Vroom! Look-out! Bozo!
1:15 p.m., Sunday-afternoon, bright & sunny, 60's! What-a-day!
We're going to Rural King for spray paint; I ran out referbushing
the picnic-table; a pretty-simple trek!? Well! Maybe! Hmm!?
We are southbound on Route 3 at the Waterloo, Illinois intersection
with North Market St. (old Rt. 3 before the by-pass) stopped at a
red-light in the left-turn lane waiting our-turn for a green-light.
Traffic is heavy and brisk at the popular Wal-mart intersection.
We are stopped; the cross-traffic light turns green for vehices
headed west. Candy yells, "Oh! My-god!" As a green pick-up
headed west entered the north-bound lanes of Rt. 3, a black
pick-up headed northbound at about 75 mph blew through its
red-light. The green truck driver seemed oblivious to the happening
as he simply continued on through the intersection; the black truck
screamed past his front-end, missing it by inches. The green truck
went on through toward Wal-Mart in a leisurely-fashion; an-SUV
Monroe County Sheriff Deputy vehicle, in hot pursuit of the black
truck, flew through the intersection. The deputy swerved slightly
to fly-by the green truck, missing it by inches. The black truck and
the police car continued northbound not slowing. Where we were,
if the black truck had hit the green pick-up, it seemed obvious that the
black truck fleeing the police persuit would have careened directly into
our stopped vehicle. We were approzimately 16' from the black truck.
Luckily, neither the "criminal"-idiot nor the deputy hit the green-truck!
Wow! At 70 mph a vehicle covers 90 ft./secong! No-way they miss-us!
We were within 1/4-second of cruel-death! Thank-God for miracles!
I understand an-"accident"---but...purposed idiot-conduct!? NO!
I often remark, "It just wasn't his (her) time!" When one lucks-out! Wow!
Glad to still be-here! Counting our-blessings! Over & over! Amen!
Today!---Just wasn't our-turn!...Time! is fleeting! Enjoy! Life! & Love!
News-flash! Car-thief arrested in Columbia Sunday-afternoon! Justice!?
Amen!
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