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Post by swampsniper on Dec 6, 2007 7:16:54 GMT -5
Motorcyclist riding with rattler critcally injured in crash A motorcyclist was critically injured Wednesday afternoon when twine that secured an apparently dead 5-foot rattlesnake to the back of the bike he was riding may have come loose and distracted him as he entered a curve on Almonaster Avenue, police said. Police accident investigators don't know how, when or where the cyclist had gotten the rattlesnake, and where he was taking it or why. But they said they believed the presence of the snake and the possibility that the driver was trying to keep it from falling off the bike while heading into a right-hand bend in the eastern New Orleans road caused the accident. blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/12/motorcyclist_riding_with_rattl.html |
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Post by earlwb on Dec 6, 2007 7:29:15 GMT -5
Well, I can only think "moron" on something like this.
Unfortuately it sure seems to be all to common today, people not thinkng anymore.
Out here in the spring and summer, we seem to have someone on a sportbike getting killed almost everyday. Lost control exiting the freeway, lost control on a turn, hit a car or truck in the rear, ad nauseum.
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Post by newc77 on Dec 6, 2007 7:36:32 GMT -5
No brain and a two wheeler are a combination that makes for disaster. See and read about about it all the time, more and more.
Tom
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Post by "Big Guy" on Dec 6, 2007 7:43:26 GMT -5
No brain and a two wheeler are a combination that makes for disaster... No brains and 4 wheels is even worse! Especially since most of them seem to be getting bigger and in more and more of a hurry every year... |
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Post by "Big Guy" on Dec 6, 2007 8:13:36 GMT -5
What's even harder to believe is that a staff writer doesn't know how to spell "critcally"...
;D ;D ;D
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Post by Aaron on Dec 6, 2007 9:16:17 GMT -5
We were hired for our looks not our skill. I really thought this thread was going somewhere else... my first thought was "Snakes on a plane" the movie so lets film "Snakes on a scooter"! That guy is an idiot... everyone knows you put snakes in the compartment under the seat to keep em warm.
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Post by Showme on Dec 6, 2007 11:02:04 GMT -5
Just a thought, but what if the snake was also killed in the accident.
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Post by flhtri on Dec 6, 2007 11:45:32 GMT -5
Mabe thats why those BMW riders never seem to wave.There too busy hauling snakes.
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