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Great way to end the year... Took my daughter snowboarding and had an awesome day. Ride home, not so awesome. Cruising down the highway and someone on a side street blew through the stop sign (I had no stop sign and was moving at speed). Claimed they slid through the stop sign due to ice, but they were moving at least 30 mph so that is a bit hard to believe. They got cited by the officer for running the stop. My daughter and I are fairly unscathed. She is mentally a quite raveled. Bumps and bruises on both and possible cracked rib on both. Xrays looked ok, but apparently a slight fracture would not show up. Pain in the area makes docs think a slight fracture. Luckily not worse. Now to deal with getting this all resolved...   -Jay "Assault is a type of behavior, not a type of hardware." -Alan Korwin | ||
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| A man's got to know his limitations  |
Bummer, dude. Glad no serious injuries. "But, as luck would have it, he stood up. He caught that chunk of lead." Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock | |||
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delicately calloused |
That rear wheel indicates more than body damage, to state the obvious. I’d watch that repair like a hawk. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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| It seemed like a good idea... |
Yeah, I am hoping they just total it. All my dash lights were on as well. Brake, ABS, Traction Control, etc. Car would barely move to get it off road. -Jay "Assault is a type of behavior, not a type of hardware." -Alan Korwin | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Sorry you had to start your year on such a bad note 
It's possible, if the intersection was badly iced-up, they weren't paying attention, and tried to stop short on the ice. One winter, during a blinding snowstorm in freezing-ass cold, I got a late-night notification our building had lost power. I didn't want to make the facilities guy come in, in that weather, as far away as he lived, so I went in. Approaching this one intersection that was at the bottom of a fairly decent grade, I slowed way down before even hitting the top of the grade. Good thing I did, too. When I got a look at the grade I could see it was a sheet of glare ice all the way down. I don't think I was doing more than 15 MPH at the top. If that. The ABS kicked-in immediately. The brakes didn't do more than keep me from speeding up. I finally came to a stop nearly half-way through the intersection--which had been salted. I looked around, then slowly backed up and got myself into the right turn lane just in case anybody followed me down that grade. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Sorry about your vehicle. Even sorrier for your daughter. That must have been a hard hit. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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