Boy recovering after bizarre stunt; friends videotape him being struck by car (Granbury, Tx)

The Dallas Morning News ^ | April 16, 2004 | By BRIAN ANDERSON / DallasNews.com

[MeekOneGOP]

Boy recovering after bizarre stunt

12:51 PM CDT on Friday, April 16, 2004

By BRIAN ANDERSON / DallasNews.com

A 12-year-old Granbury boy who was struck by a car while two friends watched through the lens of a video camera was continuing to recuperate in a Fort Worth hospital.

Police said they are still unsure as to why the boy was reclined with a pillow in the middle of a dark street about 10:25 p.m. Saturday.

“We have no idea what gave them the idea to do it,” Mitch Galvan, a detective with the Granbury Police Department, said Friday.

Galvan said no evidence supports the theory that the boys may have been emulating a stunt portrayed on television.

Patrol officers were dispatched to the neighborhood after police received reports of two motorists narrowly avoiding a child who was lying in the roadway. Before those units arrived, the boy was struck.

The boy suffered injuries to his nose, cheek and jaw as his friends, boys ages 12 and 14, videotaped the incident from nearby.

Galvan said the injured boy stood up and walked to the garage of his family home before realizing the full extent of his injuries. Police arrived minutes later and immediately called for an ambulance. The child later was taken by helicopter to Cook Children’s Medical Center, where he remained hospitalized Friday.

“He’s got a long way to go, but he’ll be fine,” Galvan said, explaining that the injuries are not life-threatening.

Galvan said the driver of the car that struck the boy circled the block after sensing the impact. By then, the boy had gone and only the pillow remained, but the driver mistook the pillow for a rock and drove away.

The detective said charges were not expected to be filed, although he plans to turn the matter over to the district attorney’s office for review.

Granbury, in Hood County, is located 35 miles southwest of Fort Worth.

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[MeekOneGOP]

Man ! Kids these days. At least he's going to be okay.

I bet he doesn't try this again ...

[Ramonan]

He was going after a Darwin Award.

[MeekOneGOP]

Hold mah beer and watch THIS ! ...

[GreenLanternCorps]

Here, hold muh Root Beer!

[GreenLanternCorps]

Beat me by one second!

[MeekOneGOP]

ha ! Yeah, ROOT beer. That's what I should have said in my ping there ! ...

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe ! I saw that ! ;^)

[theDentist]

I bet he doesn't try this again ...

Care to make it interesting?

[Prince Charles]

Stupid people die in stupid ways (almost).

[Servant of the 9]

There's not a lot to do in Granbury on a Saturday night.

So9

[MeekOneGOP]

Sure, I'll buy ya a beer if he does. Let me know. ;^)

[TexasCajun]

I saw the video of this on some channel.

I thought it was hilarious, I laughed my butt off.

Think he will do it again, I'm sure it'll be just as funny the 2nd time. hahahahah

[Timocrat]

“We have no idea what gave them the idea to do it,

How about lack of a functioning brain.

[theDentist]

And I'll return the favor if he doesn't in, say, 5 years.

[sandpit]

We used to do that in front of my grandmother's house (only in daylight). Of course then, only a few cars an hour passed by. It was in between two hills, so you could see them coming for a long way. We'd dare each other to lay in the road.

[dandelion]

I've gotta ask -

What kind of person would see a child lying in the roadway, nearly hit him, then NOT STOP TO RENDER AID???

[Lady Jag]

[dandelion]

I'm going to clarify here - the story states that TWO PEOPLE nearly hit him, and called 911 to say they saw a child lying in the road.

The last time I saw someone lying in the road, I turned the car around and went back to help. AFTER calling 911...

[MeekOneGOP]

Fair enough! ;^)

[Skooz]

Only boys do this kind of thing. Girls are too much into their hair and clothes to even let this kind of stunt enter their minds.