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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (5 children)

My Dad’s friend in college had this happen, except with a plumbing truck and pipe, and it decapitated his wife and daughter.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

I always wondered why he wouldn’t sit behind those trucks, then one year he finally told me. Really tragic. I don’t know how his friend actually overcame that, or if he did, they fell out of touch, but that would ruin me. On so many levels. I don’t know that I would drive a car again, at the same time, I live in the US, how do you not? lol but that’s a rant for another day.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

gets flashbacks to that video

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

On a trip to the US on a road trip from Detroit to Louisiana, I think it was like Kentucky or Mississippi, I had a truck in front of me lose a star picket off the tray and it flew past my widescreen to the left, missing me by about a foot.

Could not stop thinking about that video for days.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Fucking hell...

How is he doing now? That's a hell of a hole to climb out of. I wouldn't even know where to begin...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

oh hey I know your dad's friend in college. small world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

state university!