Wednesday, November 26, 2008

I watched a man kill himself today.

My mother and I went on a search for the Honeybaked Ham store about 3 hours ago. Google Maps gave us these weird directions to an address that doesn't exist. So we went and got some lunch and got new directions. At about 1:30 ish we head out to go to the actual address of a place that does exist.

We are on the highway, not a major freeway. Just a state highway, we are talking and listening to Brand New.

I was looking down at the directions and my mom swerves really hard to the right. I look up to see what the hell she was doing. And there is a large Ford cargo van that is going around 80 MPH swerving between cars and nearly clipping every single car on the road. He then pulls a hard left and goes into the median, he rolls the van into oncoming traffic, hitting a few cars and flipping another.

This happened literally 100 feet in front of our car. He nearly rear ended us, and because of a very literal divine miracle my mom decided to look into her rear view mirror. We stop the car, so does everyone else. My mom pulls out her phone and through her tears tells a 911 operator what happened. We drive past the wreck, and there is a flipped over Subaru. Completely on it's back, with everything smashed and somebody stuck inside. A little further the van is on it's side smashed to bits. The man that was driving the van had been flung from his vehicle and was laying on his stomach, not moving, covered in blood. He was obviously dead, nobody could have survived that.

This man was trying to kill himself. He succeeded, along with possibly killing at least 1 other person.

I watched a man kill himself and somebody else today. I don't feel well. I am not going to feel well for a while.

***UPDATE***I just watched the news. The man who was driving the van is alive along with everyone he hit. He was rushed to Swedish Medical Center, which is literally 100 feet walk from my house. If I knew his name, I would tell them I am his cousin and walk into his room and spit in his face. If he was trying to kill himself, he did it in the most selfish way possible. I still don't feel well, but I am now also angry. HE LITERALLY WAS INCHES FROM HITTING OUR CAR AND ABOUT 10 OTHERS. He was selfish, if you want to kill yourself do it in your home, shoot yourself, drink bleach, i don't care. But don't risk other peoples lives because you are too pathetic to live yours.