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#173586 - 07/30/10 07:17 PM
Jeep runs into my local Hallmark store...
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Stephanie
Elf Manager
Registered: 08/08/03
Posts: 731
Loc: Hamilton, NJ
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I was driving by my local Hallmark store this morning and I saw the power company working on the street light pole and then I see that the whole right front side (was all glass) was boarded up. I finally found an article explaining that someone was drunk and drove into the store 
http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2010/07/30/news/doc4c52fec8b1193788460327.txt
These owners are really nice people and I am sure that business is tough as it is let alone now having to deal with this... I couldn't help but think of the poor ornaments as they were displayed in that front right area
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#173595 - 07/30/10 08:23 PM
Re: Jeep runs into my local Hallmark store...
[Re: Stephanie]
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carstairs38
Elf Engineer - Toy Design
Registered: 03/02/10
Posts: 188
Loc: Southern California
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Yikes!
Glad the driver was the only one who was hurt. But I feel for the owners.
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#173596 - 07/30/10 08:46 PM
Re: Jeep runs into my local Hallmark store...
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grandma lise
Elf VP
Registered: 07/17/09
Posts: 1194
Loc: Washington State
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Oh dear, what a mess. One evening last year, I dropped by our local Goodwill. There were a number of wrecked cars in the parking lot, a police officer taking pictures, and a few people removing items from their cars. My first thought was, oh, how unfortunate, but then I saw that there were other wrecked cars. I couldn't make sense of it.
An old acquaintance's car had also sustained damage. When I later asked her what had happened, she explained that a man under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs was driving through the parking lot. He was so out of it, he would hit a car, then another, then another, until he finally made it out of the parking lot onto the adjacent four lane road where he crashed into the side of a semi-truck trailer.
On June 9, 2008, two teenage boys broke into a multi-story building in a farming community just to the north of us. They were smoking marijuana and began lighting small items on fire. Not sure if one or both boys were doing it, nor do I recall if one or both tried intially to put the fire out when it grew out of control. Neither boy was hurt, but they were later arrested, convicted, and required to pay restitution.
The building still stands, but sits gutted and empty. The adjacent Hallmark sustained significant smoke damage. Luckily, the ornaments had not yet arrived and they were able to partially reopen Premiere Weekend. Happily, they are still in business.
Lisa
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#173603 - 07/30/10 11:11 PM
Re: Jeep runs into my local Hallmark store...
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JanetP
Elf
Registered: 10/25/99
Posts: 66
Loc: Illinois
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I wonder if they'll have a 'Scratch and Dent" sale 
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#173606 - 07/31/10 04:39 AM
Re: Jeep runs into my local Hallmark store...
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pxsrdh
Elf Manager
Registered: 03/08/05
Posts: 575
Loc: U.S.A.
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...Later while the police were there, the driver came back to the convenience store across the street and was watching the "excitement." He got arrested at that point.
Linda
You've got to be kidding me! This belongs in the 'Dumber than a Brick' catagory.
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#173619 - 07/31/10 11:07 AM
Re: Jeep runs into my local Hallmark store...
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Sue
Elf VP
Registered: 04/13/99
Posts: 1198
Loc: Pasadena, Maryland
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Make that three known Hallmark's to get "ran into." While it wasn't my store it was one that is only about five miles away. It happened a few years ago and I don't recall all the details. It is in a strip mall and there is parking immediately in front of it. But I believe it was an ederly person putting his/her car in forward instead of reverse. Immediately afterward concrete bumpers were installed all along the parking spaces that face the stores.
Sue
Pasadena, Maryland
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#173634 - 07/31/10 04:15 PM
Re: Jeep runs into my local Hallmark store...
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steffinie
Elf Engineer - Toy Design
Registered: 11/05/03
Posts: 425
Loc: Elkhart, Indiana
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WOW!! Those are quite the pictures of a Jeep running into your local Hallmark store! Thanks for sharing the article with us, Stephanie  !!
But, it figures the driver was driving under the influence of alcohol ... How sad. It sort of relates to this story as earlier this year a "mobile meth lab" was found in the trunk of a car in the Kmart parking lot in Warsaw, IN ... For those of you who have been there, it was right across the parking lot from The Party Shop Hallmark store!!
Stephanie
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#173647 - 07/31/10 05:50 PM
Re: Jeep runs into my local Hallmark store...
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deckthehalls
Elf Engineer - Toy Design
Registered: 02/04/05
Posts: 252
Loc: New Egypt NJ USA
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What a shame. I occasionallly go to that store and they are always so nice. I hope they can open again soon.
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#173671 - 07/31/10 08:18 PM
Re: Jeep runs into my local Hallmark store...
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Nancy C. in Shawnee, KS
Santa's Helper
Registered: 05/15/99
Posts: 4024
Loc: Shawnee, KS USA
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One of the stores in the chain that sponsors my KC local club had a drive-in accident like this about 10 years ago. The owner told us he had opened the first drive-in Hallmark store in KC. I don't remember what caused that car to jump the curb and go flying in.
Several years ago I was at a thrift store and an older woman came in. She asked to use the phone because she had run her car into one of those pillars you see on the side of buildings to keep you from hitting the building. The woman working at the cash register handed me the cordless phone's handset so I could dial it so that the woman could call her son for help. I asked her if she had turned off the car and locked her doors and she said she hadn't. I went out and got her keys, shut the driver's door and locked the car up. I suggested to the woman working there that she call 911 just to have the firemen come in case something needed to be checked out since her airbag had deployed. I told her that the fire people would rather come and not be needed than to be needed later. I didn't think anything would happen but I figured it wouldn't hurt to call.
Isn't it sad how many Hallmark stores have had cars run into them?
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#173687 - 07/31/10 10:34 PM
Re: Jeep runs into my local Hallmark store...
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deckthehalls
Elf Engineer - Toy Design
Registered: 02/04/05
Posts: 252
Loc: New Egypt NJ USA
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While nobody ever came through the front of our store, one memorial day Friday a couple years back I was the only key in town for the weekend. Talk about Murphy's law- the air conditioning went out, the phone system went out, and just as I was about to finally get lunch about 4:00 I heard a loud boom. Our Fed Ex driver ran into the back of the building. Luckily he wasn't hurt and the store wasn't damaged enough to have to close but he took down a light, our gutters and a good portion of the roof overhang.
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