Had the scare of my life today...I'm still pretty freaked out about it...
So I was on the highway going up to CR to pay some bills since it's the end of the month...allready a somber tone to the day as I hate to pay bills!! So I'm driving along...doing about 60 and I'm talking on the speaker phone with KDWP ordering my spring tags since today was the last day to get the discount...
Anyway...I'm driving up the road...all is well...no obstructions in the road...smooth sailin....then all of a sudden, just as another truck passes me... I see a blur coming at me from like a 10 o'clock position....the loudest bang followed by a shower of broken glass, plastic and dust...I almost loose control and am able to get it slowed down and off to the side of the road and onto the shoulder....I sit there for a minute and wonder what just happened!! I do a quick survey of me and the dog...no pain...no blood...whew....
I get out and walk up the shoulder back to the scene and there is this huge rock sitting there in the road...not just a rock...more like a large stone...or small boulder....like the size of a large cantelope...or oversized football....it's broken in half it appears as one side was free of dirt, dust or any other debris....very strange....I thought
As I walk back to the truck I get a good look at the truck and am amazed...another two inches higher and this thing would have come up the hood and right into me...at that point I got really nauseated and started to shake a little bit...
I called the Sheriff Dept in the county I was in and asked them to send a deputy my way as I needed to make a report for the insurance company. When he got there, I told him my story...thinking that perhaps the "boulder" was kicked up from a tire...he looked at the rock...looked at the damage and where it was on the truck and then kinda gave me a look...he then picked it up and felt how heavy it was and looked at me again...that is when I started to put it together...or at least started to figure out what he was thinking...I got that sick feeling again....
He gave me a case number after taking some pics...he put the rock in his trunk and told me to contact my insurance company...I asked if I could have the rock and he said it was "evidence"...then he started asking questions about the truck that passed me when this happened...at that point I asked him if he thought the rock was kicked up and he looked me dead in the eye and said "I doubt it"....my heart sank and I thought I was gonna puke....
I just find it hard to believe that someone would throw a stone like that at an oncoming car or truck....but here are the pics....I really hope that isn't the case
Thank you God Almighty for sparing this meek, feeble, soul...
the boulder
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Holy Crap Steve!!! I'm glad it didn't make it to the windshield. You ain't kiddin' your one lucky man right now. I hope the sheriff's dept catches the damn fool that would do such a thing. Were you on I380?
Looks like the Hummer has got a Bummer now... Sorry man, couldn't help it!
Al
Glad you are ok. That could have been very bad. I have heard of mowers kicking up ditch rocks and killing people, but that isn't a one pound ditch rock at all. I sure hope they catch the sob that would do something that stupid.
Brother, thank God that you were not hurt. I know you were shaken up. I had a jackazz throw a 2 x 4 at my truck running 70'ish on I-459 a few years back and hit the roof support between the windshield and the drivers window. Scared the crap outta me so I can feel your pain.
Praise God your ok. There are some real idiots running loose.
Glad you are ok. Holy crap. I woulda filled my drawers. If somebody did that on purpose thats pretty sad!
WOW! You did get lucky! Hey now days people are crazy and basically don't give a sh!t about what they do or people they hurt! That's why I carry because in this day and age you never know what some dumbazz is going to try next!
TURKEYSLAYER 101
God was looking over you. Sick that someone would do that for fun.
Glad to see that your doing OK. Have a shot of Wild Turkey, then go play the Lotto. When I was a young cop in the South Bronx we had bricks, bottles, rocks, garbage and even an old Evinrude outboard motor thrown off the roofs at us.
I hate people that throw stuff. I think they will catch them though. They'll do it again and get busted by cell phone, video camera or somehow.
WoW! glad your ok. If someone did do that. Some how some way they will pay.
Glad you are OK!!! :icon_thumright:
Sounds like someone needs a good ol' fashion azz whoopin. Do you remember what the truck looked like to tell the police? I hope they catched the SOB that did that. Guessing you don't have any enemies right?
Holy Smokes! Glad your alright. Could the truck have been towing some rock and lost it? Seems like they would have noticed though and stopped....maybe not.
Wow!
Glad your ok dude!!!
thats attepted murder
Ohh man that gives me the shivers seeing that. I hope whatever it was that happened was an accident and if it was intensional i hope they catch the SOB that did it before they hurt or kill someone. Its just a big INCONVENIENCE for you now glad you are ok
glad to hear you are ok :icon_thumright:
Bet you'd like to spit some beechnut in that dude's eyes! Some people are crazy, its really sad. The good thing is that you're ok.
Quote from: bird on March 31, 2011, 10:22:06 PM
Holy Crap Steve!!! I'm glad it didn't make it to the windshield. You ain't kiddin' your one lucky man right now. I hope the sheriff's dept catches the damn fool that would do such a thing. Were you on I380?
Looks like the Hummer has got a Bummer now... Sorry man, couldn't help it!
Al
Nope Al, I was on Hwy 151 north of Walford....taking the Bummer now to get an estimate on repairs...
Quote from: hobbes on April 01, 2011, 12:21:32 AM
Holy Smokes! Glad your alright. Could the truck have been towing some rock and lost it? Seems like they would have noticed though and stopped....maybe not.
Wow!
I was thinking the same thing but there was absoutly nothing else on the ground...no evidence that someone lost part of their load...I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt...but....it sure looks like this thing was pitched out of a window just as we passed each other...I've been going over it in my mind and I just can't see how a 10lb rock gets pitched UP over 4 ft to the hood of the truck by a tire...plus there was nothing on the road when I was driving...it was smooth sailin...
Quote from: redarrow on March 31, 2011, 11:08:11 PM
Praise God your ok. There are some real idiots running loose.
Unfortunately I must agree. Sad to think that someone out there thought that what they did was cool. Payback is a $itch. They will get theirs in return.
Wow--that was close!!
Glad to hear that you had an angel in the car with you. It could have been so much worse. People like that need to be locked up for ever. How about spending about 5 minutes in a room, with the door locked, with that critter. :you_rock:
My BIL's mother got killed by some pothead teens throwing big rocks off an overpass in TN about 7 years ago, some of you TN boys from around Knoxville might remember that story. Went right through the passenger windshield struck her in the face and killed her instantly ..
I had a scare when I was in High School once.. went around a turn and an 18 wheeler was on my side of the road coming right at me.. he jerked back over and there was a rock about the size of a softball in the road and he picked it up between his dual tires back tires and spun it around and it flew right at me.. put a gash down the hood of my Pickup 3 feet long and 1 inch thick and then spiderwebbed my windshiled when it hit it right in front of my face.. if it had come through I may have been seriously hurt.. but luckily the windshield held..
I'm glad you are OK..
Glad you're OK
You know Steve, I really think you should contact KCRG TV9 and let them know about your incident on 151. They just may do a story on this which could help maybe save someone's life as it just may scare the crap out of these fools knowing that the law is looking for them and that the public is aware of their stupidity. If a news story does scare them off I'm sure you won't catch your culprits but it would sure hopefully stop someone else from having the same thing happen to them with possibly a worst outcome. But who knows with stupid people.... They may want the notoriety and will continue to do it until they do get caught. Imagine what would of happened if they would of hit a guy on a motorcycle.... not good!
Al
I hear ya Al, ya know I thought about it...but the police are working on it. I don't want to get in the way of that. Kinda weird that under my name and post count...my location is "under a rock" hummmmm
It's gonna cost almost $3000.00 to fix, less the deductable.
Do you think if it was kicked up by a tire there would be a transfer of rubber??? That boulder was clean except for the new scuff marks from hitting the road...no paint transfer either that I could see anyway.
Sorry but I just can't my brain around someone throwing a big rock out of their vehicle at another vehicle as they pass...how random...malicious...potentially devastating...what is wrong with people? This sure has awoken the idea of just how precious life is and just how quick things can change in an instant.
Gihillie glad to hear your OK :icon_thumright:
pittboss
Steve... There is no way in the world that a tire from a pickup truck kicked that small boulder up in the air for you to run into it. You can tell by the direction of the damage that the small boulder was coming directly at you as you were going toward it. Without a doubt in my mind that small boulder was tossed at your vehicle as you were passing that truck. More than likely someone was sitting in the bed of the truck when it was tossed and that is exactly what the sheriff's deputy is thinking too. 6 inches to a foot higher and you would of had a chest full or face full of boulder. NOT GOOD!!!
Glad to hear you are all-right, I am iwth bird , I think that rock would have flipped a truck, before it was kicked up by a tire. Scary, !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Praise God your ok.
God Bless,
David B.
The Lord was with you that day, Steve! :cross2:
I just cannot believe the stupidity of some people. If that was done on purpose, that's really sick.