I have one for the "It's a small world category".
Leaving Charlotte NC's borders on a Thursday night the vehicle I was in got hit and run by a red chevy pick up driven by an obvious drunk. He backed up, shut off his lights, and floored it. Eventually the drunk ran a red light that we did not follow successfully past that.
So we went back to file a police report with Charlotte.
Because the truck's lights had been turned off, that included the license plate's lights.
All we knew were the driver's shirt color, color and make of truck. (Nice of truck makers to put their name on big reflective letters on the tailgate.)
I was looking over my shoulder back at the truck as we got hit.(A very compromised position.)
Que the following week and I was in increasingly severe neck pain.
Go to Chiropractor's office in Fort Mill.
Am sitting in waiting room.
Guy there before me is on a cellphone and was in process of retelling a very familiar sounding story.
When he got off the phone I started asking questions.
He was a police officer for the town of Matthews NC and was in that chiro office waiting on his wife.
The story he was telling on the phone given the distance this waiting room was from the accident site unbelievably was indeed a continuation of where we had left off with Mr Hit and Runner.
Just after us losing us the drunk had careened into the first parking lot to park and hide.
Unfortunately he didn't have enough control to not hit a parked car.
That parked car had in the driver's seat the police officer sitting next to me in this waiting room.
Oops.
Small town police don't play.
Up with the radios and on with the chase.
Eventually after more contact the drunk jumped from his moving truck to go into the woods and hide.
They brought in dogs.
The dogs didn't have a hard time following such a strong smelltrail and that was that for Mr. Hit and Runner's night of hit and running.
Also turns out Mr Hit and Runner was experienced at this, having done it before.
Hence the lights off to hide the liscence plate.
Also turns out Mr Hit and Runner didn't have insurance.
My memory is foggy on if he had a DL, but if he did, he probably wouldn't.
....Anyway.
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Originally Posted by masraum
Actually, I hear/read stories from time to time about folks meeting/talking to really interesting folks that they stumbled across during life.
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