XPost: alt.forestry, misc.rural   
   From: nntpmail@epix.net   
      
   On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:25:30 -0500, Jim wrote:   
      
   > Ann wrote:   
   >   
   >> Jim wrote:   
   >> > Ann wrote:   
   > <...>   
   >> >> their car went off I-95 in NC. Someone called in the accident and   
   >> >> the location, but whoever looked found nothing.  Later, according to   
   >> >> the news reports, a highway worker noticed a damaged sign (?),   
   >> >> looked, and found their car.   
   >> >   
   >> > I heard about this wreck today.  tonight on the evening news we got   
   >> > pictures and sound of some pissed off family members who cut just   
   >> > short of blasting dumb southerners for not being able to locate the   
   >> > scene of the wreck.    I can relate to their loss and to their   
   >> > feelings of anger and resentment.  after all, in the true nature of   
   >> > the american, it's anybody's fault other than their own.   
   >>   
   >> Since the person who called 9-1-1 gave the next mile marker (141; the   
   >> car was eventually found near 140),   
   >   
   > see what poor math skills can do.  "dumb southerner can't even read a   
   > number correctly."   
      
   No, they said they looked as far back as 138.   
      
   >> it is hard to understand how the car could have been missed if   
   >> searchers had gotten out of their vehicles and walked (or atved) the   
   >> ditch line.   
   >   
   > to get out of the vehicle meant the government worker would be leaving   
   > their doughnut.     
   >   
   >> I didn't find any comments by the family placing blame on   
   >> "southerners", but did find these comments in Myrtle Beach Online"   
   >   
   > just a quick blurb on the local evening news is where I saw what I   
   > remarked on.   
   >   
   >> "Next time a granpa Yankee drives 30MPH in the fast lane he should   
   >> think back to this. Then again if the damn Yankees would stay up north   
   >> bad things like this would not happen to them down here."   
   >>   
   >> "To the daughter who keeps complaneing about our police I don't blame   
   >> if they did not want to put up with you. Maybe after this you will go   
   >> back above the mason-dixon line where you belong and please take all   
   >> the other yankes with you."   
   >>   
   >> "I think that out of panick for their parents this family did what any   
   >> family would do, everything they could to find them. Unfortunately, I   
   >> think they stepped on alot of southern toes in the process. Their tone   
   >> which was stereotypical northern was aggressive and placed blame on   
   >> southern law enforcement."   
   >   
   > yep, it was the "tone" in which they were speaking on camera doing the   
   > toe stomping.  as I said "cut just short of blasting dumb southerners".   
   >  I don't think that particular news clip will ever be aired on the   
   > national news.   
      
   But "short of" isn't there.  And, would they have reacted any differently   
   if the same thing had happened in DE or NJ/PA?  What would have bothered   
   me was that the person that called it in said the vehicle lights were on   
   ... and they both died of drowning.  Since the woman didn't have   
   life-threatening injuries, the family is always going to be haunted by the   
   thought of her last minutes.   
      
   > the event was tragic and it is MHO that all traffic accidents are in one   
   > way or another a tragedy.   
      
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