Leaping and "real life"
Article 804:
Quantum Leap Marathon
Date: 11/16/2000
From: SamBeckettLover
I was so excited to turn on my television today at eleven in the morning to find a quantum leap marathon on! And I love when they put those little facts at the bottom of the screen throughout the show! The one asked about who we would leap into if we could. I decided leap to save my friend's brother. He was driving down the road with a few friends and he was insulting this group of people that insult him all the time. Well another driver thought that the insult was aimed at him. So they pulled over to fight it out and the guy pulled a knife on my friend's brother and killed him. Then the mom committed suicide, my friend became bad, got pregnent, and can't keep a job. This is definitely a job for good old Sam. ANybody else have a story to tell?
Reply:
PERSON FOR SAM TO LEAP INTO
Date: 11/17/2000
From: MTLEAPER
I'm sure we could all come up with hundreds of stories for Sam to leap into. Yours is similar to several I can think of, as I've had a friend murdered, and others killed in car wrecks. The story I would really like to see, though, involved three teen-agers leaving a party drunk. They stopped the car in a parking lot because it was overheating
and they wanted to let it cool down. While they were in the parking lot, they got a can of spray paint out of the trunk to spray on some repair spots they had been working on. A man across the street looked out of his window, and saw them. He thought they were vandalizing the car, so he called the police. When they saw the police car, they panicked and got in the car and left. One reason they panicked is that one of the boys was on probabtion for spray
painting signs at the local university, and he also had some
marijuana in his pocket that belonged to his girl-friend who
was with them. She was only 15, the driver was 19, and the boyfriend of the girl (and best-friend of the driver) was 18. When they left the parking lot, the police started chasing them, so they started speeding. The police never put on the sirens or blue lights, just kept chasing them. They rounded a corner too quickly, sideswiped a tree, and ran into a phone pole. Both of the younger two were killed
and the driver was originally thought to be dead, but he somehow managed to survive. He was charged with two counts of murder, and the whole town was divided by loyalties to the three different families. Most people in town knew at least one of the kids or their families---I happened to know
all of them. The whole thing was a tragedy, involving three
underage drinkers who got into a car together, willingly. Two of them were killed, and the third spent three years in prison for killing his best-friend & his best-friend's girl-friend. His life was ruined, because he wanted to be a surgeon, and cannot follow his dream because he committed a felony. The lives of all three families were shattered, a town was divided, and the poor man who made the phone call to 911 believes to this day that the wreck would never have occurred if he hadn't reported something that wasn't even happening. I think that Sam could have fixed this tragedy by leaping into any of the participants. Sorry this reply is so lengthy---I guess I got carried away! But maybe we should start sending our ideas to Universal & to Don Bellisario so they will see how much we want the series, or at least a movie, to be revived!
Article 804:
Quantum Leap Marathon
Date: 11/16/2000
From: SamBeckettLover
I was so excited to turn on my television today at eleven in the morning to find a quantum leap marathon on! And I love when they put those little facts at the bottom of the screen throughout the show! The one asked about who we would leap into if we could. I decided leap to save my friend's brother. He was driving down the road with a few friends and he was insulting this group of people that insult him all the time. Well another driver thought that the insult was aimed at him. So they pulled over to fight it out and the guy pulled a knife on my friend's brother and killed him. Then the mom committed suicide, my friend became bad, got pregnent, and can't keep a job. This is definitely a job for good old Sam. ANybody else have a story to tell?
Reply:
PERSON FOR SAM TO LEAP INTO
Date: 11/17/2000
From: MTLEAPER
I'm sure we could all come up with hundreds of stories for Sam to leap into. Yours is similar to several I can think of, as I've had a friend murdered, and others killed in car wrecks. The story I would really like to see, though, involved three teen-agers leaving a party drunk. They stopped the car in a parking lot because it was overheating
and they wanted to let it cool down. While they were in the parking lot, they got a can of spray paint out of the trunk to spray on some repair spots they had been working on. A man across the street looked out of his window, and saw them. He thought they were vandalizing the car, so he called the police. When they saw the police car, they panicked and got in the car and left. One reason they panicked is that one of the boys was on probabtion for spray
painting signs at the local university, and he also had some
marijuana in his pocket that belonged to his girl-friend who
was with them. She was only 15, the driver was 19, and the boyfriend of the girl (and best-friend of the driver) was 18. When they left the parking lot, the police started chasing them, so they started speeding. The police never put on the sirens or blue lights, just kept chasing them. They rounded a corner too quickly, sideswiped a tree, and ran into a phone pole. Both of the younger two were killed
and the driver was originally thought to be dead, but he somehow managed to survive. He was charged with two counts of murder, and the whole town was divided by loyalties to the three different families. Most people in town knew at least one of the kids or their families---I happened to know
all of them. The whole thing was a tragedy, involving three
underage drinkers who got into a car together, willingly. Two of them were killed, and the third spent three years in prison for killing his best-friend & his best-friend's girl-friend. His life was ruined, because he wanted to be a surgeon, and cannot follow his dream because he committed a felony. The lives of all three families were shattered, a town was divided, and the poor man who made the phone call to 911 believes to this day that the wreck would never have occurred if he hadn't reported something that wasn't even happening. I think that Sam could have fixed this tragedy by leaping into any of the participants. Sorry this reply is so lengthy---I guess I got carried away! But maybe we should start sending our ideas to Universal & to Don Bellisario so they will see how much we want the series, or at least a movie, to be revived!