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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 04/21/2005 : 14:55:30
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Thought this would make a good story, so here it goes:
So I was working on some discrete math homework last night after chat when I get an IM from my future roommate, Kathy. She said she was going to sleep on the drill field, which is a big field that separates the dorms on campus from classes. I later learned that this was part of an Earth Day club that was camping out on the drill field, which Kathy's sister is a part of.
So we go there with sleeping bags and fall asleep under the stars. Now it was fairly cold, so we were completely tucked away under our sleeping bags.
One thing to know about the drill field is that many groups (such as this earth day group) set up events on it. As it just so happens, the club was camping out so that they could set up early the next morning. They used pickup trucks to haul in displays and whatnot.
So it was morning, around 8:45. Kathy and I are still asleep while everyone else was up because she and I weren't actually part of the club, and thus didn't have to set up. Meanwhile, the pickup trucks are coming in so they can set up. I was sleeping face up...
Suddenly I wake up to the front right wheel of a pickup truck rolling across the right side of my face. It was quite weird because it didn't even hurt at first; my only thought was that the second one was coming. I tried to move but because of the position I was in, it was very hard. I didn't get very far. Luckily (for me, not for her), Kathy also had her left hand and foot run over and screamed her lungs out, so the pickup truck stopped. Without her, I think I would have been hit again.
So after spending a few hours in the hospital, I have a line of abrasions going in a diagonal line across my face about 2 inches wide. My elbows are a bit torn up (still not sure why) and my jaw/head is a bit sore. But otherwise everything is fine. Kathy has a swollen wrist and is still getting her ankle checked out as of now.
A very interesting day all in all, I guess I got pretty lucky.
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Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 15:04:04 [Permalink]
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Man, that's messed up. Glad you're alright, though. What kind of a jackass drives over lumpy sleeping bags?
P.S. When repeating this story to the ladies, I suggest replacing "truck" with "tank" and "drill field" with "Kosovo." You know, just for spice.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 15:16:56 [Permalink]
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Damn... glad you are more or less OK. Same for Kathy. Hope no serious injuries.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 15:26:34 [Permalink]
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| Glad you're still alive... never, ever, underestimate the power of idiots with big pieces of machinery. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 16:23:30 [Permalink]
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(Raises eyebrow and peers over specticals) And what have we learned from this, hmmm...?
Glad you and she are little the worse for the experience, and hoping the soreness leaves y'all soonest. Those deep contusions and sprains can be a bitch. Most fortunate to get out of it with no worse.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5310 Posts |
Posted - 04/21/2005 : 16:37:57 [Permalink]
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| Wow. Hope any injuries are minor. Lucky they weren't using trains to move things in. |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 18:10:02 [Permalink]
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| Yikes!!! So, now when you say "I feel like a truck ran over me" you will know what your talking about... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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woolytoad
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 19:24:39 [Permalink]
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| Ouch! Was the first thing you did after getting out of hospital post on this forum? |
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Boron10
Religion Moderator
USA
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 20:05:21 [Permalink]
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Ok, let me get this straight:
A truck ran over your face.
Does that about sum it up? I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that makes you a badass.
Wow. |
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furshur
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 20:59:52 [Permalink]
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Holy crap a truck runs over your head and your little worse for wear... It's a miracle! You were obviously saved by the hand of jeezus...
But seriously, glad you weren't hurt too badly.
The college sounds negligent if they let trucks drive around the drill field while people were allowed to sleep there; maybe you could threaten to sue and get your college education for free... just a thought. |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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pfretzschner
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 04/21/2005 : 23:42:58 [Permalink]
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quote:
Ok, let me get this straight:
A truck ran over your face.
Does that about sum it up? I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that makes you a badass
Ha! That totally makes you a badass!
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/22/2005 : 00:03:53 [Permalink]
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| Did you get a chance to ask the driver where his head was? |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 04/22/2005 : 03:29:52 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Ricky
A news woman already there. She was interviewing me and said, "Looks like someone was watching from above" to which I responded "I don't know..."
Good for you, Ricky. Of course I would have launched into a 20 minute tirade how about if there was anyone up there "watching" they really should have decided to do something before you had "Goodyear" branded across your forehead... but I digress. I'm glad you seem to be all in one piece. How's your lady friend?
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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