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To: Paladin2

I have two close encounters. One passed me on the shoulder going the other way at night - closing speed about 120. Poopy pants.

The second was not a year later, one came off a truck, uncoiling as it went, launched right over an exit ramp like a roll of stainless steel toilet paper on Devil’s Night.

Both from trucks overturning on the PA Turnpike. The only comfort is I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have felt a thing.


14 posted on 01/05/2017 5:49:53 PM PST by SargeK
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To: SargeK

The trucks on the PA Turnpike freak my wife out when we are close to them. She’s probably right. (As usual....)


16 posted on 01/05/2017 5:55:27 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: SargeK
My closest encounters have been fallen rocks, elk in fog and cattle inches off side of the road at high speed at night.

I drive as little as possible at night now.

19 posted on 01/05/2017 5:58:02 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: SargeK

“Both from trucks overturning on the PA Turnpike.”

PA is the WORST, why, why is that?

You are lucky and I pray you remain lucky!


35 posted on 01/05/2017 6:32:08 PM PST by jocon307
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To: SargeK

several years ago a flywheel fell of a truck and hit a car going in the opposite direction. Decapitated the driver. The joke was he actually downshifted and pulled over.(nnot)


45 posted on 01/05/2017 7:06:50 PM PST by kvanbrunt2 (all your base are belong to us)
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