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[sm4him]

They've got him up and in the ambulance now. Just judging from the scene, I'm hoping that maybe he doesn't have anything worse than a broken leg. His bike's pretty messed though.

I was about to declare it lunch time--not sure I still have an appetite.

 

[sm4him]

I hate to see people get hit like that.

Yeah, I'm kinda glad I didn't actually SEE it; that would be far worse. But I have a pretty vivid imagination.

The worst accident I ever actually saw was one time when I was driving to scouts with my boys, who were still in Cub Scouts at the time, so it was quite a few years ago. We were headed northbound. This truck was headed southbound, when a vehicle pulled out from a side street onto the main road where we were without yielding to traffic. He swerved to avoid hitting them, lost control of his truck, it rocked onto two wheels, then rocked over onto the opposite two wheels, crashed into a guardrail, and then FLIPPED completey OVER the rail and down this REALLY steep embankment and just…disappeared. There was a steep hill there, so he probably went at least 30-40 feet straight down.

I just knew I'd just seen a guy get killed. I was shaking so bad I couldn't drive; I pulled off to the side and was about to go up to the nearest house to call 911 (not everyone had cell phones then) when the owner came out and said he'd just called them. We went across the street, and about the time we got to the other side…

…the truck driver came walking up the hill. Nothing broken, except his truck, which was demolished. It was pretty incredible.

 

[Stradawhovious]

70 Pages folks. Keep it up! Let's give this leaderboard a workout!!

 

[sm4him]

Okay, going to try to move on from that and keep going here. I'll need another Sheldon quote for inspiration:

 

[astroNikon]

Perhaps this thread will make the Admins see the light, or rather, the darkness, and put the LEADERBOARD into the batch of options that aren't enabled.

That would reduce the TPF postings down about 95% or more

 

[sm4him]

Perhaps this thread will make the Admins see the light, or rather, the darkness, and put the LEADERBOARD into the batch of options that aren't enabled.

That would reduce the TPF postings down about 95% or more

And yet, it would only increase the QUALITY of TPF postings by about 21%.

 

[snowbear96]

I've seen a couple; I was in the VFD (a million years ago.)

 

[snowbear96]

Well, I was into this only to see if I could even get on the LB, and I've surprised myself. With that said, if this thread does not die a natural death come November, I'll opt out any further; Emily's C&C challenge should give me enough to do.

 

[snowbear96]

Sharon, you said in an earlier post (somewhere) that you worked with maps, or made them?

 

[sm4him]

Well, I was into this only to see if I could even get on the LB, and I've surprised myself. With that said, if this thread does not die a natural death come November, I'll opt out any further; Emily's C&C challenge should give me enough to do.

Agreed. I absolutely shocked myself by getting to the pole position. I was just trying to get ON the board; after that, I was no longer even posting to move up, just having fun. But I agree that come November 1, any points I personally wanted to make about the silliness of even HAVING a leaderboard will have been fulfilled and I plan to go back to normal level of unproductivity.

 

[astroNikon]

You two post enough where you can get your own thread ...

 

[sm4him]

Sharon, you said in an earlier post (somewhere) that you worked with maps, or made them?

Yeah, I've said that for simplicity's sake, but I don't really "create" the maps, or at least not the base map. We work with our Metropolitan Planning Commission here; they create base maps with all the streets, parks, etc. and then I create OUR route maps using overlays on the base map. Like this.

 

[snowbear96]

Nice. What software are you using for that?

 

[snowbear96]

You two post enough where you can get your own thread ...

Prolly our own forum.

 

[sm4him]

In November, we'll begin lobbying for a new subforum, the Leaderboard Chat Forum. Only those who make it to the Leaderboard each month gain access to that forum, and everyone else will just get a big error message, like that stupid "you must wait 2 more seconds before you can post again," only this one will say, "Sorry, you must have 1600 more posts by the end of this month before you can post in this uber-Elite forum."