Thread: Ya just never know.........

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How sad for the start of the day to see such tragic photos Uncle Bob. I think I will be following Steve now when I need to bring a battery up to full charge, it will be removed from vehicle and place out doors away from anything inflammable. I would think most " Petrolheads " would be able to tell a story of a lost loved one which got destroyed to soon after leaving ones home. I know I do which still brings a tear to my eye.

Man, that is a bad day for sure! But like already mentioned, it could have been a lot worse. It sure makes a person re-think not having insurance on a ride that is being stored. (That's me, I don't have replacement value insurance on my Vette or my 72 K30.) This is a good reminder for me as why I need to get off my duff and get it put on it.

About a month after I sold my pride-and-joy '68 GTO, which I had upgraded and painted over a 15 year period, the young man I sold it to was hit from behind at high speed by a drunk driver. The hit was so hard that the car was crushed from the rear clear up to the front seat, the front seat was pushed into the dash, and the rear bumper ended up in the driver's seat. Neither driver survived.

Brings back memories of the afternoon I got rear ended, Jack! Nothing like glancing up toward the rear view mirror only to see it go to full body color with the trunk lid folding up against the back window, as your neck begins to scream in pain from the whiplash.... Ahhhh, the memories of our youth.

Yeah, that getting plowed into from behind can be a "fun" ride.
About 25ish years ago some guy made my company car into the meat in a sandwich of the back of a stopped 18 wheeler and his full size Bronco. One of the officers on the scene estimated he'd been doing around 60 when he slammed on the brakes............about 4 feet from my rear bumper.....

he had already hit you before those marks started-----

Yep getting rear ended is no fun. About the third time our Toyota 4x4 truck got rear ended I was on Hwy 101 going to work at the Hospital. The traffic suddenly came to a stop due to some road construction. I was in the fast lane but easily came to a stop well behind the car in front of me, the car behind me did too. It was the young driver in her mom's car, late for the airport playing on her phone who looked up just as she hit the car behind me, throwing it into the truck. The weird thing was I got distinctly hit twice, as her momentum was such that after her fir contact with the car behind me(throwing it forward) she still didn't stop so she hit it a second time throwing it into me a second time. Well 20 minutes later I'm at work taking report on my patients when the neck pain starts! Yep I was lucky mine was minor, just a few days sore , can't imagine what the person in the car behind me was feeling like!

The irony of the truck is, 2 weeks after my wife bought it new, it was rear ended at a traffic light denting the bumper. I don't recall why my wife didn't have it fixed, but it remained that way for years, until one day a thief steals the dented bumper. So insurance replaces it with #2 new bumper. So sometime while parked in front of the house somebody smacks the truck enough to dent the new bumper within months of it being replaced. Then a few years later, on the way to work it was rear ended again, this time getting yet another new bumper #3. Several weeks after the new bumper, she runs out of gas on the hwy, and a CHP officer pushes her off the HWY to the shoulder, denting this new bumper. After all these incidents, I get rear ended on the way to work (as mentioned at the beginning of this long post) and thus new bumper #4 at this point. So far it's still straight, but I guess that truck just doesn't want a straight rear bumper!
She gets to keep it in the divorce maybe the saga will continue!

Battery blew up in a local diesel shop a couple months ago. Same thing charging and bang. Fireball. Had like 5 departments on the scene

The first ambulance call I ever went on was a battery blowing up in the owners face. He was covered with battery acid on his face and hands. Ever since then I charge on the lowest setting, unless I'm cranking it over, then use the boost setting just while doing that, never on a fast high amp rate. Hopefully will never have to face one of these situations