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Subaru STI Hits Two Trees At Speed, Flips Twice, Everyone Survives!
Detroit, 2:52 AM
Sun Dec 6
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05/20/09
PS Here in Virginia, "swerved to hit a deer" = "lost control of vehicle."
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But instead you have that much more steel in your door frame, and now you don't have to unzip your trousers to blow your nose after the wreck. Thanks, Subaru!
It leaks, it's thirsty, but I kinda like my Fozzie.
05/20/09
Friend of mine hit a deer a couple years ago in a truck, I guess it jumped right before impact or something because it came up into the cab with him, hit him in the chest, broke every last rib, punctured his right lung, collapsed the left and just generally f*cked him all up. He survived but spent three months in the hospital and has racked up about $350k in medical expenses (luckily they're waiving quite a bit of it)... I'll take my chances with the tree.
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Fun costs money, I understand. I just wish other people's actions didn't cost me.
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We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your dedication to excessive speed and driver error. Without you, and reckless young men of your ilk, our dreams would rarely come to pass. Thankfully, your inability to avoid wildlife safely, and your propensity for Jaegerbombs and incorrect tire choice has once again borne sweet sweet fruit for those of us who will find a phoenix in your ashes. By all means, continue to bolt on useless carbon fibre and go ass-end into trees, for it is through your incompetence that we may beat M3s at the track.
Our junkyard hearts overfloweth.
Sincerely,
-Association of guys waiting to swap in a EJ25
05/20/09
They both walked away, and one graciously took a cigarette from a concerned driver to "calm his nerves". The police on the scene were just in disbelief at the cause of the accident. Amazingly, the armadillo also walked away, mostly unscathed. To this day, I think they still both suffer from armadillophobia.
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{VERSE 1}
Picture yourself in a car on a highway,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
A deer runs out, you swerve quite quickly,
A crunch and metal flies.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's fine.
{CHORUS}
Loony in the STI with all wheel drive,
Loony in the STI with all wheel drive,
Loony in the STI with all wheel drive,
Ah... Ah...
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"The rear end came off the ground...?" Really? Because this sounds exactly like something I would've told my dad when I was about 17. My guess is that they were driving way too fast and were impaired by alcohol. Nothing good happens after midnight, right?
Anyhow, I'm glad they all survived.
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Yup.
Raise your hand if you have used "swerved to miss a deer" as the excuse for whatever fun you where not supposed to be having.
/Both hands raised in the air.
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...no., no. It really won't.
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As long as the car is not too low to the ground, you should never swerve to miss an animal.
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That's one of the dangers of excessive modding, unless you're up front with the insurance co and are willing to pay the higher rates for your additions.
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