Just when you think you’ve heard everything:
MANS BODY DRAGGED ON NYC HIGHWAYS
A man was hit in Corona Queens, then run over and dragged by a van onto the Grand Central Parkway, down the Van Wyck Expressway, onto the Belt Parkway West to Brighton Beach… a total of 19 miles!
The driver of the van said he stopped once but didn’t notice anything and kept driving until he reached Brighton Beach. They said people tried to stop him along the way.
For those out of town, he basically got dragged from the Shea Stadium to almost Coney Island, if that helps.
Either the people trying to stop him were retarded or he was one hell of a determined driver.
My guess is that most folks didnt even try, the ones that tried didnt try that hard, and he didnt give a flying F about what other people were trying to get him to do.
Now someone’s going to try to top this by dragging a pedestrian through all five boroughs. It’ll be a challenge though, what with traffic and having to slow down for bridge and tunnel tolls.
Yeah, that’s what I was wondering about too. “Gee, looks like that guy is dragging a body behind his car. Guess I should honk at him. Hm, he didn’t notice. Oh well, at least I tried.”
I was visiting Tucson, Arizona a few years back when they closed I-10 West because they found body parts at the side of the road. Turned out there had been an accident in El Paso, TX, where a man was thrown from his pick up truck, and landed in front of a semi. The body then got jammed into the undercarriage of the truck. This happened at night, and the trucker didn’t know what had happened. The truck was shedding body parts for over 300 miles.
The driver was later caught. He was a young guy with multiple arrests for reckless driving. He’d been driving his boss’s car at the time, and was caught because the boss saw the damage to the car, heard the news reports, and put two and two together.
Frankly, if I saw a guy driving around with a dead human body hanging off his car, I would not be in all that big a rush to assume he didn’t know about it, then chase him down until he acknowledged me.
Well it’s one thing for a corpse to tag along, but quite another for him to be the driver.
I haven’t been able to find it yet but IIRC back in the early 1980s a man was driving down the Santa Monica Freeway behind a truck that was carrying some rebar. A piece of it came flying off, went through his windshield, impaling and killing him instantly. I don’t remember if he jammed his foot to the floor or if he was just on cruise control etc. but he “kept driving” for a couple miles without major disaster, running off the road eventually.
Other stories uncovered in the search:
*The driver of the car that crashed into Ayman Moawad’s store was dead, but not from the impact, say police. The driver of the car had been dead for several hours before crashing into the store, say police.
The man had left his car idling across the street from the gas station after, apparently, shooting himself in the chest. The suicide appears to have happened at some point during the night, but hours later rigor mortis set in and caused the accident.*
*On October 10, a red light camera in the city of Mesa, Arizona issued James Hamburg a ticket for allegedly entering an intersection less than one second after the light had turned red. The problem with the allegation is that Hamburg had been dead for five years at the time of the supposed violation.
“I don’t know if this is a cruel joke, or what,” widow Lorraine Hamburg, 80, told the Phoenix New Times.*
not a dead body, but someone driving that was either VERY drunk, sleep driving, or having something like a stroke at the time. In the middle of the day no less.
It was getting to point where I was considering whether I should “run” them off the road before they went plowing through a major intersection on the edge of town when the police car finally showed up and did it.
How’s this for retarded drivers?
You have one car weaving all over two lanes. It was a two lanes going one direction, a big median, then two going the other.
Behind this weaving car, you have me driving, stradling the center line with my emergency flashers on, hopefully to keep unaware folks from passing this very dangerous driver and getting creamed in the process.
You would think even a fool who came upon this situation would think “uh, maybe I should just stay the hell back and see how this shakes out”.
But noooo, more than one idiot passed us both :rolleyes:, often having to almost drive on the grass on the side to do it.
