Every once in a while there’s one of these stories where the adults were right all along about horseplaying in the street or in a pool or shooting bottle rockets at each other or whatever that makes the parents who constantly warn over that kind of shit feel like they have a new one in their rotation like “That man and his friend were screwing around on sidewalk and he fell into the street with his head right in front of the wheel of a box truck! It squashed him like a watermelon!”
Yeah, that’s this story, via the New York Daily News. Witness Xochitl Mejia told the paper that the two men were drinking on the sidewalk on 60th Street in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn on Friday afternoon and started play-fighting. “He pushed his friend just as the truck was coming, as he fell, his friend tried to grab him and pull him back,” said Mejia, adding “The wheels went right over his head. It was smashed. There was blood coming from his mouth and nose. It was just horrible.”
So now, for probably at least the next five years that every kid in that neighborhood, and in lots of places elsewhere, has to hear about a 30 year-old man who got his head squashed by a truck if they so much as look at each other funny on the sidewalk, all because of these two jackasses.