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86129squids
Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 - 01:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/12/10/16686 3893/how-about-a-little-drive-hmm-a-horror-story

This takes our rider's maxim "You're invisible, or they're out to kill you" to a new level altogether...

Wow... just wow.

City- I look forward to your comments!
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Froggy
Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 - 02:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

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Ducbsa
Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 - 02:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

A lot of unnecessary risk-taking. Plus, maybe some over-served-ness?
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86129squids
Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 - 02:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

The fly-overs, animals, and electrocution risks were my faves...

Nutty stuff.
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Hybridmomentspass
Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 - 03:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"City- I look forward to your comments!"
LOL!
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Mr_grumpy
Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 - 03:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Had a wild taxi ride in Russia this summer.

20 truck drivers in 5 taxis, the first 4 cabs were 2 Chevy Epica's & 2 Ford Mondeo's.
We were racing through the Forest from the Ukraine border to Bryansk rarely under 100mph & bottoming out in the dips.
They have a different philosophy to driving there
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86129squids
Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 - 05:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Grumps, "philosophy" means "love of wisdom"...

One of the better clips in the vid above shows two cars colliding, then the folks who caused the accident calmly grab their things, get out of the car, and just walk away.

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Ducbsa
Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 - 07:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

What caused the car to endo at about 4:00?
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Pnw_uly
Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 - 07:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"City- I look forward to your comments!"

Isn't he supposed to be getting married about this time ? ? ?
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Aesquire
Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 - 07:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Ducbsa, caught it's undercarriage on a wire, looks like a powerline on the ground.
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 02:03 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

oysht, that is a great drinking game
everytime they say Yoeb (F#ck) or Blyadt (it is our C#nt - but more so) take a shot
I had to stop at minute seven !

In Soviet Russia - the freeways were built as alternate landing strips - cars are mostly a new occurrence and the pilots are not happy to relinquish the roads to amateurs !

The marriage is at the end of the world - if there is no earth shattering kaboom, there is no marriage. The rule has always been, I would get married when Hell froze over, or the Earth Blew up.
She has the same rule - it works; but only if it all goes to shiate. But if there is ever an end of the world kinda girl - she is it.
Every Boris deserves such a Natasha
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86129squids
Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 11:54 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I figured you'd pick up the choice cussin'...

I'd forgotten about the Soviet dual-use roads... even if the motoring populace MIGHT expect the rare flyover, the poo-yer-pants factor GOTTA be high!

The 'copter you might expect due to the impending rotor chop- but that jet, definitely would require new undies in the emergency kit...
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