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Bloodied Glasses Return To Owner

In the HucksOnline Lost And Found Dept: Canfield Middle School sixth-grade instructor Chris Pickens has been reunited with his glasses following a bike crash en route to work Tuesday morning in Hayden. HBO posted at item this morning re: someone finding a bloody pair of glasses @ Prairie & Wayne in Hayden (9:05 a.m. item). I reposted the AM Scanner Traffic on my Facebook. Where Stacy Perry spotted it -- and said that the glasses may belong to her brother-in-law (Pickens) who was knocked unconscious in the bike crash. Stacy reports that Pickens "suffered pretty severe facial wounds (including broken nose) which required (5) stitches and a potential surgery but was surprisingly lucky that he didn't suffer injuries anyplace else." Worse yet, Pickens underwent grueling nose, sinus, & tear-duct surgery last summer to correct long-standing health problems. Pickens returned to look for the glasses but couldn't find them. After our Facebook exchange, Stacy reported that an officer had delivered the glasses to Canfield Middle School. Stacy adds: "As hurt as he (Pickens) was last night that was what concerned him most."

Question: Have you ever had a bad bicycle crash?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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