This story has had such an impact on me, my heart feels flattened by the immense weight of what happened.

Drugs may have been involved

Good thing! I would hate to think of those poor kids being dragged like that while straight.

19 year old had a 3 year old kid ?
Why has this not got a Florida tag ?

Police in Oxnard say a tow truck driver has been arrested for hitting a mom and her two young children in a stroller as they crossed the street

Why was the mom in the stroller with the children?

So I take it there are no other areas in the country where 19 year old women have 3 year old children?

Slartibartfaster and Ponzholio

Can you find Oxnard, Florida for me? I've lived in Florida quite some time and can't seem to locate it. I can find Oxnard, California however.

Genju: I've lived in Florida quite some time

sorry to hear that

// will make jokes more obvious for you next time, I promise (type slower ?)

Tow truck driver takes kids for a ride. Beneath his truck, still in their stroller. Drugs may have been involved

Impossible, I keep hearing that drugs are a victimless crime.

While GISing for related pictures, I found this:

The only appropriate outcome here is to drag this shiathead under a towtruck for a quarter of a mile.

Slartibartfaster: Genju: I've lived in Florida quite some time

sorry to hear that

// will make jokes more obvious for you next time, I promise (type slower ?)

Coming from the person who thought this article was talking about Florida. Maybe next time you should start with actually telling one.

B-b-b-but drugs are ok. Nobody I know has wrecked a car while on drugs. They should be legalized. Alcohol does this not drugs. Damn cops interfering with my drugs while they should be chasing after real criminals.

/DNRTFA

Balchinian: Drugs may have been involved

Good thing! I would hate to think of those poor kids being dragged like that while straight.

so these were some gay kids? not like they would live long with the aids

Dixie_Wrecked: B-b-b-but drugs are ok. Nobody I know has wrecked a car while on drugs. They should be legalized. Alcohol does this not drugs. Damn cops interfering with my drugs while they should be chasing after real criminals.

When has anyone on Fark said that drugs (including pot) didn't impair anyone's judgment or reflexes?

Ponzholio: Genju: Slartibartfaster and Ponzholio

Can you find Oxnard, Florida for me? I've lived in Florida quite some time and can't seem to locate it. I can find Oxnard, California however.

Apologies to you and your wonderful state, it was California (however when an article lists a city but not state, it usually implies the city is in that state), but that was not the case. We were wrong. Towtimes.com (who knew there is an online magazine dedicated for tow truck drivers?) clarified it.

It's cool. The article linked seems to have that problem quite a bit. I saw a story from Long Beach in there as well. Believe it or not, there is a Long Beach in Mississippi.

/doubt it was referring to Long Beach, MS
//happily accepts the retardation that comes with the state
///just remember how much of this state is from New England though

Tow truck driver takes kids for a ride. Beneath his truck, still in their stroller. Drugs may have been involved, and, of course, the squirrels.

"Oh golly, I shore dun it now!"

Triaxis: Tow truck driver takes kids for a ride. Beneath his truck, still in their stroller. Drugs may have been involved

Impossible, I keep hearing that drugs are a victimless crime.

They are. Now doing drugs and driving, not so much. It's kind of like how shooting a gun is harmless, and shooting a gun into a crowd isn't. Someone should have explained this kind of thing to you a long time ago.

Interesting. The article is blocked by the Barracuda web filter at work and flagged as porn.

What the hell were those kids doing under that tow truck, exactly?

Triaxis: Tow truck driver takes kids for a ride. Beneath his truck, still in their stroller. Drugs may have been involved

Impossible, I keep hearing that drugs are a victimless crime.

Drugs are a victimless crime. Driving while on drugs not so much.

Mudflap: Interesting. The article is blocked by the Barracuda web filter at work and flagged as porn.

What the hell were those kids doing under that tow truck, exactly?

Probably because it's a radio station or something.

Police in Oxnard say a tow truck driver has been arrested for hitting a mom and her two young children in a stroller as they crossed the street, and then dragging the kids under the truck for about a quarter of a mile.

Oxnard Police Sgt. Randy Latimer says the truck struck 19-year-old Alma Lopez Tuesday morning in a crosswalk, knocking her to the ground.

The truck continued on, dragging the 3-year-old girl and 1-year-old boy and the stroller until witnesses chased and flagged down the driver.

Latimer says the driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs.

The children are hospitalized in critical condition. Their mother's injuries were described as moderate.

Mudflap: Interesting. The article is blocked by the Barracuda web filter at work and flagged as porn.

That's because tow truck drivers are a bunch of dicks.

Dixie_Wrecked: B-b-b-but drugs are ok. Nobody I know has wrecked a car while on drugs. They should be legalized. Alcohol does this not drugs. Damn cops interfering with my drugs while they should be chasing after real criminals.

/DNRTFA

You get high on your own farts, don't you?

This guy is a real winner. Also, illegal alien.

The tow truck driver facing felony charges of driving under the influence when he ran down a mother and her two small children in an Oxnard crosswalk Tuesday was on parole for making terrorist threats. The prosecutor who handled that case says the terrorist threats had to do with a shoplifting incident at a Von's in Oxnard in 2008. Deputy DA Erin Meister tells KVTA News that 45-year-old Mehran Khamseh of Santa Barbara was convicted by a jury of the felony charge of making terrorist threats against a store employee who had followed Khamseh out of the store after seeing him shoplift some merchandise. Khamseh turned on the employee, claimed he had a gun, and then threatened the employee. The employee immediately tackled Khamseh and held him for police. No gun was found. The term terrorist threat has since been changed to criminal threat. The incident, plus a prior conviction of petty theft, was enough to get Khamseh a 2 year state prison sentence, although he served less than that because of time already spent in jail and good time-work time credits both locally and in state prison. Khamseh was on parole for that incident when he ran down the mother and children in that crosswalk Tuesday. Oxnard Police say he was also under the influence of drugs. He remains in jail on no bail because of the parole hold and because he is considered an illegal immigrant. He will be in court Thursday afternoon to be arraigned in connection with Tuesday's incident. Meanwhile the two children, a 1-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl were transferred to Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles in critical condition after being dragged under Khamseh's tow truck for a quarter mile. Their mother, 19-year-old Alma Lopez of Oxnard, was recovering at VCMC from moderate injuries.

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Ant: Triaxis: Tow truck driver takes kids for a ride. Beneath his truck, still in their stroller. Drugs may have been involved

Impossible, I keep hearing that drugs are a victimless crime.

Drugs are a victimless crime. Driving while on drugs not so much.

At least we agree that they're a crime.

FWIW, I think they should be legalized, let all those who want heroin have as much as they want and kill off a large chunk of societies burden.

sandi_fish: 45-year-old Mehran Khamseh


"Always! Always those strollers are getting in the way of my truck!"

Same thing happeened in Ohio yesterday too. Well, a driver hit a woman pushing a stroller. They say the driver was answering his cell phone

KatjaMouse: Dixie_Wrecked: B-b-b-but drugs are ok. Nobody I know has wrecked a car while on drugs. They should be legalized. Alcohol does this not drugs. Damn cops interfering with my drugs while they should be chasing after real criminals.

When has anyone on Fark said that drugs (including pot) didn't impair anyone's judgment or reflexes?

In every single pot thread in the history of fark.

Tow truck driver needs to be skinned alive and thrown into a pool of alcohol then rolled in salt.

Thisbymaster: KatjaMouse: Dixie_Wrecked: B-b-b-but drugs are ok. Nobody I know has wrecked a car while on drugs. They should be legalized. Alcohol does this not drugs. Damn cops interfering with my drugs while they should be chasing after real criminals.

When has anyone on Fark said that drugs (including pot) didn't impair anyone's judgment or reflexes?

In every single pot thread in the history of fark.

I think not. There might be one or two people on here that think they can drive better stoned, but most recognize that drugged driving is every bit as dangerous as drunk driving.

/not a drug user.
//except caffine
///and alcohol

Genju: Slartibartfaster: Genju: I've lived in Florida quite some time

sorry to hear that

// will make jokes more obvious for you next time, I promise (type slower ?)

Coming from the person who thought this article was talking about Florida. Maybe next time you should start with actually telling one.

I do not live in America
The article is from a Florodian website
No indication of another state......

Pardon me if I assumed

// Its because I really dont give a fark
/ Yer all yanks to me

Prank Call of Cthulhu: sandi_fish: 45-year-old Mehran Khamseh


"Always! Always those strollers are getting in the way of my truck!"

I lawlz

Qwigs: Genju: Slartibartfaster and Ponzholio

Can you find Oxnard, Florida for me? I've lived in Florida quite some time and can't seem to locate it. I can find Oxnard, California however.

I live in Ventura which is the neighbor town to Oxnard and I can confirm this happened in Oxnard, California. I have no idea why a south Florida website is running the story and not even mentioning that it happened in California.

They probably have an affiliate over there that they take news from. Well in radio it usually all comes back to 2-3 sources anyway.

Slartibartfaster:
Pardon me if I assumed

No problem.

KatjaMouse: So I take it there are no other areas in the country where 19 year old women have 3 year old children?

New Mexico.
To say hispanic girls lead the pack on having several children at a young age would be stereotyping and possibly racist, so I won't.
One of my neighbors has 2 kids at 18, another has 4 at 22.

simpsonfan: Too bad someone didn't have a rope, they could have lynched the scumbag on the spot.

He was black?

In case anyone is wondering, here is a wall of teen pregnancy demographics:

Link (new window). Note total population of the state is not taken into account. It is total people per state vs. population of the entire country. Saying that California (33k girls from age 15-17) has more than Florida (14.5k from age 15-17) does not take into account state population differences.

State population of age demographic here (new window)

California shows 800k teens age 15-17, Florida shows 350k. So just some rounded math ~4.1% of Californian girls age 15-17 are/have had pregnancy. Believe it or not, Florida has nearly the same percentage.

/even Texas has a lower per capita

Lampmonster: Triaxis: Tow truck driver takes kids for a ride. Beneath his truck, still in their stroller. Drugs may have been involved

Impossible, I keep hearing that drugs are a victimless crime.

They are. Now doing drugs and driving, not so much. It's kind of like how shooting a gun is harmless, and shooting a gun into a crowd isn't. Someone should have explained this kind of thing to you a long time ago.

Logic is hard!

You know, driving while blindfolded is also highly dangerous. Clearly, according to people like Triaxis, we must outlaw blindfolds!

How about swinging a baseball bat? If I do that out of a car's window I might hurt someone severely. Therefore, since that action, in concert with driving, can be harmful, it must be made illegal.

Right? I mean people like Triaxis and Dixie_Wrecked must think that's a logical idea, otherwise that would not only make them stupid, but stupid and internally inconsistent.

AbiNormal: Tow truck driver needs to be skinned alive and thrown into a pool of alcohol then rolled in salt.


The woman needs to learn to look both ways before crossing the street.

Lampmonster: Triaxis: Tow truck driver takes kids for a ride. Beneath his truck, still in their stroller. Drugs may have been involved

Impossible, I keep hearing that drugs are a victimless crime.

They are. Now doing drugs and driving, not so much. It's kind of like how shooting a gun is harmless, and shooting a gun into a crowd isn't. Someone should have explained this kind of thing to you a long time ago.

I don't thinks he's up that advanced of a level of logic yet. Give him a few more decades to develop this ability.

Ball of Confusion: AbiNormal: Tow truck driver needs to be skinned alive and thrown into a pool of alcohol then rolled in salt.


The woman needs to learn to look both ways before crossing the street.

Or the driver needs to learn how to not do drugs and drive, so that he is better able to see people in a crosswalk when he is turning left.

From a different article with more info:

"Khamseh was making a left turn from westbound Simon Way to southbound Vineyard Avenue on a green light when he struck Lopez, who was pushing her children in a stroller, according to Oxnard police."

Better yet, he needs to be deported.

Qwigs: Genju: Slartibartfaster and Ponzholio

Can you find Oxnard, Florida for me? I've lived in Florida quite some time and can't seem to locate it. I can find Oxnard, California however.

I live in Ventura which is the neighbor town to Oxnard and I can confirm this happened in Oxnard, California. I have no idea why a south Florida website is running the story and not even mentioning that it happened in California.

That makes 3 Ventura Farkers in all! Me, you and Badafuco.