[gas_dr]

Shocking...

[Xenalyte]

The Jeep's fiberglass top was ripped off, and Thompson, who was not wearing a seat belt, flew through the air, bouncing off three power lines and falling onto what he thinks was a telephone wire and grounding wire.

Just wanted to point that out.

[mhking]

...Does whatever a spider can...

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!

[r9etb]

Shaking my head and chuckling in disbelief.

Here's a guy whose time was definitely not up....

[SouthernFreebird]

''We asked him how long he could hold on, and he said, `I can hold on as long as it takes.'

ROTFL

[r9etb]

Sounds like he caught those lines on the way down! He must have been going pretty damned fast if his rolling jeep can toss him over 25 feet up (and who knows how far horizontally...).

[Freedom2specul8]

This was a local story.. you should have seen the pictures.

[RCW2001]

I heard this reported on the radio. That report claims he called his dad from his cellphone while 'hanging from the wires'...

Could you imagine trying to convince your dad that you are 'dangling from powerlines' and that it was for real?

[Just mythoughts]

The Boston Globe has alot of nerve reporting on Missouri driving, considering how driving is done there.

While visiting the Boston area was advised not to make eye contact with other drivers and do not drive a new car. This was before they started mining for "gold" with the "Big Dig".

[Auntbee]

It was also reported that he had his Bible in the front seat with him.

[Rad_J]

A kid in my highschool drove his friend's big white pickup truck off of a canyon road when swerving to miss a porcupine. It was a very steep slope and was about 200 feet to the bottom of the canyon.

He wasn't wearing a seat belt and was thrown against the windsheild which popped out. He landed on the windsheild and the truck missed him as it rolled to the bottom of the slope. He said the front seat was sticking through the hood when it stopped. He would have been dead if he had worn the seatbelt. Instead he had a cut and a few bruises. His friend's dad said he was more upset that the truck had a full tank of gas than losing the truck.

Good thing this guy had his legs on the wires too. I was picturing him hanging by only his hands for 20 minutes.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

''I was told he was hanging on for dear life,'' Joe Thompson II said.

Oh now, that's just plain old cruel. Who would say that to a father in a phone call to report his son had been in a car accident?

[ActionNewsBill]

The Jeep's fiberglass top was ripped off, and Thompson, who was not wearing a seat belt,

I sure hope the cops cited him for not wearing a seatbelt. After all, it's for his own good.

[MarkL]

A local radio station interviewed this guy this morning, and they're getting him some sky diving lessons! lol

Mark

[CharacterCounts]

''God was definitely in control,''

I guess that answers the question about what kind of vehicle Jesus would drive!

[demosthenes the elder]

umm... it was only 25 feet, and he was essentially unhurt.
why did he not hang at full extension (assuming he was of normal height, that would be about 7.5 feet from the soles of his shoes to the death-grip on the wire) and drop the measely 18 feet to the ground? I mean, he'd already proven that luck was with him that day... and even if his luck went bad, the worst he'd have suffered'd be a sprained ankle.
*shaking head... I used to jump off buildings taller than that for fun, fer Lawdz sake*

[Plutarch]

''I just kept saying a prayer over and over,'' he said Tuesday from his home in the suburb of Blue Springs.

Three preachers were talking prior to a conference, a Catholic priest, a Baptist minister, and a Pentacostal minister. They were discussing the best posture for prayer. The Catholic priest said "I pray best kneeling at grasping my rosary beads". The Baptist minister said: "I pray best laying prone on the ground, with my joined hands pointed skyward." The Pentacostal minister said: "My best prayer is standing upright, eyes closed, facing up, with my outstretched arms swaying rhythmically."

At this conference there was an electrician setting up the sound system, who had overheard the preachers. "I don't know about you gentlemen, but I do my best praying hanging upside down from a telephone pole."