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Westbury High cheerleaders honor a squad member and a recent graduate killed in collision
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lidead26,0,5692617.story?coll=ny-homepage-big-pix ^
Posted on 09/27/2004 6:19:53 AM PDT by cyborg
The cheerleaders at Westbury High School did not wear their uniforms for yesterday's football game.
Instead, they wore blue jeans and white T-shirts with the names and photos of their friends who died the day before. The front of the shirt was "in loving memory" of cheerleader Anelie Thelemaque, the back read "RIP" for June graduate Guy "Myrakle" Victor, and the sleeve held a "get well" wish for classmate Tiffany Hagigal.
Early Saturday, while returning from a local restaurant where they had celebrated Hagigal's 17th birthday and her new driver's license, the teens were hit by a drunken driver, police said. They were just blocks from Hagigal's home when Gerrard Ganz, 32, struck the passenger side of her vehicle and shoved the car into a pole, police said.
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I post this as a public service announcement. This happened ten minutes from where I live.
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posted on
09/27/2004 6:19:53 AM PDT
by
cyborg
To: cyborg
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posted on
09/27/2004 6:32:57 AM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: cyborg
Just imagine people in that car before you take 'one for the road'.
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posted on
09/27/2004 6:33:35 AM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: cyborg
The lawyer has already blamed the young driver victim by saying she just got her license....
I HATE LAWYERS
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posted on
09/27/2004 6:44:55 AM PDT
by
alisasny
("BREAKING: PETA OUTRAGED, Kerry to use hampsters to fire spitballs.")
To: cyborg
Thanks for posting this.
I know of a similar story in my small town. A young man in his 20's got really drunk (about .26 blood alcohol level) and killed a woman who was out getting her morning newspaper from her mailbox. It's just awful. He's a great guy who I've known since he was a kid, with a great college education and every prospect of a great life ahead of him. Now he'll surely be going away for years.
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posted on
09/27/2004 6:48:06 AM PDT
by
68skylark
To: cyborg
And the miserable lying scum attorney for the drunk driver stated that it's too late to tell who was at fault.
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posted on
09/27/2004 6:54:55 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(It's the soldier, not the reporter who has given US freedom of the press)
To: alisasny
Yeah that's what my mother said she heard on tv this morning *LOL* It's so ridiculous I just have to laugh.
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posted on
09/27/2004 7:57:18 AM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: OldFriend
I hope the lawyer has the same attitude should the same fate ever befall any of loved ones.
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posted on
09/27/2004 7:57:54 AM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: 68skylark
Yep that's why it's very important to have a designated driver. Also, if one has problems, it's not going to be at the bottom of a bottle either.
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posted on
09/27/2004 7:59:00 AM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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