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Brakes? What brakes?
This is a discussion on Brakes? What brakes? within the Photojournalism forums, part of the Showcase category; Driver claims he "fell asleep" and this was the result. He ran a stop sign, crossed the highway, drove up ...
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01-28-2007, 11:55 AM
Driver claims he "fell asleep" and this was the result. He ran a stop sign, crossed the highway, drove up the driveway while managing to go through on open gate, up over a slight rise and becoming airborne before coming to rest in the house. Happened right in front of a police officer doing patrol. If fact, the officer told me he had dropped his flashlight in the car and stopped to pick it up. If he hadn't stopped, the car would have hit him. Guess it was his lucky night. Glenn --------------------------- If you believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. Glenn Heinecke |
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01-28-2007, 01:11 PM
Guess I was lucky. When I fell asleep I just hit a tree.  |
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01-28-2007, 01:12 PM
maybe he can paint his house now too... that is one crazy story...driver's lucky he didn't kill somebody --------------------------- Well... it's time to get back in the game. __________________________________________ A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into." -Ansel Adams I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying -- it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off. – Molly Ivins NEW Website...Sportsshooter. |
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01-28-2007, 05:56 PM
I've done a few crazy things being sleepy at the wheel, but I haven't hit a house (yet)!  --------------------------- Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. |
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01-31-2007, 04:14 PM
The night I graduated High School...............(yes, I had had a few more than a few too many). it was late and I just dropped off a girl at her house. I fell asleep, ran off the road and totaled my mom's car on a back country road. I got a ride from a stranger who took me home. Woke up my mom and told her what happened, she asked where the car was and I had no idea. The Sheriff's Department found it the next day. My mom wasn't all that mad, since I have two older bothers who also wrecked cars a few times. |
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02-14-2007, 02:11 AM
We had a call the other night, OK it was a couple of months ago. Car in the house. It was amazing how he managed to get this in here this way. Front of truck. The other side of the wall is the residence bedroom and were the headboard sits. Yes he was awaken.  Rear not touching the house next doors  and wrecker driver tring to figure how to get it out.  --------------------------- Nikon D200 (x2); MB-D200; WT-3A; Nikon AF-S VR 70 - 200mm F/2.8G IF-ED; Nikon AF-S DX VR 18 - 200mm F/3.5G ED; Nikon AF 50mm F/1.8D (x2); Tamron SP AF 28-75mm F/2.8 XR Di Macro; SB-800 (x2); Olympus Evolt E-300 |
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02-14-2007, 09:31 AM
HOW THE HECK did the driver get that car in between the two house?!?! OH MY GOSH!!! this is AMAZING!!! --------------------------- Cynthia Cox Arlington, Tx http://www.innovativeillusionsphoto.com/ OMP member #: 173034 Canon EOS 5D : Bogen 3051 tripod : Bogen Monopod : Bogen 3030 head unit : Canon Speedlight 580EX : Canon EF 28-200 F3.5 : Canon 70-200 f2.8L : Canon 24-70mm F2.8L and other Canon Gear The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE." - Ernst Haas |
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02-14-2007, 10:28 AM
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02-14-2007, 12:27 PM
that's probably right Bart....but. Why was he driving between the houses? That's freaking wild. --------------------------- Well... it's time to get back in the game. __________________________________________ A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into." -Ansel Adams I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying -- it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off. – Molly Ivins NEW Website...Sportsshooter. |
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02-14-2007, 02:55 PM
Given the choice of hitting one or the other house head on, or driving between... I'd pick between. :) |
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02-15-2007, 12:56 AM
Wow, awesome pair of photos guys. Only heard about a couple of cars going through houses out this-a-way, both times before I ever owned a camera. Pity! --------------------------- James Taylor Author, PartTimePhoto.com - helping amateur photographers make the transition to paid professionals. The Outlaw Photographer of Bandera, Texas - OutlawPhotography.net |
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02-15-2007, 01:04 AM
Wow, nice capture both of you! We had a vehicle lodged in the side of a house back in the summer, just off Renfro in Burleson, but it was gone before I could get my camera. --------------------------- Go not where the path may lead; go instead were there is no path, and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Until you can be happy being alone,happiness by any other means is but a fleeting illusion. - Myself "The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them." - Albert Einstein Moody Canon 10D (UN-pawned:banana:), broke Canon 50mm 1.8, Sigma 28-80mm 3.5-5.6(also UN-pawned) |
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