Don’t kick cabs. It ends in tears. Yours. #
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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Well, at least in the end, he did get a ride.
Police said that “alcohol was a factor in this crash”. Nice.
I had a high school friend who went to Cornell on a gymnastics scholarship. Accustomed to (back then) pedestrian-friendly Southern California drivers, he was outraged by the failure of upstate NY drivers to yield right-of-way, so he was in the habit of kicking offending cars as they drove past, or so he told me once. But he was (1) expert in martial arts, and (2) apparently not roaring drunk when he did this, so I never heard that it cost him any limbs.
The physics of this seems odd- what a series of events to get run over by a car you just kick.
the speed of the cab has to be slow enough-the fall has to be a certain way- the ice was probably a big factor. It obviously happened but I guess it would only have been worse if he fallen head first under the cab.