[buccaneer81]

Darwin award nominees need velcro instead of laces. Think alcohol was involved?

/s

[Kimmers]

Lesson to be learned here....if you happen to be walking on a road @ 3 am and your shoe needs tying, please go off road with that activity.......

[Kimmers]

Lesson to be learned here....if you happen to be walking on a road @ 3 am and your shoe needs tying, please go off road with that activity.......

[DCBryan1]

when I was a teenager, I used to think my parents were idiots when they said, "Nothing good happens after 11PM", and "Only cops and bad guys operate after midnight.

Thank you Lord for strict parents!

[untrained skeptic]

He was tying his shoe in the middle of the road? And the witnesses said that they were waving their arms at the officer because they thought he was driving too fast?

That is the best story they could come up with?

If they had time to wave their arms, why didn't their friend have time to get up from tying his shoe and get off of the road?

I do however, believe that it up to the driver to drive with such caution that they are able to stop in time to avoid hitting something or someone stopped on the road.

The officer won't likely face criminal charges, nor should a civilian in such circumstances. However, since no one appears to be saying the guy jumped out on the road in front of him, there still may be justification for a civil case.

[ßuddaßudd]

Does the cruiser have a dash-cam? Or was it broken that night?

[GreenAccord]

But the friends -- two women and a man -- told the elder Pourfarhadi that Boback had bent over to tie his shoelace and that they were waving at the officer to slow down because they thought he was speeding, he said.

Okay, I call bullsh** on in this statement by the friends. Why would you 'wave' at an oncoming car at 3am? If you're stranded at the roadside, perhaps, sure, but if your buddy is simply hunched over tying his shoe? And waving at a car at 3am to slow down? And that car is a police car? I can tell you this, when you stand on a painted line of the shoulder, just about any car approaching would appear to be speeding.

I am familiar with this stretch of road and I think it's either a 45mph or 50mph zone. It's certainly not a 25mph zone.

[apocalypto]

Could the victim have been dead before being hit? Something smells.