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From: xkatx on 12 Feb 2006 01:33 Wow... I got around to getting the pictures I have up... Me = still amazed... It really freaks me out to look at these pictures... I think I might need help since I really do have trouble looking at them... How come B doesn't have problems? The baby's too young to care about anything, and her life is about as complicated as the blocks she loves to play with, so whatever about her, but Bran has no problem seeing the pictures and asking questions. *I* am the one who feels sick to look, and *I* get choked up trying to answer his questions... :'( http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/katmagicate/Garbage%20Car/5d40e117.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/katmagicate/Garbage%20Car/85742288.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/katmagicate/Garbage%20Car/b12a2959.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/katmagicate/Garbage%20Car/7a4400d5.jpg -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet?
From: Bev on 12 Feb 2006 04:56 xkatx wrote: > Wow... I got around to getting the pictures I have up... Me = still > amazed... > It really freaks me out to look at these pictures... I think I might need > help since I really do have trouble looking at them... How come B doesn't > have problems? The baby's too young to care about anything, and her life is > about as complicated as the blocks she loves to play with, so whatever about > her, but Bran has no problem seeing the pictures and asking questions. *I* > am the one who feels sick to look, and *I* get choked up trying to answer > his questions... :'( > > http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/katmagicate/Garbage%20Car/5d40e117.jpg > http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/katmagicate/Garbage%20Car/85742288.jpg > http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/katmagicate/Garbage%20Car/b12a2959.jpg > http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/katmagicate/Garbage%20Car/7a4400d5.jpg > > -- > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet? Kat, These pictures are very upsetting, he had to be going really fast to cause such damage. The site of the car seat is a powerful reminder to all of us the threat of careless drivers. Thursday as I took a little nap in my lounge chair, a young driver that has his license for two weeks comes flying around the bend on my road lost control of his car and rammed into the front end of my Van. No one was hurt , but I cant stop thinking about the children that do play outside in the front where this all happened. The kid tried to say he was doing 35 mph , the state trooper gave it to him good. The skid marks and crossover marks indicated he was doing at least 50 mph around the corner, he hit my car doing about 35! $1900.00 of damage ! This is the second time in what.......... 4 years my parked car has been hit, last time the car was totalled.....Anyway do get a lawyer Kat, these careless people that are behind the wheel need to be smacked down! Bev
From: CME on 14 Feb 2006 01:05 "xkatx" <xkatx(a)telus.net> wrote in message news:PEAHf.2278$Be4.1594(a)clgrps13... > Wow... I got around to getting the pictures I have up... Me = still > amazed... > It really freaks me out to look at these pictures... I think I might need > help since I really do have trouble looking at them... How come B doesn't > have problems? The baby's too young to care about anything, and her life > is about as complicated as the blocks she loves to play with, so whatever > about her, but Bran has no problem seeing the pictures and asking > questions. *I* am the one who feels sick to look, and *I* get choked up > trying to answer his questions... :'( > > http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/katmagicate/Garbage%20Car/5d40e117.jpg > http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/katmagicate/Garbage%20Car/85742288.jpg > http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/katmagicate/Garbage%20Car/b12a2959.jpg > http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/katmagicate/Garbage%20Car/7a4400d5.jpg > > -- > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet? Actually that doesn't look bad at all. The car my kids were in was wrapped around a pole and had to be cut into with the jaws of life. Glass and blood was everywhere, not something I needed to see when I pulled up just after it happened (thank God for cell phones.) Christine
From: CME on 15 Feb 2006 11:25 "'Kate" <athome(a)myownhome.net> wrote in message news:7os3v1pvo5sq92e32722o2is2l9sc8r8rd(a)4ax.com... > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:05:14 GMT, "CME" <brazenSPAMSUCKS(a)telus.net> the > following was posted in blue dry erase marker: > > >>Actually that doesn't look bad at all. The car my kids were in was >>wrapped >>around a pole and had to be cut into with the jaws of life. Glass and >>blood >>was everywhere, not something I needed to see when I pulled up just after >>it >>happened (thank God for cell phones.) >> >>Christine > > (((( Christine)))) > > that must have been terribly frightening. Yeah I'm convinced I suffered from undiagnosed PTSD that took me a couple years to recover from. So Kat, be careful. Don't feel like you can or should work through it on your own. Christine
From: xkatx on 15 Feb 2006 12:30
"CME" <brazenSPAMSUCKS(a)telus.net> wrote in message news:4CIIf.2494$jh5.2370(a)edtnps84... > > "'Kate" <athome(a)myownhome.net> wrote in message > news:7os3v1pvo5sq92e32722o2is2l9sc8r8rd(a)4ax.com... >> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:05:14 GMT, "CME" <brazenSPAMSUCKS(a)telus.net> the >> following was posted in blue dry erase marker: >> >> >>>Actually that doesn't look bad at all. The car my kids were in was >>>wrapped >>>around a pole and had to be cut into with the jaws of life. Glass and >>>blood >>>was everywhere, not something I needed to see when I pulled up just after >>>it >>>happened (thank God for cell phones.) >>> >>>Christine >> >> (((( Christine)))) >> >> that must have been terribly frightening. > > Yeah I'm convinced I suffered from undiagnosed PTSD that took me a couple > years to recover from. So Kat, be careful. Don't feel like you can or > should work through it on your own. > > Christine Well, I know it's all stupid and pointless to sit and think like a dummy. I know people use cars all the time, all day, every day. I know there's less accidents than there are cars and people on the road, so I think that's a good start. I'm not even really sure what I'm scared about exactly, yet I still seem to be! lol I think I am going to call around and see if I can work through something with the help of a lawyer. As of right now, I'm more pissed off about it all than anything. I got a call from that same cop that had called me the night before who said he couldn't find my statement. He called again at about 9:30pm to say that he had found my statement and the registration for the car, and that was all good. He also said that based on what they have to go on, it seems that it is MY fault. Alright, I can deal with that if that has been proven, but then the cop, in the same breath, had told me that it seems to be my fault because I didn't leave enough time to clear the intersection BECAUSE they cannot prove or not prove the truck was speeding. That, he said, was the one thing that seems to be the issue and reason for it being my fault. I asked him if he had even seen my car. No one in their right mind should be able to look at that car and confidently say that there is no way that the truck was speeding. The cop I was talking to said that he had seen the car - but he had also seen the truck, and they cannot determine he was speeding BECAUSE the truck had little damage to it. Hello. Are you dumb? Big truck front end vs. little car's side. Which is stronger? Truck or car? Front end or side? Would doing 50km/h (about 30mph) cause that much damage and toss and spin a car across the road and around? THAT is the part that pisses me off. If he simply said it's my fault, I would easier accept that. But he tossed in that it's my fault because no one can say for sure if he was speeding or doing the speed limit. That right there is what makes me angry because I KNOW the intersection was clear when I went to turn. I KNOW that truck wasn't there and I KNOW he was speeding. My mom is going to call the insurance company and see if they can do anything to prove speed was a factor. See if they have an adjuster or someone come out who can commit to saying, "Yes, based on damage, the truck was speeding." or "No, based on damage, the truck was not speeding." They have people who deal with this kind of stuff every day, I assume, and people who know accidents and damage involved, so I think it might be worth a try. The officer that I talked to last night asked how B was and if he got hurt. I told him he got hurt pretty bad, had a bad scalp laceration as well as a fracture in his nose. I said he's doing alright now, all things considered. He's not dead or stuck as an invalid for the rest of his life, he survived. The cop asked if he had any surgery or anything, and I told him yes, there was a plastic surgeon that had to stitch up his head, but there was nothing that could be done for the fracture. He said, "No, I mean, did he go into surgery and be put under?" and I said yes, that's what I had just told you... He went into the OR, was put under and operated on by the plastic surgeon at the Stollery Children's Hospital that same night, at around 11pm. I knew exactly where he was going with this, and he then said at this point, he doesn't know about charges. He said he was going to talk to his boss and explain some things and see what she says. If she tells him, no, you must go give a ticket and charge me, then he said he'll have to do that, but I know he was asking to possibly go to his boss and say something like, "Look, her young kid was hurt pretty good in this accident. She's taken a beating enough as it is with his injuries, why write her a ticket?" Either way, he said he didn't know and would call me back anyways in the next couple days. He said he hoped he didn't have to come down and give me a ticket, but if he does, I am definitely going to fight it. No one can say for sure if he was speeding. I can definitely say for sure he was, and I'm sure the guy in the truck could say if he was as well, but obviously that's something that one would leave out of a statement in a case like this. And, come to think of it, I pictured in the intersection... I am facing west. Truck is facing east. Cars facing south and north would not have been able to see the truck until it was pretty much right in front of them, given that there were AT LEAST 2-3 cars, maybe even 3-4, in the inside lane turning left (to go north) They would not have been able to see half way down the block to see if the truck had always been in the outside lane or if it had been on the inside lane and changed lanes. I know that truck wasn't there, and yes, if it comes down to it, I will fight it for a dismissal or even a lesser charge. We'll contact the insurance and tell them the situation and see if there's anything that can be done to determine speed, or to even just determine if there was excessive speed or not. I can guarantee there was, but what's my word worth? They didn't even really need my statement to make a decision on fault, but I guess they had to wait anyways. My dad says our insurance probably wouldn't take a look at the car because there was no collision on it, but I would assume my insurance would stand behind me and try and help with something like this, given I was told the only factor was that they can't definitively prove he was speeding. Maybe insurance would help so they didn't have to pay out for this guy's truck... I'm hoping anyways, and now I'm ripped and ready for a battle. I'll call around to some lawyers and see if there's ANYTHING I can do. Anything right now would help, since I just found out that an ambulance bill, for starters, is more along the lines of $400, not the $200 I had thought... That's double the money I didn't have to start with for a bill. Anyways, sort of went off on a rant. My apologies! I'm just real angry about all this now. I am standing my ground that the truck was definitely not there until the last minute and that he was speeding for sure. ;) lol |