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Tamma
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0 posted 2002-07-12 10:06 AM



“Three die in Dump truck accident”
Hearing that was horrible enough –
But Then, I found out I knew
One of the victims –
I didn’t know him personally
But just talking to him a couple of tymes
He had so much ahead of him –
Just barely 18, just outta high school
Getting ready for college in the fall…

I just don’t know what else to say…

From The Martinsburg Journal

“Police are not sure about some details of the accident, but arrived to find a red jeep, identified only by a hubcap, crushed beneath the dump truck’s front wheels…”

“…Part of the Jeep was covered by a white sheet and another sheet covered a body on the road.”

Looking at the article again today…they have 2 pictures of the accident that really shouldn’t be in the paper, they have one with a white sheet in the road, and another with a white sheet covering part of another car involved…

Have you ever heard that "No shirt, No shoes" rule? My question is...Why doesn't that rule include pants?

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nakdthoughts
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1 posted 2002-07-13 06:51 AM


It's hard to understand why these things happen...
I have lost friends in accidents, it takes time to heal.

hugsss
M

Allysa
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2 posted 2002-07-13 12:27 PM


That really sucks.  I can't think of much else to say except that the situation sucks.

One time, my mom was driving me to school and there was a big tractor trailer thing and a little truck slammed into it and it went right underneath it and the two highschool students who had been driving to school were killed and it was just really horrible.

I don't think newspapers and news channels on television quite understand that there are some things you just don't publish.  I hate a specific local news channel simply because after a friend of mine was murdered they showed a pair of rubber gloves that were recovered from the crime scene and they were covered in blood and I couldn't help but think that, ya know, obviously that was my friend's blood and it was just really, I don't know, emotionally scarring.

I've never seen you on the streets of this town, I've never seen you just hanging around, But you still tell me that you know me... ~Justin Sane

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