Comments on: An ironic death

By: doesn't matter

doesn't matter — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:27:45 +0000

Tim Murphy was a great man, he touched so many people and made a tremendous impact on the community and surrounding area. He served the great state of Minnesota for 26 years and saw so many things that you vommit just thinking about. He would tell me about horrible car accidents that he would have to deal with, the hardest was going into a house and telling two parents that their little angel wouldn’t be coming home. So before you go judging the man about not wearing a seatbelt, why don’t you judge him on his character. But you don’t even know who he is, and yet you write a little blog about some shmuck who died because he didn’t wear his seatbelt. Well I knew Tim Murphy, he was the greatest man I ever knew, not a day goes by that I don’t think of him. And before you post blogs about someones loved ones why don’t you think about how you would feel if one of your loved ones was talked about in a blog after they died. What if I wrote this blog about your father, how would you feel? Tim Murphy was my father and he put his life on the line every day of his job to protect people like you, so why don’t you show him a little more respect.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:45:21 +0000

He did not go crashing down any hill!

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:09:22 +0000

Jim, we have a similar saying in Minnesota regarding Saint Paul.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:38:49 +0000

To quote (Chesterton) “The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road”.

http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/1999/10/rolling-english-road-g-k-chesterton.html

By: SimonG

SimonG — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:51:08 +0000

Most of the country roads in (Old) England are fairly twisty, too, following natural boundaries and the like. There are the old Roman roads too, of course, for variety. Also the Fens, the roads of which tend to have long straight sections linked by badly marked 90 degree bends.

By: Eric Lund

Eric Lund — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:12:33 +0000

“Every road in New England curves back and forth like this, winding around hills and bodies of water. Unlike the rest of the curvy road, which is just turns that follow old land ownership changes, this part of the road is sinuous, and follows a complicated hilly and bog-pocked landscape.

For those of us who have spent a significant amount of time in places like New England, as you and I have, it’s easy to forget that many Americans have little or no experience with roads like this. In most areas that were settled in the 19th century or later, there was an overpowering tendency to impose a grid on the street systems, even in places where it is inappropriate (witness the streets in some parts of San Francisco, particularly Telegraph Hill, which are passable for pedestrians but not vehicles). Even in places with older settlements, you see this phenomenon in the form of township boundaries drawn without regard for the terrain (it’s not unusual here in New Hampshire to find areas where you cannot drive to your town hall without leaving town).

Arguably, as a former state trooper who was familiar with the area Mr. Murphy should have known better, but it’s easy to imagine that he might have forgotten about the curvy section until he was in the middle of it.

By: Rich Wilson

Rich Wilson — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:02:58 +0000

Just guessing that a “don’t look like a deer” would be in order for you?