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et_cg
July 17th, 2007, 05:06 AM
Literally.
Archon23
July 17th, 2007, 05:09 AM
Did you save a bunch of money on your car insurance by switching to Geico?

Seriously though what happened?
et_cg
July 17th, 2007, 05:11 AM
I was riding my bike home from a movie, and almost got hit by a drunk public transportation driver (Trimet (http://www.trimet.org/)).

It's Portland, and we have the highest rates of bike crashes/deaths that I know of. Now I'm a little scared. But it's not going to keep me from riding my gas savin' machine. Mah legs, and my wheels.

I heard this screech and a crash out of my right ear, and I looked over my shoulder, and the man that was just next to me went over two lanes into the middle median, ran over a tree. And then within 80 yards ran into a tree. A tree I was only 20 feet from.

EDIT: He crashed, at the 2nd tree, comming to a stop. The dumbass thought he could still reverse, but his whole car was too fucked up to move.
Archon23
July 17th, 2007, 05:16 AM
..........Seriously Nice Transit System.

Good thing you made it out alive, and unscathed unless..............the driver hit a key spot on the tree making it crash in exactly the right place for the tree to hurl a branch the size of a standard 2x4 at you. But thats just being silly.
et_cg
July 17th, 2007, 05:18 AM
Thank god that didn't happen. I'm a little curious as to why people think they can drive when they're drunk now.

Yeah. I got out of that situation by the girth of my skin. And then I had to get asked questions by the cops, and I'm underage, out past curfew. So it was all a risky situation for me, too. I don't even have an Oregon ID or Dirvers license yet. They asked me where I was headed and I said home, but they were wondering why I was headed east with a Washington Drivers license.
Dr Nick
July 17th, 2007, 06:47 AM
I wish I was there, not to see the almost accident, but to see the guy run into a tree and stop. Those trucks are pretty damn strong!
Emmzee
July 17th, 2007, 09:50 AM
Thank god that didn't happen. I'm a little curious as to why people think they can drive when they're drunk now.
They've always thought that.
et_cg
July 17th, 2007, 10:17 AM
They've always thought that.

Idiot. Turns out he ran into the tree that was on Gresham's police station's property. What irony. DUI, police station. Haha.
legionaire45
July 17th, 2007, 10:19 PM
so the bus driver was lmaOwnt?

Good that you are alive.
Con
July 17th, 2007, 10:30 PM
Come to Victoria, we're :awesome:
Dr Nick
July 17th, 2007, 11:07 PM
Come to Victoria, we're :awesome:
You're gay?

lawl, Victoria is an awesome place! But I live on the exact opposite side of Canada!!!:mad:
paladin
July 18th, 2007, 10:36 PM
Ride your bike home from the bar, over the hill and trough the woods... with no light.
et_cg
July 18th, 2007, 11:22 PM
I'm working on that.
Bad Waffle
July 18th, 2007, 11:26 PM
what kind of bike do you have?
et_cg
July 18th, 2007, 11:43 PM
A Trek city bike. It's really nice.
Emmzee
July 19th, 2007, 12:54 AM
A Trek city bike. It's really nice.
Do you go where no man has ever gone before?
et_cg
July 19th, 2007, 12:56 AM
Oh I go off the beaten path. If that unbeaten path is somewhat easy for a city bike. Those treads don't do shit on dirt/grass/shit.

Yeah, I love my new bike. I got it for mah b-day. I did 14 miles today.
Bad Waffle
July 19th, 2007, 01:01 AM
aww, so its not a motorbike D:

but damn, thats crazy. good job on surviving, you will be prepared when the zombie rush occurs!
et_cg
July 19th, 2007, 01:05 AM
Me and my sexy Armstrong legs.

That wasn't meant to be an oxy-moron, but take it as you wish.
Bad Waffle
July 19th, 2007, 01:19 AM
i agree, 14 miles is definitely armstrong-esque :p

But maybe that will just make the zombies want to taste your flesh even more so. Say, can you bike and use a shotgun at the same time? its got a pretty heavy recoil, but you need it if you wanna shoot a zombie head right off. Maybe i can recruit you for my zombie-proofed fortress in the sky.
rossmum
July 19th, 2007, 03:05 AM
He could always attach blades to the spokes. That'd give the zombies a lovely surprise.
MNC
July 19th, 2007, 08:36 AM
Bikes FTW
paladin
July 19th, 2007, 08:57 PM
I have a bmx. I only ride about 4 a day.
et_cg
July 21st, 2007, 01:08 AM
i agree, 14 miles is definitely armstrong-esque :p

But maybe that will just make the zombies want to taste your flesh even more so. Say, can you bike and use a shotgun at the same time? its got a pretty heavy recoil, but you need it if you wanna shoot a zombie head right off. Maybe i can recruit you for my zombie-proofed fortress in the sky.

Haha, word.

I could use the shotgun as propulsion, perhaps? And then I'll become so pro that I could be on patrol by riding on the clouds. Or even on thin air!