Article October 3, 2005 Issue

JUSTICE IS SERVED

By Rodolfo Ernesto Regueira

ARRIVING HOME from work one night, I parked my car in front of the building where I live and went into my apartment. At two o'clock the next morning, the phone rang. It was my neighbor. She told me there had been an accident on our block and my car had been heavily damaged.

I went downstairs and saw that a car had indeed hit several parked cars, including mine. Thank goodness, nobody was injured, although the cars had been totaled. After the collision, the driver had abandoned the car he was driving and ran away. Nobody knew the details about what had happened.

Since it was very late, the owners of the other cars and I waited until the morning to file a report with the police. But the facts weren't clear. And, of course, no one wanted to shoulder responsibility for what had happened early that morning.