Dr. Aaoouh
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I had three occasions in the 1970's.
The last was one night when I was driving through Chicago's Humboldt Park. As I came to a light, it turned yellow. There was a car in front of me that sped up, deciding to try to get across the intersection before it turned red. It hit a man on a bicycle crossing the street who had apparently decided that the light was about to turn green for him. The car hit him straight on and I saw him fly 15 or 20 feet straight up in the air. He came down and landed on his face, neck broken, dead.
The second to the last one was in the summer of 1976 in Cairo Egypt. I was crossing a very busy intersection late one morning. The intersection was so busy that rails had been put on at the corners. I saw a child of about ten or twelve cut under the rail to try to run across the street. He was hit by a taxi. He went up on the hood, through the windshield, through the car, and out the back window. The explosion of the two windows looked strangely like ice. People from the crowd came over and someone picked the boy up. I think that every bone in his body was broken. The driver was sitting there in shock. But when the crowd saw that the boy was dead, they pulled him from the taxi and began to beat him. I left without seeing how that ended.
The first time was in New Orleans in 1973. I was there for the first time, having driven straight down from Chicago. I was at the Marriott Hotel on Canal street looking out the window towards the French Quarter. There was a 3 story building there a few hundred feet away. I suddenly saw smoke coming from a window on the second floor. Then I saw a short thin man who appeared to be on fire squeeze out of a window and land face down on the sidewalk. This is what I turned out to be looking at.
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The last was one night when I was driving through Chicago's Humboldt Park. As I came to a light, it turned yellow. There was a car in front of me that sped up, deciding to try to get across the intersection before it turned red. It hit a man on a bicycle crossing the street who had apparently decided that the light was about to turn green for him. The car hit him straight on and I saw him fly 15 or 20 feet straight up in the air. He came down and landed on his face, neck broken, dead.
The second to the last one was in the summer of 1976 in Cairo Egypt. I was crossing a very busy intersection late one morning. The intersection was so busy that rails had been put on at the corners. I saw a child of about ten or twelve cut under the rail to try to run across the street. He was hit by a taxi. He went up on the hood, through the windshield, through the car, and out the back window. The explosion of the two windows looked strangely like ice. People from the crowd came over and someone picked the boy up. I think that every bone in his body was broken. The driver was sitting there in shock. But when the crowd saw that the boy was dead, they pulled him from the taxi and began to beat him. I left without seeing how that ended.
The first time was in New Orleans in 1973. I was there for the first time, having driven straight down from Chicago. I was at the Marriott Hotel on Canal street looking out the window towards the French Quarter. There was a 3 story building there a few hundred feet away. I suddenly saw smoke coming from a window on the second floor. Then I saw a short thin man who appeared to be on fire squeeze out of a window and land face down on the sidewalk. This is what I turned out to be looking at.
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