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06-16-2009, 01:37 PM
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but can she play football? i mean, come on, the guy's got talent.... i figured he'd get much of nothing-hell, he paid his wergild, what else do they want? can't say i'm surprised that's all he got, but we all know that there are rules for some, and other rules for others. 
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06-16-2009, 01:55 PM
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The thing that has bothered me the most about his story is that he said he saw the guy crossing and flashed his lights at him. Then he proceeded to hit him.
Now, if I am driving and see someone crossing in front of me, the last thing I think of is to flash my lights. My foot is going straight for the brake pedal long before my hand can find the lightswitch. I keep getting the impression that he thinks the flashing of the lights absolves him of full responsibility in some fashion. The whole thing sucks.
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06-16-2009, 01:58 PM
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um yes. I've got an arm like a female Joe Montana. Back in the days before high school I always played football with the boys and they would always make me all-time QB. In college I was good buddies with a lot of the U of A football players and would toss it around with them all the time... they were impressed. The problem is I was born with the wrong parts, would get KILLED if I got sacked once, and dont have the strength that men do (physically impossible). But if I was born a man I'd have as many rings as Tom Brady.. and a hotter girlfriend. 
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06-16-2009, 02:01 PM
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just think if he had done far worse-you know, dogfighting for instance.
 it's a disgrace.and yeah, bigs, i had the same thought about the flashing of the headlights. if he had time for that, why didn't he have reaction time to hit the brakes?
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06-16-2009, 02:11 PM
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maybe he was drunk and not thinking straight? Still cant believe he didnt break or swerve (did he swerve?? I've seen nothing that says yes or no). I had a real bad streak a couple months ago where I was an animal serial killer. First I ran over something that was already dead... so that was okay, then I killed a cat who was licking its butt in the middle of my lane right around a curve at night... didnt really see it till my tires were going over it. Felt REALLY Bad.. Then I think I killed a squirrel... didnt feel as bad but still sucks. THEN like the next day, it was night time and I was heading out to play some pool... on a back road that has tall trees all over the sides of the road (shadows out the moon)... cruisin at about 35mph.. the speed limit, and all of the sudden, like 20 ft in front of me there were to big boxers (the dog kind, not human boxers) in the street... One right in the middle/right of my lane and the other was in the other lane and close to the yellow lines.... so I couldnt just dart into the other lane. I slammed on my breaks but it became quite clear that I wasnt stopping in time. So, with my super quick thinking and reaction time I decide to try to swerve in between the two dogs... I just missed the one on my right and the one who was in the other lane ran into the SIDE of my car as I was passing through. I heard him/her yelp and heard the bang into my drivers side door. I pulled off the road and got out, but the two dogs had run off so I dont think I hurt the dog too bad. Still sat there and cried in my car  I was a danger to all animals on the road... and it wasnt even my fault!
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06-16-2009, 02:54 PM
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you should have flashed your lights at them... yeah, i hate running over animals-but i did cuss the guy who slammed on his brakes right in front of me to avoid a rabbit. i thought i was going to wipe him out over a bunny...i worked with a lady whose niece was killed when a driver swerved to miss a dog. he went in their lane and hit them head on. i'll try to give animals a break, but i'm not going to endanger a human to help them out.
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06-16-2009, 03:04 PM
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lately people want to merge into my lane when I'm right next to them on a highway going 80mph. Ask Cajun... we were about a half inch from dying on the way to Gulfstream one day. Maybe he didnt check his blindspot but he was going right into me... and thank God there wasnt a car in the lane to my left because I swung into it so fast and just barely avoided a big time crash with the lexus... who then just took my spot in my lane and didnt even notice or bother to wave an apology when I hit my horn for 5 minutes. That happened to me again a few weeks ago... a woman on her cell phone with her kid in a car seat in the back... DIDNT EVEN SEE ME.. just merged right into me, again thank GOD there wasnt a car to my right cause I had to swerve violently again. I hit the horn again... and she still didnt notice just got in my lane where my car had been 1 second earlier and kept on talkin on the phone. I know she didnt see me at all cause with her kid in the car and everything, you'd assume she would have been freaking out. Happened again yesterday but was not really the guys fault as much. I had just moved from the left lane to the middle and he was about to move from the right into the middle. He did notice I was there though and we both swerved into the outside lanes. I've been quite close to death lately... The worst was a couple years ago when an 18 wheeler tried to merge into me... didnt see me at all and was about 3-4 ft into my lane... I had to swerve OFF the road into the grass median that turned into pure concrete about 200 yards up... Thank goodness he heard my horn and went back to the middle lane so I could get back on the road before I smashed into the concrete wall. Scared the CRAP out of me and I've been scared of tractor trailers ever since.
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06-16-2009, 05:46 PM
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it seems everywhere you look anymore, people are on cell phones-the equivalent of driving drunk because being on the phone is such a distraction. about two years ago, one of our drivers hit a lady right in the drivers side door, killing her. she was on the phone and ran a red light. another driver a couple weeks ago ran a red light-when his supervisor asked if he was on the phone, he refused to answer. he got t-boned, totalled the truck. his mommy (i love when employees mommys come to the rescue ) brought his cell phone statement up to show he wasn't on the phone...yet, strangely, the call to the boss a few minutes after the wreck on that phone wasn't on the bill either...the old cut and paste job!
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