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The Drive-Thru Was Closed

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IN PORT ORANGE, FLORIDA, A 92-YR.-OLD MAN DROVE HIS car through the front wall of a restaurant after pressing the wrong pedal.   That is not unusual in Florida …… it happens all the time down there.  Fortunately, the table inside where the front bumper ended up had just been vacated a few seconds before the intrusion.

breakfast a WESH

But what made this crash different is what happened next.  The geezer who was driving calmly got out of his car and walked inside and asked if anybody was injured.  When told that everybody was ok, he then sat down at a table and ordered breakfast.  That’s what he had come there for, in the first place.

The police waited until he had finished his meal before they charged him with careless driving.

WESH-TV was there and filed this video report:

Posted by on January 7, 2010 • Filed under: current events, News, Videos • Tagged: , , , ,
  • Peter

    I don't blame him for grabbing breakfast….it's common around here for the FD to have to wait a half hour at a wreck, just for the cops to show up and start their paperwork. He probably had time. Plus, he probably was thinking ahead to his defense “well, it was like this officer, I am a borderline diabetic, and I had to eat on schedule. That's probably why I blacked out driving into the parking lot. My lawyer will show that it was a medical emergency, not careless and reckless.”

  • Peter

    I don't blame him for grabbing breakfast….it's common around here for the FD to have to wait a half hour at a wreck, just for the cops to show up and start their paperwork. He probably had time. Plus, he probably was thinking ahead to his defense “well, it was like this officer, I am a borderline diabetic, and I had to eat on schedule. That's probably why I blacked out driving into the parking lot. My lawyer will show that it was a medical emergency, not careless and reckless.”