Posted on 02/04/2010 7:24:34 PM PST by Palladin
Last night I got hit by a car and broke my knee.
Sometime between 7 and 7:30, not long after I got home from work, I walked to the CVS on 22nd and M to get some bread, milk, and a SmartTrip card. I was right across the street from the CVS, and I waited for the crosswalk light to tell me to go before I crossed. I had plenty of time left, according to the countdown clock.
I was more than halfway there when a black SUV made an illegal left turn and hit me head-on. I absolutely had the right of way. I yelled something like, “Are you really doing this?” as it hit me before I could move.
I landed on my face on the street and smashed my glasses and scraped my hand and immediately I knew something was wrong with my left knee. I lay there screaming and cursing for I don’t know how long, and a crowd of people gathered and told me to hold still.
I was sprawled out right next to the yellow line as traffic went by. I gave one guy standing over me the number to the Daily Caller offices and he told them what happened. There’s a firehouse right across the street, so the paramedics were there in just a couple of minutes.
They took me to Georgetown Hospital, where I was soon joined by my friends and co-workers Moira Bagley, Tucker Carlson, Neil Patel, and Laura Baños. All of whom I love. Unironically. I was x-rayed and CAT-scanned and given pain medication and told that my knee was broken. I almost passed out twice from the pain.
They immobilized it, but if I tried to move it and didn’t get it exactly right, my whole leg tried to close up like a fist and I couldn’t get away from the pain. I’m typing this on Neil’s laptop on my chest on his fold-out bed in his basement and trying to move as little as possible. Now that I’ve written this out, maybe I can sleep. Sorry for the sloppiness, but I just wanted to get it out while it’s fresh in my mind.
One last thing: I’m told by multiple people that the SUV that hit me was Secret Service. If this is true, I want to know why that happened. I was crossing legally, and they just left me there. At the very least, I want an apology. What happened to me was wrong.
UPDATE 2:05pm:
The Daily Caller has been told by federal law enforcement sources that the Secret Service was not involved, and is working to confirm that driver of the vehicle which struck Jim Treacher was a State Department security employee.
UPDATE 6:44pm: Tucker and Jon are finding out more. Your tax dollars at work.
What strikes me about this story is that Jim Treacher is writing like a liberal.
He is assigning blame all around without introspection.
He has nothing but airy details and emotion, He tosses in the “BLACK SUV” and names all his good friends but doesn’t call out the so called perp...Until, he decides that he was a purposeful “hit” by the SS.
I guarantee this knucklehead was involved in a unfortunate incident in which he shared blame.
Must be a walk out basement.
That’s what I think. Anyone who gets hit by a car, gets seriously injured, and is in tremendous pain will be a little shocky. Trying to recall the incident (which most victims recall as a “blur”) is difficult.
Thankfully, there was a crowd of witnesses. Hopefully the victim’s lawyers will get depositions ASAP. I imagine his phone is ringing off the hook now with lawyers wanting to represent him.
Did you ever get hit by a car?
It’s no picnic.
I’m only giving you 50 cents for that opinion.
Treacher’s story still stinks to high heaven
Funny kid.
I think he has a future in DC, if Obama’s thugs leave him alone from now on.
He sounds like a knucklehead lib to me.
I agree. After the Fort Hood massacre, he tweeted this about the MSM reporting on Nidal Hasan:
If this idiot had been wearing an I Kill Unbelievers 4 the Glory of Allah t-shirt, they'd still be going, "Whuh-whuh-why did he do this?"
Read more of his stuff. You aren't catching him at his best.
Exactly what I was thinking. What kind of bread, what kind of milk? And duh, what on earth was he doing walking for that kind of goods? I mean, walk for cigarettes, walk for an ice cream, but everyone I know drives a car for milk and bread.
Come to think of it, how MUCH milk? A gallon weighs like 6 pounds. Who the heck do you know that goes walking with 6, 12, or 18 pounds of MILK? I cry baloney, the guy was walking to get a lottery ticket I’d bet.
Clearly he had too much of that walker milk when he wrote this.
It’s sure not in this DC Trawler Blog.
He comes off as whiny and irresponsible in the blog to me.
I cant even watch FOX let alone this stuff.
Maybe he is following Coulters tack by using their own tactics against them.
In this case acting like a victim.
Next BOR and Greta will be highlighting the wrong that was done to Treacher.
Its just an incoherent blog IMHO.
What I post isn’t always cohesive, but I am not a journalistic political professional LoL
Young people starting out in their careers in big cities cannot usually afford a car, let alone the insurance in a place like DC.
Plus it’s very impractical to own a car in a big city. It’s going to cost $40-$50 a day just for the Parking Garage.Some days I think FReepers are just a big bunch of country bumpkins who have never even SEEN a large city.
What's that green area on your halfbaked opinion? Is that mold? You really expect 50 cents for that?
The suspect vehicle was SS? What did they/you base that on?
People should not be allowed in the cities, unless they can first PROVE that they can either drive, or dodge traffic.
BTW, I lived in dt Seattle for a year. One day while walking across the street, a car did something stupid, drove around another car quickly and just missed me. I dove to the ground, suit, tie, briefcase. After that, I’m very careful about crossing the street...
I think this is why you see many people wearing sneakers downtown while wearing formal clothes, it’s so they can jump over, or around speeding traffic.
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