Wife Runs Over Husband Sleeping In Driveway (Startled By 'Loud Cracking Sound')

AP ^ | 8/25/06

[Mr. Brightside]

Wife Runs Over Husband Sleeping In Driveway

Man Says He'd Been Drinking Alcohol

POSTED: 8:44 am EDT August 24, 2006

ROGERS, Ark. -- An Arkansas man who fell asleep in his driveway woke up when his wife came home and turned into the driveway to park the car and ran over him.

Kristine Bolson told the Benton County Sheriff's Office that she drove into her driveway shortly after midnight Tuesday and heard a loud cracking sound. She said that when she got out of her vehicle, she heard moaning and found her husband, Richard Gonzalez, on the ground near her vehicle. Bolson said she did not initially see her husband in the driveway.

A sheriff's reports said Gonzales told them he had been drinking and he must have passed out. He was treated at a hospital for scratches and bruises.

[jiggyboy]

Well I guess they have a pretty good marriage. If she wanted to commit the perfect murder, this would have been the time.

[pennboricua]

I quess saying that he was "passed out" on the driveway, would not be proper since it would have you believe the quy was drunk.

[WestTexasWend]

Hmmm...assuming it's dark after midnight in Arkansas, she must've pulled into the driveway with her headlights off?

Hope these two don't have children. Or pets.

[bmwcyle]

She might have been farding.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

This thread is gonna be a good one....

[badbass]

When you're parking in the driveway at night And you're feelin that Wild Turkey's bite. Don'tcha give Johnny Walker a ride Cause Jack Black is right by his side...

How could anyone be so unkind...;-).

[Xenalyte]

If people drove in the bathroom, I'd not have made it through college.

[Xenalyte]

Not a chance. No WAY. I have no idea where you'd get so outlandish a notion! ;)

[ccmay]

I wonder if he came home drunk and she kicked him out. "I don't care if you sleep in the driveway, you're not coming in here like that!"

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Your first sentence reads like the beginning of a poem...

[norwaypinesavage]

"Guess he'll be more careful when he goes out drinking."

Yah. He'll take his wife along, next time.

[GoldwaterChick]

"What was the cracking sound?"

Probably the bottle he was still clutching in his arms. :)

[Kenny Bunk]

I wish to thank you for posting this important article about household safety. OSHA is now mandating Driveway Sensor Arrays (DSAs) which will wake up homeowners who sack out on the tarmac. They cost $14,286, but lo-cost funding is available, and they are free to illegal aliens who have homes courtesy of HUD subsidy programs.

On an international note: This is a very common accident in Jamaica and other Caribbean lands, where the natives often catch a few Zs on the carriageway after a hard night out. You see the air gets a little chilly, mon, at 3AM, and the tarmac is still nice and warm.

You can read all about it in my book, "The Yachtsman's Guide to the Comparative Utility of Various Caribbean Natives." $24.79 at booksellers ecerywhere.

[ClaireSolt]

Being Kristine's husband, another example of doing the jobs Americans won't do.

[em2vn]

Maybe he has wised up and will use a run way next time.

[Mr. Brightside]

If she wanted to commit the perfect murder, this would have been the time.

Until they find out that she ran over him six times.

[Kenny Bunk]

Claire, I refer you to Cuco Sanchez' great song,

"Cama de Piedra."*

It somehow seems quite appropriate as the background music for this movie.

* "The Stone Bed"

[Centurion2000]

"God, I'm so drunk. I need to lay down for awhile - say, this driveway looks pretty good!"

I've actually done that on a sidewalk. Enough liquor and even a bad of nails gets comfy.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Aw jeez ... before reading the story I was sure that she had 'backed' over him. But nooooo ... she was going forward and could have, theoretically, seen him in the driveway.