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From: ugdomino@sunybcs.UUCP (Michael Domino)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Doing dumb things while driving
Message-ID: <1835@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 10:36:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 10:36:10 1985
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> But the sight I saw this morning tops them all.  I saw a man, driving
> a two ton automobile at nearly 70 miles per hour SHAVING!!  I couldn't
... 
> Can anyone top this?
> 

How about this:

While I was living in Denver I frequently had to pull over to consult
a street map.  One fine day I parked my car (a little Ford Fiesta) in
a nice wide parking lot in front of a roadside fruit market.  I was
about 20 feet off the road way (a two lane road), there were a dozen
or so people walking to and from their cars, the day is clear and sunny,
traffic is somewhat heavy.  I am studying my map, and my golden retriever
is breathing down my neck.  I push her over a little bit and as I do I
look in my rearview mirror in time to see a pickup truck veer off the
roadway behind me (about 100 feet back) and  come right toward me.  I
don't think anything of it until I notice that the truck IS NOT SLOWING
DOWN.  I look in the mirror at the driver and to my horror I see that
he is removing his tee shirt OVER HIS HEAD and has the shirt completely
covering his eyes!!  My engine is running but there is no time to get
out of the way.  He plows into the back of my car, driving it forward
into a telephone pole, then careens to the left back onto the roadway
and hits a van traveling in the opposite direction broadside and drives
it into a ditch, bounces off that and hits another car traveling in
the same direction that has swerved onto the shoulder to try to avoid
a collision, putting THAT car in the ditch on my side of the road,
then finally falls into the ditch and comes to rest.  

No one was injured (!!), not even my dog.  My car was totalled and
now I know what a ping pong ball feels like.

Happy to be here,
Michael

PS-- I was wearing a seatbelt, and would have suffered lots of head,
neck and internal injuries had it not been for that and the headrest.
I was only shaken up, the dog ended up stuck on the floor in front
of the back seat.  I pried her out and then had to exit through a
window.
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