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Bluffboy says: My mate cheated death and burned his eyebrows off looking down the barrel of a potato gun. Tell us about your brushes with the Grim Reaper through stupidity.

(, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 20:01)
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I'm calling bullshit on this one
You made it across the central reservation's kerbs *at speed* without damaging a thing? No suspension damage, no tracking knocked out, no tyres damaged? Hardly likely to get away without any of that.

We'll also ignore the fact that the M8's always had a crash barrier down the central reservation. It is a motorway, after all.
(, Mon 16 Feb 2009, 21:46, 1 reply)
You can believe what you like mate
... but I should have said this was about 20 odd years ago and I can assure you there were no crash barriers back then .... and down toward the roundabout (after sports car breakers on the left and under the bridge where the railway runs over the motorway) the central res was level with the road, so no kerbs or raised sections, just stoney and grassy. So if you're not inclined to believe me, well that's your prerogative but I know what happened.

And by the way people I'm not particularly proud of this episode. I post it in response to a QOTW specifically regarding stupidity and how you've survived it. I don't do that type of thing anymore.
(, Tue 17 Feb 2009, 8:26, closed)

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