My dad got into a chainsaw tree limb removal accident right before I was born. The limb he cut swung back and hit the ladder, pinning his legs in the rungs. He was lucky his sister was there helping with the job because they were up on the family country property in a small town in the middle of nowhere, Alabama. She was able to get help. He ended up with 2 complete compound fractures in bilateral ankles. Shortly after the incident, when my mom was in labor with me, she drove herself to the hospital with my dad's feet up on the dash because he was required to keep them elevated. There was a lot of confusion about who the patient was when she rolled up, and eventually the guy loaded my DAD up in the wheelchair so mom could park the car, "way out near the funeral home." My childhood was all downhill from there.
PS: stick with your home PT, no matter how painful. My dad credits his recovery to pushing through the pain and sticking with his home exercises. The doctors gave him a low % on returned functionality of his ankles and he got it all back. The screws in there are just a fun party favor.
My wife has a brutal scar on her arm from a "chainsaw accident" when she was a kid. What actually happened was she was running around, her dad left a chainsaw on the railing, and her arm scraped against it opening up a large gash. They were the "dirt will fix it" type so didn't take her to get stitches. Cooler scar than story.
I hadn't read too much into this accident but the comment in this video about the regulatory testing is such a perfect example of survivorship bias. The CEO was saying, "we don't need to do regulatory structural testing because accidents are usually an operator fuckup" when the reality was, "accidents are usually an operator fuckup because regulatory testing prevents structural failure."
Watching @AFHokie video and at first I was like "Fuck that. I'd be down there knocking on their door ASAP" but then I remembered when I got my first vehicle. It was a mid 60's truck with a V8 and a four speed. Probably all of 200hp but loud af. I only had my permit at the time but I'd go outside, fire it up, rev the shit out of it for a bit, shut it down and head back inside. Kid is probably just excited to have a car and it'll calm down in a little bit. Or, it takes him down a path of illegal street racing. Not that I'd know anything about that....
He's had it several weeks now. I'm appeasing the wife for now, but if he continues to rev it like that as he drives by at 10pm or later as he's been doing, I will be knocking on their door. That video is one of the few where the camera caught him doing it while still daylight.
I mean, I can think of worse ways to go. https://www.yahoo.com/news/nurse-fired-secret-affair-patient-174424348.html
Motorcycle chase in Brazil. I'm not sure it not a fake as the lighting is almost too perfect and it does feel choreographed
Last time I saw this, someone said it was real but the video had been sped up a bit. Still pretty impressive driving.
Rehearsed…not rehearsed, that’s better than any movie and the skill level of both drivers involved is out of this world. All that was missing was a fruit cart getting hit in Chinatown (while being delayed by a dragon parade of some sort), perhaps a pane of glass being carried across the street….
Oh, yeah, they rode the shit out of them. I think the sped up version is pointless, you can tell the head movements and speeds are faster than normal. The real version is just as impressive to anyone that has ever ridden. Got to give props to the backpack for staying on over those speed bumps.
The sped up version is dumb. I'd rather hear the actual audio than that stupid music. After all that chase, why didn't they Spoiler flee down the alley on foot? They wouldn't stop on the bike and risk their lives with all those close calls, but they stop once they fall? And take off helmets? Also, it's pretty funny that they did all that, and a small corner of concrete did them in at the end.
Don’t you watch movies? Once one of them twists an ankle it’s impossible to move. You accept your fate.
Seeking opinions here. There's this guy that has just made my "he's a fucking sicko" list. First thing is first, none of our little group really like him, he wouldn't be there if he weren't married to one woman's best friend. He made his wife wear one of those controllable vibrators out on the boat... when around my kid, other kids close to the same age, and his own 13 year old daughter. 40% of the humans on the boat are 9 or younger, and he makes her do that. Like, I don't want to be around this dude at all, ever again. There's a time and a place, around children ain't it. I didn't find out until after they left. I don't think I can ever be polite, or inclusive, to the guy ever again if he comes back up here. Am I overreacting?
She told her best friend, that then brought it up with my wife after they left, which me and the other husband overheard. All of us think he's weird and that it was inappropriate. We're just acquaintances through this other couple.
I guess I'm trying to nail down how obvious/obtrusive it was. Like on the spectrum from "it's like wearing sexy underwear that no one else can see" to "the kids are asking where the bee hive is and why mommy's having a seizure."