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Witness: Hastings’ speeding car ‘shook my car—like a freight truck going by’
Yahoo! News ^ | 2 hrs 48 mins ago | Dylan Stableford,

Posted on 06/21/2013 7:27:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A driver who witnessed the fiery crash that killed journalist Michael Hastings says the vehicle the 33-year-old was driving shook his car "like a freight truck" as it flew by early Tuesday morning in Los Angeles.

"Was stopped at a red light tonight when a pearl white Mercedes flew past," Michael Carter wrote on Facebook a few hours later. "It shook my car like a freight truck going by. Saw it burst into flames a quarter mile down the road when it hit a tree."

In a Facebook message to Yahoo News, Carter explained in detail what he saw:

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: dylanstableford; hastings; hastingswitness; michaelhastings
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To: BenLurkin

Early in Obama’s first term, didn’t someone connected to his administration die in an exploding and/or burning car that was parked in his garage? Anyone else remember that?


41 posted on 06/21/2013 8:31:56 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: libstripper

It is easier now than ever to divert the electronics in modern cars. If the tranny is electronically shifted, then a simple jumper circuit can stop the vehicle from being shifted once into drive, and of course the same works for ignitions. The CIA knows all the tricks dontchaknow.


42 posted on 06/21/2013 8:32:14 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: BenLurkin

bttt


43 posted on 06/21/2013 8:33:13 AM PDT by Old Yeller (You can't spell Stanley Ann without S-A-T-A-N)
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To: BenLurkin; null and void

Ping!........


44 posted on 06/21/2013 8:35:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: Stentor

interesting-I wish the cameraman had asked the guy to tell what happened in his own language-even if he didn’t understand it[oh well


45 posted on 06/21/2013 8:40:24 AM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: BenLurkin
Hastings died while he was investigating "socialite" Jill Kelley, who was linked to Petraeus and practically the entire CENTCOM staff and defense contractors - for whom she held numerous wild parties at her mansion. Not far fetched to believe some of those powerful people did not want details of these parties or other social or financial relationships to be made public.


General David Petraeus kisses Jill Kelley after accepting community service award presented at Kelley's home during the summer of 2011. It was later revealed Kelley, of Lebanese descent, was millions in debt, and had questionable ties to Middle Eastern entities.

46 posted on 06/21/2013 8:40:39 AM PDT by montag813
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To: cuban leaf
"This is glue. Strong stuff."


47 posted on 06/21/2013 8:41:45 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

I have no doubt whatsoever that in holder’s FBI a few ‘workers’ can be found who will do whatever eric tasks them with. There are Craig Livingstones all across America don’tchaknow.


48 posted on 06/21/2013 8:42:27 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: BenLurkin

I had a car where the cruise control turned on and was excelerating. That’s where neutral and brakes come in handy.


49 posted on 06/21/2013 8:56:22 AM PDT by RedMDer (When immigrants cannot or will not assimilate, its really just an invasion. Throw them out!)
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To: Fresh Wind

When a story about this was up earlier there was a link in a comment to a site with an interview with a couple of engineers who had developed an app for a laptop that could be connected to the tech readout plug in a modern car and deliver a packet to the system that would made the electronic functions accessible remotely. In ssome of these cares nothing is directly connected, no hydraulic brakes or steering, all electronic. The brake pedal and the steering wheel are only switches that input to the computer on board.


50 posted on 06/21/2013 8:57:19 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (Khach hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: MinuteGal

Accelerator stuck. Happened to me once after loaning my car to X
Turned the key off
Or he could have been being chased.


51 posted on 06/21/2013 8:57:40 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: .45 Long Colt

Hi .45 LC, hope you are well.

Yes, Holder was up to his ears involved in Trentadue, the OKC bombing, Elian Gonzalez, Waco, and if my memory serves me correct, he was in the chain of command with Lon Horiuchi.

I brushed into him (and his security) in a hotel elevator in Chicago several years ago. He did not like to hear my questions, and got off the elevator a couple of floors early. I couldn’t help but see one of the “earpieces” with a tight smile on his face.

If there is a place in Hell that is hotter than the others, and it was within my power, I would assign Holder to that spot. He is a serpent!


52 posted on 06/21/2013 8:59:17 AM PDT by gwjack (May God give America His richest blessings.)
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To: rolling_stone; Stentor

I can’t believe the firefighters and police kept asking if anyone was still in the car. Good Gosh Almighty! You can smell flesh burning.


53 posted on 06/21/2013 9:00:16 AM PDT by Spunky
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To: .45 Long Colt

I remember it, but it was a woman.


54 posted on 06/21/2013 9:01:13 AM PDT by Spunky
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To: RedMDer

If all the controls, including the gear selector in an automatic are electronic, rather than direct or hydraulic thenthe car can be controlled remotely with a plug-in app.


55 posted on 06/21/2013 9:04:12 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (Khach hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: .45 Long Colt

The kenyan’s ops have tended to be pretty direct. A couple of the gay choirboys in Chicago were shot to death and the guy who got into the passport files was parking by the courthouse when a fellow walked up to him and shot him dead then walked away.


56 posted on 06/21/2013 9:06:33 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economiws In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: Orangedog; rolling_stone
Crash proof maybe. Fire proof...not so much.

Yeah, but the "wet work" guys have made tremendous advances since,

IIRC, the Paris tunnel crash didn't quite leave all parties DRT.

57 posted on 06/21/2013 9:06:56 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: libstripper

Unless you’re knock out or dead and can’t do those things!


58 posted on 06/21/2013 9:09:46 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: BenLurkin

Can the witness state with certainty which actually happened FIRST; The crash, or the bursting into flames? Probably just me, but if the car was rigged with explosives the flames came FIRST; and THEN it crashed.


59 posted on 06/21/2013 9:12:17 AM PDT by Tucker39
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To: Tucker39

The engine block looked like a brand new one fell off the back of a truck or something, just lying there in the street. No scorching or burning.


60 posted on 06/21/2013 9:27:25 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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