For those of you who read the earlier post where I was complaining about the police at the scene of an accident that had occurred the night before, you might be interested in the newspaper articles about the incident. Here are the links to the Arizona Republic articles about it that I've found so far...but from them it just sounds like a little gunfight.
What the articles don't tell you is that these "coyotes," and I only call them that because that's what everyone calls them...seems a little unfair to actual coyotes to me, are vile and dangerous, willing and able to do just about whatever they want. For what it's worth, there is no one more repugnant than the person who lives off another person's suffering, and these...I'm not sure they deserve the label people, so I'll call them slavers, because that's what they are...are even worse. Anyway, it appears, from the skid marks, that the sedan applied brakes about 5 yards before the intersection at 64th Street and Indian School Road and locked the wheels while the truck pushed them into the canal.
The intersection at 64th Street and Indian School Road, for those of you who don't know, is a T (the leg of the T is 64th Street and the bar of the T is Indian School Road). The Arizona Canal runs parallel to Indian School Road. Anyway, as I was saying, the pickup appears to have pushed the sedan through the intersection, through a block wall, and into the canal. The sedan was upside-down in the canal and the pickup truck was right-side-up in the the middle.
Now, for the non-residents, the canals in Arizona aren't particularly deep...only about 5-6 feet in the location I'm talking about, but they run pretty fast and with the various gates and grids that strain some of the uh...debris...out they're very dangerous, even to experienced, well-equipped scuba divers. Frankly, I'm a little surprised that the two women even lived long enough to make it to hospital considering that they were in a car that was upside-down...not to mention having been shot.
I guess it could be said that they were somewhat fortunate because of where they ended up in that the spot where they ended up in the canal is quite clear of many of the hazards they would have hit in other intersections, and they were only about two miles from one of the few Level I trauma rooms in the valley. Another mile further west and they would have been ended up below Arcadia Falls (yes, we have a waterfall...it's used by what's most likely the only hydro-electric plant in the valley).
Anyway, for the political portion of our message...we have got to do something about immigration in this country. People shouldn't have to risk another's life or their own to make a better life for themselves. So talk to your representatives...one thing I know is that before long coyotes are hunting in new territory.
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