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Subject: [Leica] Greetings
From: bjq1 at mac.com (Bernard Quinn)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 06:57:10 -0500
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Thank God you were not hurt, and thank God that there are still kind and 
decent people in this world.

Barney 

Barney Quinn, WK3Z
C: (301) 775-1386
H: (301) 654-0938

> On Dec 23, 2015, at 1:38 AM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> Happy holidays everyone.  
> 
> I?ve been pretty disorganized all week and not thinking about photography. 
> My car was totaled last Friday evening by what must have been a drunk 
> driving without headlights. My car was hit from the right at about a 
> forty-five degree angle as I was making a left turn. Street showed no 
> headlights as far as I could see in either direction and there was no 
> flash of light at my car interior as I was hit. The car spun around, 
> crossed the street in the process and ended up in the grass in a park, 
> facing the street I had been on. I wasn?t even bruised. Airbags did not 
> deploy. I never got any details about the other driver other than that he 
> was taken to the hospital, claiming pain. Street so wide that I couldn?t 
> even distinguish between cop cars, and the one that hit me. Cops didn?t 
> cross the street; the cop with me knew nothing about what was known on the 
> other side of the street. He just got my story. All I could do re 
> reporting the incident to my insurance company was to tell them to get the 
> police report.
> 
> An amazing thing did happen. The young cop on my side was chatting me up. 
> Possibly to see if I was campus mantis and sober. The conversation got 
> into where I was heading, a specific restaurant that I named, and what I 
> was planning to eat: a steak, rare.
> 
> After the two truck took both cars away, the cop gave me a lift home in 
> the back of the squad car. About fifteen minutes later, the doorbell rang. 
> It was the cop, holding a plastic sack. He went to that restaurant and 
> bought me dinner; refused compensation. I got to tell his sergeant about 
> it over the phone, and was told the cop would get a commendation.
> 
> Because I?m 93, I can?t tell how many driving years are left in me, and I 
> decided not to go through the hassle of buying a car but just use Uber and 
> Lyft services.
> 
> Herb
> 
> 
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 
> Question Authority and the authorities will question you.
> 
> 
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