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To: fightinJAG

SE Asia is heavily motorscooters (under 150cc) and bikes, and there are lots of little accidents (although a family friend died a few weeks back after losing his grip on a wet bridge and crashing into the rocks about 25 feet below, wearing a helmet).

Anyway, the funniest one I ever saw was a teenage student on one bike, and two Buddhist monks on the other, each going about 3mph in downtown Saigon. They were approaching each other from opposite directions but couldn’t seem to decide who goes right and who goes left and so they ran head-on into each other instead.

No one was hurt at that slow speed, they just sort of careened over and regained their balance, but it was kind of funny. Nobody said a word, they just got back on their bikes and carried-on like nothing had happened. Definitely a YouTube moment.


53 posted on 07/29/2008 8:30:53 AM PDT by angkor (Conservatism is not now and never has been a religious movement.)
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Worst accident I ever had on a scooter was when I got pinned between a bullock cart and a parked bus. the cart was moving at about 1/2 mph, but it was crushing me against the bus after I tried to dart between them. It bent my bars and broke my arm. It seemed like that accident went on for hours....
71 posted on 07/29/2008 8:41:16 AM PDT by gridlock (It's all about the "O"!.......................................................(FREE LAZAMATAZ!))
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