Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/12/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The operative phrase in the post below is ?I wasn?t even bruised?. Good to hear that. The rest I am sure the insurance will take care of. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 23 Dec 2015, at 07:38, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: > > 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