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To: Howlin

So I will ask you another one of the questions you just seem to want to ignore...

After watching your favorite video and seeing the skid marks from the car...

Do you think anyone that did a thorough investigation of the location could have possibly missed those?

I am asking you specifically because you are the authority there and you are sure they didn't just do a driveby...


222 posted on 12/11/2006 11:01:18 PM PST by surfer
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To: surfer

If it said the car crashed through the divider, doesn't that mean the median between the northbound and southbound lanes?

If someone called 911 with their cell phone in their car, maybe because they glanced in their rear-view mirror and just happened to see a car back behind them a ways starting to lose control and start skidding or careeening, then they told the dispatcher that their own location was somewhere between mile marker 139 and 140, and they were northbound - LE might've been looking along the 5,280 feet of northbound freeway shoulder.

The car would've been on the opposite side of the Interstate from where they were looking. Conversely, if someone saw the car after it had crashed thru the divider - and again, they're in their own car using a cell phone and saw this happen in their rear-view mirror, they might've thought the car had been in their own southbound lane all along, because that's the only side of the road where they had seen them.

See? That makes twice the amount of ground to cover, on both sides, looking for wreckage. Skid marks wouldn't mean anything - there are skid marks all over highways all the time.

LE couldn't possibly have covered all that on foot on the off-chance that the few feet they were searching were actually the correct ones.


228 posted on 12/11/2006 11:13:31 PM PST by Rte66
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To: surfer

I don't see how you can tell anything about the skidmarks from that little video.

I saw them on my big screen TV and could barely see them.

I think you're now fixating on that to cover up for the fact that what you said early on was wrong.


230 posted on 12/11/2006 11:14:52 PM PST by Howlin (40 days to Destin!)
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