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EDIT: Nevermind, it's in the Off-Subject now.

Okay, so when I was taking a few pictures of my Nintendo games, I hear a bunch of ambulences and police cars going down the road. The usual, right? Not exactly. The sirens didn't stop, my brother checked in our front door and saw an ambulence and about 3 police cars lined up down our road.

So, upon opening the door, someone is lying on the ground in a ragdoll position, completely limp, right at the end of our driveway.

So, my parents go outside, followed by my brother and I. I decide to tell a few people on AIM and bring my camera outside. I was thinking, 'I might as well take a few pictures and videos so I always remember this moment.'

So, I did take a few images, and thankfully the body was already placed inside the ambulence (I have no clue if the person was dead or alive; he/she was on the ground for about 15 minutes being examined by paramedics.). It was pretty creepy, actually, because you don't expect someone to be hit right next to the crosswalk at the end of your driveway; even if it is a busy road.

Also, it was said to be a hit and run, of course. That's also kind of hard to imagine right next to your house. But, if you really want to see them, here's the stuff I took outside:

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Yes, I did hide the flash on my camera for the sake of not being as noticed. Here are the clips I shot, as well:

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Think what you want, I just shot all of that for the sake of remembering it.

Apparently, the police found skid marks across the sidewalk, as well, so that makes me think a little differently when walking to the bus stop. But, oh well, for that. I just hope the poor person isn't dead.

EDIT: I think in one of the videos you can see something on the ground in the road. I thought it was another person, as well, but it's just a jacket. I don't want to freak anyone out over that, if any.

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No, please, I don't want to look at a dead persons body. I find that wrong, and kind of gross.

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You can't really see anything in the pictures, if you're mildly curious but don't want to view someone who may or may not be dead.

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[Something cool might go here...?]

Nah, there's nothing dead viewable on anything I took. If there was, I wouldn't of posted it, anyway. It's just scenes of the firetrucks and ambulences down my road.

EDIT: Simulposted by Senor.

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There are no bodies in the pictures, it is just a busy scene.

Seriously, though, that's creepy. The closest thing to that here was a fire two blocks away. That's not very interesting. I hope that person lives, though.

Edit: Trimupost?

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Not there, and not sure if he was dead.

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Ooh! There was a "fire" nextdoor. The lady didn't "know where she lived" so she called South Carolina's fire department AND North Carolina's.

The streets looked really cool with all the lights.

But it wasn't even a real fire....

Man, that's pretty scarry. Nothing like that's ever happened where we live.

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The worst thing that happened in my neighborhood was Mr. Crenshaw lighting some firecrackers and them landing in the neighbor's yard.*

*Sorry guys. That was yet another sorry redneck joke. There were no Mr. Crenshaw or firecrackers to speak of.

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There were murders in the street next to mine... But first it was a fire. They found out it was murder later.

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Ive got an old folks home on my street so they need ambulances more often than most streets.

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We were on the bus to school one day and we went past a car that had crashed into a telephone pole, and there was a body lying on the road. A few people on the bus screamed.

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Guten tag, Johann, du riechst ganz richtig. Danke schon, Heidi. Und du auch. - A Bit of Fry and Laurie

No hit-and-runs or anything of the sort, but we do live just down the street from a halfway home. For what? No clue. But we do know that our neighbors aren't all there. They're not supposed to be out at night, but once or twice, they escape, and roam up and down the street knocking on people's doors, and then mumbling and saying weird, Senor Cardgage-ish things until they either wander off or somebody calls the police. O.o

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You look like you need a hug.
*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

Once on vacation in Michigan my mom, cousin, and I came across a hit-and-run victim. It was kind of out in the sticks, but it happened in front of a house, and when we got there they had already called 911. She was still alive, breathing rapidly but unconscious, but it was probably the most terrible thing I've ever witnessed, and the images are burned permanently into my mind.

I never found out what happened to her, but since she was still breathing when they put her in the ambulance, I find it helpful to assume she lived.

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I've had my share of crazy crap here at my apartment...
Last fall, I walked into my living room to find someone standing there...

A month or two ago, I watched (and filmed) a dude beating the crap out of a car in the parking lot. The car's owner got the tape. The car beating guy got arrested.

About 2 weeks ago, I watched a guy get arrested on my patio. He was running from the cops and decided to hide behind the wall/fence on the edge of my patio. It didn't help him. I'm just glad he didn't try coming through the (open) door into my living room. It still freaked me out. Yes, apparently, I live in the hood.

Why do I leave my patio door open? Because it's better for ventilation than my bedroom window.

Hit and runs suck. I mean, it really bothers me that some people are so low that they can't even stop to check on someone they hit. 10:1 the driver was drunk. There's no excuse for drunk drivers to waste oxygen.

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

Nothing has really happened in my neighborhood, it's a pretty good town, actually. Although that one guy's garage caught fire about a year ago, but that's about it.

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I remember one time when we went to the train station, the police had AK-47s and Uuzies. I thought, what in the heck do they need those things for?!

(I live in a smalllllllll town. Like, who is going to terrorize a train that no one has heard of in a town no one has heard of?)

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Really mediocre terrorists.

When my dad was driving me to school just a couple of days ago, we saw someone lying on the street (or maybe the sidewalk, it was hard to see) with a lot of paramedics around him. Hopefully he wasn't hurt too bad.

Hmm, nothing really interesting either except stolen cars being set on fire on the fields and a man who had a heart attack and died, only to be discovered by a 10 year old friend.

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No plus no equals no. All no's lead to no, no, NO!

Once, there was a drunk guy in his mid twenties standing outside of my Grandma's house. He kept on asking her to let him in. My grandma grabbed her gun, which was a very powerful one at that. SHe was saying "No." to all his calls. She finally said, "i've got a gun!'.

The man walked away after swearing at her.

That would be arson.

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Or terrorists that really want to terrorize most of America. (I remember on 9/11, I was thinking "I'm ok, I'm in a city of only 50,000 people. Terrorists wouldn't ever strike a small town".)

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If you can't fix it with a hammer, you have an electrical problem.

My town has a lower population. It's more like a village XD

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Wow...hit and run...scary stuff, I hope the person lived.

We had a hit-and-run recently at my university, but the circumstances were weird. One of our foreign exchange students was walking through the parking lot and a car hit her not only once, but TWICE. (Yes, I'm serious.) Then the driver rolled down the window, laughed and said "Oh, I'm sorry" and then drove off. The girl wasn't hurt too badly, but they're still looking for the guy that hit her.

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No gun, but I've got something almost as deterring--a compound bow. There's something a lot more viscerally terrifying about staring down a carbon shaft tipped with an extremely shiny, pointy arrowhead at draw, point-blank range. Heaven forbid I ever have to use it for anything but target shooting!

I mean, other than the one neighboors, I live in a prooty quiet place.

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You look like you need a hug.
*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

Augh, I have a normal hunting bow, not compound, and that one will still do you some damage

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I'm jealous of you people. I probably shouldn't be, because such horrible accidents are No Laughing Matter™, but nothing happens, nor will anything happen, in my neighborhood. Mostly because there are at least six police officers living in said neighborhood. There are only two mildly interesting things I can think of in my subdivision here.
1. Way back about four years ago, when the neighborhood was still in its infancy (here in Florida, residential subdivisions are first marked off and then houses are built when people buy the lots), there was a guy towing some sod in his pickup. A couple of police officers stopped and questioned him. Who would steal sod? I think having your lawn repo'd only happens in movies like Fun with Dick and Jane.
2. Up until some weeks ago there was apparently a registered child molester living somewhere in my neighborhood. Scary, but he's been relocated now.

But outside of my neighborhood...
My mom likes the Antiques Roadshow. So naturally, when she found out that they were coming to Tampa (despite the fact that we live all the way across the state), she ordered tickets almost immediately. And it really wasn't that bad - I like the show too, kinda, and it was pretty interesting to find out that all of our stuff totalled maybe $1000. Half of that was made up solely of my deceased great-aunt's jewelry. We had some other stuff, like a Hummel figurine, a Rookwood pottery piece (not worth millions - it was mass-produced) and a "Chinese" vase with "MADE IN JAPAN" clearly printed on the bottom. It's interesting to note that some anime convention or another was going on at the same convention hall, so you've got adults towing old-looking pieces of furniture on one side of the building and teenagers dressed like pirates and ninjas on the other. ANYWAY. Timewarp to after the show, on the way home. All four of us (mom, dad, sis, self) are tired and disappointed and we wanna go home. We're in my mom's old van, the AC of which is pathetic. So imagine our joy when we're stopped for a good three hours on I-4 on the way home. We were stopped, absolutely halted, long enough to merit shutting off the car and walking around on the interstate. It was perfectly safe - nobody could move anywhere. When people tried to go up and find out why we were stopped, they were sent back. Apparently an SUV crashed. After about two hours my mom, the good Catholic that she is, finally broke down and said "There sure as hell better be a body up there." My mom doesn't wish such things very often but when you're tired and disappointed and stuck on an interstate on a hot day with a pathetic air conditioner in your car and two kids with short attention spans, you'll snap eventually. I think there was a body up there but by the time traffic started moving again (finally), everything but the SUV itself had been removed from the scene and taken to a hospital. Maybe for treatment, maybe for interment in the morgue. We'll never know.

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Off-toastpaint: That reminds me of somethin'. My little sister is in a dance troupe, and once she was doing a performance to the Beetlejuice theme. For the act, they had costumes and make-up that--well, looked like Beetlejuice! Now, at the convention center where the dance competition was being held, there was also a wedding going on, and they had to cut through the back of the party. So in this fancy, lacy wedding, in the back, here came this little line of Beeltejuices all of a sudden...

You may return to your regularly scheduled topic now.

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You look like you need a hug.
*hug*
There, now don't you feel better?

Hey, some people dress as alchemists, dog demons, and pacifists that are plants and blow up cities by accident without any casualties

And it's more like ninjas, a couple of Luffys, and then maybe some other piratey cosplayers.

Sorry, toastpaint.

The closest thing to something disastrous happening in my household was the big picture window that almost fell off. Yeah, it sounds like it was unecessary for my mom to call 911, but that thing could fell and killed someone...

And there was also some time last year when the apartment was semi-flooded because this pipe broke....the apartments below were affected much greater though, because of their ceilings caving in. And my room was unaffected. Bwahaha.

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