[nagdu] Blind Reverend And Guide Dog Victim Of Hit-Run

Buddy Brannan buddy at brannan.name
Mon Sep 23 01:24:01 UTC 2013


I don’t reckon she’ll get much of anything for this if they can’t find her. Which they might have trouble doing, since she drove off. What’s the matter with the world today? How much time you got? I’ll make a list.
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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY



On Sep 22, 2013, at 9:10 PM, rhonda cruz <rhondaprincess at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi i heard about this from my dad.
> it is really sad. i hope the lady gets jail time for this.
> 
> i hope the team is all right.
> 
> 
> On Sep 22, 2013, at 9:48 AM, Sean Robertson wrote:
> 
>> O know I'm so sorry to here this.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ginger Kutsch" <GingerKutsch at yahoo.com>
>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 12:40 PM
>> Subject: [nagdu] Blind Reverend And Guide Dog Victim Of Hit-Run
>> 
>> 
>>> Blind Reverend And Guide Dog Victim Of Hit-Run
>>> 
>>> Sweet Jesus. Down in East Palo Alto, Albert Macklin, a Reverend of the New
>>> Sweet Home Church of God in Christ who also happens to be blind, was hit
>>> while crossing the street at around 8 PM. Also hit? His helpful guide dog.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The suspect, who got out of her car to see if he was okay, saw that Macklin
>>> couldn't see and, well, decided to bolt. KTVU has more:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The driver had backed into him while he was still in the middle of the
>>> intersection, hitting his left side, and pinning Eaton under the trunk of
>>> the vehicle.
>>> 
>>> Afterward, police said the driver stopped and asked the minister if he was
>>> OK and said she was going to move her car, but drove away from the scene
>>> instead.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> "I was waiting for her maybe thinking she would come toward me, maybe check
>>> me out and see if I was ok. But after she got in the car to move the car,
>>> she didn't come back at all," said Macklin.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Although police are going door-to-door to find the woman (description of
>>> neither the suspect nor her vehicle are available), the Reverend just wants
>>> an apology. "It's a simple courtesy -- the simple fact that you hit
>>> somebody," he goes on to tell KTVU. "I didn't have to be blind, but the
>>> simple fact that you hit somebody and you didn't stop to take care of the
>>> matter as it should have been handled."
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Adding insult to injury, the police took their sweet time writing a report
>>> on the incident. Mercury News reports: "Macklin said he called the police
>>> and they declined to write up a report Monday night because there were no
>>> witnesses. He only got a response after calling Chief Ron Davis the next
>>> morning ... Davis confirmed that a report was not written until Tuesday, but
>>> said he was waiting for the officers involved to start their evening shift
>>> to determine why not."
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Both the man of God and his dog didn't suffer any life-threatening injuries.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Video at:
>>> 
>>> http://sfist.com/2013/09/18/blind_reverend_and_guide_dog_victim.php
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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