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re: Rayville Doctor’s family in terrible car crash
Posted on 8/15/23 at 4:36 pm to Ghost of Colby
Posted on 8/15/23 at 4:36 pm to Ghost of Colby
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You hire crackheads and methheads on the cheap, then you open yourself up to losing everything in lawsuits when they cause carnage, mayhem, and death.
You don’t know fricking shite about farming. You aren’t going to hire Rhodes scholars to run farm equipment and work outside you fricking moron. It’s lucky to be able to hire anybody that can read
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Posted on 8/15/23 at 4:45 pm to LSU Tiger Jason
At best you get hands that’ll stick with ya year in and year out.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 4:46 pm to LSU Tiger Jason
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You don’t know fricking shite about farming. You aren’t going to hire Rhodes scholars to run farm equipment and work outside you fricking moron.
You are making his point for him
Posted on 8/15/23 at 4:46 pm to Honest Tune
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At best you get hands that’ll stick with ya year in and year out.
At best they speak english and show up
Posted on 8/15/23 at 5:03 pm to WeeWee
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Yes. I personally know Dr Thompson and his wife. I never met their children though. I also know the driver of the truck and the family of the truck driver.
Does Dr Thompson have a brother whose first name starts with O?
Posted on 8/15/23 at 5:43 pm to LSUballs
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though he went to St. Freds. We're the same age (96 grad).
I knew he went to St. Freds. I thought his older brother went to Neville for some reason. I was pretty sure he at at least spent some time in Monroe as a kid. I think he lived down the street from one of my close friends on Stowers in River Oaks. I am talking late 80's time frame. Did you go to St. Freds as well? Pretty sure he graduated with another good friend of ours that has a dad who is also a Dr. that just moved back to Rayville a few years back after living in Bastrop. Figure I might be connecting a few dots here.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 8:29 pm to LSUTigahss
I know a relative of the family. Horrible, tragic situation doesn't even begin to explain it. Prayers for all involved.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 8:46 pm to MWP
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I knew he went to St. Freds. I thought his older brother went to Neville for some reason. I was pretty sure he at at least spent some time in Monroe as a kid. I think he lived down the street from one of my close friends on Stowers in River Oaks. I am talking late 80's time frame. Did you go to St. Freds as well? Pretty sure he graduated with another good friend of ours that has a dad who is also a Dr. that just moved back to Rayville a few years back after living in Bastrop. Figure I might be connecting a few dots here.
He has an older brother that went to St. Freds that graduated in 92.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 8:46 pm to LSUTigahss
Yep prayers to family and all involved. This is the type of call that shortens a first responders' career, especially in a small town where they probably knew the family. Hard to go back to work after calls like this.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 8:56 pm to Mushroom1968
100% Shroom... Nobody spared in this horrific event...family, truck driver and his family, witnesses/bystanders, first responders/firefighters, and the entire Richland Parish community. You don't ever "get over it" completely.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 10:13 pm to WeeWee
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How do you know it wasn’t a simple case of truck driver coming around a curve and there is a car sitting there trying to turn
As I said in the OP, I was right behind the wreck and drive the road nearly every day. Loooong straight road. No clue what happened but a sudden curve and stopped car wasn’t it. Only thing I can imagine is brake failure. He must’ve been pretty far behind her because I believe she was at a dead stop. There’s skid marks from where she was stopped to turn, up to where the burn marks in the middle of the HWY are.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 11:56 am to LSUTigahss
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Only thing I can imagine is brake failure.
I hope it was something like that rather than driver negligence for everyone's sake, not that it would make it much better.
Saw that the funeral for the two children is Friday. That will be a gut wrenching day.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 1:44 pm to Gris Gris
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I think they will be reminded of these losses every day regardless of physical scars. Scars won't be the catalyst. The losses will. Let's pray they learn eventually to live with this grief. I have no idea how to that with the loss of a child, much less 2.
My oldest sister died in a car wreck at age 26. Was the Monday after Thanksgiving, a few months after graduating from Memphis State (she had a tough time deciding her major as she was very gifted, musically and in several mediums of art but those are not really "career" studies, as in paying the bills) and she was 8 months pregnant with what would have been my parents 1st grandchild. The wreck was at 101st and Memorial in south Tulsa, my parents lived on 107th so that was an intersection they went through every day (Mom was on her way home for lunch and passed while they were still working the scene and couldn't even recognize the car).
I watched Mom walk face first into a wall and nearly knock herself out about a month later, still absolutely distraught with grief. Not a day goes by without us remembering my sister. This all occurred in 1985. Hell, I'm tearing up now just writing this down
Point is, this family will need a LOT of emotional support for at least the next quarter year if not longer. They will never be the same people again as a sudden unforeseen tragedy changes people.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 9:34 pm to Sidicous
Absolutely horrible situation. Praying for this sweet family and anyone else involved, from the truck driver to the first responders.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 10:41 pm to LSUTigahss
I can only imagine what the Mom is going through. She’ll probably have PTSD all of her life and suffer extreme guilt. The amount of strength it takes to keep going after something like that is immeasurable.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 11:35 pm to deltaland
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they hire seasonal crackheads to drive them with no CDL
this guy was 70 years old. i don't want to be an "agiest", but i wonder if 70 year old dudes really need to be behind the wheel of a 80K pound vehicle?
Posted on 8/17/23 at 9:25 pm to MyNameIsNobody
I don’t know I was asking. It was with a question mark - like I didn’t know. Same name and agricultural related both from that area.
Y’all need to relax- it was just a damn question
Y’all need to relax- it was just a damn question
Posted on 8/17/23 at 10:32 pm to VABuckeye
was this in Lake Charles? I saw this exact thing... worst thing I've ever seen
Posted on 8/18/23 at 6:58 am to LSUballs
Damn cutting onions at 7 am
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