When driving on the freeway with clothing on the roof of your car, don't be surprised...
*puts on sunglasses*
When the shirt hits the van

Well, that old dude was definitely speeding, but at least it wasn't in a farmers market.

/window seat

Feel more sorry for the guy who hit her..man..he will have to live with that the rest of his life.

was she driving, because the driver that sent her for the clothes should have a real talking to behind bars.

Bit'O'Gristle: Feel more sorry for the guy who hit her..man..he will have to live with that the rest of his life.

He's 70, it's not like he's going to be dragging that baggage around much longer.

Dude, he's 74

I remember an incident with some drug-addled Vietnamese kid who tried to jump from the car he was riding in into a friend's car on the Garden Grove freeway. He missed, of course. It wasn't pretty. They let us through the one open lane car by car, and I remember seeing a bloody shoe in the middle of the road, and numerous yellow tarps spread over the bits and pieces of the guy that they had not collected yet. Awful.

What kind of adult lets a child run out into a busy freeway...for ANY reason? It's hard to imagine the driver who hit her ever getting over that. What a horrible feeling it must of been, knowing there was no way to stop.

Trance750: Meatzilla: [i157.photobucket.com image 524x700]

Ok, that's wrong. Even by Fark standards.

Fark has standards? When did this happen?

in group therapy was a lady who was directly behind a NYC yellow cab w/ passenger hi as a kite. guy in cab just got up and out like they were at a red light but they were doing 70.
the lady was freaked from seeing the guy bounce off her car. he was dead in seconds, run over by several cars before anyone had a clue.

/no happy people in group therapy

Regarding letting a child run onto the freeway, it is possible the adult(s) who were in the car had gotten out to retrieve the clothing and told the kid(s) to stay in the car. Kid decided she wanted to help and jumped out.

Article is light on details, and I honestly like it that way...

wow... the stories the Fark idiots greenlight for amusement.

/cue the welcome to Fark pic

John Sullivan was driving about 70 mph when he saw the girl, but it was too late to avoid the collision. The 74-year-old wasn't injured or arrested.

Yeah, the fact that he's 74 and has the reflexes of a grapefruit has no bearing on this. None.

CSB: My father-in-law is 78, and still drives. The man's an absolute menace on the road, blind in one eye, and is averaging 2 minor accidents a year. His last two were backing into other vehicles parked in his driveway. He gets in his truck and backs up without looking behind him. It's f*cking insane, and his family refuses to acknowledge that there's a problem. It's only a matter of time before someone dies at his hands.

spaz_attack: Trance750: Meatzilla: [i157.photobucket.com image 524x700]

Ok, that's wrong. Even by Fark standards.

Fark has standards? When did this happen?

As long as you don't 'shoop in a sign that says "Free Cat" or in this case "Free Sponge" it won't get deleted by the Mods. Because free stuff is like, y' know, socialism or something.

/Obligatory

Trance750: DarwiOdrade: Sad, but stupid. How could the person driving the car that girls was in let a 12 year old run out onto the freeway? If it was her parent or guardian, that person should be in jail.

I can just see this

Mom: We just lost our clothes, Snowflake run outside real fast and pick them up

Actually, closer to this: "Acabamos de perder la ropa, mi bebé! Ejecutar fuera muy rápido y recogerlos!"

/I can't stop laughing! Oh it hurts.

Darwin.

Molavian: Yeah, the fact that he's 74 and has the reflexes of a grapefruit has no bearing on this. None.

Nope, it doesn't. I'm as critical of elderly drivers as they come, but in this situation, I don't think it matters who the driver was. That girl was not coming out of this alive. I truly feel sorry for the poor old guy. Whatever time he has left, he's going to be thinking that he killed a little girl.

Invisible Pedestrian: Regarding letting a child run onto the freeway, it is possible the adult(s) who were in the car had gotten out to retrieve the clothing and told the kid(s) to stay in the car. Kid decided she wanted to help and jumped out.

I did something like this as a kid, age 8 or 9.
Mom, me, younger brother were driving along...Mom hears some flapping sound from under the car. I jump out, in the dark...GeekKid to the rescue!

It was a cloth diaper stuck in some part of the suspension.

Lets face it, this kid was gonna get picked off sooner or later

ox45tallboy: apachevoyeur: wow... the stories the Fark idiots greenlight for amusement.

/cue the welcome to Fark pic

So is this the most tasteless submission of the week?

I'm not sure. I don't Fark enough to track this. I guess I find the new Fark tagline mostly at fault. This story is worthy for submission in order to mock the parents; as shame does a society good.

So let me express a more cogent argument: Whoever greenlit the Fark tagline, 'Real news. Real funny', is an effin' retard.

Well at least now with the freeway shut down they can get their clothes.

apachevoyeur: Whoever greenlit the Fark tagline, 'Real news. Real funny', is an effin' retard.

No, it fits. The "real news" comes from the linked articles. The "real funny" comes from the comment threads. And yes, there are some comments here that count as "funny" even if the article is sad.

No no no.... Implied, or inferred(?) is that any story can be infused with humor.

I just can't wrap my head around any humor coming from the death of a 13 year old. Not funny. Evar!



/no, still not funny!

So, "real news" can't be "real funny?" Fark you, I think it's hilarious! How do you like that? (new window)

apachevoyeur: I just can't wrap my head around any humor coming from the death of a 13 year old.

Oh, well, then good thing it was a 12 year old that died in this story!

InfernalCatfish: apachevoyeur: I just can't wrap my head around any humor coming from the death of a 13 year old.

Oh, well, then good thing it was a 12 year old that died in this story!

They would have been 13 just today. :(

Hispanic families tend to have larger familia, so the loss of one child shouldn't be all too bad if there's 5 other kids to make up for it.

Quick, someone greenlight this story: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/12/30/20111230texas-car-cr ash-leaves-8-dead-authorities-say.html

8 PEOPLE DIED, INCLUDING 3 CHILDREN. Let's see, that's like 13.7 times funnier than this story!

What is today?!? REPEAT Saturday??? This is so last week...

apachevoyeur: Quick, someone greenlight this story: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/12/30/20111230texas-car-cr ash-leaves-8-dead-authorities-say.html

8 PEOPLE DIED, INCLUDING 3 CHILDREN. Let's see, that's like 13.7 times funnier than this story!

Seriously dude, if this is going to be your attitude, maybe Fark just isn't the site for you. Someone can go ahead and post that link, and I assure you there will be comments in the thread that make jokes at the expense of the article, and there will be people that laugh at it. Maybe you can think of the tagline more like this: "Real news to the left. Real funny to the right."

Molavian: John Sullivan was driving about 70 mph when he saw the girl, but it was too late to avoid the collision. The 74-year-old wasn't injured or arrested.

Yeah, the fact that he's 74 and has the reflexes of a grapefruit has no bearing on this. None.

CSB: My father-in-law is 78, and still drives. The man's an absolute menace on the road, blind in one eye, and is averaging 2 minor accidents a year. His last two were backing into other vehicles parked in his driveway. He gets in his truck and backs up without looking behind him. It's f*cking insane, and his family refuses to acknowledge that there's a problem. It's only a matter of time before someone dies at his hands.

Considering this happened at 11pm at night (from TFA), and a 12 year old girl isn't something you are usually expecting to see on the freeway at night, I don't think it would have mattered who the driver was. With low beams on, 70mph is probably over driving the visual distance of the headlights (can't react and stop in time when something enters illuminated range) With the hi-beams on, someone might have been able to see her and react in time, but she never should have been on the road in the first place. Depending on traffic conditions, trying to dodge her might have caused a worse accident; TFA doesn't say if there were other vehicles on the road or not.

InfernalCatfish: apachevoyeur: Quick, someone greenlight this story: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/12/30/20111230texas-car-cr ash-leaves-8-dead-authorities-say.html

8 PEOPLE DIED, INCLUDING 3 CHILDREN. Let's see, that's like 13.7 times funnier than this story!

Seriously dude, if this is going to be your attitude, maybe Fark just isn't the site for you. Someone can go ahead and post that link, and I assure you there will be comments in the thread that make jokes at the expense of the article, and there will be people that laugh at it. Maybe you can think of the tagline more like this: "Real news to the left. Real funny to the right."

I posted it about 10 minutes ago... and NOTHING! I'm waiting for the FarkElite to green it. Teh Funny Awaits!

ox45tallboy: apachevoyeur: Quick, someone greenlight this story: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/12/30/20111230texas-car-cr ash-leaves-8-dead-authorities-say.html

8 PEOPLE DIED, INCLUDING 3 CHILDREN. Let's see, that's like 13.7 times funnier than this story!

For all you haters, the link does have the "Sad" tag.

So you ARE the subby! For shame!

/kidding, I'm just trying to express my sensitive side.

apachevoyeur: Trance750: DarwiOdrade: Sad, but stupid. How could the person driving the car that girls was in let a 12 year old run out onto the freeway? If it was her parent or guardian, that person should be in jail.

I can just see this

Mom: We just lost our clothes, Snowflake run outside real fast and pick them up

Actually, closer to this: "Acabamos de perder la ropa, mi bebé! Ejecutar fuera muy rápido y recogerlos!"

Applause.animatedgif

It was the 60 fwy near the 15 fwy.
That means there were definitely other cars on the road and the roadway was well lit with overhead lighting.
There is no way 90% of people can judge oncoming vehicle speed at night even on a well lit freeway - much less a 12 year old being able to make that judgement.
The vast majority of people have no idea how dangerous the freeway is when you're on foot and the lanes are open to traffic.

The driver of the Suburban should have been arrested on the spot.