FERNBROOK RESORT FREELTON: Why Couldn’t Caroline Cope With A
Facebook Comment? Part II
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| One of Fernbrook's scary roads? |
The roads of Fernbrook Resort are unnaturally narrow. So
narrow that one vehicle stopped on the road will snarl traffic in both
directions. Some short stretches are so narrow that even two golf carts can
find it a tight though manageable squeeze. Add to this the potholes. Plenty of
potholes. Especially on the extremely ice covered stretch of road a pedestrian
pedestrian was walking that night. A curving sloping road with no sidewalks.
Dangerous walking during the best of times but a danger that is doubled when a
vehicle decides not to observe common road courtesy nor the posted speed limit.
That is the
situation our pedestrian apparently faced that night.
In the early and
darkened evening while carefully picking their way along a thin unlit stretch
of extremely ice covered and pothole pocked road a car travelling in their
estimation above the posted speed limit came within inches of striking them.
And this was the
genesis for their post on the Facebook site Fernbrook Information and News.
The original post was removed and this is a reproduction of
that pedestrian’s post to the best of our recollection.
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| "Hey, don't blame me, blame my driver!" said PT Cruiser |
“When driving the sometimes perilous roads of Fernbrook I
take care. Especially when pedestrians are present. Tonight, as I was walking
to the clubhouse, a Purple PT Cruiser with a black top zoomed by me very
closely, approximately 3 inches away. If I had extended my elbow I could have
hit the car. Nice driving Bobby Rahal – you’re a sure bet to win the Fernbrook
500 next spring.”
That is the (approximate) Facebook post that one individual
took moral offense to. A post that named no one and only discussed an incident
of questionable driving.
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| "Hey, I would NEVER drive a PT Cruiser," said Bobby Rahal |
And a post that one individual, a certain Caroline, couldn’t
cope with. She found this comment reeked of harassment.
Do you find this comment harassing? Perhaps our Caroline in
the Country drives a Purple PT Cruiser with a black top. Or maybe one of Caroline’s
tom fool friends, a dear friend who engages in harassing behavior, drives a
Purple PT Cruiser with a black top. And she was just covering her (or his)
lumpy and remarkably hairy ass.
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| "If I can't cope with the truth," cried Caroline in the Country, "then it's harassment!" |
This guest story was submitted by Multatuli.
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