Posted on 07/06/2017 7:41:50 PM PDT by null and void
Are we up to the challenge?
Do any of us know the driver angel?
I see collisions before they ever occur, most of the time it does no good because these incidents occur in a blink of an eye. But twice it did help people from being injured/killed. One time, all I had to do was quickly stand on my horn to to get attention of those in pending danger.
Btw, great story. This kind of thing happens more than most folks realize.
I have zero patients for people speeding through residential streets. And on the 4th and other holidays, the drunks and assorted AH's are out in force. Ya gotta be careful out there.
Thank goodness everyone was ok.
It's almost beyond the capability of normal humans...
Someone needs to teach little Molly to look both ways AND PAY ATTENTION before crossing the street.
My coworker was pretty rattled...
They have, but in the heat of the moment even the best of us can occasionally fail.
They had a guardian angel that night.
Also - leashes for children are a thing for just this reason. They should be used more often. Especially with little Molly, who just proved that she didn’t understand or couldn’t be trusted not to do something this dumb.
Split second...yep. Some folks on the roads are high skill drivers with inordinately fast reactions. Unfortunately most are not. In fact, from my perspective, the U.S. does a terrible job of training young drivers to drive. And the statistics repeatedly prove this out.
Speaking as someone who’s been in a similar situation - chances are the truck was just loud and wasn’t actually going that fast - because a large truck doing 50mph doesn’t stop quickly at all. The incident as recounted does not really make sense.
I was riding a motorcycle through a residential area on a street posted for 35mph. A child ran out in front of me; since I had seen the family well in advance I was actually doing 20mph and was easily able to stop in time. I was then beset by the family and neighbors who were all screeching about how I was going “twice the limit” and “SPEEDING SPEEDING SPEEDING” and should be ashamed of myself. I hadn’t been speeding, they simply had judged my speed by the noise my motorcycle was making (which is how most people ‘estimate’ a vehicle’s speed). My pleas fell on deaf ears, the police showed up and it kept getting worse and worse.
Unfortunately for the idiots in the lynch mob, I had a helmet camera. Even more unfortunately, I had captured the entire thing including a view of my speedometer which clearly indicated my reduced speed. I showed it to the cops and they eventually let me go.
I later found out that the police often disregard citizen estimates of speed due to just how bad people are at estimating speed.
There’s a school zone here that some old biddies sit around in lawn chairs and shout at people that go through ‘too fast.’ The zone is posted for 20mph. I roll through in first at 10-15mph. They routinely shout at me for ‘going too fast’ even though the cops have shown them with radar that I’m simply not speeding.
They should have had a kid leash.
God can dox a lot better than we can. Heavenly books.
If the fellow realizes that a tragedy was headed off and turns around, all the well. The angel protected him too.
But if he keeps on recklessly, well, proverbial karma awaits. To go arm in arm with the devil means eventually being brought to his home when he returns there.
How about let’s just pray.
I will pass that on.
Agreed, but as an agnostic I’d prefer the certainty of the good driver getting Christmas photos of Tammy, Molly and her dad and sister, in addition to any possible Heavenly reward.
Maybe the bad driver as well?
God is actually far more certain than an arrangement of man, which might be entered into today and profusely apologized for tomorrow.
And if you hang unto bitterness for a tragedy which was averted, the bitterness will own you and an agnostic will find that a hell exists.
They aren’t agnostics.
Nor does he seem bitter, but grateful, humbled and appreciative.
Haven’t seen are talked to the wimmin...
Basically: it’s better to thank the Lord than it is to curse the Devil. Especially when the Lord delivered you from the Devil.
An agnostic might look into the virtues of believing. It would save you being hag-ridden for revenge.
So then why affect any contrary attitude?
Yes, I was sloppy about the details (I had the impression it happened to you, the way you were reacting to it). So sorry about that.
Still. This is the kind of thing that the bible and Christians call a “WITNESS.”
It can be accepted. Or it can be refused. And the consequences of doing that taken either way. Don’t swallow poison in hopes that the other person might die. Maybe that speeder actually was literally from hell, in which case you’d never ever catch him and you’d be as frustrated as Inspector Javert in Les Miserables. Only God would, at the judgment day.
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