O/T Something to come home to..............

My wife and I went to 5:30 church services last evening and then met friends of ours for dinner.

In a nutshell, when we got home about 9:15, we found a neighbor kid (actually 28 and married) had gotten drunk, lost control of his pickup at a high rate of speed, went into the road ditch, hit our driveway, became airborne, and rolled it about five times across our front lawn.

He was thrown from the pickup and sustained three fractures in his back, one in his neck, several broken ribs, and a broken collar bone.
He'll surviv, but he has a long haul ahead.

We talked to his father this morning, and he said the kid had been part of a wedding party and at the reception his "buddies" had fed him some drinks without telling him what was in them.

The kicker was, a Deputy Sheriff rents our farmhouse, which uses the same driveway. He was just suited up and driving down the driveway with his cruiser to go on duty at 8:00pm. The whole thing happened about 100 feet in front of the deputy while he was driving down the driveway. If the deputy had been several seconds sooner, he'd have been broadsided by an airborne pickup and likely wouldn't have survived, himself. As it was, the deputy immediately became the investigating officer.

Also, when the pickup landed, it rolled right down a row of 5 underground sprinklers on our lawn and apparently didn't damage a one.

Since he got our mailbox, and not the deputy's, guess I'll need to at least have a temporary mailbox rigged by tomorrow.

The rescue unit took the kid to our local hospital and they immediately lifelined him to Lincoln. When he came to, someone asked him if he knew what happened. He replied, "I screwed up." He'll survive, but he has a long row ahead of him.

Hope he turns out OK, both for his sake and his wife and parent's sake. The first person who tells us he never screwed up as a kid is a flat out liar. Jim

Thoughts are with him and everybody involved.
Results were better than when a neighborhood kid rolled in front of our house several years ago. He broke his neck and was dead at the scene.

Definitely going to take some time to recover from the whole thing and to deal with everything afterwards. At least he knows he screwed up though. That alone is alot.

a few years ago a fellow was coming home in a corvet went off the road hit a culvert went airborn and 630 feet later hit ht ground rolling came to astop in a guys front yard the battery had came out and went thru the second story window waking the owner up he wnt out side car burst into flames about the only thing left was his teeth don't pay to speed

Sounds like he is lucky to be alive, the good Lord was watching over him for sure.

[quotWe talked to his father this morning, and he said the kid had been part of a wedding party and at the reception his "buddies" had fed him some drinks without telling him what was in them.


Then let him drive. Do not think they were real buddies.

We've all done something equally stupid, and were just lucky enough to have survived. I wonder if he'll wear his seat belt after this.

At 28 years old, he knew good and well what he was drinking. Sounds like his dad is in denial.

If he replied " I screwed up" when he came to, doesnt sound like he was that drunk. Bottom line 28 years old, he should know when to quit drinking and should have felt the alcohol and stayed out of the truck.

I think everyone should drink as they see fit, but stay out from behind the wheel.

Rick

Had 3 of my soldiers get juiced up one night years ago. On the way back to base blew through a stop sign at a t intersection. Hit the bank on the far side of the intersect and went airborne into the yard belonging to the architect that designed desmoine, Iowa's only skyscraper. He a pair of ornamental five foot high flag poles with brass knobs on top. They clipped the brass knobs off while airborne and landed in his pond. When I got there, they all three where sitting on the bank soaking wet, quite sober. The car was under water with headlights still on. God still had a use for those three, as he does with this young man.

Does he have auto insurance? If so I wouldn't lift a finger towards fixing the damage. Hire every single bit of it done. Keep reciepts on everything, including your time to line up the workers.

If you fix it all yourself you generally end up working for nothing. Dont sell your labor short.

Gene