Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good to hear you are OK. Gene On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 10:02 AM, lluisripollphotography < lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote: > > +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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >