Posted on 05/04/2012 2:07:48 PM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
How many were hurt by the swarm of tort lawyers bolting for the hospital?
I always get the creeps when the police/nanny state runs these “realistic” drills. DHS is going to release bacteria on a boston commuter train to run a response drill. The bacteria, they say, is perfectly harmless...
Somewhere, someone is face-palming...
the medical/charitable complex?
A friend of mine had his car damaged in a similar incident.
His neighbor was moving cars around, and left one idling with the transmission in D and got out of the car and started walking towards the front of car. The car started rolling, the open door knocked the guy down, and then the car rolled into a parked car that then smacked my friend’s car.
He saw the whole thing from his bathroom window. When his insurance agent was taking the report, he was asked, “what were you doing when the accident occurred?” His reply, “blow-drying my hair.”
I operate a fire engine. My personal rule check parking brake and transmission twice then set wheel chocks.
Man-card revoked.
/johnny
Then it's less an accident than a fender-bender. I've hit things on a bicycle going faster than that.
More media hyperbole.
F=M*V^2 They did teach that at culinary school.
/johnny
It’s refreshing to hear something asinine coming out of a locale named Detroit and for once, it’s not the Detroit I live near.
The one that kills you is conservation of momentum: m1v1 + m2v2 = m1v1' + m2v2'
/johnny
Or re-learn them.
/johnny
It’s not the speed or distance of the fall, it’s the sudden stop at the end which kills you.
Notice that it’s the SQUARE of velocity, while it’s linear with mass. Someone inside a car that’s hit by a cement truck at 5 mph is probably pretty safe, although I’m sure the car is going to get bent.
How many tons does a firetruck weight? A full tanker’s probably heavier than a hook-&-ladder, is it? Just asking. And thank you for your service.
“...swarm of tort lawyers...”
Get the RAID Bug-Spray, Helen!
Whoa there, I used to have hair down to mid-back in high school, and I blow dried it daily; it only took 15 minutes and it was finished.
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