Here we go again...
Tralala lala I'm walking on the sidewalk on a colder than usual Chicago day.
I see from afar a toddler riding his tricycle. Falling leaves, winter is coming.
As I walk towards the kid I hear the trees creaking, pretty normal for a windy day.
I am getting closer to the kid when I notice a gigantic branch is about to cut off from a tree, I mean it is just hanging there and it so noticeable and obviuos that I wonder why the heck the neighbors have not called the city or whoever to come and cut it off.
Getting closer so I try to go around but then I hear more creaking and the branch, the size of a row boat cuts off and start to fall down.
With the corner of my eye I notice the kid is right below the falling path of the branch.
In a milisecond I jump to where the kid is but did not have time to get off the way, so I shield the kid with my arms and body and hope for the best...or worst.
When I open my eyes I am inside an ambulance, neck brace, oxygen mask, paramedic preparing a needle.
I open my eyes again and I am in hospital bed.
A nurse asked me if I was in a bad car crash.
I open my eyes again, a doctor is studying some xrays...we inserted a titanium plate here and there to hold this and that together.
I asked what happened to the kid. He says kid is fine and is waiting outside with his parents to thank me.
Kid comes in the room, hugs me and cries, his parents cry.
When I get home I hire a lawyer. He tells me the city doesn't want to be blamed because they don't own the trees. The neighborhood block doesn't want to be blamed cause the trees are just trees.
So pretty much you are on your own when a branch falls onto you. Sure insurance covers but I want to make sure this doesn't happen to some little girl playing on a sidewalk.
I was lucky to come out of it in 1 piece...actually pieces glued together. A kid won't have such a luck.
Someone needs to take the blame.
Tralala lala I'm walking on the sidewalk on a colder than usual Chicago day.
I see from afar a toddler riding his tricycle. Falling leaves, winter is coming.
As I walk towards the kid I hear the trees creaking, pretty normal for a windy day.
I am getting closer to the kid when I notice a gigantic branch is about to cut off from a tree, I mean it is just hanging there and it so noticeable and obviuos that I wonder why the heck the neighbors have not called the city or whoever to come and cut it off.
Getting closer so I try to go around but then I hear more creaking and the branch, the size of a row boat cuts off and start to fall down.
With the corner of my eye I notice the kid is right below the falling path of the branch.
In a milisecond I jump to where the kid is but did not have time to get off the way, so I shield the kid with my arms and body and hope for the best...or worst.
When I open my eyes I am inside an ambulance, neck brace, oxygen mask, paramedic preparing a needle.
I open my eyes again and I am in hospital bed.
A nurse asked me if I was in a bad car crash.
I open my eyes again, a doctor is studying some xrays...we inserted a titanium plate here and there to hold this and that together.
I asked what happened to the kid. He says kid is fine and is waiting outside with his parents to thank me.
Kid comes in the room, hugs me and cries, his parents cry.
When I get home I hire a lawyer. He tells me the city doesn't want to be blamed because they don't own the trees. The neighborhood block doesn't want to be blamed cause the trees are just trees.
So pretty much you are on your own when a branch falls onto you. Sure insurance covers but I want to make sure this doesn't happen to some little girl playing on a sidewalk.
I was lucky to come out of it in 1 piece...actually pieces glued together. A kid won't have such a luck.
Someone needs to take the blame.
