Dying
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Standing in a bar queue to get drinks now fucks me off.
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@mariner4life said in Dying:
Standing in a bar queue to get drinks now fucks me off.
Having to queue to spend my money anywhere fucks me off. The pricks wanting my money should be ones in the queue, not me.
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Not sure where to post this but I have just seen in action how old people kill toddlers in car parks.
Done my blood test (see Lockdown check in thread), called into office and pulled up to supermarket car park.
In the aisle across from me older lady (obviously nurse of some kind, had branded nursing home uniform and one of those upside down pin on watches so she allowed in to the early hour, so still working age but only just) pulls into space one over from me to my left.
Obviously misses the brake so scoots forward so slams harder on the accelerator. Right through the park, up and over the kerb, and raised concrete and into the luckily empty space next to me.
Sheesh.
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We had a lot of these in the Police, one I remember was the old lady didn't have a seat belt on, was just moving car in driveway, door was open, hit the gas too hard, fell out the car and ran herself over. Not sure how it was physically possible but she did it.
Unfortunately there are a lot of tragic accidents that occur on a far too regular basis. Plenty were preventable but many were just bad luck, wrong place, wrong time.
Some of the hardest ones are when a parent reverses over and kills their child.
Thankfully cars are getting much smarter these days. I think I read somewhere if you took all cars older than 5 years off the road the road toll would drop dramatically.
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@Machpants Bugger, kids ok? We used to play in the car all the time as kids, pretty sure my folks took the keys with them though.
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@taniwharugby said in Dying:
@chimoaus in many older cars, you can still take out of park and/or release the handbrake...I know cos my brother did it in my dads old work ute and it rolled forward about 10m into a tree haha
Yup that's what my kid did in my people mover, I didn't have the handbrake on. He stuck it in neutral and it rolled forward about 5m on a light slope into our other car.
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@Machpants hah I did similar when a kid, decided to see if a garage door could fit in the civic boot while the olds were at work.
It didn't.
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