Until a couple of days ago I had no idea who Neil Alan Smith was. That all changed due to a callous comment to an article about a hit-and-run accident and a newspaper's reminder that every life matters.
From the St. Petersburg Times...
By Andrew Meacham, Times Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
ST. PETERSBURG — About 11 p.m. Sept. 12, a car struck Neil Alan Smith and threw him off his bicycle on Fourth Street N. The car didn't stop. Mr. Smith, who was pedaling home from his job as a dishwasher at the Crab Shack. He was taken to Bayfront Medical Center. He died there six days later. He was 48. Police have not located the hit-and-run driver.
Shortly after the St. Petersburg Times announced Mr. Smith's death on its website, a reader posted a comment stating the following: A man who is working as a dishwasher at the Crab Shack at the age of 48 is surely better off dead.
Web editors removed the comment, deeming it an offensive and insensitive insult. Though hardly unusual this one spurred the Times to make Mr. Smith the subject of this story, as a reminder that every life matters.
This much is certain about Mr. Smith: A number of people miss him...
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