Insignificance
This will be a rant. I didn't know whether to post my words here or in "around the campfire". We had a neighborhood kitty known as Vivian around here for about 4 years. 2 months ago she suddenl...
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I too have killed animals behind the wheel.
Accident or not I never want to ever have this happen.
I ran over a skunk in the rain on the way to work a few years ago and couldn't concentrate the whole day.
Ok, I was afraid the focus would head toward the driver of the vehicle.
The people in this household have been repeat speeders on this street.
The residential speed limit is 25 mph hour.
This street has generous width which seems to give the impression a higher speed is not a problem.
The Boston that was hit bolted out the front door when he was hit by the driver.
There were 3 people out on the street calling out "dog on the loose" trying to make an effort to recover the dog.
This person was doing around 40 mph as usual.
The dog was knocked to the side as the speeding vehicle made a slight adjustment to avoid.
Then drove to his home and entered the house.
I've seen this person drive by our home numerous times on the phone (just this morning as it happens)
This person hit Vivian at night and kept going.
He was spotted by his next door neighbor who recovered the body and knocked on his door to point out that he just killed the cat.
This neighbor spoke with him and his wife about slowing down, if not for the animals then do it for the people with kids that share the street.
He said he would, yet still drives consistently 10 over.
Recently his wife approached our section of the street cellphone to her ear heading for another cat crossing the street.
I called out and pointed to the cat, she slowed and waved then continued on still on the cell phone.
A few of the residents along here requested a speed reminder sign be placed on the street recently.
That did help with the people that care, there are two mavericks who still seem to resist however.
My apologies to everyone.
I do understand that this is most times unavoidable.
Accident or not I never want to ever have this happen.
I ran over a skunk in the rain on the way to work a few years ago and couldn't concentrate the whole day.
Ok, I was afraid the focus would head toward the driver of the vehicle.
The people in this household have been repeat speeders on this street.
The residential speed limit is 25 mph hour.
This street has generous width which seems to give the impression a higher speed is not a problem.
The Boston that was hit bolted out the front door when he was hit by the driver.
There were 3 people out on the street calling out "dog on the loose" trying to make an effort to recover the dog.
This person was doing around 40 mph as usual.
The dog was knocked to the side as the speeding vehicle made a slight adjustment to avoid.
Then drove to his home and entered the house.
I've seen this person drive by our home numerous times on the phone (just this morning as it happens)
This person hit Vivian at night and kept going.
He was spotted by his next door neighbor who recovered the body and knocked on his door to point out that he just killed the cat.
This neighbor spoke with him and his wife about slowing down, if not for the animals then do it for the people with kids that share the street.
He said he would, yet still drives consistently 10 over.
Recently his wife approached our section of the street cellphone to her ear heading for another cat crossing the street.
I called out and pointed to the cat, she slowed and waved then continued on still on the cell phone.
A few of the residents along here requested a speed reminder sign be placed on the street recently.
That did help with the people that care, there are two mavericks who still seem to resist however.
My apologies to everyone.
I do understand that this is most times unavoidable.
