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.
I knew of a young guy who was killed when one came up through the cab of the log skidder he was running. It tried to shove him out of the back of the canopy. His father was the foreman on that job and was the man who found him. Can you imagine?
I wonder if that guy realizes how close he came to becoming a meat skewer.
ReplyDeleteThis sort of thing happens on the road occasionally. Normally it's a steel pipe or rod that skewers the driver when it gets caught on a road defect.
DeleteSeriously lucky. Don't bother buying lotto tickets, dude just used up his lifetime's worth of luck.
ReplyDeletePlay with fire…
ReplyDeleteThere was high dry ground to the left and right and he chose the ditch.
ReplyDeleteVehicle had power to get itself out of mud hole and drive a 8 inch log through itself.
ReplyDeleteWhere I come from, it's called a "Jillpoke".
ReplyDeleteI knew of a young guy who was killed when one came up through the cab of the log skidder he was running. It tried to shove him out of the back of the canopy.
DeleteHis father was the foreman on that job and was the man who found him. Can you imagine?