Something Weird

On January, 6, 2008 My husband and myself were awakened at 4:30am by a cars horn. It sounded like it was stuck.

To start I will tell you we live in the out skirts of Oliver BC Canada, about 20 minutes away. Not a lot happens out here. But this night was different. After the horn had woke us up my husband. He went outside to see what was going on. He saw some head light at the end of our drive way. He said "it looks like there has been and accident". We called 911, and told them about the car horn, and the lights we could see at the end of the drive way. After my husband was finished talking to the police he decided to go out and see if any one was hurt. So he hopped into the van because it is a bit of a walk, and around here we have mountain lions, and some other not to friendly animals. He drove to the end of our driver way. A car had hit the electric pole but there was no one in the vehicle. How the person managed to walk away we will never know the car was totalled. My husband stayed there until the police came.

The first person to come was a volunteer firemen and then the police. The police officer was not very friendly at all. He was short with my husband, and didn't even thank him for calling.

I know when I lived in Calgary. I had a few police friends and they were very nice as long as you stayed on the right side of the law. I saw my one friend in action one time he knew his job, and he did it well. When you looked at this officer he was very intimidating, and he was at least six feet talk, and built like a brick wall. He use to treat me like I was his daughter. If I was hanging with a bad crowd he would pull up and call me over to his car, and tell me it was time for me to go home. My friends might have looked like a bad crowed but they respected the law. So I would introduce him to my friends. They were all afraid of him. I was the only one who wasn't. We stayed in touch until he retired, and I move to BC with my husband. He even met my parents, and they were intimidated by him. Which I could not understand? My parents were good people. If I needed help I would call my friend and ask him what to do. Well I'm going off on a little of the bunny trail.

Now lets get back to the accident. The fireman told my husband that he felt the car was stolen, and the car looked like it had hit more then just the electric post.

In Oliver the news paper only comes out once a week. Well in this weeks new paper, they talked about a girl who had be hit by a car, and whoever was the driver just kept going. It happened on the highway in the morning on January 6, 2008. I wonder if the person who hit the girl was the same one who hit the pole. The police never got back to us, so I guess I will never know. It just seems weird.

By Juanita Fraser