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MFM Minisode 125

June 03, 2019 /

This episode of My Favorite Murder features personal stories about survival, near misses, and unexpected events. Key topics include the Hyatt Regency collapse, sleepwalking incidents, and a humorous near-miss with a car in a restaurant.

One listener shares a harrowing tale of their grandparents surviving the Hyatt Regency collapse in Kansas City, where they were ordering drinks when the disaster struck. Their survival was attributed to staying behind while others danced, leading to reflections on survivor's guilt.

Another story recounts a sleepwalking incident involving a young boy who wandered out of a hotel room in Niagara Falls, leading to a humorous yet alarming situation for his family.

A listener humorously describes being hit by a car while dining in a steak restaurant, showcasing a bizarre twist of fate where she calmly continued eating her meal despite the chaos.

The episode concludes with a call for listeners to share their own hometown crime stories, emphasizing the show's community engagement.

TLDR

Listeners share survival stories, including a Hyatt collapse and a humorous near-miss with a car in a restaurant.

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Goodbye. Goodbye. My favorite world. Hello. Welcome. This is my favorite murder.
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The mini-sode. Where we read mini-sodes. Your emails, our mouths. What a combination.
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Ready for the first one? Do it. My grandparents survived the Hyatt Regency collapse.
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Oh, shit. Nuh-uh. It was in the middle of my pile. And when I got to that subject line, I was like, what?
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This is it? You buried the lead. Okay. Ladies, I was so surprised to hear Karen share the story of the Hyatt Regency collapse.
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It was a tragic event that even here in Kansas City seems almost forgotten. My grandparents were at the Hyatt that night and survived the disaster.
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My grandmother passed away when I was a baby, but my grandfather used to tell the story quite often.
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I remember when I was a little girl and would go downtown on school trips or with friends,
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I would proudly point out the Hyatt to my friends and tell the story of how the hotel collapsed on my grandparents.
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The way my grandpa told it was this. He and my grandmother went to the dance with two other couples.
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So there was a tea dance that they were having there when that happened that day.
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So they were there. They were standing near the bar waiting to order drinks when a special song came on.
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One of the other women said it was her and her husband's song, so she dragged her husband to the dance floor with her.
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My grandfather told the second couple to go on ahead that he and my grandmother would get the drinks for everyone.
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So the second couple left for the dance floor. My grandfather was at the bar ordering drinks when they heard the crash.
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And afterwards, they couldn't see anything but dust. Someone grabbed them and helped them out of the building and they survived with minor injuries.
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It wasn't until the next day that they learned the four friends who had been with them had all perished in the collapse.
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My grandfather is certain that they would have been killed if they hadn't stayed behind to get drinks.
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in retrospect he likely had a great deal of survivor's guilt but as a hardened ww2 veteran
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he was conditioned to downplay tragedy hey who isn't um he said he still knows exactly what song
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was playing when the ceiling collapsed but for the life of me i can't remember what song he told
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me it was my grandfather passed away a few years ago at the age of 94 and i regret not keeping
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better track of his stories. Lady in red is dancing. That's it, right? I just thought of any song from the 80s.
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That's the one that came out. Lady in red. That's perfect. There it is. And also just the perfect song to haunt you terribly.
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Despite hearing the story from my grandpa many times over the years, it wasn't until
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I heard Karen's telling of the story that I gave any thought to the first responders
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that night. As a first responder myself, it's humbling to think that I might not be here if not for
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the first responders who saved my grandparents. maybe i'll catch you sometime you're in casey ssdgm sabrina wow yeah that's a good one
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we love those ones i mean we hate it it's like we love it okay we love the background information
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we love the personal firsthand telling of oh my god it was there when that thing came down that's
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right because these are real people that the shit happens to and we know it this is called insane
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sleepwalking scare hi karen georgia steven and furry friends i started going back and listening
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to some older episodes like any true murderina would do, and I came across the story of the
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sleepwalking murderer, Ken Parks. My crazy sleepwalking story also happens to take place
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in Canada only seven years later in 1994. My family and I vacationed to Niagara Falls almost
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every year during my childhood. I remember so vividly that we stayed in a Ramada. I was six,
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and my brother was eight. We went to sleep and woke up like any other normal night of our trip.
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Our phone rang around 7 a.m. that morning, and it was the front desk asking my mom if her son
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was safely returned to his room that night. My mom told the woman on the phone that she had the
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wrong room, given that my brother and I were still asleep in the bed next to her. The woman stated,
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ma'am, our security officer brought your son back to his room at 3am. He was found trying to cross
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the main intersection in front of the hotel. My mom had this puzzled look on her face and asked
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my dad if anyone had come or gone through the door during the night. As a former police sergeant,
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my dad always double locked the doors and even kept the desk chair in front of the door for added safety My parents were still not convinced that they had the right family but they decided to wake up my brother and ask him themselves My brother said that he had a normal night sleep and doesn remember anything out of the ordinary
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So we start to get ready for the continental breakfast, the only thing I came for.
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And my brother sits on the end of his bed to put on his socks. My mom lets out this horrible scream and yells, why are the bottom of your feet black?
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Oh. My brother looked terrified as he looked at them himself. Turns out the Ramada parking lot is asphalt and the front desk woman was true.
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I'm just reading it as you wrote it. My dad and the security guard come to our room and explain the whole story and identify my brother as the child he returned to our room.
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Turns out my brother was able to tell the officer our room number and everything during the night.
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Why in God's name did the officer not wake up my parents? Sorry, how old is the kid?
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Eight. Oh my God. He just slips him in the door and walks away. Night, night. He didn't want to get involved yet.
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You little so-and-so, don't go up by the cars. Get out of there. It's a story we joke about in our adult years, but having young children myself, I am still a tad freaked.
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After the incident, my parents brought a door alarm to every hotel we stayed in to ensure that they would wake up if my brother decided to take another solo adventure.
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I think of the story every time I hear Billy Joel's The River of Dreams. Which one's that?
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lady in red that one is chance no it goes like this in the middle of the night okay got it that makes sense yeah stay sexy and always check the bottom of your kids feet in the
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morning cali as a rule from now on thanks cali oh what an insane near miss dude and then also
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how horrifying it's three in the morning out in front of this a ramada and it's pitch black and
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you're just trying to drive back from the fucking cool party you were at and there's a sleeping
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eight-year-old walking in front of your car oh my god like dazed look pajama you just keep going
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because it's the 80s you're like i'm not i'm not getting involved i can't get involved with that
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nugget menagerie, including Steven. That is complicated. That is a new low, but well written.
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In my town, seniors in high school can take an emergency preparedness That's it. That's the beginning.
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Love it. Emergency preparedness class in their senior year. The elective beats baking cakes in home economics
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and was less of a physical risk to me than Woodshop, where I surely would have lost
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an extremity or two. The final project in emergency preparedness includes taking a police ride along
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and giving a presentation about our experience. Yes. At the time, I lived in a small sleepy town in the Pacific Northwest.
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Standard ride-along presentations told stories of minor drug infractions, traffic stops,
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and when they were really eventful, a DUI arrest or even busting a house party full of classmates for underage drinking.
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Oh, how embarrassing. During my ride-along, we spent most of our time running plates, catching speeding drivers,
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and we even recovered a stolen bicycle and returned it to its happy owner. Oh. We were driving back to the station when we received a call of a neighbor complaint.
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The neighbor said that the mangy mutt next door wouldn't shut up and was howling.
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We pulled up to the house and could not see or hear the dog. What we did see was a front door wide open on the home.
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The detective instructed me to stay in the vehicle and went inside. It was not two minutes later, the detective came running out of the house holding a large dog and flung open the hatch of the SUV.
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When he got closer, all he said was, we have a problem. That's scary. Oh, my God.
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He called for backup, told me not to get out of the car, and was off. I heard slight whimpering coming from the back of the SUV and realized the dog he was carrying was not the threat that was reported, but he was sad.
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I crawled in the back of the SUV, used a blanket, and laid back there with him. I later found out the dog's name was Moose.
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Moose. Moose, the most loyal of dogs, was merely an innocent bystander, and his howls were cries to notify someone, anyone, that his owner was hurt, as if we needed further proof that dogs are better than humans.
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that was a parenthetical. When the detective entered the home, he found a grisly scene of a single gunshot victim
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and Moose laying next to him. It turns out the dispute was an escalated landlord-tenant issue,
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and the homeowner was murdered by his tenant, a man living in a nearby guest house.
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He stayed in his home after the crime and was arrested that same day. Oh, my God.
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The crime scene was closed, so I spent nearly six hours in that SUV with Moose. Wow.
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Dispatchers, yeah, right? Dispatchers had the fun job of telling my parents that their 16-year-old daughter would be late coming home from her ride-along because she was stuck in a murder crime scene.
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They took the news well because they had no other choice, I suppose. I presented to my class my ride-along experience but didn't get to divulge many details since the case was an active one.
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Fast forward two years and I was working at our local courthouse. Murder cases are assigned to judges due to their complexity and the first murder case assignment we got was this case.
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I wasn't able to work on the case since I was a named witness but my judge did hear it and a jury convicted the defendant
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Aww. I bet the fact that she had to stay there for six hours was so comforting to Moose.
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Like, if Moose had to be there by himself that whole time, in the back of a car, having
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witnessed really bad violence. I wonder what happened to Moose. I was really hoping she kept him, because then I would have cried.
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Yes. Turns out I do have something to contribute to the MFM verse. Here we go. In 2011, a man named Luke Crisco went to the 2011 Hanuman Boulder Yoga Festival, where he climbed into the tank of a porta potty to spy on women.
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No. Because that's his thing, where he was found out, arrested and sent to prison for several years.
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Good job, Colorado. Cut to about a week before this happened. My friend and I were at a house party in Denver sometime around beer 30, 1130 Denver time.
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when looking for volunteers to hoof it to the LQ for more grips. I don't know what any of that means.
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Liquor store? For more beer? I'm square. A woman screamed out that there's some fucking pervert
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laying down in the bathtub masturbating. It was, you guessed it, Luke fucking Crisco.
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Oh, no. As you can imagine, the last thing anyone in attendance wanted was cops around,
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so he was located and kicked out as gently as 10 metal dudes living all in one house are want to do. There was the instant pang of holy shit, I was totally in
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there. And also, have you seen who lives here? How did you lay down in that bathtub? Still love you
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dudes, but your house was a war zone. However, as I was solidly in my early 20s, quote, I can't be
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this asshole forever phase, I realized the joke was on him because everyone knows you only use the
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bathroom at a house party to get lit. And then if you have to go to the bathroom, you go to the bar
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across the street. We have manners. They have toilet paper. It all works out in the
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end. By the way, you guys inspired me to stick with my therapy journey and I have
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finally found someone who can help me unwind my collective bullshit and experience
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this joy thing people keep talking about. Forever thankful, Jess. Oh my god. Everything, every aspect of that story
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was disgusting. And also just, how fucked up are you when you lay down in a bathtub and jerk off at a house party.
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But like she must have had the curtain closed. Right. But just the sound. He wants to get caught.
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I mean, like there's that's part of it. Also, like a yoga festival festival. If you're like you have a scat fetish.
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It's not that I feel like a vegan. It's like a lot of vegans. And use your imagination for what that means.
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It's good or bad. I don't know. Lentils going in. Lentils coming out. Guys. Guys.
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Guys. You hear it all on this podcast. Okay. Okay. the subject of this is paramedic first responder story lighthearted hey ladies steven j cats dogs
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my boyfriend is a paramedic in orange county and has been for years being a long-time listener i
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always ask him for crazy stories or if he walked into a crime scene or whatnot and he never tells
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me anything good recently he came home and said hey so i ran this weird call last night and i
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immediately got super excited and i knew i'd be emailing you supposedly some guy broke into a house
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and pointed a gun at the homeowner, who was thankfully the only one there that night.
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The homeowner ran into a bedroom and grabbed a gun and aimed it back at the original guy with the gun.
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But before you think this is getting crazy, the homeowner grabbed a Nerf gun and started firing little foam Nerf bullet things at the guy with the real gun.
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I guess the guy with the real gun was so confused or distracted that he fired a few shots,
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missing the man with the Nerf gun except for one bullet grazing his leg and ran out.
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So when my boyfriend got there he walked into a house with Nerf bullets all over the floor a man bleeding from his leg and bullet holes in the wall behind him The homeowner is all good and was more upset at the fact that the kid Nerf gun had blood on it and he had to clean it
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Stay sexy and always carry a Nerf gun with you just in case. Allie. That is so dangerous.
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That could have gone so poorly. It's so dangerous. And also, if that man on the ground had been killed, it would have looked like a Nerf murder.
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like when the first responder walked in it'd just be like well from everything i gather here yeah
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this man was actually murdered by a nerf gun oh my god well congratulations ali good job yeah
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you've done it uh now you can break up with your boyfriend totally kidding don't break up with him
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okay this is called i was hit by a car while inside a steak restaurant light-hearted hi all
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this is my hometown story and almost surely my claim to fame i was hit by a car while inside a
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steak restaurant. My husband, brother, and his girlfriend and I went to our local steak joint,
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kind of fancy, several years ago to celebrate something or other, I forgot what, and we were
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seated at a foretop at the far wall underneath a big screen TV. I had first choice of seats and
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chose the one under the TV against the wall with a broad view of the room. I ordered an old-fashioned
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with a double shot of bourbon, my favorite cocktail, and a ribeye. There we all sat,
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eating steak, me drinking bourbon, when my brother's eyes grew wide. Suddenly there was a loud crash.
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People jumped up and started yelling at me, gesturing and pointing. I turned around to see a car bumper poking through the wall inches from where I was sitting
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and looked up to see the big screen TV dangling by wires right over my head. Oh, shit.
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You know, I do this. I sit in the right place so I can see the whole room. But little do you know, the wall behind you is where the fucking car is going to come through.
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Wait, it was from behind her? So I think it was the back wall of the restaurant.
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Oh, shit. So she had her back to that wall. The big screen TV is above her head.
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It almost crashes through the wall. Oh, my God. Isn't that insane? If the car had been an inch or two farther into the restaurant, that car would have mowed me down and that goddamn TV would have finished me off.
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Yeah. I learned that I'm the kind of person who doesn't immediately run away from danger.
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No. In the middle of all this craziness, I calmly picked up my steak and cocktail and moved to a farther table, sat down, and continued eating.
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Sorry, can I just add something? Yeah. That might be because you were drunk. It says, in hindsight, the bourbon may have had something to do with this.
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All right. Good. I didn't want to accuse anybody of anything. No, you're not wrong.
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But that's kind of the joy of alcohol, is that like, there's a little bit of a nice,
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hazy kind of distance. That's right. An ambulance came rolling in, sirens on. The cop made me go to the ambulance where I had to sit to have my blood pressure taken,
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et cetera, et cetera. while diners stood around craning their necks to see the woman who got hit by a car while in a
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steak restaurant. All I can think about was my steak getting cold. My asshat brother stood outside
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the ambulance laughing and pointing at me. After having two paramedics examine the scratch on my
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arm, worriedly, they let me go. My brother, his girlfriend, and my husband got to go finish their
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dinners while mine was taken away because, all caps, there was too much plaster in it.
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yes because all caps i got hit by a car after i got hit by a car my reaction was to continue eating
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a steak salted with plaster you know priorities but kindly mr steak the owner comped our meal
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and made me a new steak complete with a twice baked potato and the ubiquitous ice steakhouse
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iceberg salad hell yeah that's right an article about the car accident was in the local paper
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yes i was named as the woman who got hit by a car while inside a goddamn steak restaurant
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for weeks after I received advertisements for personal injury lawyers. All I wanted was a steak.
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Today at the fancy steakhouse, there's a drive up window where the hole in the wall used to be.
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I'd like to think I had a hand in that window somehow. I haven't been to a steak restaurant since and I'm vegetarian now.
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Stay sexy and don't sit under a big screen TV against the back wall of a steak restaurant.
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Hugs. Sharon. And then it says, P.S. My latest book, Girls on the Verge, was on Cosmo's best books list along with yours.
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So that makes us book sisters, right? Oh, my God. Congratulations. Sharon Biggs Waller.
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And then she writes XOXO. What's the name of the book again? The book is Girls on the Verge.
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It looks really good. Sharon Biggs Waller. Wow. Check it out. That's amazing. Great ending.
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Yeah, that was great. Okay. Are you telling me that somewhere in this country, there is a steak restaurant with a drive up window that I could go get a twice baked potato?
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How have we not gone to this now? Can we please go now? All steakhouses have drive-up windows.
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What city do you remember? I don't know. Sharon, can you please let us know what city?
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Yeah. We need to know. I mean, is it like a... She said Mr. Steak. Well, she called him Mr. Steak.
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Oh, oh. Because she, you know. It sounded fancy, though. It did sound fancy. Oh, man.
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Drive-thru. Listen, Ruth's Chris, when you get a fucking drive-thru... Let's do that thing.
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Let us know. Come on. Well, what a great slew of letters we got this week. Thank you, everybody, for sending them in.
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Thanks. Send yours in by going to our website. You can submit one there or just send it to myfavoritemurder.com.
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And I'd like to do a call-out for just regular old hometowns. What is the crime story from your hometown that happened big or small that made you get into true crime the first time?
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Because we've gone off on all these tangents, and we get lots of them in there. Great.
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But we really should be doing, you know, we need the meat and potatoes, Mr. Steak.
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Yeah. we need the drive-thru so we can drive up and grab our meat and potatoes right
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and then as well have some plaster that's right send us your drive-thru version of the steakhouse
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creepy drive-thru stories would be good too ooh yeah are there do people have creepy drive-thru stories
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I'm sure well you know people who've worked in fast food have the worst stories I'm sure
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I didn't think of it from that side of the window oh my god send them in both directions
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but if you've worked at a fast food restaurant and something creepy has happened to you
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please that's right please tell us about it we have to know but also I'm also asking for regular ones
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This episode stands out for the following:

  • 75
    Funniest
  • 70
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  • 70
    Most unserious (in a good way)
  • 65
    Most shocking

Episode Highlights

  • Hyatt Regency Collapse Story
    A personal recount of surviving a tragic hotel collapse.
    “My grandparents survived the Hyatt Regency collapse.”
    @ 02m 06s
    June 03, 2019
  • Nerf Gun Defense
    An unusual story of a homeowner using a Nerf gun against an intruder.
    “Stay sexy and always carry a Nerf gun with you just in case.”
    @ 18m 05s
    June 03, 2019
  • Car Crashes into Restaurant
    A woman describes the moment a car crashed into the restaurant she was in.
    “I turned around to see a car bumper poking through the wall inches from where I was sitting.”
    @ 19m 20s
    June 03, 2019
  • Steakhouse Accident
    A woman recounts getting hit by a car while dining at a steak restaurant.
    “Yes, I was named as the woman who got hit by a car while inside a goddamn steak restaurant.”
    @ 21m 29s
    June 03, 2019
  • Vegetarian Transition
    After the accident, the woman reflects on her dietary change to vegetarianism.
    “I haven't been to a steak restaurant since and I'm vegetarian now.”
    @ 21m 47s
    June 03, 2019
  • Drive-Up Window Discovery
    A surprising revelation about a steakhouse with a drive-up window sparks excitement.
    “Are you telling me that somewhere in this country, there is a steak restaurant with a drive up window?”
    @ 22m 21s
    June 03, 2019
  • Call for Stories
    The hosts invite listeners to share their hometown crime stories and creepy drive-thru experiences.
    “What is the crime story from your hometown that made you get into true crime?”
    @ 23m 07s
    June 03, 2019
  • Closing Remarks
    The episode wraps up with a light-hearted reminder to stay safe.
    “Let's stay sexy. And don't get murdered.”
    @ 24m 00s
    June 03, 2019

Episode Quotes

  • Oh, shit.
    MFM Minisode 125
  • That's it, right?
    MFM Minisode 125
  • Oh my God.
    MFM Minisode 125
  • Stay sexy and always carry a Nerf gun with you just in case.
    MFM Minisode 125
  • I didn't want to accuse anybody of anything.
    MFM Minisode 125
  • Are there creepy drive-thru stories?
    MFM Minisode 125

Key Moments

  • Goodbye01:06
  • Hyatt Regency Collapse02:06
  • Nerf Gun Incident18:05
  • Steak Accident21:29
  • Vegetarian Change21:47
  • Drive-Thru Excitement22:21
  • Listener Call-Out23:07
  • Final Goodbye24:00

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