Driver Suffers Only a Scratch After Metal Ramp Slams Through Windshield on San Jose Freeway [photo]

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[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Best comment so far: “Final Destination 6.”

[Clay Moore]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Reminds me of taking a seat and finding you are in line with the turboprops. No thanks. Any other seat will do.

I won’t even stand behind or in front of a vehicle with the engine running. Nor behind my car at the gas pump if the guy behind me has his engine on. I enjoy my legs.

[fr_freak]

I won’t even stand behind or in front of a vehicle with the engine running. Nor behind my car at the gas pump if the guy behind me has his engine on. I enjoy my legs.

Years ago, when I was a teenager, I worked in a car wash, one of those that had the track that pulled the car automatically through the washer (while it was in neutral, no driver), but the car had to be dried by hand at the end. There was a wild-eyed middle-eastern-type guy who had started working there, and for some reason they allowed this yahoo to hop in the cars at the end of the drying step and drive them over to the vacuums. Well, one day while I was on drying duty, I was drying the first car in line with a towel, and went behind the car to dry the trunk area (leaving me between the front car and the next one in line). I saw the wild-eyed freak hop in the car (it was an automatic), and, I kid you not, it was either my spider-sense tingling or my guardian angel screaming in my ear, but something told me this wild-eyed moron was not going to have his foot on the brake when he shifted from park to drive (with reverse in between). While this bozo was shifting the lever, I put my hands on the trunk and vaulted my legs up and over just as the front car lurched in reverse and slammed bumpers into the car behind it. It was so close I felt the bumpers barely pinch my calf. I screamed many profanities as the goat violator drove away, but I've been paranoid about being between two cars like that ever since.

[hecticskeptic]

...another threat to add to the seemingly endlessly lengthening list.

Well, here's another thought.... I believe it was Alan Shepard who was asked what he was thinking about while waiting for liftoff and he said "The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder." True, true true... and a lot of those bidders would be using Chinese outsourcing today. I've often wondered how many of those turbos blow up every year.

[annieokie]

How horrible, sorry for your lose of good friends. I am always scared of those kinds of loads. We have no logging trucks here, but many flat beds with a load of steel beams. I hurry to get around those, I don’t even want to be behind them.