City “Thank You Pedestrians of Boren & Pike”
posted by on May 5 at 11:18 AM
Posted early Saturday morning in the Stranger’s online Classifieds:
I was hit by a bus yesterday on Boren & Pike. My car was totaled and was filling with smoke. I was confused and disoriented. I could see people coming from all directions to help me. Someone opened my door and asked me my name, someone else opened other doors to let the smoke out, they made sure ambulance and police were on their way. They helped me out to the sidewalk and took care of me. A really sweet guy named Robert let me use his phone. The weird thing is I couldn’t see any of their faces. I don’t know what they look like. They waited with me until I was loaded into the ambulance. As I was being put on the stretcher, I got a glimpse of my car in the middle of the intersection. Windshield smashed, front basically gone, glass everywhere, car fluids streaming down the street. I am so in love with all of you right now. I was alone in my car, but not alone in the world. Thank you thank you thank you.
Thanks to all who helped out, and a speedy recovery to the anonymous poster (who illustrated the post with this photo.)
Huh. I would have pointed and laughed.
You know, eventually you'll have to forgive your father for not hugging you enough.
I already did.
I have no regrets.
Hey, that's mean. And funny.
I apologize for dropping him when he was a baby.
About a year ago, my car broke down in the middle of the intersection at Boren and Pine. For a minute or so, I sat there chanting "ohshitohshitohshit" and futilely trying to re-start. Then my car magically began to roll forward. The engine was still dead, but a group of five or six pedestrians had spontaneously joined up to push out me of the way. Within seconds, they had moved me and my piece-of-crap car safety to the side of the road, ascertained that I wasn't injured, asked if I need to call anyone, and then cheerfully strode off in four different directions.
The Pike/Pine Corridor ... it's a good place for wounded and stranded motorists.
Weird, I can't seem to find any news reports on this incident. Anybody have a link to an article?
This thread has touched me in ways I won't even touch myself.
#8: "Car gets hit" reports would make daily newspapers as big as phone books.
Not really related to the post, but I got a parking ticket on bway near pike even though I had a meter-sticker, because in typical dumb tourist-mode, I had the sticker on the windshield rather than the curb-side window and the slacker cop never bothered to look. So I mailed the meter sticker in the payment envelope, and 5 months later, voila, notice from Budget that Seattle Parking hit them up for the fee, who then passed it on to me, marking up my original $30-40 fine to $85. Point-being, I loathe Seattle parking fee administrator wankers who had the proof that I did have a valid meter-sticker and chose to stick it to me anyway.
Sorry- I just paid the $85 today so had to vent. Now back to your usual programming...
@11- Fuck em. Take it to court. Waive your right to a magistrate hearing (who will reduce your fine, but not eliminate it), and go straight to court. Demand that the ticketing officer be present.
Most of the time, the slacker officer won't even show up and your case will be dismissed. If they do show up, it sounds like you have a pretty good case. If you win, you'll get your $85 back. If you lose, you'll most likely get a reduced fine. Absolute WORST case, you'll be in the same boat as you are now.
In my experience, taking it to court works equally well for speeding tickets. ALWAYS skip the magistrate hearing, as this will only just waste your time if you want the case dismissed.
@11 - Oops ... just re-read your post and realize that you live out of town and had a rental car, so court is not an option.
But, I've also been in that boat. I got a notice from Hertz about a parking ticket. I denied getting the ticket and asked what kind of process they had for defending myself. They said don't worry about it and just waived the fee.
sometimes fellow human beings can be kind and caring and that gives me hope.
Maybe if you'd bothered to follow the CLEARLY PRINTED INSTRUCTIONS on the sticker @11, you wouldn't have gotten the ticket for failure to properly place it.
The parking enforcement people are trained to look for the sticker where it's supposed to be placed, not check every single freaking window on your car to see if you were in "dumb tourist-mode" or something similar. Considering how many cars they're required to inspect on a daily basis, and the amount of extra time it would entail to have to check every car without a properly placed sticker, their citation isn't all that unreasonable.
Besides, as @12 points out, if you have verificaton you purchased the sticker, then you've got legal recourse to fight the ticket, either via the magistrate, or in-court. But, it's just plain petulant to complain about people doing their job, just because you happened to be financially inconvenienced in the process - and by your own admitted inability to follow simple instructions.
@10:
While that may be, one would think a "car gets hit by Metro bus" would rank a little higher on the list of printable reports.
After all, every time a SLUT runs into a parked car it gets printed up; one would think this type of accident would be at least that important, if not more so.
@15 spare me the caps and try to re-read. I acknowledge my mistake (*dumb tourist mode*) and don't take offense at the cop, but the office administrator who received my ticket with the sticker in the mail with my note.
btw, I had great sex last night and definitely sounds like you did not from your post
Let's turn the thread into a conversation about the great sex everyone but Comte had last night.
i have bruises from my neck down from all the great sex last night.
I have rope bruises on my wrists.
@15: Where does it say it was a Metro bus? Could have been a school bus, courtesy shuttle bus, tour bus, etc.
Odds are it was Metro, but you're jumping to conclusions.
If this dude sees these comments, I'm sure we'll toast any and all of his newfound respect for humanity.
Technically I didn't have great sex last night, but I did have great sex Saturday afternoon. It was *really* good. The kind that makes you feel like you can't walk afterwards. Yummy. Hot. Sex.
I know it's great sex when I can taste blood.
Go Red Wings!
Wow, peeps do not suck.
fuck boren and pike drivers. I have been almost hit 4 to 5 times there by people either not looking towards the cross walk when they turn or just running the light
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