Monday, August 29, 2022

a sad phrase if ever I saw one

I just read a headline about a guy who got run over. He was described as

a 59-year-old man sitting on his walker

To be clear, when you click the article and look at the photo, you see it's one of those convertible walkers that has wheels but can fold into a sort of chair. Still, it's a sad commentary if you're only 59 years old and need a walker. True: I don't know the guy's circumstances (knees are shot? terminal/congenital illness?), but even if we factor those circumstances in, the situation is no less sad. If you're 59, you ought to be walking around and active. Anyway, the guy is dead now.



2 comments:

Charles said...

That is a crazy story, and tragic. I hope they find the women who did that and throw the book at her. Reckless endangerment, attempted voluntary manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, etc.

As for the victim, I looked up a bunch of articles on him but most don't say anything about his condition. I did find two that mentioned reasons why he was confined to a walker, but they were conflicting: One said that he had a "bad spine," while the other said that he had a "buildup of fat in his leg, which left him with limited mobility and unable to work." The first article attributed the information to "a neighbor," so who knows how reliable it is. And I don't know what a "buildup of fat in the leg" means.

Either way, it's a shame.

Kevin Kim said...

Thanks for trying to find something, even if the search wasn't that fruitful.