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On my way back from visiting my family yesterday, I came up to a motorcycle accident just before the U.S. border. For those of you in Vermont, you know where it is, near Rock Island/Derby.
I stopped and couldn't see the bike very well, beside the fact that it was layed down on it's side. I could see the bike from under and didn't notice at first that it seemed to be a small bike with the wheels kinda close to each other. It was definitely not a cruiser anyway. I ask a small group of people if they needed help, and one of the guys turned around towards me and with a real queer voice said "Oh no thank you", giving me the flying hand with broken wrist type of wave. So I ask him "Is this a sportbike on the side of the road?" He answer, again with that annoying queer voice "No no, not a "spurt bike", it's a motorcycle" I tell him "well a sportbike *IS* a motorcycle" and he to answer me again the same thing, then wooshed at me with his hand as if he was telling me to go away. He turns to his friends and they all start LAUGHING. WTF?!! There is a lifeless guy on the ground, and they find the guts to fuckin laugh.
There was another sportbike (more like sport touring bike) parked on the side, and the rider was bent over the victim, watching over him, but no one was doing any CPR or first aid as far as I could tell. That's why I thought the other bike was a sportbike at first, thinking they were probably riding together. Glancing again at the bike on it's side, I finally realized it looked kinda small, and thought maybe it was a scooter, I just couldn't be sure. I left the scene and went to eat with my daughter at a place before the border. When we were checking out, 2 guys were talking about the accident, and one of them said that when he drove past it, he saw the emergency response guys administer CPR, pushing on it's chest trying to restart the heart. I felt a hole getting bigger inside me, and got angry at myself for not getting out of my car after that guy basically shooed me away. I am CPR/First Aid certified. I could have done something, and I didn't because of some asshat just laughing with his buddies and standing there doing nothing himself.
This might have been a teenager laying there, he's probably dead from the looks of it, and maybe I could have helped him.
edit: I have tried to find local news for that area, and I can't. All I find is some random site who claims having news for a bunch of different areas thru the US and Canada, but they have nothing.