Posted on 10/24/2015 2:54:40 PM PDT by kjam22
The father of the 25-year-old Stillwater woman accused of plowing her car into a homecoming parade crowd Saturday morning in Stillwater told The Oklahoman by telephone that he first found out about the accident through social media.
“Everyone across the country is talking about it,” said an emotional Floyd Chambers, 47, of Oologah, who said he couldn’t believe that his daughter could have done something like this.
“I can’t figure this out. This is not the person that’s my daughter ... I can’t imagine alcohol being involved. She is not an alcoholic that I’m aware of,” he said.
“This is just not who she is. They’re going to paint her into a horrible person but this is not (her).”
He described his daughter as “timid.” He said she was at Oklahoma State University homecoming festivities the night before with family, but was told by his daughter’s boyfriend that she was home by 10 p.m.
He confirmed that his daughter lives in Stillwater with her boyfriend.
The father became emotional when speaking about the victims.
“We’re going to pray for those who have lost loved ones,” the father said as he began to cry.
“And my heart goes out to those people and all of them who are injured. It’s just a bad thing. I know this isn’t something that she would have done deliberately I know that she’s not that person.”
Thank you too!
20 years from now, they’ll probably be able to do knee replacement at the corner clinic, just take a number.
According to Google maps, the Red Lobster is in the northeast corner of the intersection where the incident occurred. If she was in the parking lot, she had to know the parade was going down the street next to the restaurant.
Looking a little bit more, it appears that the parade came from the south and ended at that intersection. So it didn’t pass by the restaurant after all.
What a cruel, unthinking and stupid thing to say.
Oklahoma’s News9.com has video of incident by viewer.
Thank you.
It is amazing what they can do now. Who knows?
That would make more sense. We keep hearing about how there’s so many women sympathetic to the cause. Might have needed to tie one one to get her nerve up.
No one home there.
Thanks.
Good for you!
Good parents do their best to prepare whatever creatures they've brought into the world and hope for the best.
Even if parents have done their best, the rest is pretty random.
I take pride in knowing that I did my best to prepare them.
I don’t think the clinics will be free from that sort of thing, but I understand your concern.
I have no problem with things taking place in clinics, but if complications arise, it would still be better to be in a full scale medical center.
I’m not trying to give you grief. That’s just a concern that I have.
Yes, you want somewhere to go if something goes seriously wrong, but not being an inpatient keeps you away from some of the superbugs.
Oh, well, I hadn’t considered what time she was leaving Red Lobster. Yes, I had assumed she had eaten there and left afterward.
You are thinking she was seen driving out of the Lobster’s parking lot, but not necessarily because she was eating at Red Lobster. Right?
“The man needs to come to accept that he raised a murderer.”
“What a cruel, unthinking and stupid thing to say.”
The only thing cruel was that his daughter got into a car and killed three people.
>> your life is ruined forever.
She might find redemption while in prison.
It can. People also come to the hospital with super-bugs so it isn’t all hospital based.
I recognize some risk there. I’ve been hospitalized for a week to ten days a couple of times, and I wouldn’t be writing to you if I hadn’t.
There’s a definite trade-off.
As Thomas Sowell says, all of life is constraints and tradeoffs. To the extent that you accurately evaluate the factors, you optimize your life success. (Econ-blather!)
I agree. I do think it’s a good thing to express the dynamic you did. I don’t want folks to dismiss hospitals in most instances, because there will be times when that can harm you.
If it’s for something relatively minor, by all means go to the urgent care center (or whatever they call the local outpatient facility.)
I do not know how you evaluate capabilities of personnel one to the other either.
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