It's a Cat alright.
Posted on 07/04/2008 8:39:49 AM PDT by Alouette
"We were on our way to the museum with the kids when we suddenly saw a bunch of construction workers run frantically out of the construction site," Rick Eissenstat said Thursday.
The father of three who immigrated with his family from Baltimore, Maryland, four years ago, said God saved them from Jerusalem's bulldozer-driving terrorist.
"The guy was driving about 30 miles an hour, probably the maximum speed that bulldozer could go," Eissenstat continued. "I tried to back up to get out of the way but cars behind me blocked me."
"The right wheel of the bulldozer crushed a taxi cab and the left wheel crushed our Mazda. He saw that he did not kill [us]. I looked at him and he looked at me. And all that I could think was, 'How do I get my family out of this.'
"Then he put the bulldozer in reverse. He wanted to finish off the job. He ran us over us again. But nothing happened to us.
"Then he lowered the shovel on us and began crushing the roof of the car. My daughter Nechama put her arm over her head to protect herself.
"For reasons unknown to us Hashem did not let him kill us. I think he [the terrorist] realized that and decided to move on to someone else."
Eissenstat believes he and his family might have merited being saved as a result of their donations to the Chabad Terror Victims Project.
"Last year [at] this time we were visiting terrorist victims in Sderot," he said.
Rabbi Menachem Kutner, head of the Chabad project, said he was certain the Eissenstats' salvation was in part a result of their charity to terror victims.
"Eissenstat and his family were unique donors," Kutner said. "They did not just write a check and send it, they themselves visited the terrorist victims. They involved themselves, using their feet to walk from victim to victim and their hands to comfort the injured.
"Because they used their bodies to perform the mitzva of visiting the sick, Hashem protected their bodies from the terrorist."
Despite her narrow escape, Nechama, who turns 14 next week, said she wasn't sorry about her family's decision to immigrate to Israel.
"I am happy to be here in the Land of Israel," she said.
It was a bulldozer that the young girl stepped in front of a few years ago. She didn’t succeed in stopping it either. So I guess to journalists, dozers have the killer mentality about them. I’ve seen pictures of this front end loader on the news. Four nice big rubber tires and a decent sized bucket on the front, maybe four yards or so. I’m guessing that is was a CAT 950.
It would also be next to impossible to do as much damage as he did with a bulldozer due to it’s lower ground clearance. It’s blade also has a much shorter reach than the loader.
It's a Cat alright.
The reporter actually says "the bulldozer's bucket".
But nobody calls that a bulldozer, except perhaps the masses who believe a semiautomatic carbine to be a machine gun.
I know. Why do you think I asked about rolling steam? :^{}
Am very glad the perp was taken out fairly quickly knowing how destructive one of these machines can be.
You realize of course that there are over 10,000 illegally built Arab homes in Jerusalem alone? Imagine the furor if the Israeli Government actually enforced the law without discrimination based on race.
If a Jew dares to build a home without all the proper paperwork the Government will dispatch thousands of police to tear down the "settlement".
The Palestinian Authority has dispatched thousands of Arabs to settle Jerusalem without buying land or getting building permits.
Muslims are wiser in their evil than Jews are wiser in their mercy. Now both government are persecuting Jews!
Reverse discrimination is an amazing thing.
Thanks but sorry. Dialup and videos aren’t real good friends.
But once they saw video of the thing, don't they have the smarts to fix what they said? Sheesh already.
“Police say it was an act of terrorism,” Judy Boysha of the Associated Press.
Technically, that is correct. But I'm disappointed that pointed that the AP does not come out and refer to it as terrorism. Russians said of Reagan that he called things by their true name. It's too bad we can't get the same from the AP.
I knew this guy when he lived in Chicago in the 1980s and always promised to flatten him myself if I saw him again. When I read this I couldn’t believe it was the same person, but it is. Talk about changing your ways! Back then he professed atheism and dug XXX movies.
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