Yikes! Poor sj! If there's no siren, I don't think you can be ticketed in a case like this.
Ohio law might be different than Massachusetts law, but -- I was hit by an ambulance 15 years ago. The ambulance was going the wrong way (i.e., going east in the westbound lane), which ambulances are allowed to do. I made the mistake of turning in front of the ambulance and got T-boned.
I'm almost positive the sirens were off b/c the ambulance was almost at the accident site. I got a ticket b/c ambulances are allowed to be wherever they need to be in order to get where they need to go in as little time as possible, and other vehicles are required to stay out of their way.
Though it sounds like sj's situation (being sideswiped after being passed from behind) arose from the ambulance driver not allowing enough clearance once he was past her. If she got out of the way and he still sideswiped her, that seems like the ambulance driver's fault, not sj's.
{{{{{sj}}}}}} Oh noes! I hope you're okay, sweetie.
~~~ma for beth's DH.
Huzzah for Cash, who is always in style.
Yikes, sj! Glad you're all right! Good car~ma to you!
Happy anniversary to the Miracleborns!
Yay, Cash!
Good luck to beth's DH!
Extra ~ma and !!!!s for anyone who needed them.
In me news, I have lost a whole pound! Yay. Dieting is hard.
Oh, no, sj! Much ~ma.
Unspecified ~ma for beth's DH.
Crazy winds, connie! I hope that doesn't become standard.
I'm a little amazed I haven't seen that before, Calli. Good stuff.
Yeah, global warming and climate change is just a theory of the cult of environmentalism. Right.
Yeah. The guy whose wedding I was in was discoursing about how weird the weather's been in Europe the last few years, flooding and heat waves and deaths and such. I said (knowing his opinion), "Global warming," and he rolled his eyes and replied "Liberal orthodoxy."
Denial - easier than responsibility.
And to quote Zenkitty: ~ma and !!!!s for anyone who needs them
I happened to read a couple of different articles on the division of thought over global warming a few weeks ago which amused me greatly. One was in an English paper and spoke about how there's a division in the scientific world on how we should be dealing with climate change - by using more advanced technology or by harnessing more natural energy sources, and acting more in harmony with the environment. The other one was an American piece on that global warming movie (the name escapes me) which discussed the division over global warming as people who did or didn't believe in global warming. The very idea that soemone might not believe in global warming just strikes me as hilarious. It's like those crazy creationists not believeing in evolution. Crazy.
Crazy? Would crazy people have their own museum?
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Huh, apparently so.
I might have to make the Toxic teaset for my mom. She has Deadly Nightshade in her yard because the flowers are pretty, and we have discussed how much the very very poisonous seeds look like coffee grounds and under what circumstances that knowledge might be useful...
Would crazy people have their own museum?
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
