Joe,
I am so angry right now I could punch someone. I work just north of Georgetown and live in Salisbury. When they had the funeral procession for Chad Spicer Rt. 113 was backed up in front of the Walmart in Georgetown, I don't remember what exactly was making it backed up but both lanes were open and moving really slow.
Well, impatient people started driving down the shoulder of the road to get up to the right hand turn into Walmart. While I was stopped a car came racing down the shoulder and t-boned a guy on a bicycle that had crossed the stopped highway traffic and entered the shoulder. It was the most horrific thing I have ever seen. For anyone that does not know going south there is the median (grass), the left hand lane, the right hand lane, shoulder, and then a grassy area not big enough for a vehicle.
So today I'm driving home and before the Walmart the traffic was stopped and as I began slowing up I looked in my rear view mirror and saw emergency vehicles coming up. I was in the right hand lane and came to a premature stop while the emergency vehicles passed, in the shoulder, me and other vehicles. I thought I could see more emergency vehicles further up on the shoulder so I moved over to the left hand lane when I could.
While waiting the traffic continued to back up and again impatient people started driving down the shoulder trying to get around the backed up traffic, which was not moving at all. Well, these morons in the shoulder managed to get themselves backed up, essentially creating a 3-lane highway backed up. Well here come more emergency vehicles coming down the shoulder that could not make it to the accident because of these idiots. One of the emergency vehicles was a fire truck, when I got up to the accident I only saw one fire truck. Now these emergency vehicles have to get from the shoulder and across two lanes of stopped, back to back vehicles to get to the median to be able to get to the accident.
The accident was an overturned vehicle and the firefighters were trying to free a person(s). So the firetruck I saw getting blocked by the impatient jerks in the shoulder was the only one there to cut out an injured possibly dying person(s) from the vehicle. So I hope they feel really good about themselves for delaying this person(s) help and possibly killing them for making them wait and god forbid that ever happen to them or someone they love. Shame on you!
Now once the emergency personnel had everything under control they directed us to the shoulder but that was 20 minutes later.
Thanks,
Lindsey
11 comments:
We have become a ME,ME,ME society
with very little or no regard for others.
I son't mean to surprise you, Lindsey, but people are morons.
It's all about ME always. Typical Walmart customers.
Give 'em all tickets!
People don't care about others anymore. I'm totally not surprised by this, at all. Society as a whole is self-absorbed, stressed out, and unable to think about others.
I daresay that people in Salisbury aren't upset that a young man was murdered- I reckon most people are upset/worried at the possibility that something could happen in their neighborhoods or to them in public... But then, I'm a bit of a cynic these days. But should we have faith in humankind?? I'm not so sure that we should...
People p*ss me off when they will not yield to emergency vehicles.If that was their mother or father or kid in the back of the ambulance being rushed to the hospital they would want them there as fast as possible.Cops need to lay off the stupid seatbelt tickets and start ticketing these morons who dont know what "yield" means.
I feel the same way, IDIOTS! My kids are young and I have already started to teach them road manners. You don't block intersections especially the one on main st. and riverside dr. Where all the ambulances use to get to the hospital. That 3-5 seconds of no hospital emergency care can be the difference between life and death. I asked them if they could live with themselves because they were in a hurry to go no where in traffic and blocked the road. I also taught them that if there is an emergency vehicle behind them at a red light and they can't go around you , you carefully run the light or move out of the way. God please give me the strength to teach my kids the old way so they grow up to be decent humans. I have also taught them when you do something for others you do it out of the kindness of your heart expecting nothing but the warm fuzzy feeling inside. You help friends, neighbors and strangers it is christianly and the right thing to do. You are right I wonder if those idiots can live with themselves if that person dies. Because in my opinion the persons blood is on their hands.
I came here from Ohio and I'm still mystified about the lack of concern drivers (I use that term loosely) give emergency vehicles right of way. I was just back in Ohio for a funeral and they still pull to the side of the road and stop for a funeral procession. Most people around here will turn their lights on and bust their way into the procession just to run the red lights and get somewhere fast. You just about need a police escort at the front and back of a procession to prevent that. What chowderheads.
you're right. someone did die.
9:21 PM
Someone from ohio has the nerve to talk about bad drivers?! lol
Please go back and stay there. They miss you.
yes , what idiots , the ones in the travel lanes who will not move . The first thing people do when they get on the road is stop.
Keep moving in the main lanes and you wont have people on the shoulder, yes the ones who have the right idea , you know we are going somewhere, so get your slow ass out of the left lane and let people go.
Oh and stop the damn rubber necking at accidents , it is not none of your business, what are you blood thursty.
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