Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:17:50
‘There was a gun pointing at my head’
Two months ago, Michael Crichton thought he was going to die. In the middle of the night, he woke to find himself staring at a handgun, and two masked men standing over his bed.
“They told me not to move,” Crichton recalls, “and I did what they said. I didn’t move an inch, not with that gun pointed at my head.”
“They told me not to move,” Crichton recalls, “and I did what they said. I didn’t move an inch, not with that gun pointed at my head.”
If you have never had the pleasure of being the victim of a violent crime, you should give this article a going-over. Crichton, with few words, sums it up quite nicely.
“A lot of people have come up to me and told me that they have suffered similar experiences. Robberies and muggings and that kind of thing are far more common than I knew. But you don’t think about that until it happens to you.
“Ordinarily, I live in a world where I can arrange things to my liking. It gives me the impression that I’m in control. That’s a mistake. After the robbery, I was reminded that life is full of surprises that you can’t do anything about. Some things are just the way they are, whether you like it or not.”
“Ordinarily, I live in a world where I can arrange things to my liking. It gives me the impression that I’m in control. That’s a mistake. After the robbery, I was reminded that life is full of surprises that you can’t do anything about. Some things are just the way they are, whether you like it or not.”
They say a Democrat is just a Republican who hasn’t been mugged at gunpoint yet. I’d like to cop a term from Sullivan and say a Liberal is just an Eagle who hasn’t been mugged at gunpoint yet.
Posted by JimK at 05:17 PM on December 02, 2002
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