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onethatcares

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6. my work truck broke down and
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 08:32 AM
Dec 7

I called my brother to give me a tow.(this was in the late 70s). We hooked a chain up to our vehicles and began moving. After a few blocks a car that was following rammed into the back of my truck. It took a short time to get my brother to stop but in that time the driver rammed my truck 3 or 4 times. I got out and he drove by me at speed and barely missed me before making a u-turn and tried to run me over.
I started running down the street we were on trying to find a place to hide from this idiot and ended up running through a semi=truck repair place yelling,
"Call the cops this guy is crazy" and thought I would hide between some cars parked in a lot and a large building. Nope, the lunatic chasing me pulled into the lot and began crashing into the cars I was using for refuge smashing them into the building.
About that time a citizen from across the street came out with a handgun and fired 3 rounds at the car putting three bullet holes in the windshield but missing the driver.
That's when the driver decided to leave the scene and on his way he wrapped his car around a light pole after hitting 8 more parked cars.
The police arrested the man that fired his pistol in my defense, discharging a firearm in city limits, and they took the demolition derby driver to jail and on to a mental health facility. Seems his medication wore off or kicked in and he was seeing things.

That was probably the most scared I've ever been hearing those cars being crunched into that building. I have the newspaper clipping somewhere in my personal history papers

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Getting prepped for heart surgery... MiHale Dec 7 #1
Were you in there alone or with other people? True Dough Dec 7 #2
Alone. frogmarch Dec 7 #4
I was accepted into law school. I was eligible for a scholarship. no_hypocrisy Dec 7 #3
Hitchhiking at night back in 1971. Went to a concert livetohike Dec 7 #5
my work truck broke down and onethatcares Dec 7 #6
OMG MustLoveBeagles Dec 7 #11
That's (well, the person was) crazy! electric_blue68 Dec 8 #17
Sailing across Currituck Sound , NC in a dangerous squall PJMcK Dec 7 #7
Woah! A friend then living in Thailand i think got caught in unexpected storm, and went overboard but managed to get .. electric_blue68 Dec 8 #15
Overboard?! PJMcK Dec 9 #23
I'm pretty sure. I was very upset. electric_blue68 Dec 9 #24
While fishing in the Ohio River with my brother in our boat we decided to cross over to the doc03 Dec 7 #8
Oh, my...is That how big those barges are. Like almost a water version of being tied onto train tracks! electric_blue68 Dec 8 #18
60 years ago, the car I was a backseat passenger in went over a 250 foot cliff into Turnbull Canyon. quaint Dec 7 #9
Yikes nt XanaDUer2 Dec 7 #10
Gah! Thank goodness you, and others got through electric_blue68 Dec 8 #16
We hit an embankment 100 feet down which slowed our descent. quaint Dec 9 #25
When I was young, I worked at a social service agency womanofthehills Dec 7 #12
Terrifying! quaint Dec 8 #13
Woah! You should have gotten hazerdous pay! How awful esp w your yoing daughter there. electric_blue68 Dec 8 #19
On An Interstate ProfessorGAC Dec 8 #14
Phew! electric_blue68 Dec 8 #20
3 for me. Getting ready to go up to surgery for simulataneous cataract, and different kind of rential detachment... electric_blue68 Dec 8 #21
I've had a couple of runners up. LudwigPastorius Dec 9 #22
My first colonoscopy exam. Actually Emile Dec 9 #26
Walking home on a cold March night. A woman asked if I wanted a ride. Thought it would be safer femmedem Dec 9 #27
Being told I had a 100% chance of dying or being paralyzed if I fell prior to surgery. lark Dec 9 #28
the day my sons got into a scuffle Kali Dec 9 #29
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