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This image taken from video shows an SUV after it plowed into a Dunkin' Donuts store in Jersey City on Monday.
Officials say eight people were injured, three critically, when an SUV crashed into a Dunkin' Donuts store in Jersey City Monday evening.
Authorities say the driver of the white SUV, a 14-year-old girl and a pregnant woman were among those injured in the accident. It wasn't clear what caused the SUV to careen into the shop at 318 Central Ave. at about 8:30 p.m.
Six people were taken to the hospital and two were treated at the scene. Some of the injuries were serious. It wasn't immediately clear who was driving.
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Fire Director Armando Roman says the teenage girl was in the shop with her mother and sister when the accident occurred. She suffered head trauma and two broken legs.
Rabson says the girl has undergone surgery. Four others are in stable condition after being treated for trauma.
A police spokesman says the SUV driver was injured but that the severity of the injuries isn't known. The pregnant's woman condition is also unknown.
Bystanders described a chaotic scene, with people being carried by on stretchers and gawkers crowding the avenue near the store.
Jason Wilkins, of Jersey City, said he'd never witnessed such a scene.
"My prayers go out to anyone that got hurt," Wilkins said. "It was a pretty gruesome scene."
The incident is under investigation. The store is expected to reopen once a Department of Health inspection is complete, an employee said.
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WOW!! All those sprinkles on an SUV!!
"The store is expected to reopen once a Department of Health inspection is complete, an employee said."
WTF? They need to make sure there's no metal or glass fragments on the donuts? I'm surprised no cops were injured.
Jelly everywhere of all kinds. Hazmat included.
What the hell is a 14 year old pregnant woman doing driving an SUV? I thought they usually drove Cavaliers and Sunfires.
LMAO Sirlafalot! That is exactly how I read the first sentence!
@Sirlafalot
'Sirlafalot', I have to make the admission that I always read your posts with the expectation of a chuckle; and you seldom disappoint ( And yes, ...I feel VERY guilty about that! ;-)
Your take-away from the facts listed in this article for some reason reminded me of the wonderful routine by the late Victor Borge, which he called "Phonetic Punctuation." Sometimes I think all of us could improve our reading comprehension if we had someone like Victor standing at our side providing the punctuation sound-effects while we read.
YouTube: Victor Borge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4qii8S3gw
Now that's funny! Thanks
where's a cop when you need one
Anybody wondering if that cop is thinking I got some free-bees here and all you can eat!
Is that blood, or did your jelly-filled donut explode?
Ahhh - what a wonderful god to spare these lives. Ohh wait, didn't he cause the crash in the first place?? Couldn't he have prevented it like he prevented the bullet from killing that pope some time ago? Gotta love god: he could cure world hunger and cancer but he's rather just watch me masturbate.
You are a heartless smartass. Along w/ Mario 69
Good one, Bruno.
Here2Opine, if you think he's wrong, give some reasons. Your God is supposedly out there saving people left and right, why not here? What did that pregnant girl do that was so wrong that God sent an SUV after her?
Gee Bruno, why would He want to watch you struggle with such a small event?
Gee bagdadjoe...who can know the mind of "god"?
Pretty disgusting - I open up the comments and the first ones are cruel. Where is your compassion for those that are going to suffer for a long time?
Bruno - most people that believe in God do not equate him with comic book Superman. Our lives are going to be filled with heartache and difficulty, that is guaranteed. But He will give us the strength to endure.
Condolences to the survivors and their families.
Sorry. Not everyone likes sprinkles.
2 each her own.
bagdadjoe - he watches everything right? Sees everything. And I don't struggle. I'm successful every time and I unload all those potential souls into a tissue that god allowed to be put in a little box so they bring the next one up every time I take one. Tissues in a box are a miracle from god!!
t bruno: You are confusing God with the human small-minded version that is created to confuse people such as you.
excellent post Bruno...time to wake up people...take control of your lives and stop wasting time asking a non-existant being in the sky to help you.
It's funny how people think that GOD should be out there doing everything for us. He could cure world hunger? According to the bible we lived in paradise without world hunger and death and our ancestors turned their back on that. I mean ever heard the saying, to know good you have to know evil? People like t bruno wants GOD to spoil us rotten. Do everything for us. Perhaps he would prefer GOD to control us like a puppet. Whether or not you believe in GOD is one thing. But if you took the time to think for just one second you could see why those that believe in GOD know why he allows some of the things that he does. I can tell you this, after seeing and experiencing all this evil, I sure will appreciate heaven when I get their. I probably couldn't say the same thing if GOD had made earth paradise. I'd probably be an appreciative jerk like Lucifer.
SpsTorres, you are extremely delusional. You are talking about God and Lucifer and heaven as if they really exist. Do yourself a favor, do some research and think for yourself for a change. There is no more proof of God's existence than there is for Santa Clause or the Tooth Fairy.
And if you believe in what you read in the Bible, which I'm sure you do, you'll believe that everything we do is already per-ordained, so, yeah, your God IS pulling the strings on your life.
t bruno
I pray to God that you learn to masturbate with two hands.
@Joe Joe, it doesn't matter what I believe, that is no business of yours. So people who don't believe in GOD go around and belittle those of us that do? How stupid. I think for myself and I have an open mind. But you didn't know open mind and believing in GOD could go together, huh? Also, the bible doesn't say that we have a fate that we can't change. What kind of Sci-fi BS. are you on? PS. it's funny that when people try to dissprove GOD they say, why would he let this stuff happen, and then when you try and explain it, they say, THINK FOR YOURSELF. lol
Ummmm..... good story?
That's it! We as Americans need to ban assault vehicles now! Stop the bloodshed!
I need a gun and I'm not a cop. My guns have killed nothing except rats...you like rats??? What you mean is you don't need a gun...I guess there's a reason for that. Since you don't need a gun, why don't you put up a sign on your front door "Gun Free Home"....but don't hold me responsible for the consequences. "Everyone needs transportation"...walk or drive a small sensible car instead of a cruise missle. Nobody needs an SUV.
...@Shandril, actually nobody really needs a car! ...More people should ride the bus or a bicycle! The world is running out of oil and it is starting lots of wars!
...We do need guns, however, to protect ourselves from all these liberal-extremist nuts out there in assualt vehicles!
I wouldn't say nobody. But you are indeed correct. Most people have no need of one.
There are easier ways to kill rats by the way. I'd say your way is very labor intensive.
bagdadjoe-1347766: Bring your guns and break into my gun free home. You won't walk out.
bagdadjoe-1347766 I don't own or carry, carry your gun try to pull it, go ahead reach for it, big D---. I dare you! You'll be dead before can pull the trigger! If you have the guts. It takes a lot of guts to kill a man face to face.
@getagrip1: Actually I do need a car, my home is 10 miles from the nearest bus stop and 15 miles from the nearest trolley stop.I work 36 miles from home and there is no Trolley that goes between my work and my home.
But I also drive a electric vehicle, have solar panels, siphon my own water and grow my own food.
Don't know why or how my text got so big...
D-Con poisons a rat to a slow death. Not a "nice way to go". Rodent traps that glue an animal down and they are thrown in the trash to starve to death. Not a "nice way to go". Shot with a gun. Pretty quick way to go.
@Shandril,
I have a small Silouet sign (6"X8") on the front lawn next to the walkway with three back dots in the chest and three in the head with the caption "This home protected by Smith and Wesson".
You don't want to own a gun, that is fine by me, but don't try and take mine from me and expect to wake up the next day.
I go to the range often, and I never had an event that required me to even think about picking up my firearm at my home except to go off to the range, or clean them when I got back. You want to live in a fantisy land where you call 911 and expect the cops to be there in 3.7 seconds...
This cop should not have shot the dad, from what I can gather from the facts in the article, he was un armed. That is a Zimmerman....
My bad, the last sentence belongs on another topic. Copy paste error.
Nope, but we must ban that same mentality. It is the same people, the same stereotype, you know, weapons, SUVs, republicans, etc, etc. You got my drift ?
I'm glad you find this funny. I'm sure if it were you or your family member sitting in the restaurant then it wouldn't be so funny...correct?
Funny how the community collasped your remarks for being inappropriate! hahhaha
RE: 7 & 8.1
I've seen a lot of your comments on the Vine, Shandril Too!. You seem to be a bitter, hateful person, and you've made some really dumb, hateful and/or bitter comments, but 7 & 8.1 are two of your dumbest. In my opinion, of course. I feel very sorry for people who can find no joy or goodness in life.
Ohhhh...the drive thru window is on the other side...my bad.
I wish all the best to those hurt.
I hope that happens to you or one of your family members then...when i read the article i will laugh! your sick!!!!!!!!!!!
my message was to shandril too!
Humor comes from pain people. It is a sad story, for sure, it's sad so many were hurt and I do wish them speedy and full recoveries. I'm not a beast. How many jokes are made around just about every sad situation? This was an attempt at levity kljjtl! Calm yourself.
Is it just too soon for humor? Have a cup of coffee and then reread it, it might be funny the 2nd time around.
I've had my coffee thank you very much. I will pray this happens to one of your family members or a close friend and then I will laugh my ass off while your crying about it. Get a life. Only sick people find it funny when people die or get hurt.
Gee kljjtl....you appear to have the same kind of vengeance one finds among most shallow rightwingers. As for "praying"...aren`t christians taught to forgive those who trespass against them?
sorry for the like kljjtl, wish i could take it back. I haven't had my coffee yet this morning p.s. its kind of like during the sappy part of a movie when my bf makes a fart noise.
Wow...you will pray that one of my family members gets hurt or killed and you're calling me sick?
Wow! I mean, wow...I'm befuddled here. Praying not for my harm, but for that of my family. You are certainly off your rocker, have definite anger issues and likely need therapy outside of the church.
You're praying...I'd take that as you are religeous...some variant of Christianity proabably...so I can make this ascertation without reservation, you are not a very good Christian, certainly not closely following Christ's teachings.
You should probably be saying something like, "Goodness, Chris, your mind is twisted and you have gone astray. I pray that you see the errors of your ways and God can guide your towards a more compassionate path. More importantly, I pray that the injured feel the Lord's love in this time of desparate need. Chris, may you find your way back into His flock."
Sparky-2737266
Your hatred of the Republicans is rabid. Get some help before your anger issues manifest into a disease.
Or people that pray for the death of others, right hypocrite?
Why is there an overwhelming amount of NJ stories on NBC.com? No other site covers so many, except of course The NJ site itself.
another good reason too stay away from DD. has anyone noticed that the quality has diminshed and the choices of donuts is less. it used to be a treat now it is just something to put in your mouth to keep you from talking about how good a donut used to be when we went to the FAMILY bakery!
At least it wasn't a Krispy Kreme.
The driver was probably on their cell phone, drunk or high, distracted by something else in the vehicle or along the roadway, or became ill & passed out. My bet is cell phone.
Regardless of who or what they were or might have been doing; there have certainly been a lot of commercial building "incursions" lately.
Our friendly community Building Inspectors, engineers and various other government CODE officers and such have "missed the boat" when it comes to protecting people and property by simply requiring a minimum 6" steel pipe barrier in front of commercial establishments, with pipes filled with and buried in concrete to depth of at lest four feet; spaced approximately four feet apart. Usually our friendly (pain in the ass) code officer makes his regular trips to commercial establishments and will cite owners for frivolous infractions while 4,000 pound vehicles drive through nothing more than a massive, metal framed, plate glass window with coffee customers seated at ground zero awaiting to meet their maker.............
The driver may have just needed a Boston Creme in the worst way...
Chris,,,do you have both parents or any family members still alive? So if they were run over by a car while having breakfast then your saying its ok if I laugh my ass off? How is it funny to be eating breakfast and then being injured or dying? You should please just stop writing now because it is offensive.
kljjtl....why are you an advocate of censorship? Do you think in a nation whose citizens pride themselves on freedom of speech, censorship should be enforced for those offended by what others might write or post?
Did you read the article? It was 8:30 PM, so it was dessert they were eating, possibly satisfying some munchies.
kljjtl, may I recommend some of Kurt Vonnegut's writings to you, specifically, Humorous Atrocities.
A very, very common means of dealing with horrific events is humor. I certainly wouldn't be the only person on the face of the earth, and I'm likely one of the least famous.
If your anger is best vented through forums, perhaps there are some much more popular people that you can asail while speaking to a much larger audience.
Yes I am religious but as far as what kind, its none of your business and irrelavent. I am very intelligent and just don't find this funny. I pity you people that this is so amusing to you. Sorry I don't think its so funny when people die. I don't need a book to understand humor as i understand already. why is it so hard to believe that i don't find death a joke? I think you need therapy badly. I vent through communication. You seem hotheaded! Take a chill pill
You wish & pray for someone and their family harm & death and you're offended? Are you serious?
kljjtl... What do you find so offensive about joking? No one died as a result of the accident. All will recover from the injuries, as far as we know from the article. If you take a minute to realize this, you might not be so compelled to verbally attack the other posters here.
You wish horrible and heartbreaking events on people who only post their harmless thoughts. Why? Have you asked yourself that question, yet.
It's apparent then, since you understand humor, that you just don't get it. I don't need nor want your pity kljjtl. It's really sad that you can work yourself up in this fashion over a one-liner. Have you ever seen the movie History of the World: Part I? Mel Brooks does a whole song about the Inquisition, where 1000's of people were killed in the name of religeon. You'd better get started beating down his door, my 1-line joke wasn't even about 1 death. He had a whole song and reached millions of people with it.
Basically, I'm not the worst of it. I even wished well the people who were injured. You seriously need to get a grip or you will pop.
kljjtl said, "I think you need therapy badly. I vent through communication. You seem hotheaded! Take a chill pill"
Pot meet kettle, kettle, pot. Enough said.
CatChick, maybe he/she has an extreme phobia when it comes to death/dying/injuries, etc.
Both the headline and the very first sentence of the article state that "an SUV" did this; I don't think SUVs (or any other cars/trucks) can do these kinds of things all by themselves. Funny how they try to blame the vehicle, not the driver.....
the driver was probably 80 years old and confused the accelerator with the brake pedal.
You just described an uncle of mine, only he hit a Subway sandwich shop. So, yes, it does happen. I wish they would test people over seventy y/o yearly for driving.
I thoroughly enjoy a good debate, discussion by intelligent people. many of the posts are not even close to being intelligent. @!$%# happens. so what. it's not about God. He didn't do anything. It's about stupidity from people. article says the driver was 14. maybe the sentence structure is wrong. why is a 14 yr old driving at all?? (if indeed she was 14).... that's why it happened.... not because God let it!
The driver was not 14, you read it wrong.
They specifically list 3 of the 8 injured.
Jano: I read it the way you did also. It does say 14 but may be a grammatical error. I suspect the person writing the article was 14 and can't yet understand sentence structure.
Later in the article it says the driver was not ID'd
Bingo! With the way much of the news is written today, you have to read and re-read many stories to try and make sense of what the "writer" is trying to say.
I had to re-read that same passage, and while it could be taken that the 14 year old was the driver, I don't believe that is what happened. A description of the driver is suspiciously absent.
There's nothing wrong with the sentence structure. The driver AND a 14 year old girl AND a pregnant woman (three separate people) were among the injured.
I agree jano...I just find it irritating that people find humor in death...or at least they find it funny until it happens to them.
I don't think they're thinking anything any more when it happens to them.
Sometimes humor in death is a defense mechanism. When my grandfather died a few months ago, we were sad, but we tried to laugh at all the funny things he did when he was alive. It made us smile... like the time my mom called him and said, "Hey dad, I just arrived in Albuquerque" and he replied, "You're eating all the turkey?"
Good ol' grandpop, he couldn't hear, he could barely see, and that didn't stop him from driving. (Taking his keys away, however, did.)
Matt, you have provided a perfect example of the genuine humor to be expected, thanks. Always found when someone has a vested personal interest in the one suffering or dying by trying to come to terms with psychological deep pain. With comments often reflecting personal information about the person's life interacting with loved ones. Keeping things positive, kind and thoughtful. Empathy is a wonderful gift that can help draw people together as they try to understand and support those suffering from such sad events. It is a shame it seems to be in such short supply lately. Then again my own great grandmother used to say, don't worry about people who haven't learned what they should. Life is the perfect teacher.What they haven't learned from others mistakes, they get to learn on their own!
I guess i missed that part where they say people died...
kljjtl....again....there WAS NO DEATH HERE. Wow, you scrutinize my joke without even attempting to understand the subject matter. The poor girl did suffer head trauma however. That is sad. I do hope she recovers fully and grows up to fulfill all of her dreams and ends up being absolutely nothing like kljjtl.
Sparky I am not an advocate of that stuff but I do find it offensive when people make fun of other people for the way they die, etc. Just for one second pretend it was your mother, father, wife or someone in that DD and died...Would it be so funny then??? That is my only point!
Shandril! You should be ashamed of yourself! I hope everyone in your family gets really obese by eating a lot of donuts! Yeah, and then I will laugh at all of them, and make lots of fat jokes! Yeah! See how you like it! Not only do I hope it happens, I will pray for it to happen! Yeah, because God will listen to me and make your family crave donuts on an hourly basis! They'll be shovelling them in by the dozen! They'll even eat the donut holes! You'll see, and you'll be sorry!
you are sick shandril.
Spoken like a truly religious person.
Ms. TooL you are so cynical. Is it a result of your inability to handle being viewed as a piece of meat by the opposite sex?
Shandril
@kljjtl:
You wish death upon people for cracking jokes? And you imagine that the clowns in here are sicker than you? LOL
Read my writing please before you accuse me of something I didn't say. I am just saying people should not find it funny that someone died at a doughnut house. Karma people!!!!!!!! My only point is that if this article was about your family member then you would not find it so funny.
Actually kljjtl, you did say that in an earlier post...
You said it to me.
kljjtl, not to be a hound about it, but you said it in another post to, also to me.
Shandril...I forgot to mention that in my previous post to you that was sarcasm. I sometimes neglect to point that out in case it is missed.
Shandril's been trolling the boards all morning. Best to ignore the troll.
The article did not identify the driver. Lets wait and see if his name was Mr./Ms. Kharmha or maybe Mittchel Robert Obama-Clinton-Roosevelt.
Wait for facts.
klhhtl, Of all this back and forth banter and still you are the only one wishing harm to others. Specifically to my family, my very innocent and still very young children, my wife, my parents, my sister. I made a joke about the location of the SUV and how it was situated in the windows and in the same posted wished well to those injured. At that point you went bat-sh!t crazy. Am I wrong here?
Here's a sample of humor about atrocity:
northcobbhs.blogs.com/auld/honors_world_geography/page/2/
It a cartoon joke about 1000's of dead people. I think the artist needs some of your, kljjtl, 'special' attention.
well I guess karma is a b#@ch...I guess I will laugh when your crying some day cause someone in your family died and people are saying rude jokes about it. Your supposed to understand sarcasm...,obviously you don't. I just don't find this story funny at all. take it or leave it people
kljjtl
Maybe you need to follow some of your own advice!!!
why is that? I feel bad for the people in DD...i'm not laughing.
If these people had been shot rather than hit with a vehicle it would be headline news.
Vehicles kill 3 times as many people as guns. Even during the Iraq war, the Marines lost more soldiers to traffic accidents in the US than to enemy action in Iraq.
There's no constitutional right to a car. Ban them!
...@HNL: Here, here! ...Ban Assault Vehicles now! ...And the liberal extremists who compulsively drive them everywhere!
Those gosh-darn Marines; losing soldiers (U.S. Army) in traffic accidents. Btw, I didn't know Marines were issued soldiers these days. Never had any in 'Nam. ;-)
on the cell phone talking or texting wouldn't surprise me....
My money is on texting while driving. But hey, mustn't take away anyone's "right" to text and drive, now, must we?
bikerchick, it's illegal in Missouri I believe. So, not a right.
That's why "right" is in quotations. Of course it's not a right. It should be illegal everywhere, and there should be jammers in vehicles to prevent incoming or outgoing signals to cellphones if the car is not in Park or Neutral.
Sorry, we really need that sarc font. For what it is worth, I have never texted in my life and don't feel I ever need to. About two or so years ago that train driver texting his girlfriend wrecked and killed because he was not paying attention. It's not worth it people.
I'll wager that police response was very quick.
...@pigl: LOL! ...I'll bet they were already at the scene, taking samples of the evidence!
10-4 we were on our way disaptcher! What is your order! We can pick somethig up while were there!