"SteveLehto" (stevelehto)
12/26/2014 at 10:00 • Filed to: None
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"SteveLehto" (stevelehto)
12/26/2014 at 10:00 • Filed to: None | 6
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Hey Guys - long before I went to law school, I drove a tow truck for a couple years. Even though I worked in a sleepy town (Birmingham, Michigan) I saw all kinds of stuff.
I'm not sure how they would translate as written stories but people always seem to enjoy then when I tell them. So gather around and hear me tell of the upside-down Rabbit, the car on the porch, and even the burning piano.
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All true and I got paid to be there. What more could you ask?
KayGB
> SteveLehto
01/03/2015 at 12:49 |
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Steve, the best post crash story I have (not as a recovery vehicle operator but as a responder) was the morning 35 years ago when a hammering on the front door of our rural property woke us from a sound sleep. Quickly donning yesterday's shirt as pants and grabbing a shotgun, I ran to answer as I could just tell something not good was happening or had happened. I opened the door and beheld a c.40 year old woman and a teenage boy standing, although wobbly, there. I cannot describe their condition other than to say that they looked like they'd tried to tag team Muhammad Ali ....or a medium sized bear. Their teeth were chattering from shock and wet cold so they couldn't get much out that made sense, so I brought them in and my wife found them blankets and some hot tea. Their clothing was torn, and they had bleeding scrapes and contusions pretty much everywhere. After they calmed down they were able to tell me that the mother had lost control of their Honda Civic and it had rolled several times, ending up on its roof in a ditch partially filled with water. To this day the next sentence she uttered makes me laugh out loud; "It's a good thing we didn't have our seatbelts done up or we'd still be in there hanging upside down with our heads under water, maybe dead!". I replied that it looked as if they'd made an admirable effort at being dead even without the assistance of seatbelt but she just gave me a bewildered look.
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SteveLehto
> KayGB
01/03/2015 at 12:54 |
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Wow. That is amazing. And it is funny how people are about seat belts. There were professional race car drivers in early days who objected to being forced to wear seat belts (later it was other safety devices they objected to) because they wanted to be "free" to get out of a crashing vehicle on their own. Yeah, good luck with that.
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KayGB
> SteveLehto
01/03/2015 at 13:42 |
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LOL, you think that race drivers took the cake? Google Harriet Quimby.
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KayGB
> KayGB
01/03/2015 at 14:31 |
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Replace LOL with Steve. I have kids, they have phones.
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KayGB
> SteveLehto
01/03/2015 at 14:36 |
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Or;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98jbhP…
If you can keep from laughing out loud, you're a better man than I.
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SteveLehto
> KayGB
01/03/2015 at 14:41 |
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Now THAT was good. It appears seat belt usage was at a minimum in that clip.