Posted on 07/22/2013 11:40:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ever wonder whether reality is an illusion and we’re actually living inside a simulation run by an omnipotent being? Well, here’s the proof that it’s true. And that the omnipotent being is Tom Wolfe.
Alternate headline: “George Zimmerman hasn’t moved out of Florida yet?”
George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue someone who was trapped in an overturned truck, police said today.
Sanford Police Department Capt. Jim McAuliffe told ABC News that Zimmerman “pulled an individual from a truck that had rolled over” at the intersection of a Florida highway last week. Florida Highway Patrol is now handling the case, McAuliffe said.
The crash occurred at the intersection of I-4 and route 417, police said. The crash site is less than a mile from where he shot Martin.
Actually, if this were a Tom Wolfe novel, the guy Zimmerman pulled from the truck would be a reporter who’d been especially loathsome in demagoging the trial’s racial angle. And then, once news of the accident and rescue broke, Zimmerman-hating nuts would descend on the site to protest, claiming that it was all a stunt arranged to rehabilitate his image. (Which, in fact, is already happening in the comments to the ABC story linked up top.) Then the reporter would face a crisis of conscience: Tell the truth about how the whole thing is legit and risk antagonism from his colleagues in the media, or keep quiet to protect his leftist cred and let Zimmerman go on languishing in hiding? If you’ve ever read a Wolfe novel, you know how that story ends. Write it, Tom.
Now we wait to find out what the race of the rescued man was and whether any narratives will need to be “adjusted” in the wake of it. (Here’s one adjustment to expect.) I also want to know if Zimmerman was part of a group working at the scene to free the trapped driver or whether it was basically a solo act. The only way this story could get any more surreal is if there was a crowd there and he was recognized. The ABC story does say that he “helped” rescue someone, not that he did it all by himself.
Exit quotation: “When will he learn to stay in his car?”
Update: Kerry Picket of Breitbart has more details. It was a family of four trapped in an SUV, and Zimmerman was indeed recognized at the scene:
The deputy reported, when he arrived on the scene that one of the two men there was George Zimmerman. According to Sanford Police Zimmerman had a fire extinguisher and helped assist the family to get them out of the vehicle.
“Zimmerman was not a witness to the crash, which was why he was not referenced in the police report,” a Sanford Police spokeswoman told Breitbart News. “He left after making contact with the deputy. There were no reports of injuries of any of the vehicle’s occupants,” she said.
Why not state the truth that Zimmerman was found not guilty of second degree murder and manslaughter.
AHHAH.. im sorry, hold on.. hold on.. HAHAHA.. you know they are cutting there wrists at DU right now. This is just to ironic. Any word on the color of the person pulled from the car?
Exactly
RE: Any word on the color of the person pulled from the car?
Everyone has been asking the same question (even the author of this article).
Since all the world is a stage and the way GZ has been smeared I get you Al. Keep up the good work baybee.
They’re already claiming it was a set-up on the dummies site. That and that the crash victims may not have wanted to be rescued by a murderer.
That, and claiming that George actually caused the wreck ...
I’m waiting for 3.0 and Trademark to give us the lowdown.
.... Possible staged event? Wonder if it could be possible that this may have been a choreographed event by authorities to improve the image of Zimmerman and diffuse tension. Save a life or two a mere mile away from where a life was taken.
Yes I thought it was obvious sorry
George Zimmerman protested the SPD's lack of interest in prosecuting a guy that beat a homeless black man.
George Zimmerman looked in on neighbors who had been terrorized by home invaders.
George Zimmerman volunteered to spend time watching out for his neighbors.
Now George Zimmerman helped rescue someone who was trapped in an overturned truck.
Burn the Good Samaritan!!!
I’ll give al baby the benefit of the doubt and say that he forgot to include the sarcasm tag :)
al baby's comments all staged (ingeniously, as per usual) in order to bring amusement to al and (secondarily) to us.
Was just on the ABC website, they are trying to delete every pro Zimmerman post, as fast as they can!
This is looking more and more like Richard Jewell
And it doesn't matter, except that it would be nice to be able to rub liberal noses in the blackness of the victims if that was the case.
RE: SUV was on fire and there was danger to both George Zimmerman and the other rescuer...
AHA, now he wants to be a wannabe firefighter... :)
Sorry al meant to ping you on #2 but was too busy being amused.
Don’t move away!
Don’t change your name!
Burn the Good Samaritan!!!
Class shows.
“That, and claiming that George actually caused the wreck in the first place”
The left is obviously missing another George (Bush) to blame for everything under the sun. I guess this Zimmerman guy will do for them in a pinch.
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