So I am in town at my family's house and driving in the car with my father on some winding suburban roads on my street as I head into town with him to get hardware supplies for a fence I am supposed to repair and paint.
I came around the corner and hear a honk. A lady in a car going the other way is alerting me to the fact that a rotted tree has fallen into the road, smashed into chunks, and a steel support cable from a telephone pole in hanging down, as it had been attached on one end to the rotted tree. It is dangling at an angle down from the pole to a piece of wood near the middle yellow line.
My dad gets out of the car to take a look and call the local authorities to send someone by to clear it up. I put my warning lights on so that people (who normally speed) don't come around the turn and hit me from behind or run over the debris. As soon as I do, a mid-late 90's Lexus comes around the corner, brakes, and then starts honking at me to go. My dad yells at the guy to quit it, but he doesn't notice, passes me, and tries to speed up through the debris. Apparently he thought he could be a tough guy and plow through the dead tree, and didn't see the wire. The front of his car hits the wire dead center, and his car is literally lifted off the ground onto only its back wheels (I wopuld guess the front wheels were 3-4 feet off the ground), and fishtails while suspended towards the side of the road. It then slid off the wire onto a bunch of debris, and tries to keep going. There are large chunks of log now stuck under the cars body, causing his wheels to spin and creep along as he drags them for about 70 yards at a snails pace until they slide out and he speeds away.
I had, only 5 minutes prior, made the decision to not bring my Dimage Z5 with me on our errands, and regret it deeply. Bring recording devices and common sense with you at all times.
-Your friendly neighborhood Brackis
Cliffs for Lazy:
1. Driving and come across rotted tree in road with steel cable attached to it and to a telephone pole.
2. Jerk comes around corner, honks, and then passes me trying to plow through the debris in road.
3. His Lexus gets lifted in air when he hits cable, then drags wood under his car for a long ways as it destroys his underbody
I came around the corner and hear a honk. A lady in a car going the other way is alerting me to the fact that a rotted tree has fallen into the road, smashed into chunks, and a steel support cable from a telephone pole in hanging down, as it had been attached on one end to the rotted tree. It is dangling at an angle down from the pole to a piece of wood near the middle yellow line.
My dad gets out of the car to take a look and call the local authorities to send someone by to clear it up. I put my warning lights on so that people (who normally speed) don't come around the turn and hit me from behind or run over the debris. As soon as I do, a mid-late 90's Lexus comes around the corner, brakes, and then starts honking at me to go. My dad yells at the guy to quit it, but he doesn't notice, passes me, and tries to speed up through the debris. Apparently he thought he could be a tough guy and plow through the dead tree, and didn't see the wire. The front of his car hits the wire dead center, and his car is literally lifted off the ground onto only its back wheels (I wopuld guess the front wheels were 3-4 feet off the ground), and fishtails while suspended towards the side of the road. It then slid off the wire onto a bunch of debris, and tries to keep going. There are large chunks of log now stuck under the cars body, causing his wheels to spin and creep along as he drags them for about 70 yards at a snails pace until they slide out and he speeds away.
I had, only 5 minutes prior, made the decision to not bring my Dimage Z5 with me on our errands, and regret it deeply. Bring recording devices and common sense with you at all times.
-Your friendly neighborhood Brackis
Cliffs for Lazy:
1. Driving and come across rotted tree in road with steel cable attached to it and to a telephone pole.
2. Jerk comes around corner, honks, and then passes me trying to plow through the debris in road.
3. His Lexus gets lifted in air when he hits cable, then drags wood under his car for a long ways as it destroys his underbody