Used to have a rifle range here in the eastern part of PA, that was part of a company that supplied sand and stone to the industry. Basically, it was areas cut into a 20 foot high hillside. One day, shooting there, a guy pulls up in a brand new Ford pickup 4x4. Climbs the hill, turns around starts down and he becomes # 5. Totaled his new truck, still had the window stickers on it. I don't think I ever laughed so hard before.
#4,Excellent job. Watched it four times and studied what he was doing. Quick evaluation of the scene, decided course of action and went to it. The kind of guy to have next to you in a Not Good moment.
1. When I was an outboard mechanic I had a customer that was a phenomenal barefooter. He could jump a full size ski jump and make it look easy. 5. The roll cage on the outside of the cab is an indication that he knew he was going to FAFO. 6. I love watching stupid people win stupid prizes. 9. There's nothing like going for a ride in a beautiful landscape and beginning a lifetime of pain.
I don't have any experience with crawling, but it looks like if he had goosed it with the wheels in a hard left, it would have planted the right side and come down in a lot better situation than That.
4) I was at the park and this toddler was running between the cars and I had to grab him to keep him from getting run over. Gave him to his spanish mom and she just smiled like it was no big deal her kid almost got killed.
Or maybe it's the fifth time that shit's happened today, and she just hasn't got any "panic" left in her. And she hasn't been able to make it to the store to get a leash for the brat yet.
I know because we had a similar situation with one of ours - went on vacation, go see the river, right? One of our kids didn't learn a damned thing from going bobbing down the river just under the water, and tried it again as soon as he stopped crying and we set him down.
We kept a close eye on him, but he still managed to almost drown himself four times that day. By the last time the wife didn't even change expression. And then of course got a faceful of shit for the other mothers for "not caring" and "being such a horrible mother." We did end up cutting things short, but I'll point out that the last one was at the hotel where someone else let him through the gate to the pool. There's limits to what you can actually DO, you know.
He's also the kid who climbed up the side of the house and got on the roof before he was two. Though thankfully he didn't jump off, though walking along the edge was enough to turn his mama's hair gray.
We were so grateful when, a year or so later, he said "I don't *want* to die." I'm frankly shocked he's made it to ten. He was also the one where we stopped by the side of the road to discuss the flattened squirrel, and why therefore we shouldn't run out into the street though! Whatever it takes to make the lesson real, and you just keep trying different approaches until something clicks, they grow out of it, or... they die, I guess.
There's a reason that the saying "Don't criticize someone until you've walked a mile in their moccasins." exists. You don't and can't know what lead up to that, nor what she'll do tomorrow to prevent things from happening again.
No 9-That could have snaped her neck.
ReplyDeleteNo 6- Hope she can eat for a week. Stupid tricks, stupid prizes
No 8- No way, no way at all
#3...Soldiers with too much time on their hands.
ReplyDeleteBuffer rodeo. Been going on in the barracks for generations, at this point. Glad to see that Joe today is just as stupid as I was 30 years ago.
Delete#6 Umm, nice big fat juicy worm CHOMP (FAFO)
ReplyDelete#10 if it's stupid and it works...
Steve S6
#1 just got a wedgie he will never forget.
ReplyDelete7) The hat looks Vietnamese but the landscape and behavior look Korean.
ReplyDeleteUsed to have a rifle range here in the eastern part of PA, that was part of a company that supplied sand and stone to the industry. Basically, it was areas cut into a 20 foot high hillside. One day, shooting there, a guy pulls up in a brand new Ford pickup 4x4. Climbs the hill, turns around starts down and he becomes # 5. Totaled his new truck, still had the window stickers on it. I don't think I ever laughed so hard before.
ReplyDeleteI've got a four wheel drive & I can go ANYWHERE!!!
Deleteyeah, right.
Starker here,
Deletehjets, Care to be more specific about where the quarry was? Upper Bucks? Tinicum maybe?
Warner Co, Fairless Hills area
DeleteWas back in the mid-70's
Delete#3 I hope it was painful....
ReplyDelete#7 Gotta make due with what you have...
ReplyDelete#4,Excellent job. Watched it four times and studied what he was doing. Quick evaluation of the scene, decided course of action and went to it. The kind of guy to have next to you in a Not Good moment.
ReplyDeleteNo. 8 looks safe until you look at the size of the rope and the knots used.
ReplyDeleteIf the harness works they'll know where to find your well saturated dead body.
Delete#9 - My cousin's husband did something like that in a Polaris sand buggy and broke his neck. No thank you...
ReplyDelete1. When I was an outboard mechanic I had a customer that was a phenomenal barefooter. He could jump a full size ski jump and make it look easy.
ReplyDelete5. The roll cage on the outside of the cab is an indication that he knew he was going to FAFO.
6. I love watching stupid people win stupid prizes.
9. There's nothing like going for a ride in a beautiful landscape and beginning a lifetime of pain.
#4 straight up hero. Figured it out fixed it no wasted movement or thoughts
ReplyDelete#2 for the win.
ReplyDeleteA bunch of what the hell photos
ReplyDeleteI don't have any experience with crawling, but it looks like if he had goosed it with the wheels in a hard left, it would have planted the right side and come down in a lot better situation than That.
ReplyDelete#2 is a perfect example of a personality that would be vastly improved by a busted nose.
ReplyDeleteI'm just asking why... and I kinda hope they die.
ReplyDelete4) I was at the park and this toddler was running between the cars and I had to grab him to keep him from getting run over. Gave him to his spanish mom and she just smiled like it was no big deal her kid almost got killed.
ReplyDeleteThey got plenty, what's one less.
DeleteOr maybe it's the fifth time that shit's happened today, and she just hasn't got any "panic" left in her. And she hasn't been able to make it to the store to get a leash for the brat yet.
DeleteI know because we had a similar situation with one of ours - went on vacation, go see the river, right? One of our kids didn't learn a damned thing from going bobbing down the river just under the water, and tried it again as soon as he stopped crying and we set him down.
We kept a close eye on him, but he still managed to almost drown himself four times that day. By the last time the wife didn't even change expression. And then of course got a faceful of shit for the other mothers for "not caring" and "being such a horrible mother." We did end up cutting things short, but I'll point out that the last one was at the hotel where someone else let him through the gate to the pool. There's limits to what you can actually DO, you know.
He's also the kid who climbed up the side of the house and got on the roof before he was two. Though thankfully he didn't jump off, though walking along the edge was enough to turn his mama's hair gray.
We were so grateful when, a year or so later, he said "I don't *want* to die." I'm frankly shocked he's made it to ten. He was also the one where we stopped by the side of the road to discuss the flattened squirrel, and why therefore we shouldn't run out into the street though! Whatever it takes to make the lesson real, and you just keep trying different approaches until something clicks, they grow out of it, or... they die, I guess.
There's a reason that the saying "Don't criticize someone until you've walked a mile in their moccasins." exists. You don't and can't know what lead up to that, nor what she'll do tomorrow to prevent things from happening again.
John G