Nearly killed
I have complained before, I suppose, about the Massachusetts police...that they are lazy and without a sense of duty or honor, but I don't think I had a story that adequately demonstrated my point, until now.
BSUWG--this is not fiction.
Yesterday I went to get my battery changed, and as I was turning left into Midas on Kingstreet, from the far left turn lane, I noticed someone to my left. I slammed on my brakes and then realized that I was halfway in the intersection and oncoming traffic was coming at me so I speeded it into the Midas parking lot and proceeded to ask the woman behind the wheel of her dark grey Ford Focus what the fuck she was doing. She reacted with righteous indignation and went into the store, where I was going also.
Our altercation continued inside the store as I did two things. First, I wrote down her license plate number. Second, I noticed she was drunk. Finally, she left.
I called the cops.
Now, I don't want the implications of this to slip out of grasp. As far as I'm concerned, this woman tried to kill me. No shit. If I hadn't been fast on my feet I would have been hit head on by cars turning the corner not expecting to see some guy in the middle of the road. I was trying to slip through a window of traffic, she closed that window just as I was trying to pass through.
The police, who were down the street in the same direction she was headed, took down the information. Her license plate number all that. They seemed very concerned, and that's the last I heard about it.
I called today. They were unable to find the woman. I asked the man if the license plate number didn't make that a bit easier. He said that they would need to establish proof (that she tried to kill me). I evidently, as a total stranger who had never set eyes on the woman until she tried to kill me, was not a credible witness to my own attempted murder. I asked if they had talked to the guy who worked at Midas...dead silence. I asked how they planned on giving her a breathalyzer twenty four hours after the fact....
They have done, and will do, nothing. If they don't respond to attempted vehicular manslaughter preformed by a drunk driver, what the fuck do they respond to? The police department in Northampton is cosmetic.
BSUWG--this is not fiction.
Yesterday I went to get my battery changed, and as I was turning left into Midas on Kingstreet, from the far left turn lane, I noticed someone to my left. I slammed on my brakes and then realized that I was halfway in the intersection and oncoming traffic was coming at me so I speeded it into the Midas parking lot and proceeded to ask the woman behind the wheel of her dark grey Ford Focus what the fuck she was doing. She reacted with righteous indignation and went into the store, where I was going also.
Our altercation continued inside the store as I did two things. First, I wrote down her license plate number. Second, I noticed she was drunk. Finally, she left.
I called the cops.
Now, I don't want the implications of this to slip out of grasp. As far as I'm concerned, this woman tried to kill me. No shit. If I hadn't been fast on my feet I would have been hit head on by cars turning the corner not expecting to see some guy in the middle of the road. I was trying to slip through a window of traffic, she closed that window just as I was trying to pass through.
The police, who were down the street in the same direction she was headed, took down the information. Her license plate number all that. They seemed very concerned, and that's the last I heard about it.
I called today. They were unable to find the woman. I asked the man if the license plate number didn't make that a bit easier. He said that they would need to establish proof (that she tried to kill me). I evidently, as a total stranger who had never set eyes on the woman until she tried to kill me, was not a credible witness to my own attempted murder. I asked if they had talked to the guy who worked at Midas...dead silence. I asked how they planned on giving her a breathalyzer twenty four hours after the fact....
They have done, and will do, nothing. If they don't respond to attempted vehicular manslaughter preformed by a drunk driver, what the fuck do they respond to? The police department in Northampton is cosmetic.
posted by Monstro D. Whale at
8:47 AM
1 Comments:
"Unable to find her"? What was she, Osama bin Laden? It's a sad state...
Then again, I'm certain that IS fiction, Mr. Monstro... because something that insane could never occur in a land governed by 2008 presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney.
(Kidding, of course. The man's such an asshole, even *I* -- a resident of Pennsylvania -- have blogged about him before.)
Now that you have a new lease on life, though, it's fiction writing time. I've fallen behind; it's gonna be a tough month.
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