Posted
3/30/2004 09:13:00 PM
by Douglas
This is just awful. I can't believe this guy is
OK:By the time the other driver approached Theisen's car, he had inexplicably disappeared. When police arrived he could still not be found. They assumed he had fled the scene of the accident.
What they did not know was that Theisen had climbed over the traffic barrier to get out of the way of the traffic and suddenly collapsed. The minor accident had caused major injuries.
For 36 hours, while his family filed a missing person's report and searched for him, he lay there paralyzed with a broken neck, talking to God and thinking about his life until Rodriguez came to the rescue. After learning that Theisen's car had been involved in a traffic accident and that the driver had supposedly fled the scene, the family concluded that he had been carjacked.
36 hours on the Gulf Freeway; my greatest fear. For being as
un-lucky he is, this guy is pretty damn lucky.