Texans Are Accident Prone

This one is long so make sure you have a little time. It
is worth every minute!

from CNN.com

"Woman accused of killing husband with Mercedes
August 5, 2002 Posted: 7:19 PM EDT (2319 GMT)

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Suspecting her husband of having
an affair, Clara Harris did what wealthy wives can
afford to do: She hired an investigator. But what the
private eye saw could become Exhibit A against Harris
herself.

As the investigator's video camera rolled, an enraged
Harris allegedly killed her husband in a parking lot by
running him over three times with her silver Mercedes-
Benz and leaving the car parked on top of him. The
victim's 16-year-old daughter was in the passenger seat.

"It was an accident," Harris, a 44-year-old dentist,
told reporters after her arrest on murder charges.

The episode happened outside a hotel after Harris
confronted her orthodontist husband, David, and got into
a screaming fight with the alleged other woman.

Bobbi Bacha of Blue Moon Investigations said the
detective agency turned over to police a videotape that
contains "all of the activities and movements of the
subject to the very end."

Harris' attorney, George Parnham, said last week that
she will plead innocent at her August 23 arraignment.
She remains free on $30,000 bail.

Detective hired day husband died
Parnham, who unsuccessfully defended Andrea Yates, the
Houston mother who claimed insanity after drowning her
five children in the bathtub, suggested that this case,
too, would hinge on the defendant's state of mind.

"Obviously, something triggered what happened," Parnham
said. "This was not an act that was anyway akin to the
mentality of Clara Harris. We have a professional person
who is very intelligent. When you see the man that you
love in the arms of someone else -- that has to have
such a deep emotional impact on you."

Harris had hired Blue Moon Investigations on the very
day her 44-year-old husband was killed. But before the
investigator could confirm her suspicions, she showed up
unexpectedly at the suburban hotel where her husband of
10 years had gone with one of his employees, Gail
Bridges. The investigator had David Harris under
surveillance at the time.

Witnesses said Clara Harris got into a fight with
Bridges in the lobby, ripping the woman's shirt off, and
announced that her husband was having an affair with
Bridges. David Harris and about 10 hotel employees tried
to pull the two women apart.

Daughter was in the car
Security guards escorted David Harris and Bridges
outside. Clara Harris, meanwhile, got into her 2001 four-
door Mercedes S-Class 430. With tires squealing, she
headed toward a crowd in the parking lot as alarmed
hotel employees banged on the hood and tried to get her
to stop, witnesses said.

"She jumped the median and ran over him three times,"
Nassau Bay police Lt. Joe M. Cashiola told the Houston
Chronicle. "I saw the daughter lying on the ground,
crying uncontrollably and sobbing. She had to watch her
dad 5 feet from her, underneath the car, while they're
putting her mom in handcuffs."

A witness, Angela Reyes, told the Chronicle that David
Harris' teenage daughter from a previous marriage jumped
out of the car and punched Clara Harris in the face.
Clara Harris yelled toward her husband:"I'm so sorry! I
love you! Keep breathing!"

Last week, the teenager's mother went to court to ask
that David Harris' estate be placed in a trust for his
children so it cannot be used by Clara Harris to defend
herself or to profit from her husband's death.

Bridges' lawyer had no comment last week. At Bridges'
two-story brown brick home, the shades were drawn and
signs were posted along its walkway and driveway warning
against trespassing.

The Harrises lived with their 3-year-old twin sons in a
$560,000 white stone and brick mansion with a long,
winding driveway on nearly four acres in the suburb of
Friendswood. A woman who answered the door last week
said Clara Harris had no comment.

Her dental office has reopened, but another dentist is
seeing patients in her place"

Ha ha ha ha ha ha! "|I'm so sorry! I love you! Keep
breathing" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Vroom Vroom!
Bump bump! Squish squish! Oh! An accident! Bump bump!
Oh! Another accident! Vroom vroom, squeal squeal vroom!
Bump bump! Squish! Oh no! Yet another accident! I'd
better park this thing before someone gets hurt! Oh no!
I accidentally parked on his head! "I'm so sorry! I
love you! Keep breathing!"

"Thank you for calling the office of Dr. Harris. Due to
an unforeseen accident, the office will be closed today."

And it's Texas again! Remember when that
woman "accidentally" hit that homeless guy
and "accidentally" left him stuck in her windshield for
a couple of days? Boy, Texans sure are accident prone!
We even "accidentally" got one for president! Ha ha ha!