Posted on 01/27/2023 6:20:25 AM PST by george76
Months after suffering third-degree burns in a fire that erupted while working on one of his antique cars, Jay Leno was injured in a mishap.
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Leno broke several bones in a motorcycle crash last week.
The comedian was speaking by phone with a reporter, telling him that he was “knocked off my motorcycle. So I’ve got a broken collarbone. I’ve got two broken ribs. I’ve got two cracked kneecaps.”
“So I turned down a side street and cut through a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, some guy had a wire strung across the parking lot but with no flag hanging from it,” Leno told the newspaper. “So, you know, I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just clothesline me and, boom, knocked me off the bike.”
He said he didn’t say anything about the crash that happened on Jan. 17 because of the media coverage he received surrounding his burns.
“You know, after getting burned up, you get that one for free,” Leno said. “After that, you’re Harrison Ford, crashing airplanes. You just want to keep your head down (laughs).”
Ford has had several airplane mishaps: one in 2020 when he had to do a touch-and-go landing after being told to hold his position, another in 2017 when he landed on a taxiway, still another in 2015 when he crashed a World War II-era training plane onto a golf course, in 2000 when his plane was blown from the runway by wind and finally in 1999 when he had to make an emergency landing in a dry riverbed, The New York Times reported.
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Leno had been scheduled to return to the Las Vegas Strip in March and said that he was OK and was scheduled to perform this weekend.
The comedian was working on a 1907 White Motor Co. steam-powered car when he found the fuel line clogged. He told a friend who he was working with to blow air through the line and gas rained down on his face. The car’s pilot light flickered and caught his face on fire
A man’s got to know his limitations.
Dirty Harry
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
I think that was the last time I touched my toes.
Does he know anything about the top secrets files the bidens stored next to the Vette?
“Tom Cruise on Geritol.”
Cruise isn’t exactly a spring chicken himself. He’s eligible for SS in two years.
Leni
Flying VFR I made perfect landing at the wrong airport once. Does that count?
If he was just out on street ride and then someone put a wire across a driveway then I totally agree with you.
For some reason, I was thinking motocross.
Isn't that criminal?
No reason that he couldn't put a few visibility flags on it, however. It would still accomplish the same thing. With a strung cable across the road, a vehicle can't go through it, around it, over it, or under it. To get through, someone has to get off their motorcycle or out of their car and physically unattach the cable, if possible, which defeats the whole idea of cutting across the lot to save some time.
“Leno broke several bones in a motorcycle...”
I didn’t know that motorcycles had bones!
They also say that a house “has good “bones”.
Houses don’t have bones either! /s
Ford should never pilot a plane again. He’s 80…
Yeah, very good chance of that. There's a parking lot near me that was a great way to avoid a difficult intersection. The first time I tried it I thought it was great. The next time, I found they had put in a series of speed bumps. Never again.
Which is my usual choice.
How is this the parking lot owners fault? Jay was trespassing.
Jay’s getting too old for his hobbies.
People suck. I bet the guy was half-hoping to hurt someone.
“Hey, now, he did the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs!
Of course, that’s from one end of The Villages in Florida to the other end.”
Chuckle... good one.
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