As of 6:00 PM Wednesday, this was the photograph I was going to post for my 35th Daily Diversion.
Yum! Tacos!
Last week, a friend opened an eclectic little taco shop in the neighborhood behind ours. We missed the official opening because we were out-of-state attending a family wedding/staring at the Toronto skyline. We’re hardcore devotees, though, so we made up for it by walking 3 miles round trip just to eat a few heaven-stuffed tortillas. Afterwards, when we rounded the side of our building, instead of seeing an empty street…we saw a police cruiser and a wrecker hoisting up a strange car. Then, this pitiful sight:
Innocent bystander
Our parked Durango was just collateral damage in the broad daylight shenanigans of a random heroin addict, who decided to shoot up whilst careening down the street in a too-fast car with her baby strapped in the back seat. RHA is in the county lock-up, the unharmed baby is with his/her Grandma and our (only) vehicle is likely headed to the great scrap pile in the sky. It was hit with enough force to move it 4 feet forward and 2 feet to the side from where my husband left it last night.
I haven’t trotted out Millais’ Ophelia for a while, but she is perfect for so many situations.
Until the insurance adjusters have come and gone-for good or ill-this is how you will find me.
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I feel your pain. This happened to me with a drunk college girl and a two-story parking deck. It looked like the car had fallen from the sky. Sorry 😦
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Yikes. That is horrible! At least we both walk away with interesting stories, right? That’s what I am telling myself, anyway.
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Oh noooooos! Hope the driver had insurance?! Glad the baby is okay, though, and no one else was hurt. What a mess.
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We don’t know if she has insurance or not. Once we get a copy of the police report for our insurance provider, they will track down that info. We do have uninsured driver coverage so it will be paid for one way or another. Of course, we would love for her to have insurance because that would be easiest for us. The odds of her having full insurance (or any at all) probably are not that great, going by the less than stellar decision-making skills she demonstrated by shooting up whilst operating a motor vehicle carrying her baby. We’ll see.
No one was injured, that’s the most important thing. Of course, it was weird to come home and find out what happened!
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Oh I bet it was weird! Yeah, I wouldn’t count on her having insurance. Can’t help but feel for that child. It’s a tough life when a parent is an addict.
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If RHA, as we call her, has ANY insurance we will be almost as shocked as we were by what happened yesterday. We really feel for the baby, who was picked up by his/her grandmother. We weren’t here for that (we were still walking home from dinner, blissfully ignorant) but our apartment manager/friend said that the grandma didn’t look appropriate, either. It’s so easy for addiction to spill over to several generations. I hope the kid is safe. The whole thing is just sad.
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Blech. Hate it when stuff like this happens. Sorry to hear about this freak accident.
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Thanks. I keep reminding myself that at least no one was hurt and that it makes a great story.
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