Photo of the Day: November 27, 2009
Car Pushed Into Anacostia River By Train
Morning Roundup: Black Friday Edition
Devendra Banhart @ 9:30 Club
Saturday Thanks Don't End At Thanksgiving Photo: November 28, 2009
- This seemed inevitable: DCPS CFO Noah Wepman was fired on Friday, according to sources. Wepman was made to look a fool by the D.C. Council after they grilled him at a hearing on the recent D.C. Schools RIFs, to the point where he admitted withholding budget numbers from the legislative body. [WTOP]
- A bicyclist was struck and killed Saturday morning by a Bladensburg police officer, authorities only announce today. "The cyclist, who police have not identified, was pulling onto Annapolis Road from the Bladen Plaza Shopping Center about 2 a.m. when he crossed the path of a Bladensburg police officer headed west, police said. The front right section of the cruiser hit the cyclist, and he was transported to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, police said." [WaPo]
- Potential new owners for the Maples, a historic mansion on Capitol Hill, weren't able to put together the funds they needed in time to make the purchase, and now PETA is looking at the property. [The Hill is Home]
- Businesses along Bonifant Road in Silver Spring are worried that the proposed Purple Line will block automobile access to their storefronts. [Silver Spring Penguin]
- Dave Stroup profiles mayoral candidate Leo Alexander, writes, "There is more to Alexander's campaign" than being against illegal immigration. [District Daily]
- Bruce Johnson profiles the Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church, site of many tragic funerals for young people in the last year, most recently that of 19-year-old shooting victim Aaron Brice. [WUSA]
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We went to the Macy's at 12th & G this morning for the Black Friday morning specials. There was a sh
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The photo link is broken... also, the frame for the flickr note is still in your screengrab...
yup that's pretty much a dcist photo fail...
let me lend a hand here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevharb/4084481307/in/pool-dcist
should be all fixed now
The front right section of the cruiser hit the cyclist, and he was transported to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, police said.
So the cyclist was still on the hood of the cruiser when he got to the hospital? Things must be pretty tough in Bladensburg when the cops have to do double duty as ambulance drivers for their own accidents.
I think the cruiser hit the cyclist so hard, he was "transported" to a nearby hospital.
Forget the magnets. WMATA should look into "hood-lev transit" technologies. And while this means of public transit will almost certainly have a carbon-neutral footprint, they need to work out some of the kinks in the hoodprint, probably with a rubber mallet. I predict a $12 million multi-year feasibility study that will conclude that more study is needed.
So whatever happened to that basic drivers education rule that says, you are responsible for any accident that occurs from your front car doors forward? If "front right section of the cruiser hit the cyclist" then sounds like the police car driver could have had time to stop.
That’s never been basic drivers ed, because you are ignoring the fact that people can hit you in the front car doors forward (i.e. head on collisions).
Let’s wildly speculate that:
A. This was Bladensburg, so not a hipster on a fixie.
B. 2am Saturday morning. Pulling out of a shopping center where the last store closed 5 hrs ago.
There is enough there to withhold judgment.