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Posted by Bob M on October 31, 2002 at 11:31:47 from (165.170.128.66):
In Reply to: Halloween Scary Stories posted by FREDDY on October 30, 2002 at 22:48:02:
Not tractor-related, but this happened to me exactly 20 years ago today: Decided to go for a run before it got dark. (I'm a jogger and needed to get out of the house for a few minutes, as our 3rd child had been born and brought home only a couple days before.) Anyway as I was running along the grass shoulder of the road, a drunk coming the other way lost control of his pickup truck left the road. I was struck head-on a west coast mirror going about 50 mph. I suffered a broken right arm, crushed hand, several broken ribs, a broken shoulder and more lacerations than I care to recall. Fortunately the mirror just missed my head. Had to undergo surgery to reassemble my right hand, then a year of physical therapy. My hand will never be fully functional. But I consider myself lucky - the consequences could have been much worse...
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