Something has been boggling my mind the last few weeks. I can't believe it or maybe it's because I have never noticed it before. Since I work at a bank we get the paper everyday. Most of the time the news and the paper are focused on negative stories so I stay away.
But I can't help it...I am addicted to the Squall line. It's full of funny comments left by other readers. Anyways, at work we flip to the Local & State section and begin reading the squall line. Once we get a good laugh out of that we read the thought of the day, and our horoscopes out loud. None of us believe a word about our horoscope so don't think this is a "I believe in New Age" blog because, it's not! We just laugh and say..."let's see what kind of person I have to deal with today"...or..."I wonder what great things will happen to me today. hardy-har-har!!" Really it just gives us a minute to get paid for non-work related time. heehe
While we grab the paper in the morning there is always a picture for the front page story. Today (similar to other days) is a crime scene picture of a CSI taking a picture of shoes on the street. (yes I said shoes) This morning the victim a 48-year old lady walking 2 blocks from her house, crossing the road to the bus stop and was hit by a car. The car fled the scene and later today they found the vehicle but not the driver.
Apparently, this is really sad, we (Panama City area) has a lot of hit-and-runs happen. Yep, you are just walking down the street or crossing the road and you get hit by a car...and die. And the idiot that hit you with the vehicle just drives away. I mean what kind of people walk the close to the road...or don't look before they cross the road..or just have bad luck. And what kind of people don't stop to see if they ran over a dog or a freakin human being. My goodness people if you are going to drive carelessly at least look out for other people walking.
Here is the link to an article relating to the front story today....and below the link is what that article says about the last few days around town.
http://www.newsherald.com/news/car_72841___article.html/pedestrian_possible.html"Tuesday's death is the third serious hit and run in Bay County since Friday. According to the Panama City Beach Police, Sean Dewitt Nichols, 19, was driving a Chevy Impala at about 5 a.m. Friday when it struck pedestrian Freddy Garcia, who was crossing Front Beach Road near Sharky's bar. Nichols failed to stop at the scene, and the Impala was found abandoned about a mile away, police said. After abandoning the car, Nichols contacted his friend, Christopher Todd Schei, 19, who picked him up and drove him away from the area, hindering law enforcement efforts to investigate the incident, police said.
Nichols was charged with leaving the scene of an accident with serious injury and violation of drivers license restrictions. Schei was charged with being an accessory after the fact. Garcia was taken to the hospital but had suffered non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.
Then on Monday Randy Nolan, 20, of Auburn, Ala., was killed after he was struck by a 2009 black Nissan Altima that left the roadway near the 14000 block of Front Beach Road, according to Beach investigators. Nolan had been walking east on the south side of Front Beach Road around 3:30 a.m.
The driver of the Altima, 20-year-old Dakota Matthews, was killed minutes later when he crashed his vehicle while leaving the scene of the first accident, investigators said.
Police said Matthews continued east on Front Beach Road after striking Nolan, merging onto the 10000 block of Middle Beach Road into oncoming traffic and forcing a Beach police officer, who was responding to the accident, off the road.
Matthews continued eastbound on Middle Beach Road for about a half-mile when his Nissan collided head-on with a 2004 Ford pickup truck, authorities said. The impact of the collision caused the 2004 Ford to strike a 2003 Ford truck.
Matthews was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:35 a.m., authorities said.
The drivers and passengers in the other vehicles suffered minor injuries."
