International Beauty Supply

HIT THE POLE

Whilst riding my bike in East Liberty I heard the unmistakable collision of heavy metal on wheels. It’s a sickening sound unlike any other, and instantly creates fascination. I was about a half block away and immediately headed toward the scene, obviously something was seriously wrong rather and I was rather amazed that not a single other person in my immediate vicinity made any attempt to put one lousy foot forward to investigate. An older man was in the car on the pole and slowly getting out, I asked him if he was OK and all he said was the other car came out of nowhere. Luckily there was a medical professional in the crowd to attend to him, so I called 911 and was put on hold for at least five minutes when a firetruck arrived just as they took my call. The other driver, a woman, was trying to get a witness, and unbelievably seemed like she was having some difficulty getting someone to come forward. In fact, with all the attention the older man was getting, it appeared nobody was even bothering to ask how she was. Her car was in pretty good shape considering, but she said the same thing the other driver did, the guy came out of nowhere. I wonder how you sort something like that out without witnesses. Whose word gets taken?