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Me, I was struck by lightning once (that explains it!).
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Feel free to post a comment about something significant in your non VX life (if you have one).
Me, I was struck by lightning once (that explains it!).
I once placed 17th in world drumming competition. It's just difficult to tell I'm a rocker because I'm bald. :p
Oooooooooooooooooooohhhh.....17th. Goodness that was a long time ago.
Question...When you're bald, what hair color do they place on your drivers license?
"Clear" :pQuote:
Originally Posted by dkmiller68
I've had 23 concussions. Or is it 21? Either way, got a hard noggin. :p
My middle name is 'Big Bear' (translation from Sioux). My parents were hip hippy hipsters back in the day... and my padre, an indigenous person)
Also - Dean Jones, the original Herbie the Love Bug driver/actor is a relative on my mother's side.
-biju.
I was on TV once...for like 6.5 minutes...
:) Bart
I was in a movie (low budget), in the shadows of my younger brother (The star), "DANGER BOY"
I know there is more, give me more time to think of some.
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N99PZ.html
Actually I have now built 4 airplanes, but who's counting.
Z
"My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy - the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really." :bwgy:
I have never broken or cracked a bone in my whole body, in my 23 years of live in this world. And if u met me I'm one of those freaks that love Danger and pain, and still never even had a stitch other then a surgery i had when i was a baby.
Ha! Nice one.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZEUS
Good on ya, mate. I usually require stitches when I get out of bed in the morning........Quote:
Originally Posted by CoastieCosta
I only date guys older than 40. :p
"I only date guys older than 40." Damn - 9 years to go!
OK, real world... In 4th grade I was hit by a car doing 60 mph after I stepped off the school bus. I saw the bus driver and a good friend in the front seat as I lifted into the air - I remember in slow motion, their facial expressions and drawn out mumbles. I saw the top of the school bus before I blacked out. When I came to, my sister was dragging me out of the street as another car passed by the school bus and it's flashing red lights. My left shoe was thrown 100' away into a field and my pelvis and left leg were broken. Some bruising on my innards caused for fewer bathroom visits for awhile. I had a fever up to "drain bamaging" temps of 106 for a week. It completely altered my path in life - I think anyway, I'll never know I guess. Wait, what was I going to say... oh yeah, later we realized the childhood trauma may have caused ADD, ADHD, or AADHD :rolleyes: but the doctors wouldn't give me any meds out of fear I would make meth with them...?? Yeah, like meth would help! Whatever...
I have a relative that was in the Alamo. He would be my great, great, great grandfather on my father's side. He was a small boy when all the fighting took place.
Peace.
Tom
Zeus, you're thinkin' my waves! :p RE: vxDakineChicvx that my wife would be relieved as I visit 40 this year, so am out of the running there. Plus I'm still working on the "Grizzled old Sea Dog" look. LOL!
I too was hit in by a car doing high speed after school, but in my case it was on my bike riding home and swerved into street to avoid obstacle. BAM! (Followed shortly thereafter by "Thud!") Cops responded and didn't call ambulance as I was lucid enough to worry about getting home in time to catch Star Trek. Don't remember much after that except waking up in hospital a day or so later. ;) I eventually got my revenge by t-boning a Fiero (totalling it) with a GPz550 and arcing high enough over that I didn't slide upon reconnecting with the planet 60 feet on the other side of the car. I'd give good money for a video of that!
I have snapped my left humorous completely off (snowboarding accident.) Had to have a 7 inch titanium rod in it for over a year complete with 5 screws, and a morphine pump for 3months.
Not including the above more than a couple hundered random stiches.
So I think you explained 2 of your concussions then! Did you pose yourself like Superman when you were flying? I would love to see that! Out of curiousity, do you recall what episode of Star Trek was worth that incident? Tell me it was the Tribbles... Gotta love the Tribbles!Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe_Black
In the early 1970's I was Swimming for the University of Missouri. I got to swim in the same pool and race against Mark Spitz in a swimming meet. For those of you who don't know Mark Spits. In 1972 he set 7 world records and won 7 olympic gold medals in swimming at the Munich Olympics.
I tried out for the olympic team but did not make it.
some of you already know this, i got my licence in 2002.. and have been in 4 accidents that resulted in my car (or the car i was in..) being totaled..
during my DRIVERS ED course i pulled off the road to let my instuctor write some things down and make a phone call, as i was parked on the side of the road a drunk driver in an explorer hit the back of my car at approx 40 and drove ontop of it, coming to rest with his front tires in my trunk and front grille pushed up against the backs of the front seats.. got out no problem didnt even draw blood
girl i was dating (and oddly enough, am now dating again..) rear ended a saturn with her 84 honda pos with enough force to knock the hood clean off her car (hood opened from windshield) walked away without a scratch
woman in a ford explorer identical to the one that hit my drivers ed car ran a redlight and T boned my subaru outback directly on the drivers door.. which then knocked me off the road into the light post.. (at 35-40mph)
greyhound bus changed lanes without looking on the I95 south and clipped the front end of my civic at 80mph which caused me to get sideways and then flip, i blacked out in mid air but my gf who was with me said the car landed upside down on the guard rail, bounced off, rolled again and skidded to a stop on the hood in the northbound lanes.. where apparently got out of the car under my own power, walked into the median and layed down... i woke up in the medivac a lil bit later with my head split from my hairline all the way back and a host of other things.. 5 days later i was able to stand for about 10 minutes on my own so they let me out of the hospital and a week after that i was back to work
oh yea, my gf with me in the civic.. not a scratch on her
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Originally Posted by vxDAKINECHICvx
I'm over 40! Wooo Hoooo
XOXOXO!!!!
My "baggage" includes two young girls.
I do believe in guardian Angels, I've lived through too many life and death events not to.
Details of events, may take several pages just to cover the high points.
Getting my shoulder rebuilt this thursday, always something....
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/da...g_champion.jpg
I'm in the wheelhouse, one of my past lives
Well,
In addition to being an incredilble couch potato. I am quite boring. Feel sorry for my wife sometimes.
CrnCnn, isn't it nice to be boring after reading these other guy's write-ups
Oh, behave!
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Originally Posted by ZEUS
Yeah, seems less painfullQuote:
Originally Posted by rowhard
I am related to both Harrison presidents. And General George Patton is my Great grandfather.
I once kicked a gooney bird on Midway Island. Maybe more than once. It was "against the law" in those days (~1975). They can really be annoying!
I could have written that I totalled my Honda Nighthawk on I-66 when I hit a truck muffler in morning rush hour traffic. Or that I totalled my first '70 Torino Cobra when the throttle stuck and then the tranny went into reverse instead of nuetral, resulting in a 180 degrees spin, hitting a tree going backwards at about 60 mph. I walked away from both.
Almost forgot... I've climbed to the summit of Mt. Fuji in Japan.
I'm Naked. :bgwg:
<note to self> never ride in a vehicle with Etlsport...
I never date guys under 40 either,, then again probably cuzz I'm over 40 :-)
I've been thru 2 volcanos,, Mt. St. Helens in Wa. state and Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines. Lived on the military base in Subic Bay, was evacuated out of the 2' and more ash and devastation by ship to Cebu Philippines, then to Guam, then Hawaii to San Fran then home state of Wa. Was a miserable 8 days of travel with two small kids. We were sent back to Subic Bay a month later. Nothing like tons of ash in 104 degree weather..... ahhh those were the days.
LOL, definitely not Superman! As I went over the Fiero my knees hit with such force it knocked my Gaerne boots clean off and set me spinning, but I did land flat on my back. Next thing I remember some guy was opening my helmet visor and asking if I was okay. My bike was stuck in the side of the Fiero, still running as I hit neutral down-shifting as I hit the car.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZEUS
The bicycle/car/Star Trek scene: Don't know which episode, never got to see it! :mad: Tribbles woulda been okay, but I'm more of a "Balance of Terror" fan. Especially if "The Enemy Below" is on the same day! ;)
Hmmm, where to start....
At 17, I was arrested under suspicion of "kidnapping". I apparently went to a party and left with some girl that I have never met. She disappeared for a few weeks and I was questioned multiple times afterwards. Someone at the party said I was there and left with her, even though I was actually at home with my parents that night (parents make poor witnesses when you are in trouble, even if you actually were home with them). I was finally arrested since apparently the only proof you need is some other 17 year old girl saying she saw you do something that you didnt. 2 days later, the girl turned up (she had lied to her parents and went to Florida with friends). After I was released, the runaway and the lying witness (some girl whom I apparently went to school with but never actually knew) were both brought to my home by police to apologise.
At 19, I was sued by an elderly man for giving him CPR (I was trained, but not certified) and "saving his life". One day on a lunch break when I was a fire sprinkler tech, I saw an old guy collapse on a tennis court so I ran over to help. This cat was DEAD. Within a minute, I brought him back. I managed to crack one of his ribs in the process, but a small price to pay for staying alive. I ended up paying his medical (dont you love this system?!). The EMTs that arrived on the scene that day said I did everything right and were witnesses for me in litigation. They stated "old people are frail and tend to "snap", haha.
At 22, and friend and I were arrested on charges of "attempted murder". We were jumped at a party and defended ourselves.... quite well I must say (we were both boxers for many years.... these poor rich suburban punks had no idea). My friend managed to break a bottle over someone's head during the brawl and it cut the guy pretty good on the side of his neck. We were arrested later that night because apparentl someone told the police that we had gone to that party with the intent on killing that guy (we actually know 3 people at that party and only went because one of them was a girl that invited me). After dragging this out for months and months of no witness reports matching, the apparent murder target being in and out of jail with a rap sheet 18 miles long and a track record of lying and violence, and simply no damned proof of anything, charges slowly went from attempted murder down to assault with intent to maim, down to reckless endangerment. Settled with 6 months PBJ and 80 hours community service. When it all went to court, the "victim" could not appear because he was currently in jail for assaulting someone in a Chilis restaraunt, heh.
Damn, I could go on and on....
HAHA! etlsport, that is at least the 2nd time someone has made that "note to self" after you explained your 'skills' in surviving accidents.Quote:
Originally Posted by JGeorge264
yeah.. i am one lucky sob when it comes to surviving.. i just wish people would stop hitting me!! im in big big trouble if someone hits my vx cause im gonna lose it.. someone already hit my front bumper in a parking lot, luckily all they did was break the front license plate holder i had on there
I've lead a pretty tame life, I guess... I've been in some fairly rough spots but everything worked out. Been to Russia twice (for a total of about 6 weeks - For a short time when It was mostly O.K. to tell about God in their Schools!!!) - Got followed by KGB folks... , and Mexico 5 or 6 times (a week at a time, building houses for poor families with approx 50 highschoolers on big convoys down and back). I've made several 2hour videos of our trips to build houses. A few years ago I had death threats made on me & several friends, by some freak woman and found the cops caused ME way more hassles than I could ever have imagined for over a year (Never believe the cops and courts are there to help YOU). Oh, and long ago we took my friend out for his bachelor party. It was about 1:00am and we stopped to get gas, there were 4 of us from 4 different states and totally behaving ourselves. About 10 minutes after leaving the station we got pulled over by 4 cop cars that cut us off at all for corners of the car and forced us off to the side of the road. With Guns out and lots of spotlights and such... Dragged my buddy out of the car and were searching him... Eventually the cop at my window asked us what we did. I told him "you're the one that pulled us over, I dunnow???" She said said "I'll go find out", so when she returned she said we had just robbed the gas station! We send our buddy in with a $20 to buy $10 worth of gas and he returned with $10. I think the attendant pocked the money and called it in. They made us pay again and said they hoped we learned our lesson!!!! What was that all about? Anyway That's a party to remember!!!!
Ha, even a boring guy can have a little excitement! :)
And once again, you have proven that you have a perpetual dark rain cloud above your head, and I thought it was just bad luck with cars!!! Man, you must have wronged whatever god you believe in something fierce in a past life or something, jeez!
:) Bart
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Originally Posted by WormGod
dang wormgod..i got picked up for assault late last year when i got jumped and defended myself a little too well and was released/had the charges dropped within hours and i thought that was bad!
Something like that happened to me once in college. I was driving my old white 79 Chevy Malibu with a bunch of friends in the car. I was Ybor City in Tampa and was just about to get on the highway and head back to campus, when a cop pulled me over into an empty parking lot. It was like a movie, within seconds my vehicle was completely surrounded by about 6-7 squad cars, all of them with weapons drawn, screaming to "lemmi see some hands". Us kids all about shat our pants as we pasted our hands to the ceiling of the car. With a pistol in my face a cop came up to the window and I slowly gave him my ID. He handed it off to another cop as we sat there, terrified. A few minutes later, the cop came back and handed me my ID. He said, "sorry, you're the wrong guy". And just as fast as they surrounded us, they were gone. I'll never forget that. And in my short 31 years of existence, I have never been pulled over more, then when I had my ol' Chevy Malibu. I guess "white boxy car" fits the description for 90% of crimes committed just about everywhere.
:p Bart
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Originally Posted by Techy-D
Hmm.. year and a half for me... :pQuote:
Originally Posted by vxDAKINECHICvx
You all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, you've all made yourselves a part of something and can talk about what you do. What can I say? "I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?"
Hi.
I'm, uh, I'm a pet psychiatrist.
I sell couch insurance.
Mm-hmm, and I - and I test-market positive thinking.
I lead a weekend men's group, we specialize in ritual killings.
Yeah, you look great! God, yeah! Hi, how are you? Hi, how are you?
Hi, remember me? I'm not married, I don't have any kids, and I'd blow your head off if someone paid me enough.
It's *not* me! Why does everyone always think it's personal?
So I was in the Gulf last year, I was doing this thing anyway. And I came up over this dune, and I saw the ocean... and it was on fire. The whole thing, on fire, and it was beautiful. So I just sat there and watched it, and that's when I realized there might be a meaning to life, you know, like an organic power that connects all living things, God, Yahweh, I dunno.