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Woman, 83, dies after being struck by skateboarder
An 83-year-old Northern California woman has died after being hit by a skateboarder moving at 15 to 20 miles an hour, police said.
Maryann Slettehaugh was crossing a street in Capitola, California, Tuesday afternoon when she was struck by a 17-year-old boy, Capitola police Sgt. Andrew Dally told CNN affiliate KSBW-TV.
…for both of them. What was worse, bless her heart, her husband said she’d been hit by a skateboard 15 years before.
“She was leery of them and tried to avoid them,” George Slettehaugh said in an interview. “[She] kept watching for them all the time.”
Fricking little knucklehead ~ in a ‘skateboard-free’ zone, no less. To his credit, the skateboarder stayed with her the entire time. It’s going to be one hell of a lifetime burden to bear for that couple minutes of zipping around. How horrible.
But you know what really burned my ass?
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Laura Bush
Laura Bush killled a man in an act of negligence.
July 8, 2011 at 7:55 am
Unhinged.
BDS is alive and well.
Isn’t though? How sick is that?
They can’t let it go, not even for an instant… not even to see what’s happening in front of them, not to comfort anyone suffering a real tragedy, not for their own damned sake, if nothing else.
It was an accident, it could happen to anyone, and I’d rather be killed instantly that way than drool away my life in a nursing home.
Naturally, the young man is upset.