Mind-boggling... Man lives for two days stuck in windshield

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arhar

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Don't read this if you have a weak stomach and too vivid imagination









FORT WORTH, Texas -- A man who was the victim of a hit-and-run lived at least two days trapped in the driver's broken windshield before dying in the driver's garage in Fort Worth, Texas, police said.

"I'm going to have to come up with a new word. Indifferent isn't enough. Cruel isn't enough to say. Heartless? Inhumane? Maybe we've just redefined inhumanity here," a prosecutor in Fort Worth told Fort Worth Star-Telegram about the October 2001 incident.

Police arrested a 25-year-old woman Wednesday -- a nurse's aide -- on murder charges in the man's hit-and-run death, according to the Telegram.
Police told the Telegram that Gregory Biggs spent at least two days trapped in the broken windshield of the car that hit him. They said the woman who was driving the car, Chante Mallard, drove it home and kept it in the garage -- and heard Biggs begging for help before he finally died of blood loss and shock.

According to a police statement, Mallard panicked, and with the man still lodged in the windshield, she drove a few miles to her home, parked in her garage, and ignored his pleas for help until he died. His body was later dumped in a park.

The mother of the homeless man, Meredith Biggs, said she wonders how the woman could have let him die the way he did.

Police said Mallard told them she had been drinking and was on drugs at the time she struck the man, and that she panicked.

But Meredith Biggs told the newspaper that she wants to know why the woman didn't call for help after the drugs wore off.

Mallard told police she occasionally went into the garage, apologizing to the victim. The impact had hurled him headfirst through the windshield, his broken legs sticking out onto the hood.

Mallard's attorney said police are overreaching in charging her with murder


http://www.thedenverchannel.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-129101620020307-070307.html

Now, in a fair society, something similar should be done to her. But in our wonderful democratic America, she will probably get 10 years and then walk free.
 
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MrXarvox

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What that woman needs is not a murder charge, but a thorough psychological examination and some time in an institution specifically devoted to that purpose.
 
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DÛke

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...she had psychological problems. Testing should be done on her. If, indeed, she is mentally ill, she should be treated so, and no charges should be upheld against her.
 
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Svenmonkey

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Me being so extremely just and civil, I say hit her with a car, shove her through the windshield if she isn't already there, and sit her in a locked garage until she dies, not heeding her cries.

And call her FATS!
 

Spiderman

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Catching up on the weekend news (I was away in NYC).

What is more mind-boggling from the arhar's title is that the alleged perpetrator didn't get help for two days.

Unfortunately, I think she's pretty stable. She had a hit and run accident and probably just didn't want to get caught drinking and using drugs. And that carried over to when she (hopefully) sobered up the next couple of days.

She probably won't even go to prison if they don't try her on a murder charge (which so far the article said is unlikely).
 
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MrXarvox

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If your fear of being caught with drugs overrides the pleas for help from the man dying painfully in your garage, I think you would have to be insane.
It's human nature to do one of two things: Get the man some help; or put him out of sight and therefore, out of mind.
This woman did neither of these. She repeatedly went to her garage and apologized to the man, bearing witness to his suffering and neglecting to actually do anything about it. That's not a trait of a healthy-minded person.
 

Spiderman

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While it may go against "normal" human behavior to help or keep him out of mind until he dies, people have done plenty of oddball things that are justified in their mind.

Drowning your six alert kids, to the point of chasing one down, due to "voices in your head" is insane.

Breaking into your friend's home to plant kiddy porn in said friend's husband's things is a bit out there, but not entirely insane.

Wanting to make sure the witness to your accident doesn't go free is also not "normal", but reasonable when you look at it from her point of view.
 
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