I looked up and the car was still moving forward- into the house. The back tires were still spinning, kicking up quite a cloud of dust. The car had gone right into the front door and was pushing the porch roof up and kinda over. Then the brake lights came on and the tires stopped spinning.
The car slowly backed out of the house, and I thought the porch roof was going to fall since it was lurching back and forth. A woman got out of the car and started yelling "Oh my god! Oh my god!" over and over. There was another car in front of the house and a couple of girls got out of it and kinda milled around.
"Dm" decided she needed to go over there and get into the middle of it. I stayed in the yard and looked through my spyglass. It seemed no one was injured, just upset.
I guess by the time she got there (just around the corner from us) the driver had sat down and wasn't talking anymore; just crying. She had run into her own house.
I think it was a case of putting the car into drive by accident, instead of reverse, then, when the car started forward, panicking and hitting the gas instead of the brakes. (One of my second wife's sisters did that and ran through the front of a convenience store.)
The cop and sheriff showed up almost immediately. The sheriff didn't stay too long. The cop talked to everyone there and put "caution" tape around the gaping hole where the front door and a window were kinda dangling in the rubble of what had been a wall. "Dm" said he told them they couldn't stay there until the house had been inspected to see if it was going to fall down. He tried to get "Dm" to say she thought drugs were involved, or that one of the woman's kids had been driving. Then he left.
No person was hurt, and the house is now under repair. What I couldn't help wondering is why the situation "needed" a cop, and who called them. The cop didn't actually help the situation in any way (do they ever?). At least he didn't arrest anyone.
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So your home owners/renters insurance has to pursue a claim against your auto insurance? Boy howdy what a mess this is going to be.
ReplyDeleteThe woman has had a crew of people working on her house every day since this happened. I suspect they are just friends and family, not "professionals", so she may get by fairly cheaply. Of course, I am not sure how her insurance will be involved, and I don't even know for certain whether she owns or rents.
ReplyDeleteYou looked....through your spyglass?!?
ReplyDeleteThank creates quite the mental image. :)
Thank goodness no one was hurt.
I agree, no need for the cop-though I suspect that if insurance was in fact involved, they would want a police report. One of the few instances when you really have to call the fuzz. Though, of course, one should get the situation in hand first.
How typical of the peace protector to troll for citations and present unauthorized orders(cops, so far as I know, are not generally permitted to condemn buildings on their own authority-for that to be official our masters at least require someone with some education...by the way, that violates the 5th Amd. in all cases, but no matter.)
Doesn't everyone carry a spyglass? Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet it was less than 5 minutes before the cops showed up- fastest response time I've ever seen. Which just goes to show, again, that if your life were in mortal danger and you called the cops to save you (LOL) you'd probably still be dead before they showed up.