Posted on 01/04/2025 8:46:24 PM PST by grundle
A night of revelry was coming to a close for Alexis Scott-Windham and her friends in the early hours of New Year's Day after they came from Mobile, Alabama, to ring in the new year on Bourbon Street.
The group had reached their final stop of the evening, a pizza restaurant, to quickly use the restroom after finding out the restaurant was done selling food for the night.
Then, standing outside the pizza parlor on the sidewalk, Scott-Windham heard the whizzing sound of a speeding car and several loud booms. She looked to her left and saw the white pickup truck barreling toward her with its headlights turned off, already running other people over.
She began to step away but didn't have enough time to escape — the truck ran over the back of her right foot, and she fell to the ground. Gunshots began to ring out, and she tried to get up to run away.
Once she stood, she saw the blood leaking from her injured foot. She had also been shot.
She'll need to return to an orthopedist in two weeks to check on her foot. The Amazon warehouse where she works originally denied her request for a leave of absence, but the company said in a statement Friday that they've since spoken with her and given her time off with pay.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
“I’ve been run over and shot”
“Can you still make it to work?”
Who shot her?
The only reason they changed their mind is because it was getting media attention.
FTTW
FOSTROT UNIFORM
Reading the headline I assumed she died after getting hit by the truck and then also shot, and after that Amazon denied her leave of absence (death).
Her foot was shot or her foot was run over?
And if the foot was run over and she was shot elsewhere on her person, why is she not getting treated for that?
You forgot the rest:
“but the company said in a statement Friday that they’ve since spoken with her and given her time off with pay.”
Perhaps someone dropped the ball originally. Probably more to the story which we’ll likely never hear.
Glad she survived and should recover in short order. A very close thing for her. Others were not so fortunate.
His response was, "But she is still coming in right?"
No, Phil. I don't think she is.
Sadly, this.
[His response was, “But she is still coming in right?”]
Oh fer sure.
Car’s totaled but she’s riding the deer.
No, it goes like this; “So, when will you be in to work today?”. Not kidding, happened to me when I had a 500# piece of shelving fall on me and smash my finger.
It may make Amazon look bad, but it’s typical that you just can’t arbitrarily want time off without a doctor’s note. I’m glad it was publicized, because that helped protect her.
Yeah, I had my finger almost cut off, lacerated to the bone, so they wrapped it in tape and asked me if I could still work the rest of the day. But I had to go to the hospital and get stitches instead.
Exactly.
When I was a new hire, I recall them calling a meeting with all of us on the base and asking, “Why are all the new hires quitting after just a month on the job?” Newsflash: because of s**t like that.
People are incredible - I look at them - wonder how they could possibly say what they just said (sometimes)
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