Posted on 04/18/2005 2:09:40 PM PDT by LibWhacker
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Police in a Vancouver suburb issued an unusual warning to drivers on Monday: If you run out fuel, do not lay down on the road to get assistance.
Police were alerted to a man's body laying along the Trans Canada Highway in the predawn darkness only to discover he was "quite alive", but that his car had run out of gas and he "wanted to attract someone's attention".
"Guess it worked, but police don't really recommend this method," the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Burnaby, British Columbia, said in a press release.
The man's car was towed, but no charges were filed.
Yep. Last time I did that I couldn't walk for a week.
He's just mimicking Canada's policies towards radical islam.
I knew a kid (18 or so) who once lay down in the road as part of a tantrum to get arrested to somehow hurt his wife's feelings. The police were called. They ran over him. He sued and settled out of court.
There had to be some mental illness with this person, or there is a bit stupid gene running through that family.
At night I always jump out into the road from behind a utility pole to wave down a passing motorist.
I think libs should go gnaw on some high tension wires since the police haven't warned them not to.
"Why don't we d-do it in the road!??!!"
Hey, if there is not a warning sticker or other public advisory, anything goes.
No worries, he's got Public Health care...besides ICBC wouldn't give the guy a dime, ICBC is the government owned insurance company in BC...
MD
These days someone trying to flag down help will probably be seen as a threat, setting others up for a carjacking. I wonder how long it will be until the carjackers pick up on the "lie down in the road" trick.
Residing in the state with the nation's highest number of "run over while lying in the road" as I do (NC), I'm still unable to figure out just WHY these people are lying in the road. This guy claims it was to get someone to stop and help. The best theory down here is that they were highly intoxicated, got chilly and layed down on the pavement to get warm. Whatever.
Did Reuters actually pay for this? The reporter should be made to write on the board, a thousand times, "Do not lie down on the road."
Even careful writers have a tough time with lie, lay, lying, laying, layed, laid. At least there was no "their/there/they're" error, which drives me up a wall.
You are right: it could be worse. The writer could have used your instead of you're. Or he could have confused to, two, and too. (Those errors drive me up the proverbial wall.)
Red Green Alert!!
" The writer could have used your instead of you're. Or he could have confused to, two, and too"
Your rite, its all to common, LOL.
How about loose, lose, and choose, chose? THOSE drive me nuts!
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