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To: a real Sheila

If it didn’t get burned, they should be able to find all the pieces of it somewhere scattered around. Credit cards and other small plastic things are pretty resilient.

Her cell phone is probably a goner.


27 posted on 11/09/2007 10:06:01 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

This happened to me once (getting stuck on rail road tracks). I was passing familiar tracks VERY late at night and they had done construction work earlier in the day, but had not put up any signs to say that part of the track and road were out. My car’s front wheels went over the front of the half track and the car was stuck fast. A cop (thank God) was passing on the other side at the exact same moment I got stuck — he was dispatched because of the dangerous conditions. “Don’t worry,” he told me as he helped me out of the car,” the last train came by just a few minutes ago. And just like in a movie...we heard a train whistle. Sure enough — a train coming further down the track toward my car. The cop got onto the radio, screaming into it for someone to alert the engineer some way! Meanwhile, cars were lining up on either side of the track and people were getting out yelling, “HIT IT, HIT IT, HIT IT” (thanks a lot, guys). Some brave soul actually put his jeep on the tracks with his headlights facing the train, while someone else tried to get a rope around my car to haul it off. The train stopped just a few feet from my car. The crowd’s reaction? “AWWWWWWW!” :-(

Interesting thing was, when I turned to thank the jeep owner for his bravery...both he and the jeep were no longer there...they HAD been just seconds before.

Hmmmm.....


28 posted on 11/09/2007 10:16:00 AM PST by freepertoo
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