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.
Friday, March 2, 2018
Well, it's not like he didn't have time to maneuver away.
I had the same thing happen when I was driving behind a dump truck with no mud-flaps. There was a potato sized stone wedged between the dual tires and it let lose. We were both doing about 50mph and I was about 5 car lengths behind the truck. I clearly saw the stone fly up in a parabolic arch and it was perfectly positioned to hit me. I had about 3 or 4 seconds to react but I was mesmerized. The result was a destroyed windshield.
Similar thing happened to me on I-95 south in Maryland once. Only it was a sheet of plywood that came of the rack on a pickup truck. Nowhere to go, I was penned in. Fortunately I was able to slow down just enough that I managed to run onto it just as it set sorta flattish on the highway. I have no doubt it would have come up again if I'd been a second later and I'm darned glad I didn't get to it a second earlier. I was a fortunate one.
Oh, yeah, and another time driving on the Garden State Parkway in a nor'easter similar to what we're enjoying today, one of those "No Turns" signs they put up on the little cut thru spots for emergency and maintenance vehicles was just was coming at me like something outta Wizard of Oz. I could read it as if flipped over. There was no time to react - me and the sign were closing at probably over 100MPH. Fortunately it only got me in the grill and apparently hit flat enough that it didn't get through into the radiator.
A buddy once had an truck wheel and tire come bouncing over the concrete divider and, again, lucky as heck, it was down when he hit it. Ripped half his front suspension out.
He had that white/buff colored car on his right...must have been a Monday.
ReplyDeleteYep, but there's always the brake. It's like the guy was mesmerized by approaching doom.
DeleteI had the same thing happen when I was driving behind a dump truck with no mud-flaps. There was a potato sized stone wedged between the dual tires and it let lose. We were both doing about 50mph and I was about 5 car lengths behind the truck. I clearly saw the stone fly up in a parabolic arch and it was perfectly positioned to hit me. I had about 3 or 4 seconds to react but I was mesmerized. The result was a destroyed windshield.
DeleteSimilar thing happened to me on I-95 south in Maryland once. Only it was a sheet of plywood that came of the rack on a pickup truck. Nowhere to go, I was penned in. Fortunately I was able to slow down just enough that I managed to run onto it just as it set sorta flattish on the highway. I have no doubt it would have come up again if I'd been a second later and I'm darned glad I didn't get to it a second earlier. I was a fortunate one.
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah, and another time driving on the Garden State Parkway in a nor'easter similar to what we're enjoying today, one of those "No Turns" signs they put up on the little cut thru spots for emergency and maintenance vehicles was just was coming at me like something outta Wizard of Oz. I could read it as if flipped over. There was no time to react - me and the sign were closing at probably over 100MPH. Fortunately it only got me in the grill and apparently hit flat enough that it didn't get through into the radiator.
ReplyDeleteA buddy once had an truck wheel and tire come bouncing over the concrete divider and, again, lucky as heck, it was down when he hit it. Ripped half his front suspension out.
Funny how your heart starts pounding afterwards.