During my lunch breaks I usually read some newspaper site to try and take my mind off of my job while I eat.
So today I'm on the Daily News' site and I find this:
A terrified bicyclist, knocked to the ground by a delivery truck, screamed out in desperation seconds before being crushed to death yesterday on a Manhattan street.
"Stop! Stop!" screamed the cyclist, Andrew Morgan, 25, of Brooklyn
But the driver inched forward, making a right turn from E. Houston St. onto Elizabeth St. about 10:25 a.m. The box truck, from Dockside Furniture Services in Bayonne, N.J., hit the cyclist and pinned him under the axle.
"After that scream, he was silent," said witness Peter Martin, 54, of Manhattan.
The blue bicycle lay twisted in the street, and Morgan was motionless. Onlookers used a forklift, possibly from a nearby construction site, in a desperate attempt to move the truck off Morgan. Paramedics arrived minutes later and rushed him to St. Vincent's Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Police issued the driver a summons for an expired inspection sticker but didn't charge him in Morgan's death.
"It looked like an accident," a police source said. "The truck driver didn't see him."
Morgan, who moved to the city about two years ago from Austin, Tex., worked at the Blue Ribbon Bakery Market in Greenwich Village. In his free time, he played the guitar, dabbled in photography and loved to paint.He wanted to travel the world and had quickly fallen for the city."He loved it here," said Brian Schreck, 25, a close friend. "He loved the people. He thought the more time he spent here, New York became smaller."
He was my downstairs neighbor in my last apartment
He was a nice guy
Always happy
Always smiling
A genuine, nice person
I didn't know him very well except for when he would be sitting on the front steps of our building at night
When he was he would always say hello
Would always offer me a beer
In a city where most consider being a nasty prick the god-given rite of a new yorker, it was always nice to know that there was someone who would rather be smiling
It was nice to have met you
So today I'm on the Daily News' site and I find this:
A terrified bicyclist, knocked to the ground by a delivery truck, screamed out in desperation seconds before being crushed to death yesterday on a Manhattan street.
"Stop! Stop!" screamed the cyclist, Andrew Morgan, 25, of Brooklyn
But the driver inched forward, making a right turn from E. Houston St. onto Elizabeth St. about 10:25 a.m. The box truck, from Dockside Furniture Services in Bayonne, N.J., hit the cyclist and pinned him under the axle.
"After that scream, he was silent," said witness Peter Martin, 54, of Manhattan.
The blue bicycle lay twisted in the street, and Morgan was motionless. Onlookers used a forklift, possibly from a nearby construction site, in a desperate attempt to move the truck off Morgan. Paramedics arrived minutes later and rushed him to St. Vincent's Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Police issued the driver a summons for an expired inspection sticker but didn't charge him in Morgan's death.
"It looked like an accident," a police source said. "The truck driver didn't see him."
Morgan, who moved to the city about two years ago from Austin, Tex., worked at the Blue Ribbon Bakery Market in Greenwich Village. In his free time, he played the guitar, dabbled in photography and loved to paint.He wanted to travel the world and had quickly fallen for the city."He loved it here," said Brian Schreck, 25, a close friend. "He loved the people. He thought the more time he spent here, New York became smaller."
He was my downstairs neighbor in my last apartment
He was a nice guy
Always happy
Always smiling
A genuine, nice person
I didn't know him very well except for when he would be sitting on the front steps of our building at night
When he was he would always say hello
Would always offer me a beer
In a city where most consider being a nasty prick the god-given rite of a new yorker, it was always nice to know that there was someone who would rather be smiling
It was nice to have met you
kiss_kiss_luxury:
thats horrible 
melladoree:
hello