# Zimmerman makes the news again. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222 "2013-07-22T18:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/21 "2013-07-22T19:08:28Z")
Like I said in another thread, good for him. I’m glad he stepped up and made a difference in a circumstance not everyone would have done the same in. I’m just not sure what this proves about what happened between him and Trayvon Martin. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/22 "2013-07-22T19:09:07Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Just saying… > > It took a lot of integrity to stop and help given the hate and nationwide demonstrations that are going on. > > I’m not sure that I would have stopped. He’s a better man then me. You must have killed a lot of kids. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/23 "2013-07-22T19:14:15Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Who is this Zimmerman guy, anyway? Is he the guy with the deli in Ann Arbor? I’m in Ann Arbor, and that took me a second. 😃 Now I want to go get some cherry-chocolate bread… ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/24 "2013-07-22T19:39:38Z")
I’ve never seen a family trapped in burning vehicle and have never heard anybody I know say they have. How does this guy come across one the first time he appears in public? This can’t be true, can it? ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/25 "2013-07-22T19:41:55Z")
Meh. Lots of people thought OJ was a great guy too. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/26 "2013-07-22T19:49:41Z")
> [@Lion](#): > > Watching the Zimmerman haters scramble to find ways to further demonize him leaves me tickled. The Zimmerman “haters” didn’t start this thread. It’s threads like this which make me think that a lot of people who were on his side didn’t defend him because they thought that he was wrongfully accused, but because they don’t like the ones who thought he was \*rightfully \*accused. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/27 "2013-07-22T19:59:54Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > NBC has an update. The crash was even worse than initially reported. > > I would stop for a burning vehicle. No matter how much I was hated. > [U.S. News: Latest Breaking Stories, Video, and Photos on American Politics, Economy, and Society | NBC News](http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/22/19618495-zimmerman-emerges-to-help-family-escape-overturned-car-in-sanford-fla?lite) Your link doesn’t say “burning vehicle.” ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/28 "2013-07-22T20:16:25Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > Not stopping to at least make sure there was help on the way would make him an even worse person than his most vocal detractors make him out to be. His most vocal detractors believe he deliberately sought out a child to murder in cold blood because he was a violent racist. Do you sincerely believe that driving past a wreck is _worse_ than murdering a child in cold blood? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/29 "2013-07-22T20:25:24Z")
> [@Napier](#): > > I’ve never seen a family trapped in burning vehicle and have never heard anybody I know say they have. How does this guy come across one the first time he appears in public? > > This can’t be true, can it? So… it’s not true because you don’t want it to be true? Is that what you’re saying? (Note: the “burning” part seems to have been added by **aceplace57** , so in that sense, it’s not true: the vehicle was overturned but not burning.) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/30 "2013-07-22T20:32:39Z")
They updated the story. I quoted what was there less than an hour ago. The quote is in this thread right below the NBC link. I wondered why NBC was the only one saying burning. I just thought maybe they had an updated account. Turns out they were total dumb asses and had it wrong. I wouldn’t have bothered linking NBC if their story hadn’t been different from CNN. > [@pohjonen](#): > > Your link doesn’t say “burning vehicle.” ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/31 "2013-07-22T20:53:25Z")
He just can’t mind his own business, can he? ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/32 "2013-07-22T20:54:35Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > They updated the story. I quoted what was there less than an hour ago. The quote is in this thread right below the NBC link. I wondered why NBC was the only one saying burning. I just thought maybe they had an updated account. Turns out they were total dumb asses and had it wrong. I wouldn’t have bothered linking NBC if their story hadn’t been different from CNN. > **[George Zimmerman rescues victims from burning car | Chattanooga Times Free Press](https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/jul/22/george-zimmerman-rescues-victims-burning-car/)** > > ORLANDO, Florida - Officials say George Zimmerman helped rescue four people from an overturned vehicle last week, just days after he was cleared of all charges in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. “Several news reports say the vehicles was burning.” Of course, it is hard to take seriously a report that says “the vehicles was burning”. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/33 "2013-07-22T21:01:22Z")
> [@BlackKnight](#): > > His most vocal detractors believe he deliberately sought out a child to murder in cold blood because he was a violent racist. > > Do you sincerely believe that driving past a wreck is _worse_ than murdering a child in cold blood? In a way, yeah. Stalking and killing a kid in cold blood because you’re a violent racist makes you a horrible, horrible, horrible human being. But at least it makes a fucked-up sort of sense. Driving past an overturned vehicle where people could be seriously injured _because other people said bad things about you_ makes you a horrible, horrible, horrible person who doesn’t even make any damn sense. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/34 "2013-07-22T21:20:11Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > This just in, George Zimmerman still shot a kid to death. This just in, the kid was trying to kill him and Zimmerman successfully defended his own life. You must have missed that part. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/35 "2013-07-22T21:23:58Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > This just in, the kid was trying to kill him and Zimmerman successfully defended his own life. You must have missed that part. Is that what you think the “not guilty” verdict means? ---
**Author:** ![Honesty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@Honesty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honesty)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/36 "2013-07-22T22:04:36Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > I’m in Ann Arbor, and that took me a second. 😃 > > Now I want to go get some cherry-chocolate bread… I think you mean Zingerman’s. ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/37 "2013-07-22T22:18:15Z")
Update on the “burning” part: > **[Zimmerman Saves Family of Four in Florida Car Crash, Extinguishes Car Fire](https://www.breitbart.com/blog/2013/07/22/zimmerman-saves-family-of-four-in-florida-car-crash/)** > > \*Updated On Wednesday, July 17 at about 5:45 PM  Sanford Police responded to a single car accident in the area of I- 4 and State Road 46 in Sanford. A | According to Sanford Police Zimmerman had a fire extinguisher with him. The eyewitness told Breitbart News he helped assist the family out of the vehicle and put out the fire with the extinguisher. ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/38 "2013-07-22T22:26:42Z")
Tonight: Obama recalls his car accident from 35 years ago… ---
**Author:** ![Rowanchilde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a698b9/32.png) [@Rowanchilde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rowanchilde)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/39 "2013-07-22T22:35:19Z")
> [@Lion](#): > > Watching the Zimmerman haters scramble to find ways to further demonize him leaves me tickled. > > The cognitive dissonance they must experience from the media’s hit job against him and the emerging truth that he’s a normal, innocent guy must be maddening. There is nothing normal or innocent about Zimmerman. He’s a self appointed vigilante, we all know the type; chest thumping wannabe. He’s innocent because a jury had their hands tied, not because he’s guilt free… > [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > He just can’t mind his own business, can he? This made me chuckle 🙂 > [@Clothahump](#): > > This just in, the kid was trying to kill him and Zimmerman successfully defended his own life. You must have missed that part. And you must have missed the part where Zimmerman stalked him, not the other way around. Really? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zimmerman-makes-the-news-again/664222/40 "2013-07-22T22:39:14Z")
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