Posted on 07/16/2007 10:13:49 AM PDT by trumandogz
A Pasadena man died after he accidentally walked into the side of a tanker trailer in the 9300 block of Lawndale Sunday, police said.
Mack Herbert Vance III, 36, was lighting a cigarette when he hit the side of the truck trailer as the rig made a left turn onto Central from Lawndale, HPD accident investigation Off. L.C. Morrison II said today. The incident occurred at about 9:15 p.m.
No charges will be filed against the truck's driver, who Morrison said was so upset at Vance's death that he wept and vomited at the scene.
Vance had been dropped off by a friend near his workplace, a friend told police.
The truck driver said Vance was walking in the intersection but the man was not in the truck's path, Morrison said. Vance had his head lowered as he was lighting a cigarette and made a sharp turn toward the truck as he did so, witnesses told police.
Vance was crushed under the truck's wheels, Morrison said. His head struck the cargo tank's side and his baseball-style cap ended up on the trailer, he said.
Vance leaves a wife, who is pregnant, Morrison said. The wife and Vance's father came to the scene. Their names were not released.
kevin.moran@chron.com
“Another smoking-related death.”
Second hand smoke?
Was he smoking Lucky Strikes?
Candidate for a Darwin award?
“Smoking kills, and if you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.”
~Brooke Shields
You know you’re going to Hell for that. LOL!
Will we go to hell for laughing pretty hard?
I hope I don’t go to hell for laughing so hard at it!
Hey, some days suck more than others!
Say a perfect Act of Contrition, put $.50 in poor box and make a generous pledge to Free Republic. By the power invested in me by Jim Robertson, I absolve thee of all taint of guilt. Go and sin no more.
Ironically, It was a Nicorette truck.
What’s an Act of Contrition and who is Jim Robertson? :)
I’d walk into the side of a tank truck for a Camel.
Put me in the mind of the story of the man threatening to jump out of window ledge. A Priest is called to disuade him. (Priest with a thick Irish Brogue.)
“Think of your family, how will they take it?”
“I don’t have any family.”
“Think of your mother what will she think?”
“My mother put me in an foundling home as a baby.”
“Think then or your Blessed Mother, who loves you as her own child.”
“Who’s the Blessed Mother?”
“Jump, you damned Jew bastard.”
Hooo boy, how to light an online fire. Funny, though.
It would've been a lot more fun if the truck had exploded.
Disturbing.
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Perhaps our victim was also listening to an iPod.
BUMP!
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