Mistaken ID stuns crash victims' families

LakeTahoe said:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13081646/from/ET/


YIKES!!!
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Whoa Man !!!!! That would have been very hard for any family to take and the family celebrations are not 100% family celebration, just 50 % -50 % which isn't too great. Yes, Happy that someone is alive but they also would prefer that another family's daughter is alive too. My prayers go out to these families ..... I hope the community are helping them out with the bills for the hospital bill and the funeral bill so that it would not be a great burden upon these familes.... God Bless them somehow..... :angel:
 
wow.. that is so sad to hear that they messed up on the id of the girls. :( how did that happen? i wonder? sighs..

especially already pay for the headstone? i guess they will replace the headstone at no expense? i hope so.. sighs..
 
I read about that this morning. Wow, shocking!

That reminded me of an episode of Nash Bridges where the situation was almost exactly the same.
 
Mistaken ID stuns crash victims' families Thread...

Hey! I created this thread about mixed up girls YESTERDAY..no one replied...:(
 
Really? Sorry...I didn't know you posted. Forgive me?

MOD can you merge it? Thanks! :thumb:
 
coloravalanche said:
Mistaken ID stuns crash victims' families Thread...

Hey! I created this thread about mixed up girls YESTERDAY..no one replied...:(
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I did not see that and I responded to your post.... God Bless ..... :angel:
 
I was having a late lunch with my parents at Perkins and read the article, and nearly fell off the chair. I see a lawsuit that is going to bankrupt a lot of medical "professionals" and rightly it should. This is inexcusable for everyone. The parents should have been able to tell who the heck their daughter is, wouldn't you think? I think, based on the article that said the parents spotted it, BOTH PARENTS should have to retake parenting skills classes and learn how to identify their own children. :roll:
 
pek1 said:
I was having a late lunch with my parents at Perkins and read the article, and nearly fell off the chair. I see a lawsuit that is going to bankrupt a lot of medical "professionals" and rightly it should. This is inexcusable for everyone. The parents should have been able to tell who the heck their daughter is, wouldn't you think? I think, based on the article that said the parents spotted it, BOTH PARENTS should have to retake parenting skills classes and learn how to identify their own children. :roll:
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Whoa Pete, Man !!!!! Take it easy.... They were obivously in emotional turmoil and I think that girl's face was so swollen up that it was hard to identify their daughter and they honestly thought it was their daughter. Also people who have been thrown from their cars sometimes land in the grass opposite of where the driver's seat and the passenger seat were. The students obivously thought it was her and that girl was that girl right there and they were obivously in emotional turmoil too. They made honest mistakes and yes those things sometimes do happen at car accident scenes. It was nobody's fault. You need to stop being a very cold journalist. I have noticed it sometimes and it bothers me so lay off of these families. They have suffered enough already and God Bless their souls ......
 
Heath said:
Whoa Pete, Man !!!!! Take it easy.... They were obivously in emotional turmoil and I think that girl's face was so swollen up that it was hard to identify their daughter and they honestly thought it was their daughter. Also people who have been thrown from their cars sometimes land in the grass opposite of where the driver's seat and the passenger seat were. The students obivously thought it was her and that girl was that girl right there and they were obivously in emotional turmoil too. They made honest mistakes and yes those things sometimes do happen at car accident scenes. It was nobody's fault. You need to stop being a very cold journalist. I have noticed it sometimes and it bothers me so lay off of these families. They have suffered enough already and God Bless their souls ......
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With all due respect, Heath, I don't agree. Do you have a system in place that you would be able to identify someone in either case? For example, when I had surgery on my left hand, my hearing aids and glasses weren't on when I was on the stretcher. The surgeon came over and started talking to me. I didn't recognize his voice or see his mouth (the mask was already on), neither did I recognize his glasses. I looked down at his fingers and replied, "Oh, it's you." The doctor asked me, "How'd you know it was me?" I replied and raised my hand to show my fingernails, "Flat fingernails." His resident kidded him about it. You see, his fingernails were not like the "sad face" (look at your nails), :( they were more flat, even more like a "smile." :)

I described all this to say that the parents on both sides should have known what their daughter's fingers looked like. I know my three nieces and one nephews fingers and would be able to identify them by such in a line up. Same with my parents, I'd know theirs. Same with eye color and the color around them. If you're as deaf as you say you are, Heath, you should know how to identify people in other ways than just by their faces. There's something seriously wrong when a parent, or in this case, parents, can't identify their kids, even after weeks of being in a coma. I'm willing to bet the house that if one of those young women were related to me, I'd be able to pick up on that within a few seconds, thus saving the doctors and everyone else from embarrassment of mixing up the bodies. Both sets of parents should be ashamed of themselves, I know I would be. :o

As for being hard on them, not at all. I'm sure the living young woman will have "words" with her family just as soon as she is able to and when she finds out about it, if she is capable of it. A family like that on both sides . . . sure am glad they're not related to me, that's all I'll say.
 
coloravalanche said:
more link for you to read...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060605/ap_on_re_us/mixed_up_victims
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coloravalanche,

I looked at the pictures and read the article. However, I still stand by what I said. A boyfriend who identified someone else's fingers and etc., to be his girlfriend's :ugh3: . . . he had to be some boyfriend! :roll: He should have caught it, after all, they'd been together for what, three years? Her parents, what's with them? What birdbrains! :crazy: If they had bent down to kiss the young woman they thought was their daughter and remembered what it was like when she was young, getting night time kisses and all, they would have been the first to say, "Hey, this isn't our daughter!" What about physical distinguishing marks that a parent would know about? Birthmarks, moles, other blemishes??? :confused: :confused:

Sad part of all this is a bunch of people are going to be sued (rightly so), but, I don't believe any of the family members or anyone else related to them should get one red cent for any reason.

Granted, I'm a bit hard on everyone, but I'm taking the side of someone who was mistakenly identified, by her own family and friends, no less!
 
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