foxtrapper wrote:DaveEstey wrote: "headlights were higher than a 6 foot man" But not higher than a 6 foot pile of bricks nor a menagerie of other 6 foot tall items. Can't just say "Headlights more than 6 feet off the ground", had to make sure a man was in front of it.Yea. Or maybe it's just because there aren't that many 6 foot tall women. Shesh, but you're way to PC!
Clearly, we wouldn't see a 6 foot tall woman standing in front of that truck.
I seriously can't understand how someone manages to get run over by a car. I'm not a blame the victim type, but Jesus - It's a 12,000 pound chunk of steel that is 10 feet tall, 8 feet wide, and 25 feet long. And loud.
People don't pay attention to what's around them. You'd be surprised how many pedestrian accidents involve them walking into the sides of vehicles.
DILYSI Dave wrote: I seriously can't understand how someone manages to get run over by a car. I'm not a blame the victim type, but Jesus - It's a 12,000 pound chunk of steel that is 10 feet tall, 8 feet wide, and 25 feet long. And loud.
The number of people that start their car and slam it into gear, floored. They've launched their car 20 feet before you the pedestrian finish the thought "oh sh*t". Doubly so if they are backing, because they are effectively blind, even if they are actually looking up while doing this. And many aren't, they are looking in their purse, at the radio dial, at their phone, etc.
Seriously, I've been hit a few times, and dodged being hit many times in parking lots. And I'm paranoid in parking lots, I'm watching windows, looking at tailpipes, listening for engines, etc. That's as a young(ish) healthy guy in shoes that are able to be run in. Doing it when I'm older and slower, or when my hearing is gone, or in shoes you can't run well in...
DaveEstey wrote: "headlights were higher than a 6 foot man" But not higher than a 6 foot pile of bricks nor a menagerie of other 6 foot tall items. Can't just say "Headlights more than 6 feet off the ground", had to make sure a man was in front of it.
Texas, the hyperbole state!
Had she been at Church this never would have happened.
No...the truck is a hybrid, and she didn't hear it coming.
HaHa he was definitely a bro. Check it out.
Diet coke and rum? You know how I know he was Bob Costas. 
Scumbag news reporters. I like how they wait until the very last sentence to toss out "The family has stated that she did not work there". I bet it broke their hearts to have to include that in an otherwise juicy tag-lined story.
So she was a deviant going there for the chicks rather than someone trying to pay her way through college.
Gottit.
Does it really matter why she was there? She's somebodies little girl that's been killed by moron.
I have a 22 year old daughter and I know if some assmonkey ran her down like that, he would never make the trial, no matter where it happened.
Supercoupe wrote: Does it really matter why she was there? She's somebodies little girl that's been killed by moron. I have a 22 year old daughter and I know if some assmonkey ran her down like that, he would never make the trial, no matter where it happened.
I agree, unless there is some very important part of the story that is left out, I hope that guy gets locked up for a long time.
of course.. everyone is wondering why she didn't hear the truck.. two things. I am willing to bet both she and the driver had a few drinks that night.
And you are right.. I have seen people just throw a car into gear and floor it without looking. I had one the other day as I was backing out of a parking spot at the mall.. almost took the back bumper off of my saab
In reply to Wally:
"Spirituality through pole-dancing" that girl should have a marketing company !
Were the headlights off tho? I don't wanna play devils' advocate to the brotato that ran her over, but something seems amiss. The shady details of why SHE was at the strip club, how she didn't hear/see this thing, etc. I guess it's concievable that he jumped in, fired it up, forgot to hit the headlights, and somehow managed to pin it WOT and snagged her, But something doesn't seem right to me. I figure it'd take me at BEST in my easiest car 10sec from dead car to moving if I did no looking at all. Maybe that's slow, I'm not sure. But considering said brotato wasn't terribly tall (the crime scene photo leads me to believe that) and the overall height of the truck..... figure the headlights are what... 24 inches above step in height? 36 if we're being generous? That puts the truck, without a ladder, at 3-4 feet off the ground. Now, I'm no olympic gymnast, and maybe he is- but it'd take me probably 20sec to get INTO that truck, with a ladder. Without, who knows... and I'm 6 feet tall. When I was sober. Had I been drinking, that would have increased exponentially. Flounder to find keys (unless they're already in hand) etc etc, and you have a recipe for doesn't make a lick of sense to me. Should he have been drinking? HELL NO. Should he have been driving that monstrosity? Likely not. But it seems to me that the sensationalism of pretty girl squished by truck has left a lot of it out of the equation. Doesn't make him any less guilty of running her over...... but still.
Why is everyone making such a big deal about it happening at a strip club?
mndsm said: The shady details of why SHE was at the strip club
Seriously? On a friday or saturday night the ratio of men to women patrons at a given strip club is right around 50/50. Just call it a parking lot, it could be at any bar. No need to cast aspersions on anyones character.
Retarded drunk dude builds a truck so tall that he can not see anything under 7 feet tall less than 10 feet in front of him. Possibly drunk girl acts like everyone does in parking lots and assumes they have the right of way as a pedestrian.
It shouldn't make a difference if drunk retarded dude ran over a heavy set middle aged mother of 4 at the walmart.
I only mention it because they made mention of it at the very end of the article, all hush hush like "oh yeah, she don't work here". I could care less why she was actually there, but it seems as if we're going to ignore any possible transgression she may have had. I doubt this story would have gotten half the mention if it woulda been the mother of 4 at Walmart.
John Brown wrote: So she was a deviant going there for the chicks rather than someone trying to pay her way through college. Gottit.
Wait... wut? Maybe she was walking across the parking lot from one bar to another. Maybe she was hooking on the side walk out front... maybe she was pointing out the flaws in that suspension setup compared to her Baja racer... who knows.
The awesome point I was making was that it didn't matter to the news crew - it wasn't going to get in the way of a nice hook line.
mndsm wrote: Now, I'm no olympic gymnast, and maybe he is- but it'd take me probably 20sec to get INTO that truck, with a ladder. Without, who knows... and I'm 6 feet tall. When I was sober. Had I been drinking, that would have increased exponentially. Flounder to find keys (unless they're already in hand) etc etc, and you have a recipe for doesn't make a lick of sense to me.
I figure the more likely caught-off-guard scenario was that he was already sitting in the truck with the engine running while he called someone, texted, futzed with the radio... Whatever. If a vehicle's been stationary and idling since before you got anywhere near it, you don't expect it to move suddenly, and not without the driver looking where they're going since they've got all that time to get their bearings.
All of which is still beside the point that it was the driver's responsibility to not pull out on top of a pedestrian. There's no version of this where she is at fault for not having seen the truck coming. Yes, it's entirely possible that she could have avoided it if she had been more alert and aware, but it is still the driver's fault. And it doesn't matter in any way why she was there.
Why does it matter why the girl was at a strip club? She is dead cause some dumb berkeley decided to drive drunk.
Twin_Cam wrote: I mess with Texas. And this kind of thing is exactly why. Sorry, Texans, your state is stereotyped beyond reason, and sometimes, like now, they're true.
I mess with Texas because I regularly see a new Beetle in pokadots, Texas plates, and a "Don't mess with Texas" sticker.
ransom wrote:mndsm wrote: Now, I'm no olympic gymnast, and maybe he is- but it'd take me probably 20sec to get INTO that truck, with a ladder. Without, who knows... and I'm 6 feet tall. When I was sober. Had I been drinking, that would have increased exponentially. Flounder to find keys (unless they're already in hand) etc etc, and you have a recipe for doesn't make a lick of sense to me.I figure the more likely caught-off-guard scenario was that he was already sitting in the truck with the engine running while he called someone, texted, futzed with the radio... Whatever. If a vehicle's been stationary and idling since before you got anywhere near it, you don't expect it to move suddenly, and not without the driver looking where they're going since they've got all that time to get their bearings. All of which is still beside the point that it was the driver's responsibility to not pull out on top of a pedestrian. There's no version of this where she is at fault for not having seen the truck coming. Yes, it's entirely possible that she could have avoided it if she had been more alert and aware, but it is still the driver's fault. And it doesn't matter in any way why she was there.
I don't disagree in the least, the squid was a doucher and a right cock to be in the position to begin with. It just piques my interest.
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