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Offline edwardmorris

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Close calls
« on: March 17, 2014, 11:31:11 AM »
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Offline Bob Wessner

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Re: Close calls
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2014, 11:45:19 AM »
Yipes! I'm thinking a few people wet their pants.
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Re: Close calls
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2014, 11:49:57 AM »
Holy #$%*! There's a couple to make you twitch.
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Re: Close calls
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2014, 12:33:53 PM »
D@MN!!!
lots of people with dirty shorts.
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Re: Close calls
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2014, 12:48:12 PM »
Believe it or not, the cover/slide for the video is the situation of my worst motorcycle accident in life so far. Happened on a Bajaj Chetak during short time in India back in 2003, school girl ran right across on a rainy day and the vespa like chetak with a heavy ass just slid right out, totally scraped my left hand, few gashes on the forehead, and a bent chassis. I did a good job swerving away, the girl was untouched and made it across.
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Re: Close calls
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2014, 01:17:52 PM »
Some people have guardian angel that never blinks.   ::)
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Re: Close calls
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2014, 02:56:01 PM »
I had a situation where I was driving down the road in town putting along at about 30-35 mph and had some old lady walk right out in front of me from a side street, nothing to block her view of me coming, she just didn't look and stepped right out. Fortunately nobody was coming from the opposite direction because I had to slam the brakes a yank the steering wheel to avoid making her a hood ornament on my truck. It's hard to explain the feeling that comes over you when you realize that you are about to kill someone if you don't do something RIGHT NOW. It took me a good part of the day to get my nerves to calm down. If there was any humor it was the look the lady gave me when I looked in the rear view after safely avoiding her, it was kind of like a "what the hell is your problem?".
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Re: Close calls
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2014, 03:04:13 PM »
I spotted a few oxygen thieves in that lot.... :o
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Re: Close calls
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2014, 05:33:59 PM »
On the other hand I can remember whipping down Burrard in Vancouver on my Trumpet spotting a little old lady with cane starting to cross and I waited until
she was nicely started and clamped on the rear binder the the back end broke away and the rear tire started to moan, she looked up spotted the bike and cleared the intersection in 3 bounds I let it go and went on my merry way any how probably all my aches and pains now are probably from being cursed by little old ladies, still fun.
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Re: Close calls
« Reply #9 on: March 19, 2014, 02:25:48 PM »
Timing is everything! I'm a firm believer in when your time is up you can't hide from it, but when its not up you just get to crap your pants!
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Re: Close calls
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2014, 03:03:31 PM »
Quote from: Duanob on March 19, 2014, 02:25:48 PM
Timing is everything! I'm a firm believer in when your time is up you can't hide from it, but when its not up you just get to crap your pants!

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Re: Close calls
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2014, 03:36:03 PM »
Quote from: Duanob on March 19, 2014, 02:25:48 PM
Timing is everything! I'm a firm believer in when your time is up you can't hide from it, but when its not up you just get to crap your pants!
Hard to argue that one :D
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