Legried swerved to miss the dog, sending his vehicle off the road and into a cornfield.
“I got knocked out and when I came to, I couldn’t move,” he said. “I couldn’t even reach up to get my cellphone from the dash of my truck. I remember saying, ‘Lord, I’m going to need some help here in the next five or 10 minutes.’ “
-WiscoDave
Those darned deplorables....... 🥰🥰🥰
ReplyDeleteThe Spokesman-Review article doesn't qualify as a feel-good story because it does not say what happened to the puppy.
ReplyDeleteYUP, the pup should have been "the rest of the story".
DeleteThere are good people still left in this world. They live out in the country, no wheres near any of those big cities, though. They know better.
ReplyDeleteBecause city life will suck any goodness out of a person. Living like an insect/bug is not how man was meant to live so it causes all kinds of psychoses. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
DeleteThat used to be called Caged Rat Syndrome, rayvet. But I haven't heard that term used in ages.
DeleteGood stuff. My brother lived near a lot of Mennonites and got to know a couple families very well. A Mennonites barn burned and he said next thing he new a huge crew of men and boys showed up and in no time built a beautiful barn. The women had huge spreads too feed everyone. Over the next couple days it was fully stocked with cows, pigs you name it. He found out Mennonites always keep extra stock just for this reason. It's given, not sold. I know many have bad opinions about these groups but you cannot deny that they take care of one another. They were all over the Shenandoah Valley and they sure never bothered me.
ReplyDeleteAnd the puppy?
ReplyDeleteIn that situation you have to make a split second decision. Wreck your truck and put yourself in the hospital or kill the puppy. See you later puppy!
ReplyDeleteThis is why you NEVER dodge an animal in the road
ReplyDeleteSomething similar just happened near here. A farmer died and my neighbor and his hired men drove two combines, two grain carts and several semis about forty miles to harvest corn at a farm the man who died had about fifty miles from the his home place. Often in a busy harvest season we hear of farmers coming together to harvest the crops of someone who has died or been injured.
ReplyDeleteThey'll often do it when one suffers a combine fire, which isn't too uncommon due to the flammability of grain dust.
Delete"Swerved to miss it...", but did he?
ReplyDeleteEd
If something happens to my wife, I would have to consider moving to a place like that. Just because I would love to have people that I could pitch in with, and could count on.
ReplyDeleteIt is different here in a city, and my small town has even changed. I read their FB group, and all they do is fight and complain, mostly about marijuana.
the real america in action. thanks
ReplyDeleteThat's what country people do. I was hauling hay at 17 for a family in NE Texas, and one day we saw smoke from an obvious grass fire above the trees. We stopped the bailing and piled into two pickups and got to the fire site in less than five minutes. The teenage daughter of the black farm family was fighting the fire with tow sacks. We got more tow sacks, wet them down and went after the grass fire. There six of us, and we had the fire out in ten minutes. Then we got back in the pickups and went back to work. The girl never said a word to us. That was OK, because we did what needed doing.
ReplyDeleteThanks WC. It's nice to hear about the good people in this country doing good for others instead of the daily onslaught of crime, lies and political corruption that has been dominating the news seems like since forever.
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I really wish I could go back to posting nothing but cool or weird news stories all day, but the crime and politics always seem to crowd out the news stations.
DeleteHell yeah, America’s heartland!
ReplyDeleteWe have a friend here in Alaska who swerved to miss a porcupine, A paraplegic for life now. Not worth swerving to miss little things.
ReplyDeleteI had to share this. My brother never stops. He is country and very close with neighbors. An ol fella had a H beam barn that needed major repair. The guy supplied the material and he and my brother got it in tip top shape. Never charged the ol boy a dime. My brother lives for shit to do. The fella had a road side stand and sold corn. Got to old too plow and plant so my brother and sister in law did that for him and used to help at the stand. They just love talking to folks and thought the world of this old guy. Again, never charged a dime. The old guy died and left everything, land, barn, house everything to my brother. Soon the attorneys arrived and two kids were contesting the old mans Will. Twenty years my brother knew this man and had no clue he had kids. He never mentioned them and they never visited. They were city folk, The kids lost their suit. Come to find out they had no contact with him for well over thirty years.
ReplyDeleteNo deaths or injuries around here this year and the drought kept harvest season short. We did have a field fire last week and the 40mph winds were pushing it towards the hills and homes until a dozen tractors with discs showed up and made firebreaks. Fire departments from 12 towns gathered to make sure it was out.
ReplyDeleteThat's the difference between neighbors and "the guy that lives down the road".
ReplyDeleteWirecutter, this story sure riled up my allergies.....
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