some friends of my Mom's friend (the one I was talking about above). All of these friends are from AA. We were talking about addiction and they asked me how I can drink an alcoholic drink and just stop. I couldn't answer because I don't know why I can just stop...I just do. I don't think twice about it. I definitely think that addiction is in your genes but part of it is your surroundings. Part nature, part nurture.

NHSparky · « **Reply #44 on:** January 13, 2010, 08:19:38 PM »

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I spit out a few bits

I call bullshit.

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I know it was a Buick because the grill emblem was right next to my head. I looked at it.
a next bit is foggy but I remember being pressed up against the drivers door and waiting for somebody to come and help me.

No, asshole. If you lost consciousness, you don't remember what happened DURING the accident. Virtually every crash victim who loses consciousness loses the memory of the crash itself, which is why you hear so many people who say, "All I remember is a screech, and then I woke up here," or words to that effect.

I'm still waiting to hear what town this happened in. Again, this is total and utter bullshit.

The Village Idiot · « **Reply #45 on:** January 13, 2010, 08:25:27 PM »

Quote from: BEG on January 13, 2010, 07:32:24 PM

es but part of it is your surroundings. Part nature, part nurture.

Thats a sad story.

My family doesn't seem so bad anymore... //sarcasm

Tucker · « **Reply #46 on:** January 13, 2010, 08:43:06 PM »

Wonder if it's the same driver that almost killed Mrs. Dawson in the laundromat?

BEG · « **Reply #47 on:** January 13, 2010, 08:44:45 PM »

Quote from: FGL on January 13, 2010, 08:25:27 PM

Thats a sad story.

My family doesn't seem so bad anymore... //sarcasm

It is friggen sad. What a waste of life. I forgot to mention that the last time she spent in jail it was for having a wreck while driving drunk (she ran head on to a woman and her daughter). She has no license yet still drives now.

formerlurker · « **Reply #48 on:** January 13, 2010, 08:57:17 PM »

http://waylandstudentpress.com/2009/11/20/new-high-school-overwhelmingly-approved-by-town/

Could not locate a DUI story during this time frame.

formerlurker · « **Reply #49 on:** January 13, 2010, 09:02:55 PM »

Nada:

http://www.wickedlocal.com/wayland/news/police_and_fire

News:

Author Topic: cleveramerican was nearly killed by drunk driver last night. (Read 8855 times)