Posted on 11/14/2005 5:01:47 PM PST by day10
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A woman drove a station wagon through a wall of the Barnes & Noble bookstore, sending glass, wood and books flying. Three people suffered leg injuries. Two were taken to a hospital.
The store was filled with shoppers at about 2 p.m. Sunday when the Subaru station wagon plowed backward through picture windows in a reading area in the store's northwest corner. The car took out the travel section and barreled about 40 feet through the bookstore before coming to rest in nonfiction.
"I thought it was an earthquake," said shopper Chris Badgett, 27. "There was screaming, people were running. I was running too."
The driver, Linda A. Duck, 58, has not been charged. She was not injured.
Just before the Subaru hit, Geoff Brosamer was sitting in the reading area, a space with armchairs, reading tables, framed portraits of famous authors and a fireplace.
Brosamer walked to the checkout counter and asked staff members to announce that his creative writing group would be meeting in the lounge. He walked back to the lounge, looked out the window, and saw the Subaru approaching.
"I saw this car turning, like it was going to go into the parking space," Brosamer said. "And then she just kept going and going."
The sound of shattering glass was deafening, witnesses said. People screamed and shrieked and dodged the car as it headed toward the fireplace, jerked right, and smashed into shelves of travel and history books.
A retired police officer helped get the driver out of the car. Two dogs in the back of the Subaru were taken to an animal clinic for safekeeping.
Duck told witnesses she'd just taken her dogs for a run and decided to stop by Barnes & Noble on her way home. She seemed to be in shock, bystanders said.
The store never closed.
Anchorage police spokesman Paul Honeman said Monday investigators will try to determine whether there was a mechanical failure or driver error that led to the incident.
How would you like to have that name.
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and drives like a duck, then
Hey - it wasn't me. Note my kyword - LOL.
I worked with a girl whose last name was Kuntz. I'd prefer Duck to that!
I'll behave.
tomorrow...
It cost me $200 and my name was changed forever.
Now, I'm known worldwide as Dashing Dasher.
Honestly - if you don't like the name your parents gave you - NOTHING is stopping you from changing it.
You ain't right, girl!
It will be in the nonfiction section as well.
Glad I broughtmy glasses home to read thatone.
I wish my space barworked better. Unnngh!
LOL......
sorry ;)
Hi ya'll.
Ain't your fault I'm getting old.
So, what's his name?
It's more of an it :)
Whatcha up to??
So he's neutered? < ducking>
I'm just refereeing a 9 year old twin girls boxing match, you?
Neutered!?!
Well, (counting dogs, cats etc) there are about erm, ah...
a whole bunch of those ;)
I'm just working out and preparing for class tomorrow night...
Rather be doing that than what you're doin'...God love ya:)
It still beats not being with them.
Have fun working out.
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