Most likely he has SMC79 on speed dial and is used to talking down to those mental folks!
ACCIDENTS KEEP PILING UP
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From how high up would everyone jump?
Yep, can get really strong. My brother and I rescued two people - a father and son - from drowning right there. Just their dumb luck that we'd just come under the bridge and were passing by the beach there in my Rampone 25 when they went under.
Technically speaking, the son had already drowned and the Dad was going down quickly in a poorly considered attempt to save his son. Incredibly, I passed almost over the top of the kid and my brother could see him a couple feet down in the water and snagged him with our boat hook.
We sported over to the Swann's dock while evacuating the water out of the kid's lungs. He sputtered back to life and the family arrived from across the bridge and insisted no ambulance...so my brother and I went in to grab a beer. When we came back out, the entire family was gone, and left only the kid's barf all over my boat deck. Not so much as a "muchas gracias gringo".
I've jumped from 40 feet into the Delaware River near Callicoon, NY.
I jumped off a chair once.
ontheriver
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I jumped out of an airplane at 14500 feet. Very exciting.
Wickedwrench
Stubborn and opinionated
Highest point usually. Don't dare jump off the Piney Point side of it, it is stupid shallow over there.
UPDATE: Elderly Mechanicsville Couple Dies After Route 235 Crash That Killed Another Driver - The BayNet
MECHANICSVILLE, Md. – Two additional victims involved in last week’s two-vehicle crash on Route 235 in St. Mary’s County have died, bringing the total number of fatalities to three, Maryland State Police confirmed Thursday. According to investigators, Casper Bradbury Sr., 92, and his wife, Norma...
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thurley42
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90 year olds driving....woofUPDATE: Elderly Mechanicsville Couple Dies After Route 235 Crash That Killed Another Driver - The BayNet
MECHANICSVILLE, Md. – Two additional victims involved in last week’s two-vehicle crash on Route 235 in St. Mary’s County have died, bringing the total number of fatalities to three, Maryland State Police confirmed Thursday. According to investigators, Casper Bradbury Sr., 92, and his wife, Norma...
3CATSAILOR
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A few years ago, I was in a marked crosswalk. A 90 year old driver nearly hit me. If I didn't jump aside, I would have got hit. Thankfully a police officer saw the entire incident and pulled the person over after a short chase at slow to a moderate speed. The lights and siren were going in the first police car. Still didn't stop. The second police officer, a Trooper crossed the median near Quality T/S and cut him off. That was the only way he stopped. And yes, he was 90 and still driving!
NorthBeachPerso
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That sort of crap isn't limited to 90 year olds. It cuts across all age groups. I will say I see more 80/90 (although I doubt they're that old) year olds who seem to either have forgotten or never learned how to cross the street: into the crosswalk, back up on the curb, into the crosswalk, back up on the curb. Then they wave you on and into the crosswalk they go again.
Full disclosure for the following, I'll 71 the end of this month and tend to have a somewhat heavy foot.
Anyway. I got behind a 60ish driver, a man, a couple days ago on Mt. Harmony coming out of the Beach, speed limit is 40 except in the two school zones where it drops to 25.
20MPH the whole way to RTE 4, except in the school zones where we dropped to 5, about 4 or 5 miles. Finally at 4 he stopped in the very long merge lane and finally entered it at about 10 mph, everyone behind him was going around while he fumbled around.
Yeah, his license should be pulled before someone plows into him.
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Tech
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The other side, hate the drivers who stop when your several feet back from the kerb. Not ready to cross yet.
NorthBeachPerso
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Yeah, that is an issue with a BUT. Start looking at how many pedestrians roll down the sidewalk toward a crossing and don't even break stride or even look to see if there's any traffic coming.
The parishioners at the Catholic Church here are really bad with that. They'll come rolling out after Mass and just keep going. I don't know whether they're engrossed in the homily they just heard or are just morons. Well, since I know many of them it's somewhat the latter.
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You'd hate it in Norway. Pedestrians have total legal right-of-way at crossings. Took me some time to get used to having all traffic stop just because I was approaching a crosswalk.
Nope their souls are clean they know it and are 10 feet tall and bulletproof, no need to look both ways nor care to.
3CATSAILOR
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Kind of like the St. Mary's County School Bus drivers. Really glad the kiddos are out of School. At least until the next go around.
Traffic laws do not apply to them.
glhs837
Power with Control
Took me by surprise in Oslo.
3CATSAILOR
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How can it be that not ONE signal day people on Route 235 can't stay in their own lane? Every single day, someone has to go off of the road and find a tree or other something else to run in to. I saw two people go off the road in one day. Actually, the way people drive around here, I'm surprised it isn't more.