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.
Have fun with your girls :)
Thanks. Time to run them up to bed. They are so cute when they are sleeping.
Just another reason why women shouldn't drive (unless they're going to the store to get their man a six-pack of beer)
Hey sweetie..
sorry..Dallas Monday Night Football
my house is NUTS!!!! ;)
I told my new husband I would never drive again. Unless I am asked to go get his beer.
LOL...your a good woman
I have seen many women drive automatics with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake. Clearly, this can cause a problem getting one foot confused with the other.
I have never seen a man drive this way. Same foot goes from gas to brake. Impossible to hit the wrong one, unless stoned.
I had an Audi back in the 80's. Best car I have ever owned.
Thanks, now you are callingme disabled AND old? < smork>
Oh, good Lord. Very, very good.
Her maiden name was Belcher.
"Duck told witnesses she'd just taken her dogs for a run and decided to stop by Barnes & Noble on her way home."
Linda! The operative word here is BY, not IN, Barnes & Noble.
I can just visualize the wedding announcement. Parents must have loved seeing DICK-BELCHER all over the papers society page.
And then, tearfully move on.
Exactly. They ended up divorcing, and she went back to plain ol Belcher.
Poor girl couldn't take the Dick.
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