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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: Gandalf_The_Gray

So you don’t believe there are cars which will park themselves for you?


81 posted on 06/21/2013 11:28:41 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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Depending on model of Merc. top speed is anywhere from 155 to 190 mph.


82 posted on 06/21/2013 11:56:05 AM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: Clint N. Suhks; advertising guy

Watch the 2 videos; pre and post crash...


83 posted on 06/21/2013 12:39:38 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: carriage_hill

I saw the one w/ car on fire...can’t seem to find a pre vid ?


84 posted on 06/21/2013 1:45:30 PM PDT by advertising guy (golf in june in Phoenix ? it's so dry, our gators use Gold Bond)
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To: advertising guy

Post #37; that’s him going thru the intersection:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3033987/posts?page=37#37


85 posted on 06/21/2013 2:34:51 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: carriage_hill

something ain’t right then...I count at least 2 turns the Benz had to make


86 posted on 06/21/2013 2:40:23 PM PDT by advertising guy (golf in june in Phoenix ? it's so dry, our gators use Gold Bond)
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Locked acceleration and detonation?


87 posted on 06/21/2013 2:41:50 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: advertising guy

I just realized that too, on my 3rd look at the film. If he’s doing 100mph+ and the car’s supposedly uncontrollable, no way in hell he’s going to negotiate those intersections’ turns. I’m hearing Black Helicopters outside, now...


88 posted on 06/21/2013 2:48:12 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: carriage_hill

I google earth’d it....there was some kinda outside control.....had to be


89 posted on 06/21/2013 2:51:20 PM PDT by advertising guy (golf in june in Phoenix ? it's so dry, our gators use Gold Bond)
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To: carriage_hill

something else.....he hit the fire hydrant first completely on the left said.....that car was outta control more than once


90 posted on 06/21/2013 2:52:36 PM PDT by advertising guy (golf in june in Phoenix ? it's so dry, our gators use Gold Bond)
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The mexican in this video seems to say the car was on fire before it hit the tree! have watched it twice but I’ll bet that is not what the cop interpreter gets!

http://youtu.be/-OtBnaQlcpo


91 posted on 06/21/2013 2:58:11 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: Conserev1

at 3.50 into this link .. the Mexican says the car went boom , then fire , then tree....................wow


92 posted on 06/21/2013 3:03:53 PM PDT by advertising guy (golf in june in Phoenix ? it's so dry, our gators use Gold Bond)
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To: BenLurkin

93 posted on 06/21/2013 3:08:42 PM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: x_plus_one

Here was another..only an agent went down...before the election..

... “one of BO’s top US Secret Service Agents, assigned to his protective detail, was “suicided” over fears he was about to release highly damaging information regarding the White Houses’ release of classified information.”

GRU analysts in this report state:

“The “most likely” cause of his having to be eliminated was a recent subpoena this highly ranked Secret Service agent received from US attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald Machen who is currently investigating leaks of national security information that critics have accused the White House of orchestrating to improve President Obama’s re-election chances.”

http://www.eutimes.net/2012/11/us-secret-service-agent-suicided-to-protect-obama-election


94 posted on 06/21/2013 3:22:13 PM PDT by caww
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To: carriage_hill

There were no turns, that’s a strait arrow BVD. All he had to do was keep it straight until he could shut her down. But I think he was either out of it or gone already one of the two!
If there was fire in the cock pit the materials burning would have asphyxiated him. Prob why the driver window was down.


95 posted on 06/21/2013 3:46:07 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: Conserev1

Didn’t the cop car make 2 turns to get to the accident?


96 posted on 06/21/2013 3:48:33 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: carriage_hill

cop made 3 turns ....driver made 2

google earth it


97 posted on 06/21/2013 3:49:44 PM PDT by advertising guy (golf in june in Phoenix ? it's so dry, our gators use Gold Bond)
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To: Conserev1

200 hp C250 lists top speed of 130 mph, probably electronically governed. Entry level, not a hot rod.


98 posted on 06/21/2013 3:54:51 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: advertising guy

I don’t want to download their spy-software; I’ve got enough Google junk/crap going on around me, as is.


99 posted on 06/21/2013 3:56:55 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: carriage_hill

That is not a cop car it is the news guy from Loudlabs thats a scanner you hear. That was my question if you see the vid where Hastings ran the red light, the news guy does not take that path. Why? I do not know, he went a block down and back and back around which is strange in it’s self because you would have seen footage down the street if he would have followed Hastings . What else is strange is we have 2 fire trucks on initial arrival but no Ambulance????


100 posted on 06/21/2013 3:57:10 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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