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This was originally sent to me by e-mail and in a GIF file. It was a whopping 3MB file so I did some magic and made the whole thing into a small 425KB file. Who uses animated GIF these days? I mean Really?

I actually sat there playing this in slow mode, backwards and forwards to see if it was real. And it is as far as I can tell. I’ve looked closely at the ground where you can actually see the pedestrian laying motionless on the ground after the SUV passes over them.

Show this one to your kids and tell them THIS is why you always look both ways when crossing the street and continue to pay attention while your still in the street. Kids these days just figure the driver has a steering wheel, they can move around me.

Footnote: Believe it or not, the pedestrian lived! He was saved by the imprint that the PT Cruiser left in the driver’s side of the Subaru. When the Subaru went over him, it came down on him right where the dent in the car was made! It just wasn’t his time.

This was actually on MythBusters but it is still pretty funny to read.

AUSTRALIAN BRICKLAYER’ S ACCIDENT REPORT

Possibly the funniest story in a long while. This is a bricklayer’s accident report, which was printed in the newsletter of the Australian equivalent of the Workers’ Compensation board. This is a true story. Had this guy died, he’d have received a Darwin Award.

Dear Sir,
I am writing in response to your request for additional information in Block 3 of the accident report form. I put ‘poor planning’ as the cause of my accident. You asked for a fuller explanation and I trust the following details will be sufficient.

I am a bricklayer by trade. On the day of the accident, I was working alone on the roof of a new six-story building. When I completed my work, I found that I had some bricks left over which, when weighed later were found to be slightly in excess of 500 lbs. Rather than carry the bricks down by hand, I decided to! lower them in a barrel by using a pulley, which was attached to the side of the building on the sixth floor.

Securing the rope at ground I went up to the roof, swung the barrel out and loaded the bricks into it. Then I went down and untied the rope, holding it tightly to ensure a slow descent of the bricks. You will note in Block 11 of the accident report form that I weigh 135 lbs.

Due to my surprise at being jerked off the ground so suddenly, I proceeded at a rapid rate up the side of the building. In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel, which was now proceeding downward at an equally impressive speed. This explained the fractured skull, minor abrasions and the broken collar bone, as listed in section 3 of the accident report form.

Slowed only slightly, I continued my rapid ascent, not stopping until the fingers of my right hand were two knuckles deep into the pulley. Fortunately by this! time I had regained my presence of mind and was able to hold tightly to the rope, in spite of beginning to experience pain.

At approximately the same time, however, the barrel of bricks hit the ground and the bottom fell out of the barrel. Now devoid of the weight of the bricks, that barrel weighed approximately 50 lbs. I refer you again to my weight. As you can imagine, I began a rapid descent, down the side of the building.

In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel coming up. This accounts for the two fractured ankles, broken tooth and several lacerations of my legs and lower body.

Here my luck began to change slightly. The encounter with the barrel seemed to slow me enough to lessen my injuries when I fell into the pile of bricks and fortunately only three vertebrae were cracked.

I am sorry to report, however, as I lay there on the pile of bricks, in pain, unable to move, I again lost my composure and presence of mind and let go of the rope and I lay there watching the empty barrel begin its journey back down onto me. This explains the two broken legs.

I hope this answers your inquiry.

You know that after all the drama of being in the car accident, sleeping the next day wasn’t actually a problem at all.

The post about me not being able to sleep for a week or so was cured with the stunt driving post.

When I was home that night I had to be waken every few hours and that didn’t allow me to get any rest really. It felt like as soon as I drifted off to sleep, I was being woke up again. It was actually pissing me off.

So after my babysitter went home, I went back to bed and slept like a log. NOTHING was waking me up. NOTHING! I slept until 7pm that night. I was so exhausted I couldn’t get my ass out of bed till the last minute before having to head out to work.

So now I’m home again (4:30am) and hopefully after watching a bit of the boob tube, I’ll pass out like I did the day before. I’m so sore right now, just laying down to watch some TV sounds so good. So with that said………….

TTFN!

Well, today was a total fucked up day!

I went into the next town (Oromocto) with a friend but on the way there we were cut off on the highway and  ended up wiping out.

We My Friend lost controll as the roads were not all that great, went over the snow bank and rolled once or twice.

Fortunately I’m OK. A few bruises and  a couple of cuts on my forehead. My nose hurts like hell from the air bag. My friend has a busted leg and his car is totaled.

It all happened around 12pm or so and I’m just getting home now at 7:45pm.

They took x-rays and poked me but most of the time I was waiting to be x-rayed and poked. “Does this Hurt?” and “Are you feeling any pain or discomfort?“, were asked so many times it was actually getting redundant and annoying.

They wanted to keep me overnight because of a concussion but I said I’ll go home rather than stay in a germ infested hospital. They were alright with that just as long as I have somebody stay with me and I stay inactive for at least 24 hours.

Me inactive for 24 hours??? OK, no problem!

So I just called work to let em’ know I won’t be in.

My head is still throbbing, but the pain pills are sorta working. Tylenol 3 I think, haven’t really looked.

I have somebody checking in on me every few hours throughout the night, just to make sure I haven’t slipped into a coma.

That was my interesting day, how about you?

I was rear-ended by a car this morning…right then I knew it was going to be a really bad day!

When the driver got out of his car, I realized he was a dwarf as were the other people in his car.

He looked up at me and said, “I am not happy!”

So I said, “Well, which one are you then?”

That’s how the fight started.

As I was posting this, I was thinking to myself that I may have already read this on somebody elses blog before.

Well as it turns out, I did. As Dragon Lady so kindly pointed out. But like I said in the comments. “Mine looks prettier.”

Naaaner-naaaner-naaaaaaaaaneeerrrr!

I wanted to post these pictures and video a few days ago, but the transfer of the sites took a bit longer than I had anticipated, plus other demanding things were taking up all my time too.

Here’s a couple of snaps I took outside from the day after the big ass snow storm we had. It’s actually nice now, because it hit 11°C (51.8°F) today. The snow height dropped about a foot I would say.

I don’t think this bike is going anyplace soon. Since I took this picture the snow has melted down to the seat of the bikes. Yes I said bikes, there ate two there.

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Somebody wasn’t paying attention apparently.

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And of course, what would a weather post be without a little video footage of the accident. I obvious got there awhile after it happened because there’s no other car around so one must have been towed already.