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Posted by D. Sherman [24.32.202.83] on Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 19:32:31 :
In Reply to: Re: Tire chains posted by Kaegi [24.113.81.122] on Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 17:26:28 :
Just last fall a guy rolled his truck off the road at that icy slanted part I was describing. Snow and alcohol were both factors. He and his buddy had been out drinking and decided to go over the mountain at 2 AM in late November, hit the ice, went off the road, rolled down the gully until they hit a tree about 200' down. Amazingly they weren't seriously hurt, got out, climbed up the hill in the snow, hiked up to the saddle where they could get cell phone reception and the kid called his dad at 4 AM to have him come get them. This spring, the dad borrowed a front loader from the Galena mine and went up with a bunch of rigging and dragged the truck up out of the gully. It looked to me to be about 1/2 of the size it was when it had come off the assembly line. Every surface was thoroughly pounded. A couple years before, somebody did a similar thing just a little ways up the road. I never did hear the full story of that one. They went off the side of a straight stretch as well, but that truck more or less rolled on its tires straight down the hill through the brush until it got to the bottom of the gulch. They managed to drag it back out too.
They say God has mercy on fools and drunks, and I tend to believe it. There's a long tradition of mixing pickup trucks, mountain roads, and beer. One guy rolled himself, but not his truck, on my place. I didn't see it but I heard about it. Two guys out driving and drinking in the dark and the passenger has to take a leak. Driver stops right at the big slide on my place, where the hillside is always sliding down to the beaver ponds about 200' below. Guy jumps out the passenger side door and is immediately rolling down the hillside across all the cliffy rock outcroppings and loose dirt. Once he got to the bottom, no doubt somewhat sobered up, he was able to climb back up on his own. Not sure if he still had to pee when he got to the bottom or if he took care of that on the way down.
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