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She wanted him to turn his Ipod down and he refused. Good on her.
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Too Easy. 72 year old driver. Driving on Hwy. 72. Has - no doubt - an IQ of 72. Probably driving 72 MPH.
“this ain’t the way to the Piggly-Wiggly” - Miss Daisy
I like the part where “her car strayed into the ditch.” Maybe it wanted a snack, like when you’re on a trail ride and the horse stops to browse, and when you kick it and say, “Move!” it rolls its eyes at you just like my 14-year-old.
There’s a “Sven & Ole” joke in there somewhere...
I think I saw this on a Three Stooges episode. Curly was thrown from a car that Moe was driving. You see, Moe got upset at Larry who was in the passenger seat and he reached over to pull out a handful of Larry’s hair. The car went off the road and Curly was ejected. He landed on a water pump and consequently broke it. However, in breaking the pump he discovered oil and they all ended up rich.
This is why seat-belts were invented.
If the back window had not of already been shattered what would have happened? The person would have bounced up and struck the window and probably have been seriously injured.
BTW, this is why you should wear you seat belt all the time on planes. There have been cases of the plane hitting turbulence mid-flight and passengers being thrown out of their seats and hitting the ceiling (and being injured).
My brother (who was probably about 8 yrs old IIRC) had this happen to him.
Dad rounded a corner in downtown Cleveland in our old 49 Ford 4-door (no carseats or seatbelts back then).
Brother (riding in the back seat) inadvertently grabbed on door handle and it swung open.
No harm done, thankfully.
Was driving on I-80 west of Rawlins, WY when a car passed me at high speed and I saw a dog in back seat leaping back and forth between the open windows. Suddenly out the passenger side, a large and hairy dog flew out the window and went bouncing down side of pavement with balls of hair peeling off at every impact. I put on the brakes as the car was stopping hard. The dog got up on all fours and shook it’s self, the car backed up and the dog went running to it seemingly unhurt and jumped into open door.
Impalas are flighty beasts; maybe it caught a whiff of Jaguar, and panicked.
Reminds me of a joke.
An elderly man was driving down the road when he suddenly saw blue lights in his rear-view mirror.
He dutifully pulled over and the officer walked to his door.
“Sir, you rounded a sharp turn about three miles back. When you did, the passenger door came open and your wife fell out onto the roadway.”
“Thank heavens!” the man said.
“What?” said the officer. “Why would you thank heavens for something like that?”
“I thought I’d gone deaf”, the man replied.
I'm trying to imagine the "rough terrain" that would smash a REAR window, and then bounce a kid out said window.
Then I'm trying to imagine the circumstances that would impel me to keep driving after I somehow make it back up to the road.
Seems to me that unless you're being chased by bikers (ala Mad Max) - or on your way to the hospital, it would be prudent to stop and take stock of the vehicle - AND YOUR PASSENGERS!!!
