Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]+1 I?m glad too to hear you are well! Happy Christmas! Cheers Lluis > El 23 des 2015, a les 16:04, Philippe <photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com> > va escriure: > > Glad you're safe Herb! > > And thank you for telling us the whole story, which has a tinge of the > Xmas spirit in it. > > Sorry you feel driving is no longer safe for you though. However, please, > do keep clicking! > > Amiti?s > Philippe > > Le 23 d?c. 2015 ? 07:38, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> a ?crit : > >> Happy holidays everyone. >> >> I?ve been pretty disorganized all week and not thinking about >> photography. My car was totaled last Friday evening by what must have >> been a drunk driving without headlights. My car was hit from the right at >> about a forty-five degree angle as I was making a left turn. Street >> showed no headlights as far as I could see in either direction and there >> was no flash of light at my car interior as I was hit. The car spun >> around, crossed the street in the process and ended up in the grass in a >> park, facing the street I had been on. I wasn?t even bruised. Airbags did >> not deploy. I never got any details about the other driver other than >> that he was taken to the hospital, claiming pain. Street so wide that I >> couldn?t even distinguish between cop cars, and the one that hit me. Cops >> didn?t cross the street; the cop with me knew nothing about what was >> known on the other side of the street. He just got my story. All I could >> do re reporting the incident to my insurance company was to tell them to >> get the police report. >> >> An amazing thing did happen. The young cop on my side was chatting me up. >> Possibly to see if I was campus mantis and sober. The conversation got >> into where I was heading, a specific restaurant that I named, and what I >> was planning to eat: a steak, rare. >> >> After the two truck took both cars away, the cop gave me a lift home in >> the back of the squad car. About fifteen minutes later, the doorbell >> rang. It was the cop, holding a plastic sack. He went to that restaurant >> and bought me dinner; refused compensation. I got to tell his sergeant >> about it over the phone, and was told the cop would get a commendation. >> >> Because I?m 93, I can?t tell how many driving years are left in me, and I >> decided not to go through the hassle of buying a car but just use Uber >> and Lyft services. >> >> Herb >> >> >> Herbert Kanner >> kanner at acm.org >> >> Question Authority and the authorities will question you. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information