Someone else died yesterday
Feb. 9th, 2007 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeThere was no news coverage of this death, because clearly this guy was unimportant. He might be a blurb in a newspaper somewhere, known only as "the victim, a middle-aged man."
We were involved in a car theft (imagine that, in a company that deals with stolen vehicles?). When our trackers found the car, the thieves were still in it. They spotted the trackers and panicked, flooring it. Our trackers have a strict policy of "no pursuit" unless there's no way they've been seen, which wasn't the case. So they followed at a really discreet distance while the thieves floored it through several red lights.
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And rammed into another car. There was a middle-aged couple in there. The man, we think, has died. No news of the woman.
Our company is mostly worried that this will backfire on us, although I fail to see how it's our fault that these men broke the law, and then decided to break a few more laws before killing someone (albeit accidentally). No one seems particularly upset that someone died.
The office was full of talk about Anna Nicole Smith, the random celebrity who died yesterday.
Whoever this man was, no one but his family will ever know his name. He doesn't get a splash in all the tabloids (and his family are probably grateful for that), and no one outside his family cares that he died.
All in all, I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
We were involved in a car theft (imagine that, in a company that deals with stolen vehicles?). When our trackers found the car, the thieves were still in it. They spotted the trackers and panicked, flooring it. Our trackers have a strict policy of "no pursuit" unless there's no way they've been seen, which wasn't the case. So they followed at a really discreet distance while the thieves floored it through several red lights.
...
And rammed into another car. There was a middle-aged couple in there. The man, we think, has died. No news of the woman.
Our company is mostly worried that this will backfire on us, although I fail to see how it's our fault that these men broke the law, and then decided to break a few more laws before killing someone (albeit accidentally). No one seems particularly upset that someone died.
The office was full of talk about Anna Nicole Smith, the random celebrity who died yesterday.
Whoever this man was, no one but his family will ever know his name. He doesn't get a splash in all the tabloids (and his family are probably grateful for that), and no one outside his family cares that he died.
All in all, I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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Date: 2007-02-09 03:48 pm (UTC)