Real life Final Destination?! Wow. Prayers for their families.
What the heck were they smoking?
Just me but I don’t see humor in this story.
I would be a million dollars that both were Obama voters. Had to be.
A rich and mighty Persian once walked in his garden with one of his servants. The servant cried that he had just encountered Death, who had threatened him. He begged his master to give him his fastest horse so that he could make haste and flee to Teheran, which he could reach that same evening. The master consented and the servant galloped off on the horse. On returning to his house the master himself met Death, and questioned him, “Why did you terrify and threaten my servant?” “I did not threaten him; I only showed surprise in still finding him here when I planned to meet him tonight in Teheran,” said Death.
From Frankel’ s Man’s Search for Meaning
What a strange story. Does make you wonder about life and death and good and evil.
On the evening of November 7, 2005, Dr. Zehra Attari became disoriented on her way to a conference in Alameda and drove her car into the estuary. It took authorities nearly seven weeks to find her body. Her family was horrified to learn that the street she was driving on that dark and rainy night went straight into the water, with almost no warning. ... Attari was driving on Grand Street when she died, and at the time, it clearly was a dangerous road. In fact, almost exactly three years before Attari died, two men drowned after their car plunged into the estuary in the very same spot. But city officials ignored the obvious safety hazard at the time because police had blamed the earlier accident on drunken driving after they found alcohol bottles in the backseat of the two men's car. There was never any such evidence found in Attari's car. She was a respected doctor who lived in San Jose and ran a practice that treated low-income children in Oakland's Fruitvale District. The night she died, she left her International Boulevard office on her way to a conference on Alameda's Bay Farm Island. Her family later said she had a poor sense of direction and an Alameda resident subsequently told police that she thought she saw Attari just before her death in a Trader Joe's parking lot in the western end of the city. The resident reportedly said that Attari looked lost and distraught.Attari likely made several wrong turns and ended up on Grand Street heading back toward Oakland. In the rain and darkness, she likely didn't see the lone yellow sign on her left that read "End," or the single flashing red overhead light a few dozen yards before the water. At the time, those were the only warnings that the road was about to turn seamlessly into a boat ramp that plunges straight into the murky water.
After Attari's death, city officials repeatedly denied anything was wrong with Grand Street. But then a short time later, city officials made a telling admission of guilt. They installed temporary barricades to stop motorists from meeting the same fate as Attari. Grand Street suddenly started to resemble other boat ramps in the city and elsewhere in which motorists have to make a sharp turn off a regular street or go through a gate before they arrive at the water's edge. The barricades remain to this day.
i dunno but boy scout training gave me a respect for nature and natures God. girls scouts does the same thing i hope. College degree might not.
Darwin Award nominees?
The FoxNews article states that they called 9-11 while IN the vehicle AS it was filling with water.
Call me crazy, but if I were in a similar situation, my first response would be to GET OUT OF THE SINKING VAN first, THEN call 9-11 afterwards. Yeesh.
Did these women not have the slightest bit of survival instinct? Nope...no effort to save your own skin - call 9-11 instead and wait for them to rescue you. Flat out stupid.
just learned about this. I spent wed night in Bangor,90 mi from Roque Bluffs. BUT I live in RB and the site of the turnarounddontdrown point is where I walk and bike to 3 mi from home. I left town early wed not knowing what had happened the night before. It is sad and I am sad to say I hope my town of 200 plus home owners is not sued.