Chelle

Brinner... French toast, bacon, hashbrowns with cheese & ham, cinnamon & sugar apples

I don't have any cards... I guess I should pay attention. Pubby, you should enable the chat room while you're broadcasting live.

You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.

I know of someone at the Paulding/Douglas line that flies a small, yellow plane and has a landing strip in his backyard. Hopefully he was just coming in for a normal landing and it scared the caller because they weren't aware of the landing strip being so close.

LOL

Hmmm... my mailbox got bashed last night. We used to get new mailboxes when this would happen, but we stopped several years ago, since it happens about once every 6 months. Now hubby just hammers out the dents enough so that we can open and close it.

Agreed. People are being too fast and too stupid with it... and it will only get worse as more and more people move out this way. I'm just trying to think of *anything* that might make it even a little bit safer. I remember that fatality like it was yesterday... it was February 1997... I was pregnant with my 2nd son. I was the first one on the scene and also helped the first responder until other emergency personel arrived. The images of that day will never leave my mind. That's the only fatality that I'm aware of in the last 12 years or so, but there have been numerous accidents in that

Unfortunately, they don't... most of them, anyways. A few years ago after my kid's bus almost got slammed, I stopped getting my kids off the bus at the driveway... I walk about 50-75 ft down the road... away from the turn. If people won't even slow down when buses are dropping kids off... there's very little hope that they will slow down at all.

This happened as I was stopped to turn in my driveway, as I waited for an oncoming car to pass. I'm always looking in my mirrors when I have to stop, because so many people FLY around the turn and it seems inevitable that someone will eventually slam into the back of me. There have already been countless close calls. So... I saw it in my mirror. The motorcycle appeared in an instant... another witness said he had geared up in the middle of the turn. When he saw me, he hit the breaks, the bike jerked from side to side, then slid out. The guy driving rolled out of it towards the side of the road

People did try to help. I was waiting for the bus with my kids and asked the boy to wait for the bus with us. As he pointed ahead, he replied "I can't." Bus 72 also stopped and tried to get the boy on the bus and he refused, then the driver got on her radio and I assumed she was requesting a call to the SO. In addition, I saw another car stop and talk to the boy. They couldn't just force the child into their car... or onto a bus... and I couldn't physically restrain him and make him wait for the bus with us. He did get the help he needed when the SO arrived.

I don't see how I came across as having an attitude. All I did was show you where to find the proof of what I had stated earlier. And yes, these things were also stated earlier by jmd.

We DO KNOW that she was not obeying the Officer. Scan Paulding archives for 4/13, time blocks 7:26-7:41, 7:41-7:56 & 7:56-8:12 Here's how it went... After the call came in, an Officer clearly states that 10 minutes prior, he had told the Mom to put the kid back in the car and take him to school. When he was leaving, the kid was getting into the car. Obviously she made him get back out of the car again, if he was walking down the road again. This Officer also stated that she was creating a hazard. The dispatcher said that this child was seen crossing Goldmine Rd alone. Also, at one p

My son said he's in third grade, also. She was in a white car with her hazards on. When I saw her, she was majorly screwing the flow of traffic up. People were having to go around her. At that time, I didn't even realize she had anything to do with the boy... I thought she was having car trouble. When the boy was walking the straight of way well before the head start, she was sitting IN the lane just past the other side of the school. That's why I said earlier that there were times when she couldn't even see her son. Not that it would have been much better, but this was not a case of her

Poole is 5 miles from my house. If he came from one of the subdivisions, then he had to have been walking for *at least* a mile before he passed me.

Regardless of the reason, I think this is awful. I saw the kid and the car on Holly Springs. The car was WAY ahead of the kid. There is no way this Mom could even see her child walking. Holly Springs is such a dangerous road, especially near head start. I see people run off the road all the time. *My guess* is that the kid missed the bus and Mom was making him walk to school. (I asked the kid where he was going and he said "Poole") I realize everyone has different ways of parenting... but please, don't put your child in a dangerous situation as punishment. Take away his video games or som