Owensboro Woman Speaks Out On Bridge Protest

The people on the blue bridge (Saturday) changed Owensboro forever.

We never feared driving across the bridge to go to Indiana before, or driving anywhere in Owensboro. I never feared stopping to help a teenager having car trouble before, or anyone else for that matter. Would never have dreamed of passing up a young person in need of help.

I have friends whose teenage children died because no one would stop to help them when their cars broke down on the road. I have to drive down Parrish Ave. to get to my cancer doctor, my heart doctor and the Emergency Room. Never dreamed that there would be a day in Owensboro when a bunch of teenagers might block me, and tell me they will NOT let me through.

I’ve had to cross the blue bridge many times to get my child to Kosair’s Children’s Hospital. Never dreamed that one day a group of teenagers might block me and tell me they will not let me get through.

Thank goodness I was not on that blue bridge today in need of getting to our hospital emergency room or to Kosair’s. I watched this gut wrenching, heartbreaking event on my laptop. Every single sickening, disgusting minute of it. Twice to be sure that what I had seen was as egregiously frightening and despicable as I believed when I watched it the first time. It was!

I called one of my closest friends and she was watching it, also. We asked each other what we might have done if we HAD been on the bridge – – WHAT IF my heart started racing, as it surely would have if I was trying to get my son to Kosair’s?

I have supraventricular tachycardia, so any terrifying situation causes my heart to race, and that was terrifying to watch! I can’t imagine how terrified the people were who were on the bridge!

I told my friend that I would have probably panicked and just shut my eyes, and driven through the danger as fast as I could go.

A couple hours later, I saw a tragic story where a Fed Ex driver had done just that, and a young man was drug to his death without the driver knowing. No doubt, the young man screamed until he died, and people were screaming and beating on the driver’s truck. He thought they were trying to harm him.

We will NEVER know how many people will die in the future because of what you did today on the blue bridge, because people will be too fearful to stop and help them. I know I am now!

In the past, I received citizen honors and was sponsored as a hero, and written about in KY Heroes stories, in part, because I NEVER passed up ANYONE needing help. No matter how big the person, or the color of their skin. It didn’t matter. If I saw someone in need of help, I stopped to help.

Thanks to the people on the blue bridge, I will NEVER DO THAT AGAIN.

Sadly, some of the people I love most are teens and young people. I fear now that something could happen to them one day if no one will stop to help them in an hour of need. God only knows how many people who watched your terroristic style of control and oppression Saturday made the same decision as my friend and I made while on the phone.

No doubt, one day some of you who were on the bridge terrorizing people, will be in situations where you need help. If no one stops to assist you, you need to remember that you caused many of us this kind of fear.

In the past, most of us never even checked to make sure all our doors are locked when we are driving down the road in Owensboro, KY. NOW WE WILL! I doubt if many of us even kept anything in our car that we could use as a weapon if we needed one. I would imagine that most of us will now!

I have no idea what has happened in your lives to make you want to terrorize, control and oppress other people just because you enjoy making people suffer. You did a good job of doing that!

I have no idea what happened in your lives to have not one ounce of compassion for all the people on the bridge who needed to get where they were going.

You didn’t care if those that you were causing mental anguish could have been a single mother with a crying, hungry baby in the car.

You didn’t care if those who you were making sure were going to suffer were black or white.

You didn’t care if you were causing someone to lose their job who desperately needed to get to work to pay rent or buy food for their children.

You didn’t care if someone was in terrible pain from a recent surgery and needed to get home to rest.

You didn’t care if someone was on their way to a funeral and had a busting headache from crying.

You didn’t care if someone had gotten a call that if they wanted to see a loved one before they died, that they needed to get to the hospital or Hospice.

You made sure you were in control and that you were going to make as many people suffer as much as possible!

You ALL seemed so cold-hearted that I wonder if you would even care if your own mother/father, grandmother/grandfather died from a heart attack because another group of sociopathic teens took control of them, and refused to let them get to a hospital.

I hope that you, your parents and grandparents, your little brothers and sisters are proud of you. Because I feel sure that most of us found your behavior to be filthy and disgusting. And as if you did not cause enough people to suffer, you decide to terrorize that poor woman who was just trying to get to work so she could buy food for her family, you had to terrorize her even more by telling her you would get her later at her place of employment.

I am pretty sure that is called terroristic threatening. If any of you got drug into this by “friends”, I hope you walk away and realize how they may choose to control and terrorize you or your loved ones one day.

No one needs friends like that. May God have mercy on you, and I mean that sincerely.

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