[Chevello]

As if life hasn't been throwing enough curveballs my way over the last year, yesterday, I arrive home from work (after a 1.5 hour drive, thanks to the Eagles) and my neighbor is flagging me down in the street.
"How was your day?" he asks. "Okay, WHY" says I.
"My wife just took yours to the hospital, because Mathew (my middle kid, 13) got hit by a car, hit and run."
He's OK, it barely got him. Basically, the mirror got him in the back, and threw him down where he scraped his leg up. He says it was a Grand Prix like my wife's old one (friggin Pontiacs). On those, the mirrors don't fold.

Anyways, it could have been a ton worse, and of course, thanks to the Hit and run mentality, Matt had to walk almost back home (he was about a half mile away, going to pick up rolls for dinner) before he got to one of his friend's house to call 911. He said 2 or 3 cars drove by while he was laying on the ground after he got hit. Again, thankfully, no broken bones, just some bruises and scrapes.

Thanks. I love my neighborhood.

Anyways, I got home around 7.30, it all happened around 6.30 while I was on my way home, thank the good Lord that keeps me from having a cell phone. The rest of the drive would have been h-e- double hockey sticks if I had known about all of it. We didn't get home to eat till almost midnight.

It's just frustrating on top of all the other crap going on.

Thanks for letting me vent, guys.

K

 

[Rich-L79]

Glad your son is okay. What kind of total (can't say that on the forum pages) would hit a kid and drive away! Set up some folding chairs along that road and flag down evern Gran Prix that matches the description and have a chat with the driver.

Same thing happened to my mother-in-law's husband a few years back, put him in the hospital for over a month. He was on the side of the road bleeding for 40 minutes before anyone called the EMTs.

 

[blm]

He said 2 or 3 cars drove by while he was laying on the ground after he got hit.
K

City of brotherly love???? The kid could of been fighting for his life ( thank God he wasn't). All we can hope for is that they don't have to depend on the kindness of a stranger someday.

 

[grandsport]

Glad your son is ok,Keith.:thumbsup: Stories like this make me happy I live in a small town.

 

[Finally]

Amazing, hit and run and then other drivers just pass by him? I stop and help people stuck in the snow in my neighborhood and so do others. Glad he is ok.

 

[TLee38]

Isn't it amazing what this world is coming too. I'm glad your son is ok and hopefully the law will find the person. If they don't, they'll get paid back in the long run. What comes around goes around.