Posted on 06/24/2011 10:00:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Joel Santos, 25, is in critical condition after he laid on the ground to keep his girlfriend from leaving, authorities said.
A man is in critical condition after he was run over by a car while lying on the ground in front of it to keep his girlfriend from leaving Sunday morning in Orange County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
FHP spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Montes said 25-year-old Joel Santos had had a verbal argument with his girlfriend and did not want her to go.
Despite his urging, 26-year-old Gloribeth Santiago got into the passenger seat of her cousin Christina Santiago's car about 4:15 a.m. in the parking lot of the Windmill Point condominiums on Alafaya Trail near Challenger Parkway, an FHP report said.
Both women lost sight of Santos as the car traveled west out of the parking lot. That is when they felt something beneath the front tires of the car, Montes.
Santiago stopped the car to find Santos pinned underneath the tires and called 911.
"We don't believe this is anything intentional," Montes said. "They thought he had moved but he laid down on the ground."
Emergency crews had to use a jack to lift the car off of Santos, who was unconscious.
Montes said Santos was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center suffering from several burns he sustained while under the car.
Troopers said Santos was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident.
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When he lay down and blocked her vehicle it was unlawful imprisonment. Self defense.
Wonder if his injuries will qualify him for for a Darwin nomination?
Joel, which part of “it’s not you, it’s me” didn’t u understand?
Message to self: If she wants to leave, let her go.
That ought to show her! She will love him even more now!
Hmmm. Well, the same probably won’t apply if a woman lied down to prevent a man from leaving.
Reminds me of a story about a man I worked with in Alaska. He was older, goofy, naive, and thought that when he hired a hooker it was love.
One night after an encounter, he was in the shower and she decided to leave. He chased her, and as the car was pulling out he jumped on the hood, still wet from the shower. Well, the car was metal, he was wet, and it was winter in Alaska. It wasn’t his best idea ever.
Darwin. Paging Mr. Charles Darwin.
That’s not the girlfriend he thought he knew.
Why, that's totally unexpected!
And am I the only person left in the United States who knows how to conjugate "lie" and "lay"? Journalism is pathetic these days.
How can I miss you if you never go away?
I would lie a wager that there are only a few left out there that know the difference.
*shudder*
She was just having a bad day....so never mind.
I think maybe the reporter was also under the influence of alcohol. Kind of like Mo Dowd. Probably can’t write at all unless he drinks to “inspire” himself.
Or herself, since I looked her up and find that she is female.
Here’s her capsule bio, posted for some reason on an Icelandic website called Global Meltdown:
“Arelis Rocio Hernandez, 21, is a Latina multimedia journalism student at the University of Maryland with a minor in U.S. Latina/o studies. She was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, where she developed an acute sense of awareness and an obsessive need to know what was going on in the world. Now a journalism student, Arelis has interned for the Baltimore Sun, the Orlando Sentinel, washingtonpost.com, and the Wilmington Star-News in North Carolina. She also worked for the online news bureau of Capital News Service at the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism. This summer, she will be reporting for the Associated Press in their Houston Bureau. Arelis hopes to be on the cutting edge of innovation, mastering digital media and serving underrepresented groups through journalism.”
Joel has now earned the nickname “speed bump”, if he survives
Eeeek. It boggles the mind that these people even exist.
I wonder what the payoff for “underrepresented groups” is in reporting that they’re lying in parking lots too drunk to get out of the way of a car.
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