XPost: alt.forestry, misc.rural   
   From: nntpmail@epix.net   
      
   On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:45:40 -0500, Jim wrote:   
      
   > Ann wrote:   
   >   
   >> Jim wrote:   
   >> > Ann wrote:   
   >> >> Jim wrote:   
   >> >> > Ann wrote:   
   >> > <...>   
   >> >> >> their car went off I-95 in NC.   
   > [....]   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> > I heard about this wreck today.   
   > [....]   
   >> >> > just short of blasting dumb southerners for not   
   > [....]   
   >> >>   
   >> >> 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.   
   >   
   > government worker must have had a box of doughnuts.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> >> 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.   
   >   
   > more than likely this is why the english language contains   
   > words with meanings such as the following short list:   
   >   
   > connotation - a: the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart   
   > from the thing it explicitly names or describes   
   > b: something suggested by a word or thing   
   >   
   > implication - 3: something implied   
   > a: suggestion   
   > b: a possible significance   
   >   
   > implied - :to involve or indicate by inference, association,   
   > or necessary consequence rather than by direct statement   
   > :to express indirectly   
   >   
   > inference - :the act of passing from one proposition,   
   > statement, or judgment considered as true to another whose   
   > truth is believed to follow from that of the former   
   >   
   > hint - :a statement conveying by implication what it is   
   > preferred not to say explicitly   
   > :an indirect or summary suggestion   
   > :a slight indication of the existence, approach, or nature of something   
   >   
   > inkling - :a slight indication or suggestion   
   > :a slight knowledge or vague notion   
   >   
   > innuendo - :an oblique allusion   
   > :hint, insinuation; esp   
   > :a veiled or equivocal reflection on character or reputation   
      
   Then there is the phrase "reading into".   
      
   >> And, would they have reacted any differently   
   >> if the same thing had happened in DE or NJ/PA?   
   >   
   > IMHO most likely not since they were obviously emotionally   
   > driven to react as they did.  after all, it was their loved   
   > ones they were responding to the loss of.   
      
   So why interpret it that they were singling out southerners?   
      
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Ann, death by any cause is a completely horrible   
   > event for those who do not under the following Word:   
      
   Disagree.  If people didn't believe that there are situations worse than   
   death, no one would execute a living will or name a health care proxy.   
      
   > For by grace are ye saved through faith;   
   > and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:   
   > Not of works, lest any man should boast.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >> > the event was tragic and it is MHO that all traffic   
   >> > accidents are in one way or another a tragedy.   
      
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