Posted on 05/05/2007 8:34:25 AM PDT by TheDon
Lori Coble beamed as she posed for the camera with her husband and their three small children. Katie was still a baby, perched on Lori's hip. Kyle and Emma – in matching white shirts, jeans and flip-flops – grinned as they crowded on their dad Chris' lap.
"Kyle, Katie and Emma – the crazy monkeys" as the Ladera Ranch family's Web site proclaimed. The kids grew up so fast.
The dream was abruptly shattered about 1:10 p.m. Friday when a big-rig slammed into the back of the family's 2006 Chrysler Town & Country minivan on the southbound Santa Ana (I-5) Freeway north of Oso Parkway.
The three Coble kids were in the back of the minivan, strapped into car seats and booster seats. Lori was driving. Grandmother Cynthia Maestri was in the front passenger seat.
Two-year-old Katie and 5-year-old Kyle were rushed to Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo. Katie died just before 2 p.m. Four-year-old Emma died minutes later at Saddleback Memorial Hospital in Laguna Hills, California Highway Patrol officer Katrina Lundgren said.
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CHP investigators spent hours questioning the driver, Jorge Miguel Romero, 37, of Apple Valley, who said he saw the traffic backed up, applied the brakes but couldn't stop in time.
Fontana-based leasing company Aurora TRL, which owns the truck, did not return calls for comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Proof? OMGSTFULOL
Let's try: 1 / 4 = 0.25
As I expected. Not a fact or statistic in sight, just 1rudeboy's BS opinions.
I’m having trouble here, and I’m out of my league. Perhaps someone with stronger math skills can help? [hoot]
Let’s try it this way. There’s a 1-in-4 chance you’re correct, and a 3-in-4 that I am. Place your bet. Let’s gamble.
You don't see the flaw in this "logic"?
Would the victims be any less dead if the truck driver was named George Michael Smith?
No. Try the limp American Government, it’s got not a thing to do with the citizens. Speaking of Mexico and Illegals, ya know Bill Richardson is quite a piece of work.
I think I and others are quite concerned with the direction of the country. Will it be in the end La Raza or La Migra?
Bill Richardson: letting it rip
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2007/04/18/bill_richardson_letting_it_rip.html
You're on. I say that Jorge was DWI. We'll both watch the news to see which is right. Deal?
Nope, but they would if Jorge is an illegal alien from Mexico who wouldn’t have been here to kill the kids.
I guess you don't waste your time voting!
How to help the Coble family
Donations for the Coble family can be made at any Washington Mutual, or mail a check to Washington Mutual, 25692 Crown Valley Parkway, Suite J2, Ladera Ranch, 92694, attention James Maestri FBO Coble Family, account 3951107470. For more information, go to www.lifetomotion.com, which will be updated sometime Sunday.
Update
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1682438.php
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To neighbors and friends on their cul-de-sac, the three Coble children were extensions of their own families.
More than 100 people gathered Saturday night for a candlelight vigil in front of the Coble home in memory of the children, killed Friday afternoon when a big-rig slammed into the back of the family’s 2006 Chrysler Town & Country minivan on the southbound Santa Ana (I-5) Freeway north of Oso Parkway.
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The three Coble kids were in the back of the minivan, strapped into car seats and booster seats. Mother Lori Coble, 30, was driving. Grandmother Cynthia Maestri was in the front passenger seat. On Saturday, Lori Coble and Maestri were in fair condition at Mission Hospital.
It was there, Friday night, that Kyle passed away in his mother’s arms, a few hours after his siblings died. He had just turned 5 on Thursday.
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An absolute heartbreaker...
you are really “prissy”
fyi-i volunteer full time, tutoring and teaching non-english speaking children, in spanish, so they can keep up with their english speaking classmates
besides being full of hot air, what is your contribution?
in addition, non that this is any of your business, but i happen to be low income (one of the “little people”) in your “fundamentally unfair” hot air
once again, you show your true colors, can’t take on what a poster says, you have to belittle them and call them names
really “fundamentally fair”, the challenged part-to stoop to your level-must be mentally challenged
that is the HYPOCRISY of the “amnesty program”
illegal aliens will become a “protected and elite status” of residents who will have more “rights” than other americans, just on the basis of their “lawbreaking status”
I hope that you tutor in complete sentences.
It is hard to believe that someone would post something like that and then expect to be taken seriously. My guess is that he got an F in math and couldn't get into the stats class.
21 percent is 1 in 4? Bwahahahaah!
you still can’t deal with issues and only hang around, i suspect, to build up your enormous ego by trashing others without adding anything of substance to the discussion
example this thread: (not that reminding you of your antagonistic, sarcastic, racist posts will turn you into “fundamentally fair”)
“Nothing to say, Mr. Jump to Conclusions?”
“Probably when those concerned about illegal immigration were over run by those that just don’t want to live near brown people.”
“Geez, do a little research before throwing crap like that out.”
“What if he isn’t? Then what? Who will you blame? Will this be less of a tragedy?”
“Amen. If we are going to win this battle against ILLEGAL immigration, we can’t link arms with racists.”
“Your sheet is showing”
“If he was born here, what will you eat?”
“Oh my, you are the funny one. I’ll go against my better judgment and ask for your statistics”
“I read it. It was all about your stupid assumption that this guy is illegal. If you want to act now like this is about trucking safety and not your racial biases, go ahead.”
“Wow, I hit a nerve. Gosh, I’m sorry miss “socially conscious.” I didn’t realize that some of your best friends were the little people (what was that about the liberal play book now?)
There is nothing wrong with criticizing illegal immigration...I’ve done it on this thread. Assuming that someone is illegal (or mentioning it before there is any evidence) is, indeed, racist.
Perhaps you can melt your guilt with a socially conscious good deed.”
It's even worse than that. No mention of how many of the estimated 1 million unlicensed drivers are thought to be illegals. Many just can't afford car insurance. So to jump from "unlicensed drivers are responsible for 21% of fatal accidents" to "a driver in a fatal accident is 21% likely to be an illegal" is not logical. The article didn't even say that he was unlicensed.
My guess is that he got an F in math and couldn't get into the stats class.
Lots of poor math on FR.
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