Star-gazing teens fall asleep in street, are run over by car

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 6/13/08 | Elizabeth Fernandez

[GSWarrior]

Fortunately, no one was seriously injured.

[yldstrk]

Think they were stoned? Glad the little dumbaxes are alright.

[ConservaTexan]

Sterilize them for the common good!

[Jagdgewehr]

Uh........never mind.

[cardinal4]

Well, Northern California is the home of the Humboldt...

[Principled]

It is illegal to lay in the street.

LIE - it's illegal to LIE in the street.... [head exploding.] You LAY things down. Notwithstanding the fubar on the verbiage - what in the world would motivate kids to lie in a street?... and fall asleep???... drugs...

[TheWasteLand]

I lie on the street all the time, though mostly when I play 3 Card Monty.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> LIE - it’s illegal to LIE in the street.... [head exploding.] You LAY things down. Notwithstanding the fubar on the verbiage - what in the world would motivate kids to lie in a street?... and fall asleep???... drugs...

...or possibly the absence of anywhere else flat to lay down and watch the stars. I’ve only seen this a couple times, in the inner city. It’s sad, really: watching stars is such a simple pleasure.

I dunno what that neighborhood is like — probably not inner-city ay.

[paudio]

I find it ironical that this story is reported by the Chronicles while the driver was delivering the Chronicles.

[mad_as_he$$]

Here's your sign. Darwin award second and third place.

[MaryFromMichigan]

I hate speling erros and careless punctuation

[GSWarrior]

Danville is in the suburbs. It’s kind of shielded from the bright lights of SF and Oakland by hills.

[Cicero]

Obviously it’s the Chronicle’s fault.

[mad_as_he$$]

Danville is NOT inner city. it is suburbia in every sense of the word. I have been known to “lie” in the street. Every time a cop stops me.

[Gaffer]

When I was a boy in the country, we used to lay down in the road at night and watch stars, etc. The road was still warm, maybe one car a night passed..... One night my cousin fell asleep and the rest of us ran to the bushes and yelled “a car is coming, run! You’re gonna git run over! All the while we were throwing ‘May Pops’ at him...

[Aaron0617]

hard to believe this happens this often ~

Police Chief: 2 girls struck by train in Lebanon, Maine (sleeping on train tracks) May 28, 2008

[rabscuttle385]

LIE - it's illegal to LIE in the street....

Somebody should tell that to the illegals. Oh wait, they are already illegal, so why would they give a damn?

[Dumpster Baby]

[meanie monster]

LOL

[DieHard the Hunter]

> I have been known to “lie” in the street. Every time a cop stops me.

(big grin!)