And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
You know those heat-shrunk plastic strips used to bundle newspapers? Plastic strip about 1/4" wide and about 15" in diameter? A friend was out running pre-dawn, stepped on the (unseen) near side of one, causing the other end of the loop to flip up just enough to catch her forward foot. She tripped, fell, and shattered her kneecap on the concrete sidewalk.
HAHA
ReplyDeleteThat sort of hurt my knees when I saw it.
ReplyDeleteI remember doing exactly the same thing - ouch!
ReplyDelete/some people don't wait for Monday.
ReplyDeleteGood thing she's got big bumpers in front.
Ouch.
ReplyDeleteYou know those heat-shrunk plastic strips used to bundle newspapers? Plastic strip about 1/4" wide and about 15" in diameter? A friend was out running pre-dawn, stepped on the (unseen) near side of one, causing the other end of the loop to flip up just enough to catch her forward foot. She tripped, fell, and shattered her kneecap on the concrete sidewalk.
Been there, done that, got the wrist braces.
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