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Pretty sure they have those signs in Garland, look around 1st st or Dairy rd.
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Ouch...slow poke!Comment
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In Texas, how much at fault are you if you hit someone trying to run across a highway?
You see them all the time crossing 30 at Buckner.Comment
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I'm pretty sure you are fine as long as you stay on the scene and call 911.Originally posted by mstng86 View PostComment
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I ran over a woman by my place not too long ago... That bitch got blood all over my window shield and hair also!!! fuck it was a mess trying to clean up....
Edit: ^^^ Not a joke either.Last edited by papapepper; 03-07-2011, 12:36 PM.Comment
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Remember the lady that went home with the guy in her windshield?
ahhh link
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/08/news/mn-31784
Oh and the movie
http://www.examiner.com/movie-in-orl...eld-movie-ever
Stuck is a surprisingly effective horror-thriller. Everything about the movie screams low-budget, high-concept filmmaking, but despite the Easy To Sell Conceit (a homeless man is stuck in a nurses aide's windshield, who then leaves him there to die), the movie is a nice Examination of Character, specifically the character of Brandi, played by Mena Suvari, who is the nurses aide who gets the homeless man stuck in her windshield.
Brandi, on her way home from a night of casual drinking and ecstasy-eating, hits a homeless man crossing the street. The homeless man is Tom Bardo, a guy who is having one of those days. You know, start the day off with an eviction, then you fall through the cracks of the system (exemplified by an extremely inefficient employment office) before you are nearly arrested for trying to catch some zzzzz's on a park bench. And to top it all off, some chick hits you with her car while she is checking her phone messages, and instead of stopping or taking you somewhere for help, she takes you to her home and hides you in the garage. All the while still rammed into the windshield. Pretty bad day, for sure. Bardo is played well by Stephen Rea, hiding his Irish accent with a few nasal a's and hard r's. Rea manages to elicit a good deal of sympathy with a look on his face, one that says, "This is ridiculous, and I can't do anything about it." The main drawback to the set up of Bardo's sh*tty day is that it is such an extraordinarily sh*tty day. Like woah. His landlord is a complete asshole, the aforementioned employment office is a joke and even the cop gives him an attitude when he kicks him out of the park at night. The dude was gonna have a bad enough day as it was when he got hit by the car; now it's just overstated that his luck is c omplete crap. And the only person who gives him any well wishes, advice or assistance is a season homeless man named Sam, a dirty old black dude who gives Bardo a shopping cart to put his stuff in, and a couple swigs of some mystery hooch. The character is cool in his Wisdom of the World ways and how he is generous to Bardo when no one else would be. But the character also skates that thin line of "Magical Negro," which I did find a little uncomfortable as I watched it. Especially when his departing words were, "I'll see you again...I will see you again." I was thinking, "Dear God, what hokey way is he gonna come back later and save the day?" But as it was, he didn't save the day. He just saw Brandi driving her car down the street with his new friend being used as her hood ornament and windshield wiper. And then that was it for him. Notably, Sam is played by Lionel Mark Smith, who usually pops up as Detective This, or Sergent That or Officer Somebody. In David Mamet's Spartan, he is Colonel Whoever, which makes his a-okay in my book.
But most of the movie follows around Brandi, who tries to deal with the situation on her own at first, before enlisting the help of her drug-dealing boyfriend Rashid, played by Russell Hornsby (ESPN's Playmakers!). And funnily enough, Rashid's usual answer to any problem is Eat Some Ecstasy. Well played, sir. He mistakes Brandi's initial pleas for help as, "I hit someone and left him out there on the street," and convinces her that she'll be fine. And the first night Bardo is in the garage waiting for help to come, he hears Brandi and Rashid getting it on super heavy in the nearby house, which I'm sure steamed him up something fierce. (side note: this scene includes some serious black-on-white sex, which culminated in Brandi screaming while having visions of hitting the homeless guy, and Rashid mistaking those screams for orgasms. I am absolutely 100% convinced that this rather explicit scene is the sole reason for the movie not finding theatrical distribution. America flipped out when Lebron James was ont the cover of a magazine with his arm around a white woman, imagine if everyone saw this? Freak Out City.) Later on, when Brandi finally takes Rashid to the garage, he realizes that she actually brought the homeless man home with her and left her to die in the garage. And surprise, he ain't dead yet! And she wants him to get rid of the body, which Rashid claims he knows how to do, but somewhat dubiously. And while Rashid and Brandi wait for the sun to go down on the second day so they could dump the body in the park at night, Bardo manages to dislodge himself from the windshield, make a splint for his severly broken leg and work on getting himself free. These scenes are really well done, and make the movie worthwhile. Rea's struggles to reach a cell phone, extricate himself from jagged glass (and jagged glass from himself) and basically survive comprise the real backbone of this movie, and all of these scenes are very well done.
The story itself is extremely unbelieveable. So it helps to know that this actually happened. It's one of those Truth is Stranger instances, and in this case, the ending of the movie was changed to be more cinemtically satisfying, as well as dramatically rewarding. As opposed to the man dying after a couple of hours and the woman being arrested based on her bragging about what happened months later, the homeless man instead has a protracted battle of wills which spans two days, and ends in a glorious deluge of bodies, guns, Bic pens and fire. There is also an awesome scene in the middle where Brandi goes to Rashid's apartment to get his help, and she finds him cheating on her with some Spanish chick. So Brandi proceeds to throw this naked chick around Rashid's apartment, yanks her by her hair, and even wallops her in the face with a frying pan (!) before tossing her out into the hallway ass naked. Which was nice because she had a pretty smoking body. I also think that part might have been added to the original story, I doubt that was found anywhere in the police reports.
Continue reading on Examiner.com: Stuck - the best homeless man stuck in a car windshield movie ever! - Orlando Movie | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/movie-in-orl...#ixzz1FwUIFFxVLast edited by Mike; 03-07-2011, 01:10 PM.Comment
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JEFFERSON PARK (KTLA) -- A Sigalert was issued early Monday morning on the 10 Freeway, after a dead body was found in the roadway.
The California Highway Patrol received a call about a body in the westbound lanes of the 10 at Crenshaw Boulevard around 3:45 a.m.
A motorist reported seeing a vehicle stopped in front of a body in the number four lane. That vehicle left the scene, according to the witness, who remained behind to try to divert traffic.
Investigators say they think the body was hit at least 20 times.
The coroner was called around 4 a.m., police said.
The CHP issued the Sigalert. The three right lanes were closed, as well as the Crenshaw Boulevard off-ramp. All the lanes were re-opened as of about 7 a.m.
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Authorities say the victim is a male and is possibly White or Hispanic.
There was an earlier report of a pedestrian on the freeway, according to police, but it's not clear if that was the same person as the victim.
Investigators are still trying to figure out if the man was dead before he was struck by the first of the vehicles.
Well, there seems to be the problem. Dude realized real quick that he was in the wrong hood and tried to get out of there as fast as he could."It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."Comment
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I saw them out in California. Definitely real.Originally posted by papapepper View PostMen have become the tools of their tools.
-Henry David ThoreauComment
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"Self-government won't work without self-discipline." - Paul HarveyComment
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