$2.50 won't even buy you a freakin Latte at Charbucks, but it might save your life!
Posted on 01/29/2007 11:47:25 AM PST by xcamel
A Brooklyn man froze to death in his car after he and his wife spent 32 hours stranded in below zero temperatures upstate.
The couple was driving home from a wedding in Montreal when their car crashed off Interstate-87 around 1 a.m. Thursday.
Barbara Langner had tried to call for help with her cell phone but couldn't get service.
Family members reported them missing, and state police found the couple Friday in their Lincoln Town Car in North Hudson, about 90 miles north of Albany.
When authorities found the couple, Alfred Langner – who was 63 – had died of hypothermia. Barbara Langner is hospitalized. She suffered frostbite and also hurt her back.
I can remember running after my daughter when she was a teen with the same message. "You forgot your coat". Her answer would be "but it doesn't match my dress/shoes". Well duh, mom!
We don't live in a very cold climate, thankfully, or she would have frozen to death.
Sounds EXACTLY like our daughter. Common sense is in short supply these days.
LOL!
You should see this thread,
How to Lose a War
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775126/posts?
Both the main article, and post #28, by DMZFrank, are excellent.
I believe that would be a 30 pack or at a minimum a beer- ball.
I am glad there are survivalists out there just like me. Or find a hockey rink and wait for the men's league to finish.
Pleanty to drink there.
Did you ever finish?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It wouldn't work in the Northeast, but you get the idea.
we have those tree cell phone towers in NY.
the reason the enviro whackos didn't want them in the aidirondacks, is that they didn't change color in the fall to match the scenery.
already now, after this death, the legislature is talking about emergency action to rectify this situation.
I left Phoenix in July on my bike headed down the i-10 to LA two years ago. Clutch basket blew and I sat on the side of the road 7 1/2 hours til a cop stopped. It was pure hell
How old? I believe that is an important factor in the conversion.
Keep them within reach in the car, not in the back seat or trunk. I had a one-car accident on a remote road on a cold night. Alone, and with a broken back, all I could do was reach a few inches with my right hand. My coat was in the back seat, the blankets in the trunk, and the wreck killed the car heater. I was able to reach my cell phone, luckily had service, and got rescued fairly quickly. It's probably the only day in my life I had the phone that close to me.
The EnvironMENTALists won't allow us dig for oil, and they won't allow cell phone towers (but they MIGHT allow the towers if they are disguised as a tree. NUTS).
Why do they have such control over us?
I've driven the same route a few times at about this time of year. Glad I don't anymore.
Parts of Connecticut have cute fake evergreen tree cell towers. They fit right in with the scenery.
Tell me it was completely inadvertent that the headline, "Death Freeeze Trap" was next to a picture of Sen. Clinton and "Hillary for 2008."
LOL! Brought a tear to my eye.
Common sense is in short supply these days.
Include personal responsibility in this sentence.
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