No need to bother. We all know the SUV was the criminal here.
Posted on 01/31/2012 2:00:47 PM PST by matt04
A man is recovering in the hospital after waking up to a car on top of him in his bed in New Haven. Now police said they are searching for the driver who fled from police after the car crashed through the home on Tuesday morning.
"The sirens stayed on for a real long time," said neighbor Mia Franklin. "You know something happened. And the bang, we heard the bang and that's when we got up."
Even neighbors said they couldn't have guesses what the loud bang was at 12:30 a.m. Police said it was a man fleeing from Hamden officers before the driver lost control of the car and crashed into the home.
Friends said his vehicle landed right in 34-year-old Michael Sweats bedroom.
"He's a hard worker," said friend Ernest Williamson. "He chooses to work extremely hard instead of being in the streets, and I love him to death."
Williamson said he was on his way to visit Sweats at St. Raphael's Hospital in New Haven where he was listed in stable condition.
Firefighters said it took an hour and 20 minutes to free Sweats from under the car, and he suffered second- and third-degree burns to his lower body as a result.
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Time for the classic, In a Yugo.
Aha! It had an accomplice!
Sometimes, an alarm clock just doesn't get the job done.
No need to bother. We all know the SUV was the criminal here.
LOL. You can't make this stuff up!
Repost..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2840566/posts
title is different, but it’s the same story.
“As for the driver of the blue BMW, police said he fled the scene after the crash.”
All SUVs are evil, but the Bavarian kriegstuhrmkampfpanzerflammenwagen has to be the worst.
One bit my sister once and it turned into a nasti infection.
You are the best!!
whereas it then proceeded to slide down the block on its side like a toy taking out almost every parked car on the left side of the street for almost the entire block.
I came *this* close to walking up to them and saying....
(But pointing down.)
Not necessarily. He could have been carrying a gun whereas it would be the guns fault.
“SUV crashes through house; lands on sleeping man”
The title - similar to all such reports - is one worth nitpicking, in terms of looking at what words actually communicate.
The title conjuors up in the mind some robotized vehicle that mysteriously, on its own, “crashes”.
It’s like saying: “a fifty caliber gun fired a bullet threw a window and struck a sleepimg man”; really, no shooter, just the gun?
Isn’t it more truthfully, in reality: A man driving an SUV crashed trhough a house, landing his vehicle on a sleeping man?
And titled: “Mam crashes vehicle through house, landing on sleeping man” ???
Why ask the question?
Well, let’s change the facts - the vehicle is a station wagon.
Are we honest enough to admit, they would have found some way to NOT title the artcile: “Station wagon crashes through house; lands on sleeping man”.
But, in our politically-correct dominated media, such a detail would not be needed, a station wagon is not the evil “SUV”. In the politically-correct dominated media, the important fact, in this case, is not the driver, but the make of vehicle - the dreaded SUV.
I want to enter an objection in defense of harried headline writers everywhere, who have been handed a story and given thee minutes to write a 48 point, three column two line head with a kicker.
Come on, people! When a vehicle crashes into a building, you know it’s being driven by a human because if it wasn’t THAT would be the news peg.
I’m more interested in who the driver was. Anyone want to make a bet on a twice-previously-deported illegal immigrant with a history of drunk driving?
It’s simple, “SUV” is more than a vehicle style, it’s a political enemy.
Do we see news articles regarding the plight of “Crossovers”, “Hybrids”, “Midsize Sedans” in the title?
It’s also a 3 count on a 23 space line, where station wagon or minivan would be 12 or 6, respectively. Was there a chance that the headline writer was making an intentional dig against evil SUVs? Sure. But somehow I doubt it.
I used to write headlines at a daily newspaper here in Tokyo and given deadline pressure, unreasonable page editors and space constraints, it was a constant battle to find anything that both fit and said what needed to be said.
And, if anyone had been stupid enough to write a headline saying “Man crashes through house; lands on sleeping man” he’d be unemployed the next day. At least at any paper I’ve worked for (three).
Hey, I am as suspicious of Liberal bias as the next Conservative, but in this case, I’d say the headline writer was innocent of that crime.
(Thanks!!)
Yet another case of a Suddenly Unhappy Vehicle, taking out (a)human(s) for no reason, hope all recover fully.
That’s another one that always makes me smile! THANKS - I appreciate the smiles you bring with your posts/pictures.
That’s another one that always makes me smile! THANKS - I appreciate the smiles you bring with your posts/pictures.
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