Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for June 14, 2016

“His worst injury was a broken tibia…but then True Standish showed up with a tire iron.”

“Still there will be a lot of medical bills. Do you have insurance, or will you be able to pay cash?”“No, we’re insolvent. See? ‘Insolvent’. Get it? Because… oh, never mind.”

Del’s not having such a big ol’ time now. Although, if the trial for this one is in Milford he won’t get Hang Em Hyatt for a judge. #brightside

And another day goes by without the driver of the pickup’s being identified and without our knowing whether he lived or died.

It must be quite a while after the wreck. Del’s been taken to the hospital, examined, leg put in cast, handcuffed to bed, etc. And Mrs. Bader has no idea there was a fatality? Not possible. Unless by “other driver” she means the man or woman driving the pick-up.

This isn’t a very modern hospital Grand Master Bader is in. If this was in set in the current century those clipboards would be tablets.

If those two in P3 think he’s in trouble now, wait ’til Mrs. Bader gets ahold of him.

They are hangin’ Danny Deever, they are marchin’ of ’im round,They ’ave ’alted Danny Deever by ’is coffin on the ground;An’ ’e’ll swing in ’arf a minute for a sneakin’ shootin’ hound—O they’re hangin’ Danny Deever in the mornin!’

The pickup driver was a joyriding alien, who has been teleported back to the mothership and successfully treated for a dislocated tentacle. Xzslx was unable to stop because, being unfamiliar with earth vehicles, he hit the defroster instead of the brakes.

P3- Eric LaSalle makes a cameo in Milford. Apologies to Globetrotter great Curly Neal, describing him as late and great. Thankfully, Curly is merely great.

But wait, isn’t Del “under arrest” and HANDCUFFED to the bed? Wouldn’t that give Mrs. Bader a slight clue about the seriousness of the accident? And speaking of clues, here’s a big clue as to how to read today’s Mopped Up Thorp. You just click on the link.

Bader’s hit didn’t kill Boo. It didn’t help any tho. Who was the 2nd driver and where the heck is he/she?

In all reality , the Badder’s don’t have the Milford Messenger delivered , listen to Marty in the Morning or watch Hello Milford hosted by Holly and don’t read school E Blasts. Won’ t Barry be surprised today ,let the beatings begin .

Del will now be one of those guys who gets to join AA while in prison. it will also be a condition of his release that he attend meetings and he will have to have the meeting chair sign his sheet to prove he was at a meeting. Of course, he won’t remember a thing about the accident, cow judge or not. Tally ho!

Driver 2 is just as liable due to negligence. He should’ve been able to see Boo’s car in enough time to stop. If not, he was outdriving his headlights (going too fast for conditions). Accident reconstruction based on expertise and the data in the car’s chip memory would be able to determine where his braking started, his vehicle’s road speed and speed at impact. But none of that is salient because Boo is … (snif) … Boo … is … (snif) … Boo is DEAD, dammit.

The only interesting character ever in the whole strip and now she’s DEAD. Rubin and Whigham should be the ones on trial.

So if he doesn’t know the status of the other driver, why is he handcuffed to the bed? where are the cops?

So if he doesn’t know the status of the other driver, why is he handcuffed to the bed. Where are the police?

Maybe the pickup was an unmanned drone?

It’s a metaphor. Boo had lots of issues but she’d die before being known as an easy pick-up.

Ode to a Mudlarkby Percy Bysshe Shelley (more or less)

That from Heaven or near itPourest thy full heaterIn profuse strains upon the batter’s helmit.Higher still and higherFrom the earth thou threatens,Like a cloud of fire;The blue Jeep thou did wringest from Dad,And Daddy’s co-signing still dost owe, and owing ever stingest.In the golden lightningOf the sunken sun,O’er which clouds are bright’ning,Thou dost hit and run,Like an unbodied toy whose race is just begun,..um,…er, …ended.Three verses of Blah, blah, blah we skippest

What thou art we know not;What is most like thee?From rainbow clouds there flow notDrops so bright to see,As from thy presence showers a rain of mediocrity: -Hark, we now skipest all the way to the endBetter than all the nick names of delightful sound, Better than all treasures that in THAT book are found, If Thy name was for the characTER, they would have called you… WAL..TER.

Del should be charged with drunk driving but not killing Boo. But then she may have died before the pickup hit her. They have to let us know about the pickup driver.

Del might be subject to the felony murder rule. If his drunk driving was a felony, and Boo’s death occurred in the course of it (which it did), he could be charged with murder.

Where’s the tall girl? Maybe she was driving the truck.

My preferred outcome for this scenario: “In the name of Robert of House Baratheon, first of his name, king of the Andals and the first men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm, I, Eddard of House Stark, Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North, do sentence you to die.”