Driver flips off LDS missionaries, and his car is flipped

Posted on August 28, 2012 by mesasmiles

I ran into this news item today, published several days ago.

It was in Greencastle, Indiana, a small city southwest of Indianapolis, and the home of DePauw University. Elder Scott Brezenski and Elder Myles Anderton, Mormon missionaries, were walking on the sidewalk when the driver of a silver Honda Civic, who had been drinking, stuck his hand out the window and flipped them the bird. Whereupon the right side of his car hit the curb, then ramped up the wire of a telephone pole, launching the car into the air. It then flipped 10 to 12 feet in the air and landed upside-down.

Here’s the article from The DePauw: Car flipped on S. Locust, driver arrested.

And here is the photo taken at the scene:

don't flip off the Mormon missionaries

As the parent of a young man who just returned this month from his LDS mission in St. Louis, I love the sense of divine justice here.

Wo unto the flippers, for they shall be flipped.

You may quote me on that.



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3 Responses to Driver flips off LDS missionaries, and his car is flipped

  1. Lynn says:
    August 28, 2012 at 8:39 pm

    I was looking up this article, because one of the missionaries mentioned is my cousin, and came across your blog. I just wanted to add a side of the story no one is talking about or mentions, which is the two Elders instantly ran over to the car to make sure the guy was ok. They could have easily said he flipped us off, let the other people around help him, but they didn’t. They were the first to get to the car. Missionaries are amazing.

    Response by David Hall:
    Thanks for that detail. That sounds like just the thing a good missionary would do.

    • Janet Coutts says:
      August 29, 2012 at 7:59 pm

      To me, it sounds like just the thing any sentient human being would do. It is nice to know that the missionaries did it, though. And the sense of divine retribution is amusing indeed.

  2. Phillip C. Smith says:
    August 29, 2012 at 10:09 am

    We are taught to return good for evil. Following the accident the missionaries in question hurried over to see if the driver was all right and to help as needed. I am always sorry when our Church and its members are misunderstood or abused, but we need to turn the other cheek and show forth love toward those who do not treat us right.

    Phillip C. Smith

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