Old lady taken out by Joe Death
Many many moons ago when I was wasting my life as an accounts assistant for London Transport, I was based out of offices overlooking Marylebone and Edgware road.
One day after a particularly "gruelling" trip to the typing pool I was climbing the stairs back up to my lair and idly looking out the window.
There was on a traffic island in the middle of the road an elderly couple, they calmly waited for the traffic to stop at the lights and began the first step on a journey that was to take them much much further than they had bargained for.
They didn't realise that there was a filter for approaching turning traffic and stepped right out into the path of an oncoming car.
The old lady was flipped what seems like 20 feet into the air before landing in a heap at the feet of her husband, a hush seemed to fill the area as from out from under her a pool of blood spread - imagine you knocked a 5l paint can over and imagine the pool -.
The guy driving jumped from his seat and clutched his chest and was later reported in the local paper as having died of a heart attack.
Truly horrible.
( porky, Fri 22 Jun 2007, 12:52, Reply)