An article in today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch begins this way:
A driver whose SUV plowed into a crowd of lunchtime diners outside a restaurant in downtown Clayton (Mo.) on Tuesday told police he had been blinded by a bright light.
Clayton police Capt. Steve Grenier said police cited the driver, who lost control while making a left turn from westbound Maryland Avenue onto southbound Central Avenue just before noon.
The vehicle, a white Ford Expedition, crossed the sidewalk and ended up in a sunken outdoor dining area at Il Vicino, pinning two diners beneath it and injuring a third, said Clayton Fire Chief Mark Thorp.
Four paragraphs later — a full seven paragraphs into the article — readers learn this:
The driver, Sergio Lopez, 23, who has a post office address in Collinsville (Ill.), is an illegal immigrant from Mexico, said Clayton Police Chief Thomas Byrne. Lopez suffered minor injuries in the crash.
My question is this: What job “that Americans won’t do” enables this illegal immigrant (shown in the photo at right) to afford a vehicle — complete with a “LOPEZ” stencil on his front windshield — that, when tricked out, retails for close to $50,000?
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1 » Illegal Immigrant Crashes Into Diners in $50K SUV NoisyRoom.net: Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart // Sep 19, 2007 at 10:52 am
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2 Keith // Sep 19, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I don’t know about you, Bob, but I like Hummers, which I had the job that he has (had).
But further into the story, and an incentive to follow up … Will he be deported? Will the employer who hired him be fined? Will the folks who provided him with false identification, to include a drivers license (assuming he had one) go to jail? Just deporting illegal aliens is not the only answer.
Good piece, Bob.
3 Always On Watch // Sep 19, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Lopez “told police he had been blinded by a bright light.” What’s that all about? It was broad daylight!
Note: My husband and I can’t afford such a nice vehicle. Hmmmm….
4 resistrevolt // Sep 19, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Maybe the illegal immigrant is really a terrorist who was funded by al Qaeda? Hmmm…maybe?
5 kender // Sep 19, 2007 at 10:21 pm
A 50K vehicle? Man that’s a LOT of oranges on the offramp aint it?
6 Skunkfeathers // Sep 20, 2007 at 5:45 am
Perhaps the enviros will rally to Lopez’s defense, blaming it on the SUV, the “bright light” — a sub-problem of global warming — and ultimately, they’ll blame Bush for this.
Meantime, they’ll provide Lopez with a legal defense fund, face time on Oprah, and nation-wide rallies that urge illegals to stay away from work for a day, to teach us “gringos” a lesson.
7 Illegal Immigrant Repeat Crash Offender « Bob McCarty Writes // Sep 20, 2007 at 6:23 am
[...] Post-Dispatch reports today that the illegal immigrant (the subject of a Bob McCarty Writes™ post yesterday) whose SUV ran into diners outside a Clayton eatery this week had been involved in a [...]
8 Ogre // Sep 20, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Maybe his “job” is stealing SUVs? A lot of Americans don’t want to do that. How about selling drugs? A lot of Americans don’t want to do that, either.
9 Right Truth // Sep 20, 2007 at 2:08 pm
News roundup – something for everybody
On illegal aliens, did you know that “Oregon officials have traveled to Mexico and will adopt some of the curriculum for Mexican and American students in order to provide a better education” to the illegal aliens here inside the USA???
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