Current Events > So a kid nearly killed himself and someone else in front of my store tonight.

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Kid got high on LSD, decided to get behind the wheel of a car, got pulled over by the cops, and then tried to flee. He was going just over 120 mph, according to one of the officers. Ran a red light in front of my station and clipped a woman in the intersection. The woman's car spun a full 360 degrees, the front end was just gone, and the engine was literally sitting on the road like 5 feet away from her car. After the impact, the kid careened off to the side, jumped the curb, and slammed dead center into a tree in front of the bank across the street from us. 120 mph to dead stop in an instant.

Somehow, the lady wasn't hurt. Luckily he had hit the side of the front end of her car close to the headlights, and though she had been thrown for quite a ride she hadn't actually gotten hit by anything personally. Just some minor scrapes and bruises. She went to the hospital just as a precaution, but sounded like she was fine. Really shaken up, of course, but fine.

As for the kid, I still can't fathom how considering just how fast he was going and how squarely he'd hit the tree, but he was still conscious and responding when they were loading him into the ambulance. Cops said he's in critical condition, but I think that's mostly for fear of possible head injuries and the like rather than anything more obvious like broken bones or blood loss.

So yeah...I seem to be something of a magnet for drama lately. That's the third incident in the past ~6 months or so. First was the smash and grab, then somebody broke into the Dunkin' Donuts next door a few weeks ago, and now this. Night shift sure hasn't been as boring recently as it used to be. O_o

Our security cameras face the street, so it should have caught everything on camera. I'll see if I can get a copy of the video to share. I only caught it out of the corner of my eye. Just a blur flying down the street, followed by a loud CRASH and a THUD as he hit the car and tree, and then just an eerie silence. I was helping a customer at the time and we both just sorta looked at each other for a second like "did that really just happen?" Reached for my phone to call 911, but I saw a cop pulling up with his lights on before I even unlocked it. I figured at that point that they had been running from the cops, and the officer did confirm that to me a little later while they were taking care of the scene.

That shit was crazy.

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why didn't you record it for our entertainment bro

Reis posted...

why didn't you record it for our entertainment bro

I mean, I'm gonna try and get the video for your entertainment. Patience, bro.

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LSD really tends to alter ones physical reaction to things. For instance you can drink a bunch of alcohol without feeling drunk - of course physiologically your BAC still changes as normal but your perception is different. Ive never felt the urge or desire to get behind the wheel in a situation where I may or may not allegedly be under the influence of LSD. The whole point is to just sit back and enjoy it. Allegedly.

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FursonaNonGrata posted...

LSD really tends to alter ones physical reaction to things. For instance you can drink a bunch of alcohol without feeling drunk - of course physiologically your BAC still changes as normal but your perception is different. Ive never felt the urge or desire to get behind the wheel in a situation where I may or may not allegedly be under the influence of LSD. The whole point is to just sit back and enjoy it. Allegedly.

This kid had a bad trip, a bad LSD trip outside the home is pretty dangerous usually to the user but sometimes to others as well.
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Hop103 posted...

This kid had a bad trip, a bad LSD trip outside the home is pretty dangerous usually to the user but sometimes to others as well.

Absolutely. Dont know the dudes circumstances that brought him outside during a trip but I feel bad for him. I would allegedly not like being out in public on anything more than half a tab to be completely honest.

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Aristoph posted...

slammed dead

Yo

SerperiorThanU posted...

Saw blood and thought it was a dakero post at first >_>

Blood was everywhere.

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waiting for video

hope tc delivers

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Yazarogi posted...

Blood was everywhere.

classic D:

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That scumbag deserved worse than what he got. Hopefully he gets thrown behind bars for a long time.

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Minor update. I should see the manager tomorrow morning since she's working the morning shift and will be taking over as I'm getting off. I'll be able to ask her then about sending me the video. Our system is set up so you can literally just select the portion you want to save and send it via SMS attachment to your phone. Hopefully she's cool with sending it to me.

FursonaNonGrata posted...

Absolutely. Dont know the dudes circumstances that brought him outside during a trip but I feel bad for him. I would allegedly not like being out in public on anything more than half a tab to be completely honest.

It turns out he's friends with a small group of guys that are regulars in the station, and a couple of them came in last night. From what I gathered it was his first time trying LSD. They were all hanging out together earlier in the night, but only a couple of them were tripping. At some point they all decided to leave the house to get food and some more beer, but they ended up getting separated. That's when this kid got in his car, presumably with the plan of either getting food or going to try and find everyone again. Then the cop tried to pull him over and, well, you know the rest.

The one friend was really struggling with the whole situation. Apparently the two have known each other since they were literally 5 years old (early 20's now). I can't even imagine what it must be like to have what started as a fun night with good friends go so horribly wrong so quickly. :-/

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She said no. And wouldn't explain why. I have no idea what her issue is. :-|

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if he makes it out alive. hopefully this is the wake-up call.
that is if he gets out of any charges in the court of law.
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I feel bad for the kid. Shitty friends to just leave him tripping like that.

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malenz posted...

I feel bad for the kid. Shitty friends to just leave him tripping like that.

Well I don't think it was intentional. Probably like they had to take 2 cars, and each group thought he was in the other car when he had really just wandered off to look at something. As people tend to do when they're tripping.

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