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Friend of Warren
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Lincoln, NE
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Stupid Driver Just About Killed Me!
Coming back from an out of town meeting on 2 lane state highway. Where I am at the road is straight but then has a sweeping curve to the left. Coming at me is a red firebird that comes through the curve and right into my lane. I start flashing my lights, no movement. We are both going over 60mph. I move onto the shoulder thinking he will correct and go back into his lane. He sees me and then panics and also goes onto the same shoulder. I immediately go back into my lane. We are so close we almost transfer paint. He freaks out, jerks the wheel to the left, goes through a ditch, a fence and then spins out in a field. Me and 3 other cars stop. My adrenaline is pumping. I'm wearing a suit, but sprint the 20 some odd yards to where he is. Turns out the guy is ok. He doesn't even know what happened. I want to kill him. He then starts going on about how is he going to get his car out of the field. I just walked away and got back in my car.
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05-12-2008, 01:58 PM
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Should've killed him.
The gene pool needs more chlorine. Clearly. In all seriousness, glad you're okay.
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05-12-2008, 02:00 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: South of Heaven
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If you'd have punched him odds are it would be you that got pinched(too many witnesses).
You handled it right, and man, i do feel your pain. People are idiots. |
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05-12-2008, 02:02 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: SoCal
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Kurt, that rates a
 I'm glad you were able to avoid that asshat. Did you call the police? I would've and stayed on scene until they arrived. That guy needs to be off the roads before he kills someone.
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05-12-2008, 02:23 PM
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Used to be Singpilot...
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Sioux Falls, SD is what the reg says on the bus.
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Almost the same scenario a couple of weeks ago. Except I am in a car, and some rookie motorcycle rider waaaay too fast opposite direction.
What's the first thing you learn in a 911 and a motorcycle too fast in a curve?? NEVER LIFT!. Turns out it is a girl, and a newbie. She lifts, goes down the wrong side of my car into the marbles on my shoulder. Somehow she saves it. I reverse and catch her cleaning out her pants. (figuratively only, dammit). Explain to her that I am MSI Instructor, and give her the f-laced NEVER LIFT explanation, and one minute-basic theory of Newton's 3rd, 5th and 6th laws as they relate to motorcycles. Then I go home and clean my shorts. My first stop anytime I am teaching a newbie on a bike is to the motorcycle salvage yard. More than 3/4ths of the bloody, totalled bikes there have paper plates. Last edited by fingpilot; 05-12-2008 at 03:07 PM.. |
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05-12-2008, 03:03 PM
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