Crazy day

Today I had my committee meeting, which went well and apparently, my committee is happy with my progress. Great!

However the crazy part came after the work day. I went for beer/pizza to celebrate my friend's last day in my lab and afterwards headed outside to grab my bike and go home. I unlocked my bike from a sign post as two strangers were sitting down near my bike to have a smoke. I started wheeling my bike down the 1.5 foot ledge to the sidewalk before I climbed on, when I heard screeching and weird sounds. I quickly spun around to see a car driving forward out of the parking lot (when it should have had to reverse to get out of its parking spot) over one of the guys sitting on the curb!! The car dropped down the ledge onto the sidewalk where it stopped. It had pushed the guy a ways, from his seat on the ledge to the far edge of the sidewalk. The car stopped and a couple foreign exchange students climbed out to check on the guy they ran over. The guy was ok, but fairly shaken. He had cut up hands but I think that as the extent of his injuries. There were several spectators aside from myself around, and we wondered what to do in this situation. Do you call the police? The guy seemed ok. The car was mostly fine. Do you call the ambulance? Well, we were right across from the hospital, and since he could walk, he could just go over there to get checked out. I got a pen and paper and gave both groups my name and number, in case they need me as a witness. Then I went home.

If I had took a few seconds longer to grab my bike, I could have been pushed along with that other guy too! Scary!

So, it was a crazy day, in that how often do you see someone run over by a rogue car driving the wrong way out of a parking lot and over a ledge?