[rgreen4]

You broke both arms at the same time! That put a crimp on your activities for a while.

[coastie65]

Hey Number, You are the second one. My brother did that when he was in the 6th grade and nearly broke his neck to boot with a stunt that didn't go well. He was an accident looking for a place to happen anyway. I remember one time he was burning trash in the winter and stood too close to the fire and lit up his pants leg. Another time, he was playing with a chain saw that got away from him and nearly cut his leg off. Seems as though there were a couple more incidents, but I don't remember them. coastie

[mjd420nova]

Two broken arms can be a real hassle. I broke both collar bones playing football in high school. That was tough, the cast was from the hips up over the shoulders with a bar from the waist up to each arm that was held out like a hug. Really tough to eat or even wipe my butt. Luckily I had a very helpful girlfriend and an understanding mother.

[coastie65]

My late girlfriend said she was trussed up like that when she broke her collar bone. When i brke mine, they only put me in a sling.

[number6]

I've never broken anything and neither has anyone in my immediate family. Am I blessed or what? :)

[Number3124]

Lucky you. I've snapped three thing for sure, probably a fourth. As for how I got my arms in the cross-fire, I was trying to do a five second wheelie and didn't stop fast enough and hit one of those concrete car stop that they put at the end of parking places and went over my handlebars.

[Adama]

Wow, both arms? That must've been really tough, Number.

Are you arms doing ok now?

[coastie65]

Hey number, My brother an some friends were going to do a circus trick. They stacked three picknic tables one atop the other. They they then stacked the benches to them one atop the other on top of the tables. They started stacking chairs atop the benches. They actually got some heigth from that. He started climbing up to the top of that mess to do a flip. He got to the top and as you can imagine, it wasn't too stable of a platform. It rocked and he tried to do a fip and it didn't work. He put his hands to break his fall and broke both wrists and landed on his head and nearly broke his neck.

[rtfire1]

Flash its a good deal on his part he is getting a lot of cash and the car in with the stang and cash he is getting about 10k more then what he thinks the vipers worth . He is planing to take the extra cash and buy a house and fix it up and move in and sell the one he has now or sell the one he buys and fixs up.

[Flashorn]

Hey rt !!



That's good to know. Those Vipers are collectibles so, you don't want to let them go for nothing.

He seems like a smart young man. I hope everything works out great for him and you.

!http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
1!



FLASHORN. !http://forums.pcworld.com/legacyimages/
1!

[rtfire1]

they did the deal this morning the guy drove the stang to his house and drove the viper home (we got 18" of snow over the past 3 days). I will say that viper was always a pain to drive you where always looking to make sure no one hit it.

[Number3124]

I fine now. I was in casts for two months and braces for another month. It set me back six months in karate though.

[Adama]

Well I'm glad to know that you're doing fine now, Number.

[Adama]

I wonder if RGreen knows that the Green Bay Packers are playing aginst the Bears tonight....

[rgreen4]

Actually I have not watched the NFL this season. Green Bay blew it with the way they treated Brett Favre, and it shows in their standings. They have been sliding ever since Ron Wolfe retired as General Manager.

[Adama]

Ooops, sorry about that, RG. :_| I saw that something was going on with Brett Favre, but I really didn't know what the heck was going on.

[rgreen4]

Well, I'm not really miffed or anything, it just that I kind of lost interest. I was more caught up in Nascar and Jimmy Johnson's run to win his third straight Sprint Cup tile, an event that has only been done one before in the history of Nascar. Interestingly enough it was the 30th season when Cale Yarborough did it (1976, 1977 and 1978) and the 60th season when Jimmy Johnson did it (2006, 2007 and 2008). Among the active drivers only his car owner Jeff Gordon has more total championships with 4.
It was about halfway through the NFL season when I realized I hadn't watched a single game, instead watching each race on Sunday afternoon instead. I had just kind of lost interest in the NFL season this year. One of the funniest incidents occurred when Carl Edwards who was chasing Jimmy Johnson late in the chase period (last 10 races) was trying desperately to pass Jimmy to win the race at Kansas City and close the gap a little, drove it deep into the fourth turn on the last lap and held the throttle down on the floor. He knew that he would slide up and hit the wall, but was hoping it would just bounce off and he could stay ahead of Jimmy. It didn't work and his car stuck to the wall a bit, slowed him down and Jimmy passed him for the victory.
In the interviews afterward, Carl was laughing and saying that it worked in the Nascar game and he just had to give it a try in real life, but it didn't work out. He said, I would have finshed second if it didn't try it, and I finished second anyway. He was glad that he didn't hit Jimmy as he slid up in front of him, and wasn't sure by how much he cleared him. Jimmy said "enough".

[Adama]

LOL Dangerous way to try a game in real life, eh?

[rgreen4]

Well a race car can hit the wall in a glancing blow and not be adversly affected except for the slowing effect as the friction between the wall and side of the car slows it down, but that is only if the car hit flat. If the car hits at any angle at all, the it can really tear up a car. Of course if he hits head on it is quite an impact, but following Dale Earnhardt's death in 2001 in just such an incident, there have been dramatic safety improvemnts in the cars.

The most dramatic occured in practice when Michael McDowell earned the nickname Michael McFlippen when he hit the wall at an angle of just over 90 degrees, meaning the nose was turned just beyond perpendicular to the wall as it was spinning. The car became airborne and rolled sideways down the track about 7 or 8 times. Everyone at the track stopped in their tracks and were silent until Michael came over the radio saying that he was ok, but needed help in getting out. He was sore and bruised the next day, but otherwise fine. Of course the "cars" are actually roll cages on wheels with body panels hung on them.

Here's a link to a video of it. The announcer's are experienced, one of whom is Darrell Waltrip who is a former driver, who say "I can hardly watch" and Larry MacReynolds a former crew chief talks about the value of the new car.

[Adama]

Whoa! I can't hardly believe that guy just walked away! :0

I guess it just wasn't his time to go.