Heh, heh, heh...
Posted on 07/22/2013 11:40:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ever wonder whether reality is an illusion and we’re actually living inside a simulation run by an omnipotent being? Well, here’s the proof that it’s true. And that the omnipotent being is Tom Wolfe.
Alternate headline: “George Zimmerman hasn’t moved out of Florida yet?”
George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue someone who was trapped in an overturned truck, police said today.
Sanford Police Department Capt. Jim McAuliffe told ABC News that Zimmerman “pulled an individual from a truck that had rolled over” at the intersection of a Florida highway last week. Florida Highway Patrol is now handling the case, McAuliffe said.
The crash occurred at the intersection of I-4 and route 417, police said. The crash site is less than a mile from where he shot Martin.
Actually, if this were a Tom Wolfe novel, the guy Zimmerman pulled from the truck would be a reporter who’d been especially loathsome in demagoging the trial’s racial angle. And then, once news of the accident and rescue broke, Zimmerman-hating nuts would descend on the site to protest, claiming that it was all a stunt arranged to rehabilitate his image. (Which, in fact, is already happening in the comments to the ABC story linked up top.) Then the reporter would face a crisis of conscience: Tell the truth about how the whole thing is legit and risk antagonism from his colleagues in the media, or keep quiet to protect his leftist cred and let Zimmerman go on languishing in hiding? If you’ve ever read a Wolfe novel, you know how that story ends. Write it, Tom.
Now we wait to find out what the race of the rescued man was and whether any narratives will need to be “adjusted” in the wake of it. (Here’s one adjustment to expect.) I also want to know if Zimmerman was part of a group working at the scene to free the trapped driver or whether it was basically a solo act. The only way this story could get any more surreal is if there was a crowd there and he was recognized. The ABC story does say that he “helped” rescue someone, not that he did it all by himself.
Exit quotation: “When will he learn to stay in his car?”
Update: Kerry Picket of Breitbart has more details. It was a family of four trapped in an SUV, and Zimmerman was indeed recognized at the scene:
The deputy reported, when he arrived on the scene that one of the two men there was George Zimmerman. According to Sanford Police Zimmerman had a fire extinguisher and helped assist the family to get them out of the vehicle.
“Zimmerman was not a witness to the crash, which was why he was not referenced in the police report,” a Sanford Police spokeswoman told Breitbart News. “He left after making contact with the deputy. There were no reports of injuries of any of the vehicle’s occupants,” she said.
Note to self. Put fire extinguisher in car.
I don’t know why I never thought of that before! I already have a cache of other emergency equipment.
He isn’t banned. His home page is a screen capture of a banned account.
Really?
Poll to freep
http://www.tmz.com/2013/07/22/george-zimmerman-rescues-family-after-car-crash-cops-say/
He passed away a year or so ago What they did do him was just so sick yet i miss the good old days of Clinton regime
The real question is "was it registered?" and "was he licensed to carry it?"
Did it have the proper amount of propellant so as to put out the fire without being a hazard to bystanders?
It's possible that the DOJ may seek the records of this incident and add this to their federal case against Zimmerman.
Meanwhile the DOT in conjunction with the NAACP is advising drivers to slow down in the area of Sanford so as to prevent incidents like this.
Oh geez. Got me. BAD al baby, BAD!
Sort of a Richard Jewell / Bernard Goetz hybrid.
(now, where did I put that charcoal starter fluid?)
I was thinking about how angry the Lord was with all the “rabble rousers” in the book of Exodus. You have to wonder if he feels the same about the race baiters today.
I’m thinking this was a God thing. And God’s going to be glorified.
Thanks reminds me of the beamens gum line in the Movie the Right Stuff
Heh, heh, heh...
Sarcasm may die out. Sarcasm is an insane exaggeration of normal leftist drivel, but leftist posts tend to be just as over the top these days.
:)
look again.
that’s als homepage.
In my mind, it is current news, and definitely Florida News
A number of stories are breaking on this, and it appears that Hot Air was one of the first stories...
aw, they stuned his beeber?
Sorry al in post #57 I meant to reference post #52, not #2.
Another fine example of why the humor should be left to you!
the thing is, that is exactly what soem on the left are claiming.
It’s one of DU and Media Matters Talking Point o’ the day
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