Okay... so I've been busy and that's why I haven't updated in the longest time! Please forgive me!!
So, I would like to share with you the scariest time of my life...
Saturday evening my little brother had a home game in Vermillion that we were going to attend and being the money saving person that I am, knew that we could hold off to buy diapers in SF that day. Heath, Braelyn, and I were sitting in the left hand lane at a red light on the 26th Street off ramp. All of a sudden I heard a very loud truck getting closer and when I looked out at my mirror I noticed this white, Ford F-250 was taking the off ramp at a VERY HIGH speed in the right hand lane. Right before the intersection the truck went into the ditch, up over the ditch, air born over the westbound lane into the median, bounced back up, over the eastbound lane, and rolled into the ditch between the interstate and Lowes. Um... Yea! I think I wet my pants. My first thought was that this vehicle was out of control and this person needed help. As I frantically tried to call 911, I heard sirens getting closer. Three squad cars were following this truck. Heath asked if I thought he should go see if he could help and I instantly agreed. He quickly got in the right hand lane and headed for the Lowes parking lot. We got to the intersection of Lowes and 26th Street and noticed the cops were on the north side of the road, in a bank parking lot. I stuck my head out of the window and started yelling at them to go into Lowes parking lot. Well, they headed towards us, stopped in the intersection, asked me again what I said, and headed towards Lowes. We got into the parking lot and Heath went to the scene to see if he could help in any way. He returned to the car 10-15 minutes later and let me know that he told the officers he was an off duty officer from Madison and he helped get people away from the scene. But, before he got back to the truck, he noticed an officer running up to his car carrying two gallon freezer bags full of something. Then another officer asked Heath to help him start picking up weed that was scattered on the ground. (hmm... I'm going to assume those bags were filled with weed!)As they were picking it up, they noticed an air compressor filled with bags of weed! Read this link to find out more: http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail6162.cfm?ID=0,81019
We believe the driver of the vehicle is the tall guy in the front with wounds on his forehead. He ran from the scene and was found in the lawn and garden section of Lowes with head wounds.
http://www.keloland.com/videoarchive/index.cfm?VideoFile=022309nb
If I could, I would like to go flick this guy in the forehead and ask why he had to be so stupid! I mean come on... it's 3:00 on a Saturday afternoon. 26th Street is going to be busy!!!! And it definitely was! We were so lucky that God was watching that street because no one else got hurt.
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OH.MY.GOODNESS!
It's a good thing that nobody was hurt!! Could you imagine??
:(
wow...wow! that is the kind of thing you don't really care to be part of, just hear about on the news!
"and being the money saving person that I am, knew that we could hold off to buy diapers in SF that day."
that has little to do with money saving and everything to do with getting a quantity larger than 30, for me:0)
OH my! I would say that is an eventful afternoon of shopping!
Very glad nobody was hurt!!
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