Have you ever been at the scene of a crime?

Answer 1

I was there when the Murrah building was bombed in 1995.

Answer 2

Several. The most unpleasant one was manslaughter of a man who was lying on the side of the street, barely able to stand up in time for the car passing us on the shoulder of the road on our right at twice the speed limit to hit the man, knock him into the air, onto the hood of our car, under which he slid a moment later.

What was worse was we had seen the man a few minutes before and asked if he needed help. He waved us away. We figured he was drunk.

A short time later (slightly before the accident), we picked up a woman who was screaming for help farther down the road. She said she desperately needed to get out of the valley, back the way we had come. We figured we'd help and were in no rush. We turned around.

We drove on the road when the driver of another car decided the shoulder was the way to go to avoid the car (myself) that still thought the speed limit was a maximum instead of a minimum.

That's when the accident occured.

Fortunately, several other cars saw it and stopped. So did the teenager in the other car. His life was over in a different way.

The police finally came over, having taken our hitch hiker lady out of earshot and talking to her.

The officer said that originally they were thinking I had killed the man, based on the testamony of the girl in our car! After talking to the other witnesses, and the young teenager, they figured out the rest of the story and decided my wife and I needed to go home and leave it behind us.

I asked why the lady would think that? Even asking it I realized that she might be confused by having seen the man on our windshield, and might have missed the other car.

The officer said that she was VERY drunk. They were sure we had been victims, not perpetrators, of this crime.

Then he told us the kicker.

She was the dead man's wife. They'd had a fight in the valley. She had run from him farther down the valley, in the wrong direction.

She watched him die. We all did.

Yeah, I've been at the scene of a crime. Still am. Crying. Twelve years later.

I love you guys. Don't speed. Don't drive on the shoulder. Don't get stuck on addictions. Stop hurting yourselves and others.

Sorry, not really part of your question. I hope it was worth saying, anyway.

Answer 3

Several safe attacks and 1 vault attack. A few internal embezzlement issues. Pretty uneventful stuff.

Did you mean one in progress? Was mugged twice.

Answer 4

Yes -- in fact, I was once the victim in an armed robbery at a store I was working at (decades ago, when I was first in college).

Answer 5

Yes it was one of my first memories...someone getting shot in Kmart. I was very young, I don't know if I was even talking yet. It was during the crack epidemic...a lot of crazy stuff was going on all the time...