Jay Leno Motorcycle Accident

[gumby]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/27/entertainment/jay-leno-motorcycle-accident/index.html

[speeder]

Getting old sucks.

[herr_oberst]

Getting old sucks, for sure, but getting clotheslined could happen to anyone on a motorcycle or a bicycle in those circumstances.

2 broken kneecaps. I can't imagine how he's still doing standup.

I wonder if the guy who strung a wire with no flag will get fined for it? Should be illegal.

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by speeder

Getting old sucks.

Better than the alternative.

[speeder]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

Getting old sucks, for sure, but getting clotheslined could happen to anyone on a motorcycle or a bicycle in those circumstances.

2 broken kneecaps. I can't imagine how he's still doing standup.

I wonder if the guy who strung a wire with no flag will get fined for it? Should be illegal.

I'm guessing that it was a standard length of cable between posts that never has a flag on it. They are not hard to see, if you're looking where you are going and have good eyesight.

[Norm K]

Clip cut a bit short out of respect for those who don't appreciate colorful language.

[rfuerst911sc]

Looks like Jay is a tough ole bird . Glad it wasn't more serious . I wonder if his wife is reviewing the life insurance policy 😋

[Sooner or later]

And his tv series, Jay Leno's Garage, has been canceled.

[Crowbob]

A few years back around here some guy stretched a wire across a trail leading to his vacant property out in the boonies. No flags. No indication whatsoever that the wire was there.

At least one decapitation and several injuries when a group of snowmobilers were looking where they were going and had good eyesight.

[speeder]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

A few years back around here some guy stretched a wire across a trail leading to his vacant property out in the boonies. No flags. No indication whatsoever that the wire was there.

At least one decapitation and several injuries when a group of snowmobilers were looking where they were going and had good eyesight.

That's terrible but a hidden wire in the wilderness is a bit different than the cables used as barriers in parking lots.

[dlockhart]

Glad he is still able to have fun with his toys. I hope to do the same in future years

[911 Rod]

He can't catch a break lately.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by speeder

Getting old sucks.

Sure does. Being old is even worse. Takes a lot longer to heal...sure hope he heals well. Kneecaps sound like the most worrisome of the injuries.

[Chocaholic]

Tough year for Jay.

[masraum]

Man, that guy needs to stay inside and invest in some bubble-wrap!

Hope he heals OK.

[CurtEgerer]

Jay always looks really sleepy. Just a couple of slits for eyes. I wonder how sharp his situational awareness is in a moving vehicle.

[Tobra]

There were some hunters did something like this on my father in laws property one time. He had acreage that butted up against property owned by Weyerhaeuser, trees for wood pulp. They had a little travel trailer at their camp. Apparently did not like my brother in law and his cousin riding three wheelers around, on their own property. They strung a wire between two trees. Wayne did not lose his head, but he still has a scar on his face. They came back and told my father in law. He went and burned everything at their camp. Travel trailer, truck, everything. Lucky for them they were not around when he got there.

[A930Rocket]

When we were little kids, we used to position ourselves on either side of the neighborhood street. We would all pretend we were pulling a rope across the road and struggling to keep it tight. I don’t recall that anybody fell for it.🤪

[Jeff Hail]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

When we were little kids, we used to position ourselves on either side of the neighborhood street. We would all pretend we were pulling a rope across the road and struggling to keep it tight. I don’t recall that anybody fell for it.��

"Never wage war with children that possess the means".

This was 48 years ago.

We had a speeding problem on my street when I was a kid about 8 or 9. People were hauling about 60 mph down our narrow street as a short cut when the posted speed was 20mph. It was not uncommon back then to have kids playing outside at 9PM.

We made our own cutouts. At night with people advertisements we grabbed from the local market trash bin. Just a flat piece of cardboard. We cut them out and short to kid height (3 feet or so). We used kite string one end tied to a tree and the other we would pull on when a car was in proximity. Both sides of the street were lined with parked cars so you could not swerve to avoid the inevitible. It was a true gauntlet.

Pull quickly and suddenly a little carboard person appears in your headlamps in front of you. On impact the string would break and cardboard cutout would go under or over the offending vehicle. That was a SPECTACLE. No time to pump the brakes.

You could hear both men and women scream if the windows were open like a horror movie. Complete colonic expulsion.

The behavioral effect on motor vehicle operation was outstanding. It stopped the speeding problem over one summer.

We thought we got caught one night and were in big trouble. One of the neighbors about 5 houses down was an older LAPD Homicide Detective and would walk his dog at night. We didnt see him but he saw what we were doing and when one of the drivers hit the cutout he locked his brakes up, jumped out and while he was checking under the car my neighbor confronted him, pulled his badge and berated the driver to tears.

We thought about a grapefruit on a string pulled taught but that might have broken a windshield or worse. The grapefruit was ruled out since real kinetics was off the table and my house was the only one with a grapefruit tree.

Evidently at the time some of the parents on the block knew about what we were doing and since it solved a problem they just let it go. I'm sure some were lurking in the shadows catching a front row visual that we were unaware of.

Funny thing is the Police use cutouts everywhere now. How many of you have been nailed on radar by a realistic cop cutout? I remember the fully uniformed police mannequin on the police motorcycle on Laurel Canyon south of Mulholland. I think Coldwater had one also in somebodies driveway. They gave drivers strokes.

[cstreit]

Didnt he just catch on fire in his garage lately? May be time to slow it down a notch..