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Well, I was trying to keep the story a little shorter by leaving out a few unnecessary details to keep it less boring. And because it was time to mow the lawn.

The driver of the blue pickup was a local gentleman. He was a White guy (as was almost everyone else there that day except for the one black guy who happened upon the crash and was there before any cops or first responders), I'd guess he was in his early to mid 40's. Somehow I gathered from the little bit of interaction that he had a son in high school.

When the cops arrived they knew this gentleman. Not because he was a local criminal or anything like that. I gathered that the cops and this guy knew each other because it was a fairly small community. (This happened heading south on highway 34B in Lansing, NY.) It seemed to me that they either went to church together, went to school together (possibly both) or something like that. Maybe they were neighbors.(?)

I also remember that this guy said he just finished his second last landscaping job of the day and he was headed to his last. (Obviously the grass didn't get mowed that day.) He was a bit tired, and not paying as much attention as he should have. Other local people at the scene agreed that this particular blind(ish) hill/curve was a crash site waiting to happen.

I took a trip on google maps last night heading down highway 34B looking for where this might have occurred. I did find some signs indicating a steep downhill grade and some spots that looked like possible places where the crash could have happened. But, this happened more than 25 years ago. (I know it happened at least a year or two before September 11, 2001 because I took a trip to the port in Newark on the 10th and Mike was at the port on the 11th.)

I'm sure things have changed a bit in 25 years (some parts of the road have been widened and there are a few places with turn lanes and larger intersections and such) and well, it's just not that fresh in my memory. I used to have a newspaper clipping from the local paper with a photo of the trailer upside down, blocking the road, but it has been lost to the sands of time.

I do remember that when I climbed out the driver's door and looked down there was a kid, probably about 19 or 20 years old, standing on the grass looking up at me. He was wearing only a bath towel. I was a little shocky and I asked him how I should get down. "Jump, I guess." he helpfully replied.

Apparently, he was taking a shower when suddenly he heard what he called "the loudest sound he ever heard" so he rinsed off and looked out the window only to find a tractor trailer laying on its side in his yard and the road in front of his house. Later that evening his younger sister, who was maybe 17 or so, took us to a hotel in Ithaca. I remember her name was Liv.

I also remember when the paramedics arrived. I think because of the wreckage they were expecting to find something pretty gruesome. When two of them approached me I was probably still a bit in shock. They asked me if I was alright. "I think so. Do I look alright?" I asked. They seemed to agree that I was fine. They asked me if I'd like to go to the hospital but I declined their offer. None of us went to the hospital or anything like that but the next day I was quite achy and my back hurt for sometime after that. (I would later cure my back pain with an inversion table.)

So yeah. That's the story. With a few more details. Well, except for the detail that I was a horrible passenger for a couple years after that. Jumpy, always hitting the imaginary brake pedal on the passenger side floor. For a while I much preferred to be behind the wheel than a passenger. After a couple years that wore off.

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PS: "Never buy condoms at a car wash or a convenience store." Thanks for the advice, SafeNow, haha.

M, Mark Steyn's website, when I used to look at it, is kind of disjointed and then the writing about show tunes or whatever it was didn't seem to fit in with the rest. He's been a good Conservative columnist though.

PS: "Apparently, license plates are for some other purpose than identifying cars that do hit and runs." How true. They are for keeping track of us for other reasons. Wasn't the original reason for taxation purposed? They may have been advertised as anti-theft, I suppose. You can take them off, but then what plate to you put on?

I agree that it'd have all be the same were this illegal alien licensed and insured, but it mainly shows one more way that they are a burden. I noticed that unlicensed, uninsured, and undocumented were put together as on the same level. No, this guy had no business BEING IN AMERICA. Had he not been allowed to break in, the girl would be alive.

Sure, plenty of Americans end up killing people this way too. Even if, which is hardly the case, there are a group of "newcomers" who are better in proportion, say regarding violent crimes committed, so what? The absolute number of violent crimes committed in the country of the original people will still be higher. However, the Hispanics especially have a penchant for driving not just officially intoxicated but drunk out of their skulls. They usually come out pretty good - they say being plastered makes the body more pliable in a wreck or something like that.

PS: I may have heard only bits and pieces of either of these 2 stories, Adam. That was lucky for you that the road didn't have a steep embankment, just the normal ditch. I guess everyone was pretty lucky. You didn't want to mention much, but I do wonder who that pick-up driver was.

So the insurance companies screwed the little guys, as usual. Their business model is to collect money and pay off as little as possible.

Pretty hairy story.

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I'm having difficulty finding specific articles with Steyn. Much of his stuff these days is audio or video, which is difficult to search.

Roxham Road, between New York and Quebec was infamous for years, as an estimated 90% of the illegals coming to Canada walked across the border there.

They've "closed" it now. I'm not sure what measures are in place to make it more difficult to cross.

I think Manitoba replaced it; though it's more dangerous. There was a story a few months back about people trying to cross the border there in winter at night, getting disoriented and freezing to death. Roxham Road also resulted in some similar deaths because it gets pretty cold, but it was a road through trees as opposed to more or less flat plains.

I suspect illegals may have started on the US side, e.g. Haitians, then crossed to Canada as they thought it would be easier to get asylum. Yeah it's colder here, but then they would be (more or less) legal.

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Regarding insurance, there is something called an “umbrella” insurance policy.
It catches two things. most important when there is the kind of loss that existing specific insurance policies do not cover… it slips through the cracks….The umbrella policy covers it. Second if the loss is so large that it is above the policy limits of the specific insurance, then the umbrella picks up the excess. I realize I am guilty of 2020 hindsight here.

Regarding the Soros DA, (OMG!) the non-hindsight SafeNow lesson is: Never buy condoms at a car wash or a convenience store.

PS: Good afternoon, y'all!

When these kinds of crashes happen the reporters all too often shriek OMG! No loicense! No insurance! OMG! As if that can be of any use in a situation like this.

(Story time.)

I may have told the following stories before, but I really don't think I have. (My apologies if I am repeating myself.)

As some of you (may or may not) know, I used to be a truck driver for awhile when I was younger. Flatbeds, reefers, boxes, bulkers, doubles. (I've never pulled triples.) I have about 400,000 crash free miles behind the wheel of a tractor trailer.

But just a couple months into my trucking experience I had the privilege of riding shotgun in a tractor trailer roll over.

The details don't matter that much but what happened is a guy in a blue pickup, with a trailer full of landscaping equipment, pulled out in front of my friend Mike, (owner operator who was driving) as we crested a blind(ish) hill and began heading down a fairly steep incline. As Mike slammed on the brakes this blue pickup proceeded to dawdle down the road (he was going about 15mph in a 45 or 50 zone while we were going full speed). Despite slamming on the brakes it was pretty obvious to us that we were going much faster than the blue pickup and we would not be able to stop.

Just then the guy in the blue pickup pulled all the way over onto the right hand shoulder and Mike assumed (incorrectly) that this man must have looked in his mirror and saw this tractor trailer barreling down on him so he pulled over on to the shoulder to get out of the way.

So mike moved left to pass this guy (remember, there was zero chance of stopping at this point so it was a pretty reasonable thing to do). Just as Mike moved left and let off the brakes the guy in the blue pickup decided to turn left (right in front of this runaway big rig). Apparently he was using the right hand shoulder to "swing it wide" because he was inexperienced with trailers or something.

So, as this guy turned right in front of us Mike turned it back to the right and we rode over the landscape trailer, thankfully missing the truck. (If this guy got t-boned he surely would have died. 75,000 lb trucks are unforgiving like that.) As we rode over the trailer the guy's toro riding mower got jammed in the passenger side wheel and the force of everything going on ripped the steering from Mike's hands as the steering was rendered useless. From there the tractor tipped over onto the passenger's side as we continued to skid down the fairly steep hill. We went off into the ditch on the left side of the road as the flatbed trailer with bags of quikrete finished turning all the way over. (Truck on passenger side trailer upside down.)

Fortunately, no one was hurt or injured. The toro lawnmower and everything else on the landscaping trailer was totaled as was the Volvo tractor and the 53 ft flatbed trailer. It took several large wreckers about 6 hours to get the truck on its wheels and hauled off. All the workers who came out to clear the road got free bags of quikrete that day.

Mike was given a ticket for failure to keep his lane (because the truck ended up on the other side of the road). When we went to court many months later the ticket was dismissed because the cop was a no show.

But here's the thing. Mike had full insurance coverage on the tractor that also provided coverage on any trailer he hooked to. Quikcrete had an insurance policy on the load. The trailer was a rental which has its own separate insurance policy. And the guy in the blue truck, who arguably caused the crash, also had insurance.

For years following this event Mike would receive calls asking for payment for the cleanup and for the wrecker services involved. (It was like $20,000 worth of clean up and such.) Despite having all these different insurance policies that should have covered the cost none of them ever payed. I don't think the wrecking companies ever got paid, other than some "free" bags of quikrete.

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So, once upon a time, when I was living here in Dahlonega, a different friend, also named Mike, had an old Dodge van for sale. And some guy from Ohio bought it. But the deal was that we were going to meet him at the Hartsfield airport.

For some reason, I rode with Mike as his girlfriend followed behind in their car so we could all return home after handing the van over to the new owner.

About halfway to the airport some guy came down an on ramp and sideswiped us on the passenger side. (It was some little grey Japanese car so it didn't do much damage to the 1982 Dodge van.) After hitting us the guy just took off into traffic. It was a hit and run. How exciting!

We kept on down the road and eventually caught up to him in Atlanta traffic. We wrote down the loicense plate number and called 911 to report the hit and run.

Well... The Atlanta cops had absolutely zero interest in this hit and run. They just didn't care. Told us that there was simply nothing that they could do about it because we had already left the scene of the "accident". (There is no such thing as a car accident. There are crashes and they are always caused by a few certain things.) Apparently, loicense plates are for some other purpose than identifying cars that do hit and runs.

I guess the point of these stories is that loicensing and insurance and even traffic cops can not prevent car crashes and even deaths. (That's not the purpose of car registration, loicensing and insurance.)

Loicensing is a delusion and a joke. Simply doesn't matter when you are involved in a crash. And insurance is a scam. (Insurance actually makes people more dangerous behind the wheel because of the moral hazard involved. But that's a different story for another time.)

Even if the kid who killed Kaitlyn Weaver was loicensed and fully insured the outcome would have been the same. She still would have died and the family would still have a million dollar medical bill. And this kid would still have been offered two years probation for killing a White girl.

I completely agree with The Alarmist. The problem is the system.

So Happy Saturday, Everyone!
I'm going to go mow the lawn.
Cheers! ☮️

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“I’m amazed that guy is still alive. What does that tell us?”

That there is a possible motivation that explains tens of thousands of children going missing over the years: Adrenochrome to keep lizard aliens like Soros alive as long as possible.

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PS: ooops, Denmark is in Bamberg County, SC. "What are all these black people doing in a place called Denmark?" Read that with a dot-Indian accent.

PS: M, BTW, it might seem contradictory to diss the Canucks for worrying about drunk drivers, when it's the Hispanic illegals here who are doing the most of it, killing people and whole families. (In fact, it doesn't say in this article, but who knows how much that 15 y/o had had to drink.)

However, by "drunk drivers", I mean the description of those having gotten DUIs, DWIs, whatever one's State calls it. Often it doesn't take much - 0.08% is not that much for some people, and especially when compared to some drunk Colombian who may be at 0.35%.

That did not address your comment, though. Yes, that's a factor in tourism and business entrants, mostly, I'd say. They aren't staying anyway. Do you have a link to any Mark Steyn articles about illegal crossings from the US to Canada, with numbers? I'd thought it was mostly the other way due to that Canada lets in something like a percentage of their population enter legally YEARLY. It's more. nuts up there, I'd say.

Some, such as with the Nikki Haley family and Kamelto Harris, etc, they get into Canada more easily (that was THEN ) and come down to the US legally later. As I've written, it had to be a shock to the system of Nikki Haley's Dad to come from White Vancouver down to Denmark (Orangeburg County), SC to teach at Voorhees "College"! Shocked, shocked, I tell you, to see people who cain't barely read "at college".

PS: The system is the problem, having both let in these people and not providing any justice that is a deterrent. Real justice circumvents the system, but what we have tried already is our own system, such as - nearly 20 years ago - the attempt by The Minutemen to help control the border. That didn't get very far.

I hate to bring it up, but exacting justice would involve something with this Soros-appointed D/A, and Soro himself. I"m amazed that guy is still alive. What does that tell us?

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"Canada won't even let in drunk drivers"

Of course this assumes that the would-be invader actually interacts with the official apparatus.

We get lots of illegals here too. It's kind of curious because we really only share land borders with one country. And water crossings from any other country tend to be rather hazardous due to the distance involved. Travel by air is somewhat more expensive and regulated as well.

The US makes a lot of noise about crossings from Canada, but I don't hear much about crossing the other way - except from Mark Steyn.

Perhaps we should think up some sort of way to coordinate on cutting down illegal crossing in both directions.

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In a rational world, the father would seek proper justice by any means, which is likely the way of the native culture of the yewt when the system fails them.

The illegals aren’t the real problem her, the problem is the system.

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