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My friend just wrecked his car.; ...here's the picture.
Topic Started: Jun 21 2005, 03:56 PM (466 Views)
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Edit: Thanks Kenny...the picture link didn't work, so here's the website link:

http://community.webshots.com/photo/373975...373977156GYsAJl

He's obviously fine, since you see him in the picture. :smile:

A possum or something darted out and he dodged it, but then lost control and wrapped it around a tree. He wasn't drinking, and is fine. His car is actually very expensive...so it's a shame. Thank goodness for insurance! :leaving:
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kenny
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Glad your friend is fine, but your pic is totaled.

I only see the dreaded red X.
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Glad he's fine -- but we ALL get to pay for his new car now. Tell him next time to run over the possum.
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Will do! :D
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Looks like the possum won.
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. ~ Garrison Keillor


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Yeah musta been one hell-of-a-possum! :eek:
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I've seen a lot of post-accident pics. It always seems that the cars that look the worst end up with a driver who walks away. The cars that don't look so smashed up are the ones where the driver dies. Why is that?

Glad your friend is ok 89th. Don't mean to hijack...just thinking outloud.
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Maybe because the driver absorbed more of the impact than the car?

Probably not true, just thinking out loud. And dont worry about hijacks dol, I do that enough myself. :wacko:
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Actually, you might be onto something, 89th. Car is all smashed up = the buckling fibreglass/steel absorbing impact. Car not smashed up = impact transferred to driver, who gets banged around. Could be.
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Glad he's fine 89th.

A side note:
you should never put yourself in danger or anyone else (in the opposite lane) by swerving to avoid small animals.

Better to just hit them and collect 100 points.
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I completely agree...although uncontrolled reactions might prove different.
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Jun 21 2005, 09:14 PM
Glad he's fine 89th.

A side note:
you should never put yourself in danger or anyone else (in the opposite lane) by swerving to avoid small animals.

Better to just hit them and collect 100 points.

Can you swerve to hit the animal? :whome:
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yes, as long as you don't endanger your life or anyone else's!

No matter what PETA tells you, ANIMALS ARE NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN HUMANS....

It is wrong for people to cry in a movie when a dog gets hit by a car, and to laugh when a person does.
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Of course I'd only hit the ugly ones, though.
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Yeah... ugly ones are a product of evolution, not creation, and it's your resonsibility as a steward of the planet to remove it.
"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper
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Hey, wait. I don't even have a driver's license. Never mind.
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so???
"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper
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So I'll just have to kick'em.
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KlavierBauer
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It's not like you have to plug the license in to start the car....

get out there and drive man!

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"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper
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KlavierBauer
Jun 22 2005, 01:06 AM
Yeah... ugly ones are a product of evolution, not creation, and it's your resonsibility as a steward of the planet to remove it.

It's true, the Bible says so!
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Lucky he wrapped the passenger side around the pole. The outcome might not have been so good on the opposite side.

There's a lot to be said for driving a car in some evasive maneuvers in a parking lot, little used road, track or such just to find out what its limits are and how to handle it as you approach them.

A cousin of my wife was killed apparently trying to evade a deer one night. You can whack a raccoon or possum, but larger animals, people and other vehicles make knowing how to evade accidents a helpful skill.

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Yeah, no one was with him at the time, which is good (I've been in that seat before :eek:)...and he said the damaged bent the car one full foot into the passenger seat. :hair:
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Al, good point.

I sometimes take for granted that my driving instructor (my dad) used to race, as did his brothers. Their Father owned a filling station, and they grew up rebuilding engines, racing at the track, racing at the drag strip, etc.

We all had driving instruction before entering driver's Ed, and basically did so for the insurance break.

We used to go to the local high school parking lot as soon as it was snowed over, and practice controlled spins. All three of us kids and my Dad (Mom stayed home of course). I thought it was just a lot of fun at the time, but now I really see the value in knowing how to control an automobile.
One of my favorite things still is to find a nice curvy dirt road, and practice four-wheel slides.
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"He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple

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AlbertaCrude
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big al
Jun 22 2005, 05:02 AM
You can whack a raccoon or possum, but larger animals, people and other vehicles make knowing how to evade accidents a helpful skill.


Have had my share of near misses. Deer, moose, elk and, on two occasions, black bears. With the moose it has always been around the same spot on the Hwy just south of Blue River BC around dusk. I attribute my luck not to hitting moose on having been a big game hunting enthusiast. You learn to look far ahead, wide and react to any movement on the periphery of vision particulary around dusk.

The bears were different story. One came charging out the bush onto the shoulder of the road, stopped dead in his tracks, turned and charged back from the direction he came. Whew! Had he crossed the Hwy there was no I could have stopped doing 55 MPH as was less than 50 feet away. Two years ago, I noticed in my side mirror the other bear run across the hwy right behind my truck as I passed. A split second sooner he would have been under my front wheels. I don't know how true it is but I have been told several times that if you hit a bear at hwy speed chances are you will flip your rig as bruins with their low centre of gravity tend to roll under vehicles rather than fly through the windshield like deer, moose and elk.

Anyhow 89 I'm glad to hear your friend is okay. The car can always be replaced-good friends can't.
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Jun 22 2005, 12:38 AM
Of course I'd only hit the ugly ones, though.

:o :wacko: :hair:


Oh, you meant animals :wink:
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