Sorry what I meant was those stories sound funny when we read them, but in the real world it's not funny at all when they are happening. I agree that what happened to you with the semi was bad, but what happened with the state troopers was probably even worse. Stuff like this doesn't just happen in Arkansas, though. When I was a kid, 11 I think, a car came speeding around a corner in a residential area of town and rammed into the passenger's side of my mom's, IMHO, georgeous Mercury Montclair (big tail fins and lots of chrome
). The kid's mangled car was still running and he left the scene as quickly as it would go. Luckily, neither me nor my mom were seriously hurt; however, since we reported that no one was injured, the police didn't show up for over 2 hours to file a report. Later my mom and her friend went out to look at the scene and were able to follow a trail of fluid to a nearby Kmart parking lot where it ended. Evidently the kid got the car towed from there. If the police had given a s_ _ _ and had shown up within half an hour, they would have found the responsible party easily. Instead my mom who was among the working class below the poverty line was without a car or any means of getting another one. This was in California.
