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  1. Original post
    Callistus Valerius
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    I-10 hit-run victim was Navy veteran

    ARIZONA DAILY STAR

    Authorities on Tuesday identified a bicyclist killed earlier this month when
    he was struck on Interstate 10 by a big rig.

    Edward William Rose, 63, was riding his bicycle on the interstate near
    Marana on Dec. 13 when he was killed in a hit-and-run collision.

    The last known address for Rose was in Bisbee, though investigators said
    they believe he has not lived there for some time. Rose was originally from
    California and had been living in southeastern Arizona since 1980. He was a
    Navy veteran who served on the USS Enterprise. His last known occupation was
    in-home caretaker, according to a news release from the state Department of
    Public Safety.

    Rose was identified by his fingerprints.

    Detectives still are looking for the truck that hit Rose and are
    interviewing witnesses, said DPS Officer Frank Torres.

    Anyone with information may call 746-4500 or 88-CRIME, the anonymous tip
    line of the Pima County Attorney's Office.

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  2. J999w
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    Rose was identified by his fingerprints.

    Ouch. That says a lot.

    jw

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  3. Curtis L. Russell
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    (J999w) said:
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    Rose was identified by his fingerprints.

    Ouch. That says a lot.

    jw

    Not necessarily. In-home caretakers can easily have a low social
    profile and the fingerprints going to an arrest or Department of
    Defense record may have been the only easily available public record.

    Besides, for the person that died, the quicker the better. The nurses
    assistant that had the man stuck in her windshield comes to mind as a
    much less acceptable alternative. I never saw the results of that, but
    if anyone deserves a long separation from society...

    Curtis L. Russell
    Odenton, MD (USA)
    Just someone on two wheels...

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  4. Tom Kunich
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    "Curtis L. Russell" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    (J999w) said:
    Quoted message said:

    Rose was identified by his fingerprints.

    Ouch. That says a lot.

    jw

    Not necessarily. In-home caretakers can easily have a low social
    profile and the fingerprints going to an arrest or Department of
    Defense record may have been the only easily available public record.

    Besides, for the person that died, the quicker the better. The nurses
    assistant that had the man stuck in her windshield comes to mind as a
    much less acceptable alternative. I never saw the results of that, but
    if anyone deserves a long separation from society...

    Curtis L. Russell
    Odenton, MD (USA)
    Just someone on two wheels...

    Sort of pathetic that when this guy was just some bicyclist who was run over
    on the highway no one thought anything about him. Find out that he was a
    real person and all of a sudden he gains stature almost to human being.

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  5. Callistus Valerius
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    Sort of pathetic that when this guy was just some bicyclist who was run


    over

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    on the highway no one thought anything about him. Find out that he was a
    real person and all of a sudden he gains stature almost to human being.

    it was just roadkill till the fingerprints, in the computer, revealed a
    name and resume. in fact, a few of the motorists that drove over, what was
    left of him, called the police, after the story came out. they said they
    thought they went over a dead animal. in one of the followup stories, it
    was revealed that 75% of the body is still missing. what they had to work
    with was some arms, a head, and one leg.

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  6. Curtis L. Russell
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    On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:47:53 GMT, "Tom Kunich" <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    Sort of pathetic that when this guy was just some bicyclist who was run over
    on the highway no one thought anything about him. Find out that he was a
    real person and all of a sudden he gains stature almost to human being.

    We start as statistics and to statistics we will return. Chung will
    triumph in the end - I can only hope to be a dot somewhere on my own
    in the fourth quadrant. I'm dedicating the rest of my life to
    developing non-correlative attributes, but my wife is starting to
    worry.

    Curtis L. Russell
    Odenton, MD (USA)
    Just someone on two wheels...

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  7. Tom
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    On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:47:53 GMT, "Tom Kunich" <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:

    Sort of pathetic that when this guy was just some bicyclist
    who was run over on the highway no one thought anything about
    him. Find out that he was a real person and all of a sudden
    he gains stature almost to human being.

    "We start as statistics and to statistics we will return."

    That's true but what continues to go through my mind is that some
    drugged out hippy walked out onto the freeway by my house near midnight
    back in the 70's.

    He was struck by a car and killed. This was unfortunate but
    understandable. The driver was somewhat high himself but had the walker
    not been on his way to the fast lane there wouldn't have been a death.

    But the absolutely shocking thing to me was that there was a line of
    cars behind the body stopped. They began DRIVING OVER THE CORPSE!
    Perhaps 3 cars did this before I went ballistic. Luckily a cop got
    there about that time and the rest routed around the deceased or else
    there's a good chance that there'd have been some related deaths.

    But I NEVER forgot what people are willing to do to other people they
    don't know.

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