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Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby UncoveringTruths » Fri 21 Oct 2005, 09:28:30

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')T. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) -- A 93-year-old driver apparently suffering from dementia fatally struck a pedestrian and drove for three miles with the man's body through his windshield, police said.


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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')i]"That was the one thing he had, to get in his car and just drive for the sheer enjoyment of driving," Jockers said. Parker lived alone after his wife died in 1998, authorities said.

Elderly man drives with body in windshield

8O

Driving people to death has taking on a whole new meaning. :shock:
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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby Leanan » Fri 21 Oct 2005, 09:42:20

Kind of scary, that someone that demented could get his license renewed.
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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby UncoveringTruths » Fri 21 Oct 2005, 09:47:23

I wunder if he was talking to the guy while he was driving him around.
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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby Leanan » Fri 21 Oct 2005, 09:52:45

I guess that's one good thing about peak oil. I won't have to worry about when it's time to take my parents' car keys away.

Or when it's time to give up my own...
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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby NEOPO » Fri 21 Oct 2005, 11:14:09

We use to take drives late at night to soothe our young children to sleep.
I wonder if a horse and buggy will have the same effect.
Hindsite is 20/20 :(
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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby emersonbiggins » Fri 21 Oct 2005, 12:13:22

The police are supposedly not going to prosecute because the man has dementia.

I'm wondering what's going to happen to the old guy.
Clearly, the guy needs to be institutionalized and/or placed with a legal guardian.
Remember, we don't have many pedestrians to begin with...
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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby BabyPeanut » Fri 21 Oct 2005, 12:22:44

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('UncoveringTruths', 'I') wunder if he was talking to the guy while he was driving him around.

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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby BabyPeanut » Fri 21 Oct 2005, 12:24:35

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NEOPO', 'W')e use to take drives late at night to soothe our young children to sleep.
I wonder if a horse and buggy will have the same effect.
Hindsite is 20/20 :(

I'm so sure a demented man will be able to hitch up a horse.
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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby NEOPO » Sat 22 Oct 2005, 13:42:30

GW still rides 8)
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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby strider3700 » Sat 22 Oct 2005, 14:23:29

I'm sure a horse won't blindly walk into someone and then drag him around for miles
shame on us, doomed from the start
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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby katkinkate » Sat 22 Oct 2005, 20:38:18

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('strider3700', 'I')'m sure a horse won't blindly walk into someone and then drag him around for miles


Yeah, that's another factor. Horses pulling buggies tend to be much slower and therefore less dangerous than cars.
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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby BabyPeanut » Sat 22 Oct 2005, 20:42:50

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NEOPO', 'G')W still rides 8)

Thanks to enablers. But who would assist a senile man on a horse and then abandon him to cause havoc?
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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby Specop_007 » Sat 22 Oct 2005, 21:23:17

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BabyPeanut', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NEOPO', 'G')W still rides 8)

Thanks to enablers. But who would assist a senile man on a horse and then abandon him to cause havoc?


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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby rogerhb » Sat 22 Oct 2005, 21:25:13

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BabyPeanut', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NEOPO', 'G')W still rides 8)

Thanks to enablers. But who would assist a senile man on a horse and then abandon him to cause havoc?


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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby bobcousins » Sun 23 Oct 2005, 19:42:11

You know, this sort of thing can happen to anyone. :oops:

http://www.wftv.com/news/2295744/detail.html
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Re: Driving for sheer Enjoyment

Unread postby BabyPeanut » Mon 24 Oct 2005, 07:56:47

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bobcousins', 'Y')ou know, this sort of thing can happen to anyone. :oops:

Not true. My 98-year-old grandmother has never driven a car. She lived in a city at a transportation nexus for decades and decades.
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