Disposable People
Jul 24th, 2008 at 7:03 pm by Susie
That’s why it’s perfectly okay to run off and leave them:
The pedestrian who was struck by syndicated political columnist and television pundit Robert D. Novak remained in the hospital today but was sitting up in bed and conversing with a relative and social workers.
After the traffic incident yesterday, police misspelled the pedestrian’s name and gave the wrong birth year for him. He is 86-year-old Don Clifford Liljenquist, who has no fixed address. Most recently he has been living at the Emery School Shelter on Lincoln Road NE. He declined through a family member to be interviewed.
Let me get this right. Novak runs down an old man in a crosswalk; the old man is splayed across Novak’s windshield before he falls to the street seriously injured; Novak flees the scene, only stopping when he is cornered by a witness who uses his bicycle to block the columnist’s Corvette — all that and he only gets a $50 ticket? I’ve been fined more at the library for overdue books! (Okay, there were lots of them and they were really, really late.) Let’s hope the DC police are reconsidering this slap-on-the-wrist.
At least Novak didn’t shoot him in the face and chest with birdshot.
I love this quote from the story in the Post.
Sweet chocolate Jesus.
If you run hit so much as a empty Coke can, let alone a human massing upwards of 40 kilos, with an automobile you’re driving, you’re going to notice it. Especially when the victim flips onto the hood, over the windshield, and rolls off onto the street.
Unless you’re so stoned that you shouldn’t be driving a tricycle.