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Was This Guy Lucky Or What?
Neal Boortz's Neal's Nuze ^
| 4-13-07
Posted on 04/13/2007 10:42:39 AM PDT by rawhide
Truck hits guard rail and flips end over end over that culvert.
Do you think the driver had an angel on his shoulder?
Look at the first picture
Now ... check out the second picture
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KEYWORDS: culvert; truck
Yikes!!!
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posted on
04/13/2007 10:42:41 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
Crap! A little warning would be nice for those of us who have height-o-phobia!
:-)
2
posted on
04/13/2007 10:43:58 AM PDT
by
The Blitherer
("What the devil is keeping the Yanks?")
To: rawhide
Lucky with a capital L!!!
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posted on
04/13/2007 10:45:19 AM PDT
by
US_MilitaryRules
(Time to eradicated islambs and mooselimbs! GO PTSC)
To: The Blitherer
Crap! That’s just what I thought. Wow.
To: rawhide
Lots of confusion here over what constitutes an Extended News story. This most assuredly does not.
To: Sidebar Moderator
Sorry about that! Next time I will post it as ‘Breaking News’. Hee-hee. (smile)
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posted on
04/13/2007 10:50:17 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
I’ve seen this before, and judging by the two photos in relation to the chain link fence and the truck, and where the photographer must have stood to take the first photo, I say it’s been photoshoped.
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posted on
04/13/2007 11:19:41 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: Yo-Yo
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posted on
04/13/2007 11:33:10 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
Look at the first photo, and how much grass is in front of the chain link fence.
Look at the second photo in this thread, or the third photo of your link, and the ground drops away right at the foot of the chain link fence.
I say Photoshop.
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posted on
04/13/2007 11:38:32 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: rawhide
10
posted on
04/13/2007 12:59:46 PM PDT
by
bobbyd
(Flyer, I love and miss you...Lords best my FRiend)
To: Yo-Yo
www.snopes.com says this story is true. See following (w/additional aerial photo of location):
http://www.snopes.com
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posted on
04/13/2007 8:34:06 PM PDT
by
rawhide
To: Yo-Yo
See the following discussion for more on this (with a closeup photo of the accident site):
http://message.snopes.com
It appears to me the accident is real. But how the truck came to be in the position shown is questionable to me? I'm not sure it flipped? It might have skidded along the guardrail, looking at the bent guardrail support located over the culbert, before it finally came to rest?
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posted on
04/13/2007 8:53:01 PM PDT
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
culbert=culvert
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posted on
04/13/2007 8:56:26 PM PDT
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
Thanks! After reading where the accident occured, I found the spot on Google Maps and it is indeed a nasty drop off.
I’m still not fully convinced that photoshop enhanced Picture #3 however, just by looking at the differences between the ground next to the chain link fence.
I’m wrong, but I’ll never admit it!
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posted on
04/14/2007 5:54:14 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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