Posted on 01/22/2019 7:29:56 AM PST by simpson96
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (Gray News) – The Super Blood Wolf Moon was cool to look at, but looking at it while lying in a road landed a Florida man and woman in the hospital Sunday night.
The unidentified pair were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to The Palm Beach Post. Police described them as 24 years old and said they were alert and talking with officers at the hospital.
An officer patrolling the Apoxee Wilderness trail at about 11:30 Sunday night ran over the two people with his 2018 Ford Explorer. That officer has reportedly been placed on leave.
The park was closed for the day and police said the only way in was through a locked gate.
Police believe they were in the area because it was dark and they’d get a better view of the lunar eclipse. Authorities said they had a camera, which reinforces their theory about why they were in the closed park so late.
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Sounds like he chose a safer place to be than where I was.
I was with about 100 Boy Scouts out in the wilds of South Georgia watching.
Might have been better to have been driven over.
(Not really, it was actually quite fun).
If the cop is white and the idiots not, will there be riots?
LOL - great, now I have to clean my keyboard.
The difference is that I did not choose to lie down on a road in the dark, ignoring the significant potential for injury. I have common sense.
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Perhaps, if you had been in an area that was locked to auto traffic you would have felt safe to lie in the road. They were after all where they thought they were safe from traffic, in a park that had a locked gate so that no cars could enter. I don’t know how the police got in, perhaps they had a key.
While I think it is likely unwise to lay in the road I do understand that if the road was blocked to traffic I might feel more inclined to ignore the inherent dangers of laying in the road.
I too was in a safe place to watch, my back yard, it was probably the most spectacular lunar eclipse I have ever seen, they are usually pretty boring. While it was great it was very cold. I took a nice camera out (D810 with a 600mm lens) but I was shivering so much I couldn’t get a good picture and I wasn’t about to spend the time to set up a tripod.
“Nobody will be watching us....
Why don’t we do it in the road”
...bump bump...bump bump...
So don’t lay down in the middle of the road. Duh.
How did the officer fail to see them lying in the roadway? Was he looking up at the eclipse while driving?
I'm sure drugs or alcohol were not involved. :-)
Did you read the part about the park being closed with the gate locked?
Did you read the part about the park being closed with the gate locked?
ROFLMAO! I hope someone came up to them in the hospital with a gift, saying “Here’s Yer Sign!”.
Flori-duh!
Only in FloriDuh...
The full moon brings out the loonies.
BINGO!! I too feel sorry for the policeman!
I’m only here for the comments thread.
Sheriff Israel applied for a position...and so did that Boward County Registar of Voters.
Yes, I ALSO read about laying down on a road at night.
Stupid should hurt.
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