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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The physics of the incident is all wrong.  Probably didn't happen.[/quote]

Exactly. He didn't get hit but his back pack did? Mmmmmm no[/quote]

It's not possible for a car to come close enough to a person to knock the person's backpack off one shoulder?[/quote]

Another person who thinks this is not possible.  If a car hit your son's backpack, your son would have been knocked about 25 feet down the road.  The force absorbed just from the car hitting the backpack would have destroyed the backpack.  Have you examined the backpack, OP?  Is it in tatters?  Destroyed?  Have you taken your son to the spot in the road where he says this happened and have him reenact it for you, several times, telling you exactly what happened?

I'm not calling your son a liar, but children without experience perceive an event (A car almost hit me!  It knocked my backpack off me!) in a way that didn't happen that way.  It just could not be that a car ran into your son's backpack with such surgical precision to knock it off one shoulder, did not knock him down, left no damage to the backpack, did not notice it hit him, and no witnesses noticed either.  It just can't be.  This is his interpretation of events in his mind, and that's fine, but it's not what happened.[/quote]

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Think about the way a car is shaped. In order for a vehicle to knock a backpack off a shoulder, this boy would have to be about the height of the hood. It would be marginally more possible with a flat front bus. [/quote]

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