Sometimes we are witness to events that change the lives of those involved.

[Ptah]

Tuesday morning, at about 12:30 I woke to the sounds of an automobile crash.

My back fence abuts a residential street, about two hundred feet from an intersection
with a four lane Avenue.

Directly across the street there was a Jeep Wrangler, with three college age men trying to
move this obviously destroyed vehicle. “C’mon, if we three push, we can do it!”

The radiator was spewing, the oil pan was voiding, the driveshaft was bent, and one
of the rear wheels was at a wrong angle.
No way that Jeep was moving without a tow truck.

They tossed some empty beer cans in to the parking lot.

I went inside to get a cigarette, because :popcorn: would take too long.

When I returned there were five police cars and one citizen. I’m guessing he was
the most sober of the crew.

They had taken the turn from the avenue to the side street to fast and
left tire marks on a telephone junction box, bounced to the left,
left tire marks on a metal utility pole, straddled a boulder, missed
an ocotillo, demolished a water feed to a business across the street.

I’ll try to remember to take pictures in the morning.


Anyway, I wonder about how that event changed the lives of those three youngsters.

[grannylib]

1. They're lucky to BE alive. I hate drunk driving.

I hope it changes their lives for the better, and they learn not to do that shit. It may not be one of them who pays the ultimate price, but someone else might get that damn phone call in the wee hours to tell another Mom or Dad that their child is dead, thanks to a drunk driver.

Glad they're OK, and I hope they never do it again.

[Ptah]

6. I can't quite belive the luck they had to not centerpunch the metal utility pole.

:scared:

[madinmaryland]

2. 9/11 and the sound and sights of the planes hitting wtc.

Sorry.

:hi

It was a rough day.

[Ptah]

5. I apologize for opening that wound.

:cry:

[liberaltrucker]

3. I hear AZ has very strict DUI laws

May the driver be prosecuted to the fullest extent.

:grr:

[Ptah]

4. I'm thinking the driver was one of those that absconded.

:cry:

[liberaltrucker]

7. Too bad you're not in Maricopa

Sheriff Joe (for all his faults) would've nailed his ass-eventually.

:cry:

[Ptah]

8. I disagree with you about Sheriff Joe. And I would rather not live under his thumb.

We have a very effective sheriff here in Pima County.

And since it is in the city, the very good Tucson Police Department
will solve this.

Ptah,
Baja Arizona

[liberaltrucker]

9. Point taken

:pals:

[Ptah]

10. Does Amtrak go to Birmingham?

:thumbsup:

[liberaltrucker]

11. Not sure, but SWA does

And a whole lot quicker.

:)

[Ptah]

12. I don't do planes.

[liberaltrucker]

13. Understood, but just so you know

http://www.southwest.com/cgi-bin/showItinerary?ref=bkflt_hp_wf_tt

Just an example. BTW: LTwife prefers terra firma, too.

[Ptah]

14. Here I am, arriving at a DU meet-up. Rail, no Fail.

[liberaltrucker]

15. Dayum, not your typical liberal!

:applause:

[asteroid2003QQ47]

16. Did I once witness a life changing event?

I like to think so but I'll never know for sure.

In the late 50's at about the same hour, I awakened to a great deal of commotion on the lawn. A large late 40's or early 50's sedan full of teenage boys (like me) missed not only the turn but the several very large white oak trees on our lawn and was stuck in deep ruts created as the car skidded and spun to a stop. One boy was behind the wheel yelling at the four of five (it was pitch black) boys pushing to push harder before someone came. I joined in pushing and when the car was free the driver screamed, "Get in, get in!" The car accelerated the five or so car lengths needed to re-enter the road and sped off leaving me standing alone laughing to myself in the dark. I have wondered many time if they ever realized that one of 'them' didn't get in and was left behind. I hope they learned to be a little more cautious and survived their teen years.

[mainegreen]

19. That's hilarious.

I'm sure about a minute later one of them had an 'uh.... somethings not right' moment.

:rofl:

[BarenakedLady]

17. Let's hope it does.

It often doesn't.

[bertha katzenengel]

18. I enjoy your introspective posts

and wonder if you, like me, might at times think too much. (Not that the story of this wreck is an incidence of that.)

:pals:

[yellowdogintexas]

20. if they are smart, they will do two things:

be more cautious in the future
not let peer pressure make them do incredibly stupid things.
not drink and drive, or at least have a DD

my daughter had a crazy wild accident when she was about 17 (in my new car of course )but it was because her two friends who were in another car challenged her to a race on an isolated 4 lane street in our city. she hit the curb with the tire, over compensated to correct and the car shot up a high embankment, flipped, cartwheeled and landed upside down. She walked out of it.

her friends thought she was dead. and she walked out of it.

no alcohol involved, just peer pressure and stupidity

they called me on her cell after they called 911 to tell me we needed to get there. I actually talked to her and while hysterical she was physically fine so I wasn't too worried. But Mother of Pearl, I was so glad I HAD talked to her before I saw the car or I would have had to have the police take me to the hospital. We took photos of the car the next day when we went to search it for things like her glasses, her CD folio etc.

there was a couple standing by the car, they had stopped to render aid prior to 911 arriving. He was a physician, she was a nurse. He checked her out, and they stayed until we arrived so they could personally tell us she was in even better shape than I thought.

she will tell anyone who cares to listen what a life changing event that was for her with extreme emphasis on not letting her friends influence her to do things she knows are not wise to do.

I think I'll keep her.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. We had a group of drunken teens hit the tree in front of our house,

and roll their car over...and then attempt to leave it right there, upside down, on a residential street...while trying to dump beer cans around the corner in my neighbor's yard. Only she came out and told them not to worry, that she had called the police and "help" was on the way. They then stood there (this was about 2 AM) trying to decide who was the least drunk so as to tell the police that person was driving. Luckily, no one was injured and MrG was able to save the tree.