Deputy Sheriff killed while attending funeral of fellow deputy sheriff

[BOSSHOG]

A deputy for the St Tammany Parish Louisiana Sheriff's department was killed yesterday when a freak storm downed a Pine Tree on his patrol car as he was on his way to the cemetary to bury a fellow deputy who died last week in a traffic accident.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1181803055208640.xml&coll=1

Another deputy who was in the car hit by the pine tree is in the hospital in critical condition with spinal injuries.

[jobycom]

1. Wow. What a world.

:cry:

[tabasco]

2. Damn - that's awful!

Just goes to show we never know when our day will come.

RIP to the deputy.

[TwilightGardener]

3. There is just no escaping the Reaper when your number's up.

When I lived in Utah, I remember a similar story of a female firefighter who was killed when a big cottonwood tree fell onto her car, and a guy who was fishing in a canyon and a giant boulder let loose from the cliff face and rolled over him. I always thought, what would have happened if the firefighter had gone 36 MPH instead of 35? or if the fishing guy had gone to get a new minnow out of the bucket?

[BOSSHOG]

4. Yep

When I was in the 10th grade I was hit by a car and came within about a half a foot of being killed. It just wasn't my day. That was 37 years ago and I'm still ticking. But I shiver at the thought of that incident.

[BikeWriter]

5. A terrible coincidence. So sad.

[BOSSHOG]

6. The Sheriff's staff is a mess right now

and they have to start planning another funeral (maybe two.) It will be a long, long time before they get over this.