Posted on 08/01/2012 2:25:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A woman narrowly missed being hit by a huge rock which fell from a cliff and completely wrecked the car she had just got out of. German police said she cheated death by a couple of steps.
“Thankfully we are just talking about the destruction of a car. The woman had just parked it and got out when the rock fell. She heard a noise and in the next moment the rock landed on her car. It was a big chunk, weighing hundreds of kilos, if not a tonne,” police spokesman Mirko Steffl told The Local.
The Freiburg police, responsible for Breisach am Rhein in the Black Forest where the incident happened, have released terrifying photographs of the car showing the enormous rock which smashed through the roof and windscreen and landed on the driver’s seat. No-one sitting in that seat could have survived.
The woman who had parked her VW Lupo on Tuesday and taken a couple of steps away before seeing it squashed by a rock, was slightly hurt by flying debris, but was otherwise unharmed.
Two other cars were slightly damaged by the Lupo as it was shoved forwards by the impact.
“The woman certainly had a bit of a shock, but was lucky to only have lost her car, not her life,” said Steffl.
Emergency services closed off the road, which Steffl said had a number of parking bays, while engineers examined the cliff.
Obama and a lot of his fellow lefties might have. They've climbed out from under rocks before.
>>Cheaters never win.<<
Well, there is a 5+(?) film franchise dead-icated to that premise. Of course, the filmmakers win big...
You can prolong a trip to the grave, but death comes eventually.
In any case, it seems like an economical way to turn a hardtop into a convertible. That is, if you have the good fortune for such a thing to happen to you in relatively short period of time.
Wow! Would that constitute an avalanche or a riot ?
Looks like a “rock festival”.
I may be mistaken but didn’t a rock band member from ELO die in Britain when a rock landed on his car?
Former member of ELO killed by hay bale while driving
Sept 2010
A former member of the band the Electric Light Orchestra has been killed by a giant hay bale which rolled out of a field and landed on his van as he drove.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7982808/Former-member-of-ELO-killed-by-hay-bale-while-driving.html
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ELO Founder’s Death by Silage Bale Ruled an Accident
http://www.spinner.com/2011/03/16/elo-micahel-edwards-death-accident/
IIRC it was a runaway haybale, one of the round ones!!!
Regards
alfa6 :>}
They’re going to need a bigger crane.
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