Comments on The Cutter Files: holy fucking shit

No agenda, just want to make sure that the facts a...

2007-07-18T11:15:00.000-07:00

No agenda, just want to make sure that the facts are represented clearly. I don't mean to dismiss your account and its impact on you because I'm sure it was traumatizing to watch (as I know) but a car going 20 mph that blew a tire couldn't go over both the island and the curb and then hit the sidewalk with such force. In fact, those two barriers likely saved the waiter's life as well as the lives of the three diners by slowing the car down where they could survive being hit.

okay, you obviously have some sort of agenda that ...

2007-07-17T13:48:00.000-07:00

okay, you obviously have some sort of agenda that i'm not aware of, particularly because i don't know you from adam. i don't know where you get your facts from or even if they're correct.

maybe if you had corrected my account of the incident with a friendly, constructive attitude rather than a righteous and opinionated one, i'd take you more seriously.

but you didn't, so i don't.

So to summarize, you didn't see the car before it ...

2007-07-17T12:42:00.000-07:00

So to summarize, you didn't see the car before it hit the sidewalk and in less than one second estimated the car at 20 mph driving on the sidewalk. You didn't see the car strike the woman and two other diners along the side of the restaurant. And you encourage everyone to patronize the restaurant owned by a man who wouldn't come out to help his own employee after being struck by a car. No offense but your writing isn't crystal clear. Your original story made it sound as if the teenager were out for a Sunday drive going 20 mph and blew a tire (again at 20 mph) and then jumped a curb as opposed to blowing a tire after hitting the sidewalk traveling at an excessive speed.

dear anonymous,thanks for correcting my mistake ab...

2007-07-16T10:37:00.000-07:00

dear anonymous,

thanks for correcting my mistake about the vehicle make/model.

in my defense:

i heard the tire blow, but seeing as i wasn't paying attention to the chevy BEFORE it careened onto the sidewalk, i had no way of knowing the order of events that led to its losing control.

have you ever driven a car? they can weigh a ton. 2000lbs at 20mph is still pretty fast BTW, considering that a vehicle collision at 30mph can be fatal.

if you had read my post correctly, you would have noticed that i wrote that at the point the car jumped the curb, it was traveling about 20mph. again, i can't account for the driver's behavior before he lost control, but if the car was doing 50, it would have done a lot more damage than it did.

also, i DID mention the woman was bleeding from the head, but since i didn't see her hit, i didn't want to speculate her involvement. again, please read more carefully.

i'm not going to comment on the character of the owner, but it's good to know that his employee is okay. i hope the woman and the other victim are safe as well.

Your facts are completely wrong. The car was a Ch...

2007-07-16T06:34:00.000-07:00

Your facts are completely wrong. The car was a Chevy Celebrity. The driver was speeding and not going 20 mph. He only blew his tiore after losing control. Have you ever driven 20 mph? If you have, you would know that he was traveling more like 50-60 mph. There were three other people hit by the car including a woman who was hit from behind, picked up by the car and thrown 15 feet in the air (I believe you described her as hysterical but didn't mention the fact that she was hit by the car and bleeding from the head.) You can't do that driving 20 mph. Lastly, the owner of the restaurant watched from the 2nd floor and didn't come down the stairs to help his employee after he was hit so I'm pretty sure that antone who might be sympathetic to this restaurant should know that the owner couldn't care about his own employees.

ate there for lunch today. our waiter said that th...

2007-07-11T21:38:00.000-07:00

ate there for lunch today. our waiter said that the employee "has a cracked vertebrae but is not paralyzed, thank God. right now he is just thankful to be alive".