quote: RICHARDSON, Texas (AP) -- A man pulled a woman from their Mercedes during a heated highway argument and pushed her off an overpass into rush-hour traffic before jumping about 80 feet to his own death.
The woman landed on the hood of a car, which carried her a short distance before she fell off and was hit by another vehicle, said Richardson police Sgt. Kevin Perlich. She died at the scene
I guess it was one of those layered highways -- one overpass over another, according to morning news. How awful!
It is hard to fathom one person doing this to another person.
Farmgirl
[ June 11, 2004, 10:01 AM: Message edited by: Farmgirl ]
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
I've been angry before. And this kind of thought has crossed my mind before, but only in that non-serious frustrated mental ranting kind of way. But to be able to actually throw someone off a bridge like that is crazy. I don't care how mad you are, at some point the idea that dead is really dead should kick in and keep you form doing something stupid. People amaze me.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I think that thought must have kicked in a little late with him -- after he had done it.
That's probably why he then committed suicide.
Farmgirl
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
That was my first thought, too.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
I was literally right there, right then, a little over 100 yds away, going by on a commuter train, and I utterly missed it. I'm very glad I wasn't looking out the window.
As if we needed more proof that money doesn't buy happiness, eh?
edit to explain the last comment: it was a young couple, driving a brand new Mercedes convertible. they pulled over on the overpass to argue and then he pushed her over... then lept himself when cars started stopping on the overpass.
I suppose he might not have actually meant to push her over the edge... still a horrible situation.
[ June 11, 2004, 03:36 PM: Message edited by: Jim-Me ]
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
looks like the "didn't mean to" hypothesis is out.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Woa...
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I couldn't read the DMN version -- it wants me to register (which I'd rather not)
So if you want to post clips of it in here....
FG
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
people sure can be insane
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
quote:Henry Ford of Plano noticed the two as he and his wife were driving home from Carrollton. At first he thought two people were out "goofing around" on the turnpike bridge that overlooks Central Expressway.
"But pretty quickly I realized it was a man trying to throw a young lady off the freeway," he said. "I saw him trying to throw her over. And she was doing her best to stop him. She was fighting like hell."
Ford said he pulled over in front of the Mercedes and was getting out of the car when the man pushed the woman over the short wall. A few witnesses told police that the man saw people coming toward him on the bridge and jumped. But Ford's wife, Frances, said she saw the man looking over the bridge at the woman's descent.
When she got to the wall just a few feet from the man, Frances Ford said, she thought he was still holding onto the woman's arm because he had one hand dangling over the side and was looking downward. So she looked down.
"Then he jumped ... I saw him hit the pavement," she said.
It also notes that they had been dating since 1998-- at which time she was 15 and he was 24... which is pretty creepy... also that he had had a restraining order placed against him just before then by another woman... they are looking into the history of domestic violence in this particular couple and treating it as a murder-suicide.