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Post by earlwb on Oct 8, 2014 15:54:50 GMT -5
What are the odds of this happening. One motorcycle rider's license plate broke off and it impaled itself into the front windscreen of a rider behind him.
Man that is just amazingly lucky for the guy behind him as the license plate could have hit the rider and injured him or worse.
I think I would want to buy a lottery ticket right away too. Just in case the luck holds up.
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Post by xyshannen on Oct 9, 2014 10:48:04 GMT -5
Holy crap that could have been really bad.
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Post by JerryScript on Oct 9, 2014 12:04:17 GMT -5
I thought taking a beetle to the neck was bad, but this, just wow!
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Post by oldchopperguy on Oct 9, 2014 14:05:41 GMT -5
Good grief!
Just a little speed behind a flying doodad, and it becomes a deadly missile... OUCH!
Way back in the seventies, I was driving the family station-wagon on vacation. 80 mph down a country 2-lane. Oncoming car lost a hubcap and I couldn't avoid it. It went between the wheels and sheared-off the Pitman-arm from the steering-box, with an impact just like that license-plate hitting the bike.
With no steering, I did get stopped (in the middle of the road...) without mishap. Had to kick the front tire right, push, kick more, push more and finally get on the shoulder. No cell-phones back then. Had to wait until a State Trooper came along to help. But it showed me that a 2-pound hub-cap at a combined speed of 140 mph can cut off a hardened-steel steering-shaft like a hot knife through butter.
Ride safe, and watch out for little "UFO's"
Leo in Texas
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Post by skyrider on Oct 9, 2014 14:15:49 GMT -5
That is scary.
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Post by Paladin on Oct 9, 2014 19:02:12 GMT -5
What is scary is that it seems like the one that ended up with a license plate impaled his bike ** did not notice **
-- the bike with the video had to point to both that they had a slight problem.
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Post by SylvreKat on Oct 9, 2014 22:29:52 GMT -5
Paladin, check again at :22. Impaled guy rides up and points to the plate. Or at least it sure looks like he's pointing to it.
>'Kat
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Post by SylvreKat on Oct 9, 2014 22:33:55 GMT -5
And my scary hit story--driving 60 on the interstate when a board came flying at me from the vehicle in front. Don't know if the truck kicked it up from the road, or it flew off the back. Hit my '78 Olds' nose flat on, slid along the hood, then lifted enough to not go through the windshield but instead hit the roof. Tripped every idiot light that car had.
Pulled over and looked at the damage. A paint scrape on the nose, a finish rub on the hood, and a very noticeable dent at the edge of the roof, just above where it meets the chrome at the windshield's edge. That was right in line with my head. Scary to think that if it hadn't lifted....
>'Kat
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Post by skyrider on Oct 9, 2014 23:35:57 GMT -5
Way back in ancient history I was driving an old GMC company truck when the vehicle in front of me lost a wheel that hit a car coming the opposite direction sending it at least 100 feet in the air and then landed on the front fender and windshield post (missed the window) and drove the front corner of the truck down one and a half inches. That was when they made heavy truck bodies.
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