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Title: I didn't know him...
Post by: B E C K on Nov 30, 2008, 04:00:37 PM
...but he lived across the street with his mom and brother. 

Man dies from injuries sustained during wreck. (http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/traffic/Man_dies_after_Sunday_wreck.html)

We didn't even know he had died until Friday when my mom recognized his picture from the obits.  I remember seeing the wreck on the news and it looked pretty bad from what I recall.  I wonder how much that seatbelt could have really saved him.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: The D on Dec 08, 2008, 05:48:57 PM
I think stories like this should convince people to wear their fricking seatbelts. It seems every traffic fatality I read says "person was not wearing seatbelt, was ejected, died."
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: IDE on Dec 09, 2008, 09:24:15 PM
I think I should be nigh invulnerable and go on mad killing sprees every time I get rejected.  Afterward, I'll have to atone for it by doing tasks for Hera.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: Rama on Dec 09, 2008, 10:20:39 PM
Hera Johnson that lives down on Spring Tree Lane? Oh she is a darling, and I'm sure she'll have lots for you to do. Weed the garden, take the Christmas Lights down, fix that hole in the fence that the neighors dog keeps using to come in her yard and makes poopie. Plenty for you to do...you know since Carl died don't-cha-know.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: B E C K on Dec 09, 2008, 10:32:24 PM
She probably has ten dozen bags of Wuther's Originals.


I think stories like this should convince people to wear their fricking seatbelts. It seems every traffic fatality I read says "person was not wearing seatbelt, was ejected, died."

Yeah, I really don't know what the hell the deal is.  How many times do people need to die this way before it sinks in?
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: ChelseySuzie on Dec 11, 2008, 09:15:28 PM
I nagged my boyfriend the other day as we were leaving a gas station on our way to get pizza because he didn't have a seatbelt on.  He did the whole "I'm not driving that far!" deal, but then obliged after I glared - I mean, reasoned with him.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: Merla on Dec 12, 2008, 10:18:14 AM
Our neighbor was killed less than a mile from home.  You're more like to die close to home than on long trips.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: Derrick on Dec 12, 2008, 01:26:19 PM
Do you know why? Because people don't buckle up on those trips.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: ChelseySuzie on Dec 12, 2008, 03:31:57 PM
Do you know why? Because people don't buckle up on those trips.


That's quite the deductive reasoning there.  Gold star for you!
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: Derrick on Dec 12, 2008, 08:18:21 PM
It's true. My cousin's gf's sister (sounds long, but I went to HS with her) was travelling from her apt to her parent's house, a meer 3 miles away, and was killed by hitting a guy and her body ejecting outward. Had she worn a seatbelt it would have only been slight whiplash like her fiance suffered. Now she's a rotting skeleton, all because she didn't click it.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 13, 2008, 06:11:37 PM
And yet another reason of why I don't drive.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: B E C K on Dec 14, 2008, 11:58:03 PM
You don't have to drive to be ejected out of the window.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: The D on Dec 17, 2008, 05:43:33 PM
I nagged my boyfriend the other day as we were leaving a gas station on our way to get pizza because he didn't have a seatbelt on.  He did the whole "I'm not driving that far!" deal, but then obliged after I glared - I mean, reasoned with him.

Chelsey's glare... it can destroy worlds!
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: IDE on Dec 17, 2008, 07:02:49 PM
Some kid I used to play with in grade school grew up to start an internets empire and take on microsoft.  Then he didn't buckle up one day and now he's dead.



Never fuck with microsoft.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Dec 18, 2008, 04:53:05 PM
I didn't used to buckle up, but I just made it a point to start doing it.  Now it's as unconscious a habit as locking the door.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: Wickedly Yours E on Dec 18, 2008, 10:40:54 PM
I always seatbelt up. I feel naked in a car without a seatbelt. VERY Uncomfortable.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: Rama on Dec 19, 2008, 12:02:47 AM
Sometimes I feel naked in the car too...but that cause I usually am in fact naked. And I really shouldn't have got the leather seats.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: ChelseySuzie on Dec 19, 2008, 12:21:07 PM
Leather seats are only nice if they have seat warmers.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: B E C K on Dec 20, 2008, 11:54:50 PM
I always seatbelt up. I feel naked in a car without a seatbelt. VERY Uncomfortable.

Yeah, Merla and I were meticulously trained to buckle up.  The only times I haven't worn a seatbelt were a couple of times where (1) I was in a car with a bunch of cousins when I was little and there were no more seatbelts and (2) the few times where I really didn't care and found it perfectly acceptable that there was a possibility I would be thrown out of the car like an angry, flying puppet tired of being violated by a fist.
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: Derrick on Dec 22, 2008, 12:22:15 PM
Sometimes I feel naked in the car too...but that cause I usually am in fact naked. And I really shouldn't have got the leather seats.

http://www.koco.com/news/2458359/detail.html

...?
Title: Re: I didn't know him...
Post by: Faye Valentine on Dec 29, 2008, 10:36:21 AM
Leather seats are only nice if they have seat warmers.
True that. Leather seats in winter= terrible