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
He needs to be in assisted living. I guess that may happen if he keeps this up.
I think that Leno’s is writing checks his older body can’t cash. He might want to think of slowing down on the daredevil stunts.
Holly Crap.
Sounds like Han Solo needs to stay the hell out of the pilots seat.
Or is that number of “mishaps” normal for a private pilot?
Cutting across parking lots to avoid an intersection is generally frowned upon by the standard traffic law, or so I remember from studying to pass the Driver’s License exam.
Trying to take shortcuts.
Yeah. Just curl up and die when you get old, eh?
In this case I have to argue this was clearly not a stunt. He wasn’t doing anything outside normal activity for a man his age.
Someone strung a wire across a driveway next to a parking lot, without any thing to enhance it’s visibility. This was going to happen eventually to someone.
Tom Cruise on Geritol.
“Someone strung a wire across a driveway next to a parking lot,”
In other words, somebody got tired of motorcycles cutting across their property.
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.
And that was in his Mobility Falcon power chair!
“Cutting across parking lots to avoid an intersection is generally frowned upon by the standard traffic law, or so I remember from studying to pass the Driver’s License exam.”
I got a ticket for exactly that in Seattle. $50 Haven’t done it again.
That is normal for all older adults. Some survive and some don’t.
I hope Jay sues the hell out of the guy who did it.
Looks like he is going to die all curled and cracked up anyway. His choice unless he endangers others I guess. He can still do things, but he should be more cautious.
He got caught cheating.
I’ve had road rash several times and a dislocated shoulder.
So I can empathize.....................
Good grief. Talk about a walking accident factory! Time to chill out, Jay.
(out of the pilots seat)
He could afford a PIC all the time and just act as copilot.
He’s 80 now. Age does catch up with all of us.
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