I didnt , i knew deep down by working side by side with this guy that he was a wreck .
this was way bigfer than a mid lif crisis for him and the only reason the boss put up with him was that they got hired together 12 years before that
and were at one time buddies.
I thought to myself i can totally see him doing something like that and at the same time think he is full of shht . But i do think he did it , he was the type that only cared about himself , he lied , he hid things , he stole , and he was always hungover at work .
everybody at work knew he was a disaster and that he couldnt be trusted . He was the type that did badbthinking nobody saw
Somebody's family our there has no answers...but you do.
I worked with a guy 15 years agi that said he was so drunk one night driving home in the rain and heard a thump . Next day he woke up late for work and noticed a dent on his right side of his bumper and headlight .
he said he was going through a lot with a divorce
he then read in the newspaper a few days later that a john doe was ran over in the middle of the night in a similar area he was that night .
he said he didnt think it was him that hit the guy , but that he wasnt gonna go fishing and find out . So he said he left it and just moved on with his life .
I knew a kid senior year of high school that died like that. Woman drove off. They caught up with her a year later and they believed her that she didn't know so they acquitted.
Nearly ran down a security guard when she tried to get in the way of my car after I'd been shoplifting booze one time, case of Johnnie Walker Black. Ain't proud. I still don't know to this day if I woulda gone through with it but we were looking right at each other and she saw the decision in my eyes as I put my foot down and just jumped outta the way. Would I have driven off? Back then, hell yeah. Only thing mattered was getting to the next fix.
Wouldn't dream of it now though. Different life.
I can respect your honesty and cong**** on changing your life for the better.
This is a great point. Especially if this guy is a POS, I would say it’s his ultimate responsibility to bring justice.
This type of crap is how mysteries are solved. I watch a lot of true crime, dateline type of crap. It’s usually something like this that ends up solving a cold case. The offender has a guilty conscious and is a loud mouth and tells someone the story, then that someone brings it to the authorities, checks out the story and everything matches up. Builds the case, brings it to court. Guilty charge. Case closed. If it wasn’t for the guilty party mentioning it to someone, they would’ve gotten away with it, but people talk and it’s hard to keep something like that to yourself, especially if you feel guilty about it.
I would do your own research into the case to see if he’s full of sh#t or not. See if what he says matches up to anything that you can find.
That's reprehensible and I would have talked him into handing himself in. And if he didn't, I would no longer consider him a friend, although I wouldn't snitch on him. That's between him and his conscious, but unless he's a psychopath, this event will define his character and become a stain on his mental psyche - even if no one ever found out:
I'm so happy she finally said yes, but I did run over that one guy Yes, finally got that promotion but I did run over that one guy So proud my kids just graduated but I did run over that one guy
Just because the consequences are not immediately apparent, there's a mental toll as well making you feel like unwholesome for the rest of your life. No gangster, mafiaso, drug pusher, murderer, rapist etc has ever died with a cleas conscious.
Here's the thing though...even if you turn yourself in and they sentence you to 50 years, you still ran over that guy. Nothing changes that, ever. Penance doesn't make everything okay.
I've thought about it now overnight and I'm probably not going to turn myself in. Given that this guy, supposedly, didn't know what he did at the time, so stopping to give aid wasn't an option.
I don't know what I do with the rest of my life but I'm not doing it in prison, not voluntarily.
and yes, maybe that makes me a bad guy but I don't think I'm in the minority on this, if people are being honest with themselves
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