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And they send e mails about replies... I have to disable that as well..
Well I got that done on profile.
Maybe I should just shutup and be grateful.
Did I mention my daughter was knocked down by a hit and run driver last night? 5 hours in the hospital and she is gonna be ok. They are looking for the bastard that ran off leaving her in the street.
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Hope they catch the bastid; he was probably drunk to boot.
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Holy Moly, mojito! I hope she is all right. That's very scary. My son was struck by a Chevy Suburban in the broad daylight, walking home from school on Feb. 24, 2004. Will never forget it. It's not the guy couldn't see him--my son was 15; 5'10", 215 at that time.

He was taken by ambulance to ER, spent the night in ICU. The truck driver got out of the truck, stepped and broke my son's classes. My son got a ticket in the mail a couple days later, "Sudden Pedestrian Movement into Traffic", even though he was crossing at a red light at the crosswalk. You can't tell me cops don't prejudge teen age boys.

I hope you daughter is OK and they catch the bastard. It's very scary for a parent to experience. Good luck to you and her.
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Your son got a ticket?
Anyhow, my daughter had a pretty good scare, but now she back in class and doing her thing.
She takes 19 hours, work-studies with CATF (Contemporary American Theater Festival) has the female lead in King Lear (Opening next Friday!) and has 4 As and 2 Bs on her mid-terms.
Majoring in Mass Communications and Minoring in Art.
Good kid, eh?
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moj, great news that she is doing fine after the accident.

Great kid and you are her father???? Things that make you go hmmm.



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Sounds like a great kid! Congratulations on role and her success in school. You should be very proud.

As for her being hit and run, let me suggest she adopt my son's attitude. Anytime someone is whining too much about a trivial event in their life, he says, "yeah, well, I was run over by a truck!" Seems to end the whining pretty quick.
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Excellent idea joe, from now on I'll say

"oh yeah, well joepepsi's son was run over by a truck"......
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Mojito, sounds like she's gonna be all right, and I know we're all thankful for that. God bless.

My mom got struck by a speeding automobile while crossing the street in front of her home to get her mail--same thing she'd done for more than 40 years, same street, same mailbox. January 8, 1997--you're right, you never forget the date. She spent 9 days in intensive care. In fact the night it happened the priest gave her last rites. But she's a tough lady. She pulled through, after surgery, although with many injuries and now permanent disability in one leg and in her back/spine. But we were and are very thankful that she's still with us.

And get this: the driver of the car was somebody I worked with at the time. A woman we used to joke about in our company because she was a notorious speeder. Who, about a year later, was promoted to be my boss. From that day on she would never speak to me--like I had anything to do with it?--but would write instructions on a piece of paper and give them to another person to deliver to my desk, even though I was sitting only about ten feet away. Weird. Later on she was let go.

The kicker? Even though this woman admitted to driving 10-15 mph over the speed limit (that was in her statement taken by police)...even though my mom's house is located on a straight flat street in which you can see for 1/4 mile in either direction...even though she struck a pedestrian with her car with admittedly no obstacles on the road, in clear weather...the local police (and my idiot brother-in-law is on the police commission) didn't do anything. Didn't even give her a speeding ticket. Nothing. She ended up with a brand-new Acura paid for by her insurance. In fact, at the insurance hearing, the cops tried to blame fault on my mom for wearing a "dark" jacket. When, in reality, she wasn't wearing one at all. The jacket belonged to a sympathetic neighbor who placed it over her while she was bleeding on the ground. That same night my wife retrieved mom's personal items from the ambulance and threw the jacket away because it was so soaked in blood she didn't want my mom (or me) to ever see it. The f'n police later tried to say we were purposely destroying evidence. Yeah.

Don't ever, ever, ever talk to me about the agenda or the efficiency of local police. Some of the most callous, crude people I've ever met. Nowadays when they mail the envelope to my house soliciting for donations, I tear it into little pieces.
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Don't ever, ever, ever talk to me about the agenda or the efficiency of local police. Nowadays when they mail the envelope to my house soliciting for donations, I tear it into little pieces.

I do the same thing. I'm sure there are many noble people who get into law enforcement for all the right reasons. Somewhere along the way, too often, the systems screws them up.

That's a terrible frightening story, Boog. I think the reason why the driver wasn't ticketed in your mom's or my son's case is because it would have allowed the victims to sue millions of dollars. The day after my son was struck, while he was still in ICU, the driver's insurance adjuster began calling us. Over the next week he called several times, using aggressive language, warning us we better not seek settlement, implying they would come down hard on my son. It was bizarre.

For the record, we didn't sue. We were thankful he suffered minor injuries. We were also thankful to have incredible health insurance that paid for everything: ambulance, CT, MRI, ER, ICU. The total bill must have been $5-10K.

Boog is your mother still living?
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Wow, Boog! That is just plain awful. And your Mom, and you, have those constant painful reminders of that accident. They good things happen to good people...sometimes it's very hard to believe.
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joepepsi wrote:

I think the reason why the driver wasn't ticketed in your mom's or my son's case is because it would have allowed the victims to sue millions of dollars.

I agree. But shouldn't the cops just do their job and leave the legal stuff for someone else? You'd think that someone who ran over a person with their car would be in line for some kind of disciplinary action.

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We were also thankful to have incredible health insurance that paid for everything: ambulance, CT, MRI, ER, ICU. The total bill must have been $5-10K.

Yes, same here. Her bills were unbelievably high, but she didn't have to pay anything. The way it worked was first the driver's insurance paid--she was insured for the minimum, I think it was $100K. Then when that ran out my mom's insurance kicked in. Everything was paid for, including physical therapy for I think 15 months afterward.

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Boog is your mother still living?

Yeah, she's 78 now. She was 67 when this happened. She was born in the old country, didn't come here until her 20s after she married my father, and like I said she's a tough cookie.

Yes Les, it was difficult for her, for all of us really. Rehab took many months' time. But we are very thankful and fortunate. I have to believe an angel was on her shoulder or something, because how many old ladies get struck by a car doing 45 and then come back home to live many more years? As a matter of fact she just went through chemo and radiation this past winter/spring for stage 4 lymphoma. And she's beating that, too.

Sorry mo for getting your thread all off kilter...
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After reading all of the above misfortunes and accidents, I have nothing to complain about, but reserve the right to whine once in a while.
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I tried to e-mail webhead, webmaster@fanaticforums and the e-mail bounced back. A little courtesy would have gone a long way had he announced he was closing up shop.
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