Sweet Dreams

So, you head for bed after a long day to get some much-needed sleep. You put on your jammies, pull the covers over you and fall asleep. You're busily snoring away, minding your own business in your own bed, having a nice, peaceful sleep.

Then you're run over by a jeep.

ROANOKE, Va. - The underside of a car is a familiar sight to auto mechanic Dean Blevins. Seeing one on top of him at 2:30 in the morning, while he was in bed — that was new. A Jeep crashed through a wall of Blevins' apartment early Tuesday and pinned him in his bed. It took firefighters an hour to free him, but he suffered only minor bruises and scrapes.

As he saw the vehicle's engine above him and felt hot antifreeze splash onto his face, Blevins said, his initial thoughts were less about his injuries than about going after the driver.

"If I'd a had my gun," he told The Roanoke Times, "I'd a probably shot him."

The driver, Wesley Dewayne Smith, 34, of Roanoke, was charged with driving under the influence.

There's one more thing to be worried about when you climb into bed that you never thought of before. You can thank me later.