|
Intershame Weblog Little Girl Saved by Parking Pole |
Lady Luck Smiles on Little Girl
09/22/2009
Shaming stuff can make me feel pretty crummy sometimes. And that's what we do at Intershame.com, we shame stuff.
It's not the act of shaming that wears on me, it's absorbing the absurd, asinine and often downright cruel things people say and do that I feel merits shaming. I started this website because I no longer wanted to remain silent - even if the site only reached a few people a day, I wanted to be able to say that I threw my $.02 into the fray. Others I knew agreed. And here we are, doing pretty well.
The problem with the site doing pretty well is that I'm exposed to more and more of that absurd, asinine and often downright cruel stuff I was talking about before. The Internet is chalked full of depressing shit. Reading some of your nominations for shaming can be depressing too.
That's why, when a story like this comes along, I like to share it. A little levity from the blog portion of Intershame.com, if you don't mind...
This is a press release courtesy of the Sunnyside Police Department:
At approximately 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 20th, 2009, Sunnyside Police Officers were dispatched to the Valley View Market at 107 West Lincoln Ave in Sunnyside.
Officers discovered that a 1990 Toyota Camry, driven by Isabel Hernandez, had struck the market. Investigation showed Hernandez had been parked at the market and had backed up at a high rate of speed. As Hernandez was backing up, her passenger was attempting to get into the vehicle, leaving the passenger door open.
The Toyota struck a Ford pickup that was parked next to it, accelerated backwards onto West Lincoln, then backwards into the parking lot of the market. The Toyota struck a parking pole lifting the rear end of the Toyota off of the ground, struck the market, coming to rest on another parking pole.
Surveillance video from the market showed the Toyota narrowly missed striking a small child who was walking between the parking pole and the building. Had the parking pole not been there, the child would have been struck by the Toyota.
Hernandez was found to be driving on a suspended license. He was booked in the Sunnyside Jail for Reckless Driving and Driving While License Suspended 3rd Degree.
Watch the video of the incident below:
It's with a sense of wonderment that I contemplate the countless number of random occurrences that had to unfold in order for me to be here. Life is a gift rooted in chance as much as it is in choice. For this little girl, both chance and choice came knocking within seconds - if she had chosen to keep walking on the other side of the poles or if, by chance, those poles gave way because the car struck them in a slightly different manner, that girl would've been killed.
That she wasn't - and the manner in which she was spared - is a pleasure to report.
It's not the act of shaming that wears on me, it's absorbing the absurd, asinine and often downright cruel things people say and do that I feel merits shaming. I started this website because I no longer wanted to remain silent - even if the site only reached a few people a day, I wanted to be able to say that I threw my $.02 into the fray. Others I knew agreed. And here we are, doing pretty well.
The problem with the site doing pretty well is that I'm exposed to more and more of that absurd, asinine and often downright cruel stuff I was talking about before. The Internet is chalked full of depressing shit. Reading some of your nominations for shaming can be depressing too.
That's why, when a story like this comes along, I like to share it. A little levity from the blog portion of Intershame.com, if you don't mind...
This is a press release courtesy of the Sunnyside Police Department:
At approximately 9:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 20th, 2009, Sunnyside Police Officers were dispatched to the Valley View Market at 107 West Lincoln Ave in Sunnyside.
Officers discovered that a 1990 Toyota Camry, driven by Isabel Hernandez, had struck the market. Investigation showed Hernandez had been parked at the market and had backed up at a high rate of speed. As Hernandez was backing up, her passenger was attempting to get into the vehicle, leaving the passenger door open.
The Toyota struck a Ford pickup that was parked next to it, accelerated backwards onto West Lincoln, then backwards into the parking lot of the market. The Toyota struck a parking pole lifting the rear end of the Toyota off of the ground, struck the market, coming to rest on another parking pole.
Surveillance video from the market showed the Toyota narrowly missed striking a small child who was walking between the parking pole and the building. Had the parking pole not been there, the child would have been struck by the Toyota.
Hernandez was found to be driving on a suspended license. He was booked in the Sunnyside Jail for Reckless Driving and Driving While License Suspended 3rd Degree.
Watch the video of the incident below:
It's with a sense of wonderment that I contemplate the countless number of random occurrences that had to unfold in order for me to be here. Life is a gift rooted in chance as much as it is in choice. For this little girl, both chance and choice came knocking within seconds - if she had chosen to keep walking on the other side of the poles or if, by chance, those poles gave way because the car struck them in a slightly different manner, that girl would've been killed.
That she wasn't - and the manner in which she was spared - is a pleasure to report.
Comments
- 138 days agoIsabel should never be allowed to drive again. I can't believe there are so many idiots on the road, surely these people should not be allowed to own a car, or drive.
- 138 days agoI agree that Isabel should never be allowed to drive or own a vehicle. I watched the video and my heart sank as the car hit the building! It's amazing that she wasn't on the other side of the pole like she was when she first came out of the store .. god was surely watching her that day!
- 136 days agothere is no god. humans are HORRIBLE with probability. everything that happens to them they think is a personal message or some shit. "Everything happens for a reason" they say. My younger brother died at 12. if theres a reason for that god better get the fuck down here and tell me what it is
Add a Comment
