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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I reckon this guy does.
Look at the first picture below and you can see where this guy broke through the guard rail (right side where the people are standing on the road).
His truck left the road, travelling from right to left. He flipped end-over-end, across the culvert
outlet and landed on the left side of it.
Now look at the next photo.
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Location: East Tennessee | Holy Cow. :eek: |
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Location: south east Michigan | oh my... |
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| A double Katchev with a half-turn. Spotted the landing perfectly.
9.85 from the UK judge. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Probably best if the insurance company totals the truck...they'll never remove those seat stains...Definitely a guiding hand at work there: I give him a 10... :rolleyes:
Blessings... |
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Location: NJ | How much y'wanna bet that in two weeks there's a "No Parking" sign on that very spot . . . . |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | That driver might believe in guardian angels. |
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Location: NJ | . . or seatbelts. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Where was the guardian angel just before he drove off the road? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Good thing it was a Chevy.
If it was a Ford that guy woulda been toast.
Cliff... about the seatbelt. If the had gone over the edge the only thing the seatbelt would have done is to make it easy to find the body.
That guy will have to be much more careful for the rest of his life. He just used up all the luck he will ever have. |
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Location: NJ | ". . Where was the guardian angel just before he drove off the road? . ."
Unbolting the guard rail.
(or trying to read the f@%$#&g GPS.) |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Has anybody retrieved his Ovation case from the bottom of ravine yet? Wonder if it is still in tune. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | As long as the case was air tight at the time, it should still be in tune. I think there was a post to that effect once.... :rolleyes: |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | That Angel needs to find someone else to ride with... that guy is gonna kill him!!! |
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Location: CT | ...lucky bastard... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | You all assume it was a guy, wasn't it a woman on a cell phone doing her nails? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Bill, what an ignorant, sexist comment. Anyone should know that you can't do your nails while talking on the cell phone. That's when you do your lashes and highlighter (or is it eyeliner).
Cell phone talking has now replaced drunk driving as the leading cause of accidents. I don't think they keep track of makeup. |
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Location: Utah | I don't know about Guardian Angels, but I've seen the Grim Reaper. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | I have heard Nicky PLAY the Reaper.
To answer the original question: Yes, surely I would have been dead by now without one (or many). |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I believe in guardian angels, too--no close calls as hair-raising as this one, but too close none the less; I definitely shouldn't still be among the land of the living.
Where did this happen?
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Jewel's Mom:
Where did this happen?
--Karen Looks like the road between Albuquerque and Sante Fe |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Could be any number of places on Hwy 12 in Utah's canyon country. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Believe in them? I AM one!
Oh, wait.
Guardian Angels...
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Location: East Tennessee | I suppose if the truck had gone over the cliff the family could have sued someone for building the road too close to the cliff. :D |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Wow...just, wow. Makes it hard to doubt something external had a hand in that when you stop and just think "what are the odds?" |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
Has anybody retrieved his Ovation case from the bottom of ravine yet? Wonder if it is still in tune. My dad used to brag that he could drop his old 70's Vox case out of a helicopter and it would still be in tune...I wonder if anyone's ever tried it. Might make a good reality TV show... |
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Location: Chicago | Hows about PLAYING "Guardian Angel"? |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Andrew, how do you tune a case??? :rolleyes:
And... was the helicopter actually flying at the time? :p |
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OT. Do you believe in Guardian Angels?