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I doubt that Baylor, 51, thinks helping someone was a mistake, but his good deed started a chain of events resulting in physical pain, mental anguish and financial loss.
After kicking around in the courts for a couple of years, Baylor gets a status conference tomorrow in
To understand the present, you have to understand the past, so let's go back to the afternoon of
I'm guessing the man recruited Baylor because of Baylor's stout build. He had worked heavy construction and in his youth wrestled at
Baylor goes into the parking lot, sees
A grunt here, a groan here and the car is free. Rogerson thanks the men who turn and walk away, but the Scion starts rolling toward the men in the sloped parking lot.
They turn and put their hands on the hood to try to stop it. Baylor gets clipped on the right hip by the Scion as it comes to rest against a parked car.
A mortified Rogerson is apologetic, Baylor says, and asks if he's OK. Cops arrive to take statements.
Rogerson tells Baylor to go to a doctor and she will pay the bills, he tells me, but Baylor pretty much shrugs it off.
He does go to the doctor the next day, he's told he has a bone bruise and it will clear up in eight to 10 weeks. It does. But . . .
Several months later, after working out in the gym, he feels an unusual soreness in his hip that doesn't go away. He goes to the
He gets the new hip, paid for by
Efforts to reach Rogerson and her attorney on Friday were unsuccessful, but in her statement to police, she says Baylor's aid was unrequested, and she makes no mention of offering remuneration.
Meanwhile,
"Shouldn't they be suing her insurance company?" Baylor asks. I called his
It's a bad outcome for a good Samaritan.
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