Re: Have you ever been close to tragedy
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 10:38 am
Ran over a koala once. Mother fucker got jammed up in the wheel arch and messed up the panels good and proper.
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Re: Have you ever been close to tragedy
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 10:45 am
This is the classic ILF I love. Emotional highs and lows. Scooped mids in my heart all day long.
Re: Have you ever been close to tragedy
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:04 am
Twice I was the first on the scene...
1. Non fatal - but I was school age kid and got home after school, was eating a snack watching duck-tales (circa late 80's) and I hear the loudest boom I've ever heard. It was like the sound of a garbage truck being dropped off the empire state building (but this was no large marge tale). I popped my roller blades on and headed towards the sound. Down my block was a car parked crooked in the street with the door open and a lady screaming and crying as she cradled a bloody child that she just slammed with her car. The kid was flying down the hill, car had a stop sign, but it was one of those in the neighborhood that barely got a pause. Apparently this time should have stopped. I stood there in disbelief just watching while another neighbor appeared and ran and called the police. I later went home and told my sister who was hanging w her neighborhood friend. They went down to the scene to see the blood stains on the street and banged up tree that I told them about. My sister's friend recognized a sneaker sitting in the street as her little sister's....yep. Her sister got crunched by the car. Lots of surgery later she was fine, but it was a bad scene, and my story was what helped the family figure out where their kid was.
Time 2 - was driving through a main artery in my street and there was a loud bang ahead of me. As I drove on, I saw a school bus slammed into a telephone pole and another car in the middle of the road cock'eyed...there had been a near accident/accident. As I slowly drove on, I saw a person lying face down motionless in the street. Apparently, thrown from the bus. I drove on...and another 50 feet down the road, a second motionless body, face down in the street. As I pressed on, police sirens blared. Later, I read about the fatal accident I had just missed.
that said, I'm more of a black hat white shoes cadillac time bomb kinda guy
1. Non fatal - but I was school age kid and got home after school, was eating a snack watching duck-tales (circa late 80's) and I hear the loudest boom I've ever heard. It was like the sound of a garbage truck being dropped off the empire state building (but this was no large marge tale). I popped my roller blades on and headed towards the sound. Down my block was a car parked crooked in the street with the door open and a lady screaming and crying as she cradled a bloody child that she just slammed with her car. The kid was flying down the hill, car had a stop sign, but it was one of those in the neighborhood that barely got a pause. Apparently this time should have stopped. I stood there in disbelief just watching while another neighbor appeared and ran and called the police. I later went home and told my sister who was hanging w her neighborhood friend. They went down to the scene to see the blood stains on the street and banged up tree that I told them about. My sister's friend recognized a sneaker sitting in the street as her little sister's....yep. Her sister got crunched by the car. Lots of surgery later she was fine, but it was a bad scene, and my story was what helped the family figure out where their kid was.
Time 2 - was driving through a main artery in my street and there was a loud bang ahead of me. As I drove on, I saw a school bus slammed into a telephone pole and another car in the middle of the road cock'eyed...there had been a near accident/accident. As I slowly drove on, I saw a person lying face down motionless in the street. Apparently, thrown from the bus. I drove on...and another 50 feet down the road, a second motionless body, face down in the street. As I pressed on, police sirens blared. Later, I read about the fatal accident I had just missed.
that said, I'm more of a black hat white shoes cadillac time bomb kinda guy
Re: Have you ever been close to tragedy
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 4:41 am
I Am Nothing If Not A Generous Postercoldbrightsunlight wrote:Oh wow I missed this. what a tale.D.o.S. wrote:Holy shit this image is a link as well. What a pandora's box.MechaGodzilla wrote:snip
All My Best Friends Are Metalheads is still a jam.
Re: Have you ever been close to tragedy
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 10:35 am
I once saw Tragedy (circa 2000 or so) and the opening band (They Live) was blowing fire inside a house (actually very dangerous now that I think about it) and one of the singers accidentally burned his face and had to go to the hospital for burn treatment. Tragedy were not amused. I was very close to the front of the stage.
I also saw His Hero Is Gone on their last tour. The place where the show was is a CB2 now.
I also saw His Hero Is Gone on their last tour. The place where the show was is a CB2 now.
Re: Have you ever been close to tragedy
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 5:30 pm
His Epidermis Is Gone amirite
Re: Have you ever been close to tragedy
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 5:33 pm
lmfao
Re: Have you ever been close to tragedy
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 11:59 am
I remember the Mighty Mighty Bosstones had this song called Illegal Left, in which Dickey Barrett gets so cheesed off about a traffic ticket that he sticks around and waves at traffic to warn fellow motorists about the cop. His opinion is that the traffic cop should be out solving "real crimes". I thought it was a clever and cheeky song when I was a kid, but now that I'm an adult motorist, I realize that illegal lefts are usually that way because they present a high risk of a collision from oncoming traffic. So just let people get ticketed and they'll learn to not do that again.
Re: Have you ever been close to tragedy
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 12:23 pm
You've, apparently, never encountered Massachusetts drivers? 
Re: Have you ever been close to tragedy
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 12:51 pm
If that's the case...
Then I'm glad you haven't yet.
Because I'm sure it isn't good.
Then I'm glad you haven't yet.
Because I'm sure it isn't good.
Re: Have you ever been close to tragedy
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2020 2:41 pm
Somebody I suppose
Re: Have you ever been close to tragedy
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:36 pm
on the other hand..D.o.S. wrote:If that's the case...
Then I'm glad you haven't yet.
Because I'm sure it isn't good.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CME5BP5fZg4[/youtube]
Re: Have you ever been close to tragedy
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 7:09 am
I love bands that have a full time hype person in the band, like MMBT.
Also in this category, Public Enemy and Front 242. Who else does this?
Also in this category, Public Enemy and Front 242. Who else does this?
Re: Have you ever been close to tragedy
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2020 7:17 am
bez from happy mondays?
808 state had a hype guy when i saw them a few years back. maybe they're not called hype guys over here? i dunno
the 808 state guy was hilarious coz he kept shouting "SING ALONG IF YA KNOW THE WEEEERRRRDZ" in heavy manc, but 808 state tracks don't really have words lol. except this one.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CMiB4z8JgY[/youtube]
808 state had a hype guy when i saw them a few years back. maybe they're not called hype guys over here? i dunno
the 808 state guy was hilarious coz he kept shouting "SING ALONG IF YA KNOW THE WEEEERRRRDZ" in heavy manc, but 808 state tracks don't really have words lol. except this one.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CMiB4z8JgY[/youtube]