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From: [email protected] (Welch Bryan)
Subject: Re: WARNING.....(please read)...
In article , [email protected] (Neil Williams) writes:
|> [email protected] (Brian LaRose) writes:
|>
|> >This just a warning to EVERYBODY on the net. Watch out for
|> >folks standing NEXT to the road or on overpasses. They can
|> >cause SERIOUS HARM to you and your car.
|>
|> >(just a cliff-notes version of my story follows)
|>
|> >10pm last night, I was travelling on the interstate here in
|> >knoxville, I was taking an offramp exit to another interstate
|> >and my wife suddenly screamed and something LARGE hit the side
|> >of my truck. We slowed down, but after looking back to see the
|> >vandals standing there, we drove on to the police station.
|>
|> >She did get a good look at the guy and saw him "cock his arm" with
|> >something the size of a cinderblock, BUT I never saw him. We are
|> >VERY lucky the truck sits up high on the road; if it would have hit
|> >her window, it would have killed her.
|>
|> >The police are looking for the guy, but in all likelyhood he is gone.
|>
|> >I am a very good driver (knock on wood), but it was night-time and
|> >I never saw the guy. The police said they thought the motive was to
|> >hit the car, have us STOP to check out the damage, and then JUMP US,
|> >and take the truck.
|>
|> >PLEASE BE AWARE OF FOLKS. AND FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, PLEASE DON'T STOP!!!!
|>
|> >peace.
|>
|>
|> >--
|> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> >brian larose [email protected] #12, 3103 Essary Rd. Knoxville, TN 37918.
|>
|> >{}
|>
|> As long as we're on the subject... Several years ago myself and two others
|> were riding in the front of a Toyota pickup heading south on Interstate 5
|> north of Seattle, WA. Someone threw a rock of an overpass and hit our
|> windshield. Not by accident I'm sure, it was impossible to get up to the
|> overpass quickly to see who did it. We figured it was kids, reported it and
|> left.
|> A couple of years ago it happend again and killed a guy at my company. He was
|> in his mid-fourties and left behind a wife and children. Turned out there was
|> a reformatory for juviniles a few blocks away. They caught the 14 year old
|> that did it. They put a cover over the overpass, what else could they do?
|> I don't think I'll over forget this story.
In Des Moines, Iowa, about a year ago, some kid dropped a rock from an
overpass and hit car just behind the windshield. It put a dent in the roof,
so I guess I was lucky it hit metal.
It's frustrating that we can't do much. Bother the city government to put
covers on all overpasses? Slow down/speed up a bit when driving under all
overpasses in the city? I like the first better, but that will take time
and lots of people talking to the city governments.
Just another .02...
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