Originally Posted by The Synergizer (Post 11908498)

Bad luck comes in 3 - he better watch it.

Honestly though I wonder if the burn may has slightly affected any of his vision just enough to make it slightly worse...

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer (Post 11907755)

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

Originally Posted by Tobra (Post 11907797)

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.

Originally Posted by Jeff Hail (Post 11908416)

"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.

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton (Post 11908838)

Jay burning his face seems like the result of a foolish risk on his part. He was fixing a clogged fuel line on a steam car and there was a pilot light there as well? Is that right?

I'd like to see the circumstances of the wire and the parking lot before deciding if he made another bad decision.

I hope he makes a quick and full recovery- I think he's a first-class good guy.

Originally Posted by The Synergizer (Post 11908854)

Surprised that there hasn't been a picture anywhere of the parking lot entrance after his crash. Wass it a standard cable that you see often locking it, or a thin wire?

Originally Posted by Tobra (Post 11907797)

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.

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr (Post 11940493)

In this video Jay talks about the motorcycle accident starting 5.50.

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