Here’s a report of a mother and son both dying in car-related accidents within hours of each other. After reading the article, it seemed to me there was also another synchro of sorts within the story. Notice how many people were allegedly intoxicated. Is that part synchronicity or just part of the everyday world?+++
WEST ALLIS, Wis. — A Wisconsin woman and her adult son were killed in separate traffic crashes just hours apart in a Milwaukee suburb, police said Monday.
Mary J. Moore, 45, died after she was struck by a vehicle on a street in West Allis. A friend was speeding her son, Thomas M. Olson, 22, to the hospital to see her when he struck three parked cars and overturned, West Allis Deputy Chief Charles Padgett said. Olson was killed in the crash about 5:30 a.m. Sunday.
Padgett said Olson knew his mother had been hit, but he wasn’t sure if Olson knew she had died.
“It’s emotional. We want to get there fast and sometimes disregard our safety,” Padgett said. “I use it to remind people that regardless of the circumstances, be aware of the speed.”
The driver of the car Olson was riding in was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. He and two other passengers suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Moore was hit as she lay prone in the street. A motorist following the car that struck her told police it looked as though the vehicle hit a speed bump, according to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s report. The witness did not realize that it was a person until getting closer, the report said.
Padgett said Moore had been drinking before she was hit, but it’s not clear how much. An autopsy on her body was expected to be done Monday.
The driver that hit Moore drove off, but officers later found and arrested the person they believe is responsible. That driver may also have been drinking, authorities said.
“In my 24 years (of law enforcement), I’ve seen a lot of strange things, but don’t specifically remember a case like this,” Padgett said.
Agree, Whoot.
the boy got his DWI in 75,,, drunken driving is a crime agaisnt humanity,, this is a fact,, there “R” No accidents,, there is carelessness and stupity and probablity and blah blah…. but no real accidents….
I strongly disagree with you, Darren, but not in an argumentative way! I’ve seen some of the absolute nicest, kindest, gentlest people, (and patients), in the world turn into horrible monsters when under the influence. Being ugly, mean, nasty, and cruel is NOT these folks’ “normal” nature or personality. The drug has a detrimental effect on them and the characteristics manifest. It’s similar to taking a tranquilizer and falling asleep, or taking an amphetamine and becoming superhuman, but the stimulants include agression, combativeness, and a sense of being invincible, just as does the depressant alcohol. These drugs hit certain parts of the brain that cause the brain to release chemicals that are not released under ordinary circumstances. This is why I disagree with you. ALL of us….every single one of us….shares these brain chemicals in common. But the chemicals act very differently when under the influence of OTHER ingested or smoked or whatever, chemicals. Most people become laid-back and easy and hungry and pleasant while smoking weed. It’s the effect of the drug on the chemistry of the brain. Alcohol affects different people in different ways, depending upon its actions on and with the brain chemicals. Both weed and alcohol are “downers” that slow the body’s reactions to stimuli, which makes BOTH very dangerous drugs to use before driving an automobile. Just my two-cents worth here.
I agree with Sansego about the weed. It’s a fantastic medicine for cancer patients who are suffering nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy. As a recreational drug, the side effects on the body, if one cares to research those, are enough to make one pause and think before using, especially young men. Most drugs, including alcohol, are plant-based or animal-based if they’re not synthetic. Armour Thyroid hormone is an example; comes from cattle. Synthroid, the “other” thyroid hormone for underactive conditions, is created in laboratories. Oleander is a plant. Deadly poison. Belladonna comes from a plant. Opium comes from beautiful flowers: poppies. Very toxic. German and french children are raised drinking wine, (grapes or whatever its source-plant might be),and is the beverage in those countries with meals as opposed to water, tea, or coffee. Light social drinking for those who enjoy it seems innocuous enough. But using alcohol and getting s—faced drunk is simply asking for death. It destroys the liver (as do many drugs, and alcohol IS a drug) and has too many other detrimental destructive effects to be ingested in large quantities. We all recognize that. But it’s a sad fact in our society that it’s readily available for consumption in whatever amounts a person chooses to drink. Sad business. The combination of ANY machine with alcohol is suicide in the making. Truly, truly sad.
good info there Darren,,,,, 420 synchro, way out there,,, long long bullls eye….
With the theme of intoxication running through this dark sync,I couldn’t help noticing her name was Mary J (which is a slang term for weed).
I was wondering if the J stood for Jane?
Astute, Daz! The Mary J could be part of the synchro.
I continue to be amazed at the hostility toward legalizing marijuana when alcohol is such a problem. It is hands-down the most distructive drug on the market. When you look at the toll it takes on families, on society, one should have a special permit to consume it. Yet you rarely hear of someone high on pot driving like a maniac and killing people, or beating their children or spouse, road raging, etc. Yet you can be thrown in jail for years if caught with the substance. It was no surprise to find alcohol distributors lobby against legalizing medicinal and recreational marijuana, as do the corporate-owned prison system.
It’s all about lobby money!
I don’t share people’s benign view of marijuana. I was on a Caltrain when a group of young folks lit up a joint and passed it around. I was sitting in the upper level of the train and could see what was going on in the lower level. They were loud, rude, and obnoxious. And they almost got everyone on the train thrown off. At one stop, the train refused to move until the culprits turned themselves in. They made the ride hell for everyone!
As for alcohol, I’ve been to France many times and the French seem to treat alcohol the way it was meant to: a drink with dinner. Drinking to get drunk is the problem, not alcohol by itself. Americans seem to over-indulge, rather than treating it as a beverage that goes well with a meal.
As Arnold said during his governorship, “It’s a plant.”
I’ve got nothing against alcohol or Mary Jane.
Only against people operating machinery while under their influence.I think they can both be enjoyed by people in a resonsible way,but definately not while behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.
As to the guys on the train,you’re probably lucky that they were smoking pot and not drinking alcohol instead.
I’m sure people like this would be much worse when drinking.
Loud,rude and obnoxious people don’t pick those traits up from smoking a plant.It’s because that’s the type of people they are to begin with.
If I had the choice of hanging around dope smokers or drunks,then the dope smokers would be my choice of company…but I do find sober and unstoned people can be just as much fun to be around.-)
They may have been drunk as well. That type of behavior is more atuned to drinking than smoking. I do agree that the French seem to have the right idea of how to indulge – with dinner. But don’t they also have a very high rate alcholism? I thought I read that somewhere…
Sad synchronicity indeed………and I was struck by the predominance of drinking throughout. I’ve lost friends to drunk drivers………….if only people would realize that they are driving a lethal weapon.
Horrible when synchros happen in this way. Being intoxicated is sadly part of the everyday world for some people. I may write about this one day, but it’s too raw still at the moment (not about Karin or myself!)
Great to see you back, Mike! Looking forward to hearing about your travel synchros.
This reminds me of another very recent story on the news about an elderly couple who had been married seventy years. Friends and family reported that they remained unusually devoted to each other thru the decades. The wife ultimately reached a point in Alzheimers where he could no longer care for her at home, and he had no choice but to admit her to a 24/7 care facility. Within a few weeks, he couldn’t bear being away from her even though he spent each day, all day, at her bedside, and the physician allowed him to be admitted to the facility, where he slept in a bed beside his beloved wife. He wasn’t ill, just old and feeble. However, on the afternoon of the morning she died, the personnel found him gone, as well. His old heart simply stopped beating. They died four hours apart. This is a true story, and wrenches the soul yet brings great joy. They couldn’t be separated by Life or by Death. I wonder if the mother and son in these accidents had a similar soul connection. Sometimes we do…….
I wondered the same thing about the connection between mother and son.
that would be 3 of us wondering then…
oh, is this the story i sent you all? isn’t it something! can’t even imagine the dynamics of it all – as to the number of people intoxicated – it has to be synchronicity i think – with perhaps a small element speaking of today’s society – but – nevertheless – to have all the pieces of this bizarre story come together as they do – amazing – and so so tragically sad –