Deputy crashes into Hawthorne police car

i thought i might come up with something else to blog...this story explains how a lennox sheriff rushing to the aid of a hawthorne policeman almost killed the cop instead. sigh.

in Indio today four members of a family were killed when they were ejected from the car the husband/father was driving recklessly. he reportedly walked away from the crash and the bodies of his wife, his ten-year-old, and his two-year-old twins.

i'll look for more information about that crash. that tragedy. early reports indicated that none of the deceased were in any kind of safety restraints.

oh, man. i can hardly believe how fucking radical i feel sometimes. like, do we REALLY need cars? It is simply understood in our society that somewhere in the neighborhood of fifty to sixty THOUSAND of us will be massacred on the road every year. Most by accident; many accidents caused by or exacerbated by the impairment of the driver; but that still leaves thousands of dead by pure accident.

how did that get to be acceptable?!

recently i heard a blurb on the radio about how some cars are going to be wired to dial 911 when a crash occurs...why not have sensors on the OUTSIDE of the cars, so that they avoid each other like opposing magnets, instead of drifting toward each other like attracting magnets?

i mean shit they put a man on the moon. they built a weapon capable of wiping out the whole planet. is it really that important to get so far so fast every day of our lives? and the respect for life, the appreciation, is it diminished when we live and die in a society that takes for granted and accepts that forty to sixty thousand of its citizens will die early this year, and every year?

don't even get me started on the warmonger in the white house. later on that. but it seems i just keep getting more hippie-ish, more radical; it seems john lennon wrote a song that went right from my ears into my soul, and it seems that my daughter was murdered and should still be alive, and her killer is alive, remorseless, and will be out of prison much too soon, making my daughter chopped liver.

and, well, it's true: we are all human beans. more alike than different. that's another topic too, and hopefully you're a little intrigued...lemme know, and i will expound sooner than i might otherwise.

PEACE.
- posted by barbara @ 9/24/2002 02:39:00 AM