ST Guy
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While I'm not denying that she didn't notice it, pulling in, scraping the car, and then immediately leaving is certainly suspicious vs pulling in, scraping, doing your business, and leaving. It makes it look like you're trying to get away.
Yea, the fact that she pulled in and then pulled right back out again doesn't look good. And the fact that she didn't, at first recall going there doesn't help either. But she was quite taken aback by the sudden appearance of 3 officers who sat her down on our front steps and also of the questioning they did. The young officer (of the three) kept telling her (paraphrasing) that if she'd simply tell the truth, things would go better for her. Since she really was unaware that she hit another car, she was already telling the truth and had no other tale to tell.
And for those who can't understand how one could make contact with another vehicle and not know, it happens all the time. It all depends upon the type of contact, angle of attack (so to speak), materials involved, speed of the contact, etc., etc. If you really don't think it's possible, think of the last time you discovered a cut/abrasion/bruise on your arm or leg and had no clue, even after thinking about it, when or where it happened. One would think with all the nerves in our skin that cutting or abrading or crushing tissue enough to bruise it would be immediately noticeable and memorable. Obviously that's not the case.
As for not recalling at first that she'd been there, the officers first asked her where she had been yesterday and she said she'd been to Los Gatos. The reason she didn't recall, at first the short detour to the post office is that she never completed her business there, didn't even get out of the car. And she goes there all the time for other business so a 2 block trip to a place she goes to all the time and where nothing of any note happened was something not easily recalled when she's a bit freaked out by the presence of the officers. Normal human reaction.
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