Women drivers, eh?

Bard

From: http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-129101620020307-070307.html


Man Lives 2 Days Stuck In Windshield

Hit-And-Run Victim Eventually Dies In Driver's Garage

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A man who was the victim of a hit-and-run lived at least two days trapped in the driver's broken windshield before dying in the driver's garage in Fort Worth, Texas, police said.

"I'm going to have to come up with a new word. Indifferent isn't enough. Cruel isn't enough to say. Heartless? Inhumane? Maybe we've just redefined inhumanity here," a prosecutor in Fort Worth told Fort Worth Star- Telegram about the October 2001 incident.

Police arrested a 25-year-old woman Wednesday -- a nurse's aide -- on murder charges in the man's hit- and-run death, according to the Telegram.

Police told the Telegram that Gregory Biggs spent at least two days trapped in the broken windshield of the car that hit him. They said the woman who was driving the car, Chante Mallard, drove it home and kept it in the garage -- and heard Biggs begging for help before he finally died of blood loss and shock.
According to a police statement, Mallard panicked, and with the man still lodged in the windshield, she drove a few miles to her home, parked in her garage, and ignored his pleas for help until he died. His body was later dumped in a park.

The mother of the homeless man, Meredith Biggs, said she wonders how the woman could have let him die the way he did.
Police said Mallard told them she had been drinking and was on drugs at the time she struck the man, and that she panicked.
But Meredith Biggs told the newspaper that she wants to know why the woman didn't call for help after the drugs wore off.
Mallard told police she occasionally went into the garage, apologizing to the victim. The impact had hurled him headfirst through the windshield, his broken legs sticking out onto the hood.

Mallard's attorney said police are overreaching in charging her with murder.

There's a survey running on the page- it asks if the murder charge was too harsh.

Out of over 6,000 respondents 98 PER CENT said NO.

Blitzkrieger

the mind boggles

mike65

Nothing about Texans suprises me....Yee-haw!

Mike.

Boston

im so so sorry for you, but ill be damned if i lift a finger to help

tipical americans, two faced

Bard

Originally posted by Boston

tipical americans, two faced

Bollocks.

Nothing typical about it. The story is very-much out of the ordinary.

Boston

you take things to literal

Bard

Originally posted by Boston
you take things to literal

no I dont

I'm saying it's not, as you said it is, "typical" for Americans to be two-faced in such situations, and it's a freak occurrance.

perhaps you take things too much to heart.

I dunno... don't care to be honest

seamus

Police said Mallard told them she had been drinking and was on drugs at the time she struck the man, and that she panicked.

Ah...she panicked. I *knew* it couldn't have been the alcohol and ecstasy(the drug she had taken) :rolleyes:

Also:

25-year-old woman Wednesday -- a nurse's aide --

Makes it even more boggling. As someone has said before, it's time for some more chlorine in the gene pool........