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He's a mean little man. Does he shoot old guys in the face, too?
He hit someone and only turned around when he realized there were witnesses?
And 'cited by police'? Please tell me there'll be a trial. Please tell me he'll go to jail. Please tell me that the crime of jaywalking is not worse than hitting a pedestrian with your car and then leaving the scene.
"'You hit someone.'" Novak claimed: "I didn't know I hit anybody...while someone was watching "
Compassion is for pinkos.
I can only hope that the poor bastard he hit sues the everlovin' SHIT out of him... "ow, ow, call my lawyer, I mean, my doctor, ow, ow!!!"
And given that Novak is made of ass, if we're lucky the verdict will cause him to disappear!
Please, please let this go to trial.
(Besides, the last seven years have demonstrated time and again that it isn't a crime when a Republican does it!)
jaywalking = worthy of bodily harm, if not death
Known as "aggressive" driver.
Hit and run indicating impaired judgment.
Simple, really.
Needs to have keys and license taken away.
He's past it.
Jesus. Now I'm afraid to leave the house.
By the way, the ticket that Novak received was for "failure to yield," which right now is a $50 fine, but the DC Council is considering a bill to make the same offense $250 + 3 points. (It's not in response to Novak; I think it's in response to the cyclists that have been getting killed by cars.)
Novacula at a light, someone walks in front of him as he's starting, this unbalances the pedestrian who falls over on the hood. All this at slow speed and nobody is hurt.
In that case, what usually happened was that the ped would slam the car hood with a hand, screaming at the driver, the driver would scream back etc until the driver decided it was time to speed off and that would be that.
Not that I'm saying that it happened this way, but I can see a possibility that he wasn't leaving an injured person on the scene, or where he even thought that police should be involved.
But then again, this is Bob Novak....
A bicyclist chased him down and stopped his further escape. Just as always, he will evade responsibility if he can...
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/23/novak-...
From Politico
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11985...
Novak cited after hitting pedestrian
By JONATHAN MARTIN & CHRIS FRATES | 7/23/08 2:02 PM EST Updated: 7/23/08 2:02 PM EST Text Size:
Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning.
A Politico reporter saw Novak in the front of a police car with a citation in his hand; a WJLA-TV crew and reporter saw Novak as well. The pedestrian, a 66-year-old man who was not further identified by authorities, was treated at George Washington University Hospital for minor injuries, according to D.C. Fire and EMS. Novak was later released by police and drove away from the scene.
“I didn’t know I hit him. ... I feel terrible,” a shaken Novak told reporters from Politico and WJLA as he was returning to his car. "He's not dead, that's the main thing." Novak said he was a block away from 18th and K streets Northwest, where the accident occurred, when a bicyclist stopped him and said he had hit someone. He said he was cited for failing to yield the right of way.
The bicyclist was David Bono, a partner at Harkins Cunningham, who was on his usual bike commute to work at 1700 K St. N.W. when he witnessed the accident.
As he traveled east on K Street, crossing 18th, Bono said "a black Corvette convertible with top closed plows into the guy. The guy is sort of splayed into the windshield.”
Bono said that the pedestrian, who was crossing the street on a "Walk" signal and was in the crosswalk, rolled off the windshield and that Novak then made a right into the service lane of K Street. “This car is speeding away. What’s going through my mind is, you just can’t hit a pedestrian and drive away,” Bono said.
He said he chased Novak half a block down K Street, finally caught up with him and then put his bike in front of the car to block it and called 911. Traffic immediately backed up, horns blaring, until commuters behind Novak backed up so he could pull over.
Bono said that throughout, Novak "keeps trying to get away. He keeps trying to go.” He said he vaguely recognized the longtime political reporter and columnist as a news personality but could not precisely place him.
Finally, Bono said, Novak put his head out the window of his car and motioned him over. Bono said he told him that you can't hit a pedestrian and just drive away. He quoted Novak as responding: “I didn’t see him there.”
A concierge at 1700 K Street said that she saw a bicyclist yelling and walked outside to see what the commotion was about.
"This guy hit somebody and he won't stop so I'm going to stay here until the police come," Aleta Petty quoted Bono as saying, as he stood in K Street, blocking traffic.
Fucking WANKER
So there you go. Justice.
Oh, well, they really threw the book at him, didn't they. I know I feel equally protected under the law as a person of modest means and influence . Hows about you?