Ouch

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[mead107]

Ouch

[Dante]

That was possibly a very tragic ouch! Here is another, funner ouch!

 

[WhoTom]

Back in the late 80s, we were moving from one apartment to another with help from a friend with a pickup truck. His spare tire was in the back with our stuff, securely placed, or so we thought. As we approached the new apartment, which happened to be on a hill, the tire rolled off the back and headed down the street and through an intersection. As it approached a house with a big picture window in the front, I uttered two words (the first being "Oh") and prepared for what could be a catastrophe. Luckily, there was a short, but effective, iron-grate fence in front that I hadn't noticed.

 

Disaster averted. Lesson learned.

 

 

[That's No Moon]

1 hour ago, Dante said:

That was possibly a very tragic ouch! Here is another, funner ouch!

 

They are all now honorary Gronkowskis

[Dante]

13 minutes ago, WhoTom said:

Back in the late 80s, we were moving from one apartment to another with help from a friend with a pickup truck. His spare tire was in the back with our stuff, securely placed, or so we thought. As we approached the new apartment, which happened to be on a hill, the tire rolled off the back and headed down the street and through an intersection. As it approached a house with a big picture window in the front, I uttered two words (the first being "Oh") and prepared for what could be a catastrophe. Luckily, there was a short, but effective, iron-grate fence in front that I hadn't noticed.

 

Disaster averted. Lesson learned.

 

 

I've come close a couple times to hitting flying tire caps (off tractor trailers) on the highway. Granted it's not the entire rim and tire but those caps are a few inches of thick rubber and more than enough to take you out if it were to go through your windshield. 

[DC Tom]

31 minutes ago, Dante said:

I've come close a couple times to hitting flying tire caps (off tractor trailers) on the highway. Granted it's not the entire rim and tire but those caps are a few inches of thick rubber and more than enough to take you out if it were to go through your windshield. 

 

Took a piece of truck tread through my windshield many years ago (2004, probably).  Truck's wheel about 50 yards in front of me came apart, and a good-sized section came straight at me quicker than I could react.

 

That was fun.

[BUFFALOKIE]

33 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

Took a piece of truck tread through my windshield many years ago (2004, probably).  Truck's wheel about 50 yards in front of me came apart, and a good-sized section came straight at me quicker than I could react.

 

That was fun.

...was Tom Petty on the radio? That would explain a few things.

[DC Tom]

1 hour ago, BUFFALOKIE said:

...was Tom Petty on the radio? That would explain a few things.

 

Of course not.  Listening to Tom Petty and getting hit in the face with a truck tire would be redundant.  

[WhoTom]

44 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

Of course not.  Listening to Tom Petty and getting hit in the face with a truck tire would be redundant.  

 

Yer so bad...

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

4 hours ago, Dante said:

I've come close a couple times to hitting flying tire caps (off tractor trailers) on the highway. Granted it's not the entire rim and tire but those caps are a few inches of thick rubber and more than enough to take you out if it were to go through your windshield. 

With all the improvements in the remanufacturing of recapped tires, you would think this would be less of a problem.  Somehow, I think it is a case of relaxed standards and methods.