Crotch rocket just wrecked
outside my apartment.
I'm sitting at my desk working and I heard him come to the intersection, make his turn and accelerate down the hill. It's a short steep hill with a turn at the end of it before you get to the highway. Sounded like he was accelerating hard and about to make third gear when I heard bits of plastic bouncing down the road. I opened the door and there was the bike laid out beside the road....no biker in sight. He went over a small embankment.
911 operator wanted to know if he was hurt. "I dunno....I'm a few hundred yards from him and I can't see him." Well does he look hurt? "He's over an embankment, I think. I haven't seen him at all!"
He seems to be alright. I saw him on his feet talking to the paramedics. Cops have the street blocked...looks like they're doing a full-on investigation of this one.
It was only a matter of time.....people come up and down this (residential) street way too fast ALL the time.
I'm sitting at my desk working and I heard him come to the intersection, make his turn and accelerate down the hill. It's a short steep hill with a turn at the end of it before you get to the highway. Sounded like he was accelerating hard and about to make third gear when I heard bits of plastic bouncing down the road. I opened the door and there was the bike laid out beside the road....no biker in sight. He went over a small embankment.
911 operator wanted to know if he was hurt. "I dunno....I'm a few hundred yards from him and I can't see him." Well does he look hurt? "He's over an embankment, I think. I haven't seen him at all!"
He seems to be alright. I saw him on his feet talking to the paramedics. Cops have the street blocked...looks like they're doing a full-on investigation of this one.
It was only a matter of time.....people come up and down this (residential) street way too fast ALL the time.
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he a lucky SOB that somebody heard it and was able to call for help. if he had broker a leg/neck/back hecould have been not far from leaving this world 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Dakota308
he a lucky SOB that somebody heard it and was able to call for help. if he had broker a leg/neck/back hecould have been not far from leaving this world
Well, his bike was left in the street. The first to vehicles to pass it didn't seem to think anything about that little fact (it was lying right by the curve), but the third stopped to investigate and apparently figured it out.0 -
18 years of age, driver's license, and enough money (or credit), and you can buy a sport bike that is ten times more dangerous than any gun made....and ride off with it having had not one minute of training or practice.
It's a mighty funny world, isn't it? Arrest a mother for buying a gun that ends up in her son's hand, but do nothing to parents who buy their teenager a 186 mph two wheeled missile that ends up killing him deader'n a doornail.
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I just went and looked at the scene. It's pretty obvious he left the bike where the bike hit the curb. Both he and the bike continued to travel for another 30 or so feet....the bike bouncing down the road and the rider knocking over a swath through a rather prickly weed patch (mix of teasel and thistle). Rider came to rest about a foot short of what would have been a nasty tumble down very steep 18 foot dropoff. Bike doesn't look that bad.
The police were just finishing their measurements so I asked if the rider was alright. "Don't know." Cop was sort of surly about it, and I knew he was lying because he was the first on the scene. I guess it's probably policy for them not to talk about it. I imagine there are privacy issues, as well as the problem of how do you define "ok" and and what if there's some weird soft-tissue damage that wasn't readily apparent.0
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