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This morning, it took somewhere around 90-100 minutes to get into work, capping off a truly horrendous work week of bad, lengthy commutes.\u00a0 Atlanta traffic is pretty bad in its own right, which is obviously no secret to anyone, but five straight days of abysmal commutes is enough to drive anyone insane.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the circumstances to this morning\u2019s bad commute were different, and erred a bit into the extreme, as it was revealed that the nature of what many believed was just a typical bad accident turned out to be a frightening tale of a person jumping out of a moving vehicle and subsequently getting hit on the highway.\u00a0 Subsequently, all lanes of the highway were shut down, causing a massive delay that I happened to be in.\u00a0 But it\u2019s also scary to think that if I were even ahead of schedule by anywhere from 2-4 minutes, I probably could have witnessed the incident, or worse, been the car that hit the person after they jumped out of a moving vehicle.\u00a0 In that regard, I guess a long-ass commute doesn\u2019t seem so bad in comparison.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When I passed the scene of the crime, I noticed that there were news crews from the usual local outlets; I knew that when I got into work, I could probably be able to read about what had happened, since I was curious to know some details of the grisly incident that caused me to be so late, yet again.<\/span><\/p>\n As the day passed, a few details trickled out; namely the name of the person hit.\u00a0 But that\u2019s really it; sure, it\u2019s mentioned that the person survived, and was at a hospital, but I thought there would be a little bit more to it, because it seems kind of weird to me that a person would\u00a0jump out of a moving vehicle<\/em>\u00a0on a highway where people travel at anywhere from 65-90 mph.\u00a0 There seemed to be more of a concern that the person who struck her on the highway didn\u2019t stop and kept going than there seemed to be for the person actually hit.<\/span><\/p>\n One thing that wasn\u2019t mentioned in any of the big three outlets, was anything at all about the person driving the car that the jumper flung themselves out of; I don\u2019t know about anyone else, but there are only two reasons why I would imagine someone jumping out of a moving vehicle \u2013 a suicide attempt, or an escape.\u00a0 Escape, meaning the person driving the car is implied to be a kidnapper, therefore a criminal that\u2019s apparently still on the loose, unless the news failed completely to mention that they stopped.<\/span><\/p>\n So out of curiosity, I Google\u2019d the name of the person who was hit.\u00a0 Within the first five results, there was the obligatory Facebook profile, but also two links that pertained to an arrest record.\u00a0 Clicking on Google Images shows absolutely nothing other than mugshots and police blotter images.<\/span><\/p>\n I can\u2019t speak for anyone but myself, but it seems like these revelations don\u2019t exactly explain why this person jumped out of a moving vehicle, but does seem to lead me to believe why the news and police seem to be prioritizing other components of the story over them.<\/span><\/p>\n I get that there\u2019s someone out there who hit a person and did not stop, as the law would typically expect a law-abiding citizen to do.\u00a0 But given the circumstances, and the nature of human panic, adrenaline, and reflexes, I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m at all that surprised that they simply kept going.\u00a0 It\u2019s not every day that people jump out of cars onto the road right in front of you, so this isn\u2019t a slightly more ordinary situation where a visible person kept moving into the roadway and got plowed by a moving vehicle.\u00a0 I\u2019m by no means condoning the actions of the person who hit the jumper, but a part of me kind of gets it.\u00a0 Hopefully, they\u2019ll turn themselves in, and some leniency will be granted given the circumstances of the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n Regardless of the details that have yet to be uncovered or the eventual outcome of this whole debacle, I do find it interesting to see how a victim\u2019s history seems to create some sort of division in how they\u2019re treated by the media; I\u2019d have a hard time believing that if the person were a known outstanding citizen that went off the deep end and jumped into traffic, there would be more efforts to find out why, but with someone with a criminal history, they simply don\u2019t seem to care; let\u2019s find a way to make this into a more interesting story by pointing the finger of justice at the person who hit them and kept driving.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning, it took somewhere around 90-100 minutes to get into work, capping off a truly horrendous work week of bad, lengthy commutes.\u00a0 Atlanta traffic is pretty bad in its own right, which is obviously no secret to anyone, but five straight days of abysmal commutes is enough to drive anyone insane. 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