I hear there's a good "wood hunting safari" story that involves a duck.
Care to share?

Mike Romain wrote:


Mike,

Glad you're still here to report in.

--
Dale Beckett

Ditto.
-Bill

"Dale Beckett" <dale02 (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid> wrote

Dale Beckett wrote:

Mike

Billy Ray says he has a spare eye patch you can use, and wants to know if
you're still using his old leather belt to hold your chrome grill on.

LMAO!

Ya'll must have been drinking pretty heavily on that trip.

K.

"Mike Romain" <romainm (AT) nospam (DOT) eastlink.ca> wrote
It was just one of those days I guess. I did finish the bridge deck
that day though.

*** You're certifiably insane. You know that don't you?

I think I am going to be ok. Injured my lower back also it would appear,
knocked a vertebra out of place a bit but the damage seems stable and
not too bad so far.

*** Oh, sure, ok, if you say so, Had a buddy who got put in one of those
things you're wearing. Some of our friends decided to use him for a dry
erase board.
I have sick friends. Should I send them over ;-D

I actually got back up really carefully and got into the CJ's seat where
I had a cell phone sitting. We 'just' have cell coverage in there so
our phone and 3G wireless Internet still work. While doing this, I
realized I was in too much pain to only have minor damage so held my
head 'really' still while waiting for help. They found me within 10
minutes, otherwise I would have been there from 5:00 to 11 or 12 when my
wife came home from work unless an ATV or something found me. There was
no moving the Jeep, screaming pain resulted.

*** That's amazing. You're a tough SOB Mike!


K.

"Kate" <nothappenin (AT) thispoint (DOT) intime> wrote

They call that a Perfect Storm.

I can't tell you how many times I drove off in my CJ -- that ONLY had lap
belts -- with the belt couple hanging overboard.

Jeff Strickland wrote:

Sounds familiar - I sat on mine for a long time. The Air Force required us
to install them in order to drive on base several years before the made
them mandatory but was still a case where you had to HAVE them but you
didn't have to WEAR them. Then one night it hit me that I was spending a
lot of time and effort strapping on that jet airplane before each flight
when I was a heck of a lot safer in the air - even on our hairiest
missions - than I was driving to and from work ( we lost a whole lot more
pilots in auto accidents than we did in flying accidents - including
Vietnam time). It's a matter of perspective, I guess.

--
Will Honea

"Will Honea" <whonea (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

In all fairness though, you strap on the plane because gravity pulls you in
directions that includes those that are not into your seat. Odds favor
gravity always pulling you down in a car.

You are exposed to being separated from your seat dozens of times on each
and every flight as a normal course of operations of the airplane, but the
exposure of being separated from the seat of your car only occurs due to a
mishap of some sort. There is no question that remaining in the seat of the
car, or plane, does alot to improve the survivability of the forces that
would separate you from the seat, but those forces always exist in a plane
whereas they only exist in a car during situations that are associated with
an emergency.

To be sure, an emergency is an unplanned situation and it's the unplanned
situations that we need belts for in a car. In a plane, the belts help us
during the planned situations.

"Mike Romain" <romainm (AT) nospam (DOT) eastlink.ca> wrote


You've not seen me drive a CJ5 ...

Exception noted.