Out of the frying pan...
...and into the fire. Or in this case, the ocean:
I was debating even applying a Darwin label to this, as it could be viewed more as a tragic accident. Foggy, an unknown road, wrung out from their lost-in-the-woods ordeal... I can see it happening to anybody, even the non-daft among us. (See, I do have a sensitive side. Well, more like a "sensitive patch," really... a very small one.) Anyway, I decided to apply the Darwin label and the submitter's snarky-but-quite-amusing comment: "Chuck doesn't give up." What changed my mind?
Yeah, dumb hippies. Sorry, but the sensitive moment is hereby RESCINDED. I do feel bad about the dog, though. Poor pooch.
Question: they found the car 175 feet off the boat ramp? How bloody fast was she going when she hit the water?! I suppose the tide could have pulled it out while it remained temporarily buoyant, but still.
And by the way, if you don't have a heavy object in the driver's compartment of your car that you can use to break a window, you're doing it wrong. Floods, blizzards, a burning wreck with jammed doors, car-jacking thugs... there are many ways in which an automobile can become a deathtrap. Just ask Davis and Curmudgeon, our resident cop and paramedic, respectively. I'd give good odds they've responded to situations where people were trapped in vehicles from which they should have been able to escape but didn't. You should have something heavy, metallic and handy in the car at all times -- though I suspect most of the readers of this blog would simply use high-velocity lead window smashers.
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Hat-tip to Jeff W.
A pregnant Maine woman and her friend visiting from Pennsylvania who had been rescued after getting lost hiking died when they accidentally drove their minivan off a boat ramp and into the ocean, authorities said.
Authorities found the submerged car about 175 feet off the boat ramp, the women and the dog inside with the doors closed and the windows up.
I was debating even applying a Darwin label to this, as it could be viewed more as a tragic accident. Foggy, an unknown road, wrung out from their lost-in-the-woods ordeal... I can see it happening to anybody, even the non-daft among us. (See, I do have a sensitive side. Well, more like a "sensitive patch," really... a very small one.) Anyway, I decided to apply the Darwin label and the submitter's snarky-but-quite-amusing comment: "Chuck doesn't give up." What changed my mind?
Gregg Stiner, Amy’s husband, told the Bangor Daily News that the two are organic farmers.
Yeah, dumb hippies. Sorry, but the sensitive moment is hereby RESCINDED. I do feel bad about the dog, though. Poor pooch.
Question: they found the car 175 feet off the boat ramp? How bloody fast was she going when she hit the water?! I suppose the tide could have pulled it out while it remained temporarily buoyant, but still.
And by the way, if you don't have a heavy object in the driver's compartment of your car that you can use to break a window, you're doing it wrong. Floods, blizzards, a burning wreck with jammed doors, car-jacking thugs... there are many ways in which an automobile can become a deathtrap. Just ask Davis and Curmudgeon, our resident cop and paramedic, respectively. I'd give good odds they've responded to situations where people were trapped in vehicles from which they should have been able to escape but didn't. You should have something heavy, metallic and handy in the car at all times -- though I suspect most of the readers of this blog would simply use high-velocity lead window smashers.
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Hat-tip to Jeff W.
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posted by Jar(egg)head at 18:43
2 Comments:
9mm explosive powered glass breaker. But I've also got a life hammer that has a blade for cutting the seatbelt. Handy little things.
Yes. Or one of those cheap spring-loaded punches. Like I carry in my ashtray. I don't much like heavy objects in the passenger compartment - they tend to turn into missiles in the event of a collision or roll-over.
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