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I'm a little late here, but 20 some years ago I was talking on the phone with my dad when out of nowhere things got a little crazy on his end. He was riding down a back road, just left his driveway, in a '03 4x4 F150. When he approached a curve a truck carrying some large logs from the other direction came around the curve and dropped one. This was in a 45 mph zone. My dad still says the log looked like a torpedo launched in a WWII movie as it "sank" him.
Luckily for everyone he was in that truck with a little ground clearance. When the log slammed into him head-on, the truck popped up on top of the log. If that would have happened to a car it could have been game over for the occupant(s).
Actually, I know a guy who just barely survived a hit from a utility trailer coming loose. The tongue of the trailer missed him by about a foot.
Sweet dreams tonight.
My late father once lost a wheel off of his 5th wheel travel trailer. It rolled into an oncoming lane and totaled a car.
I got passed by a lose wheel in traffic once. We were running on 85 around Jacksonville when out of nowhere traffic came to a near dead stop. Maybe a minute later in the traffic jam a spare tire/wheel from a big rig came rolling by at speed, but it missed everyone, hit the divider wall and stayed on it. 300lbs of momentum could do some damage.
Guess this is for those of us thinking about removing third cat
https://www.thedrive.com/news/diese...ure-to-pay-850k-in-environmental-lawsuit-fees
Blue, why you gotta do me like that?Sweet dreams tonight.
They're trying to make an example. There was at least a dozen guys/shops that got wrapped up in that BS years ago. JH Diesel in FL, Cleetus' friend, got wrapped up in it too. IIRC he tried to fight it for a while but eventually settled for a reduced amount, similar to Heavy Ds, and guaranteed business penalties/changes. Fucking ridiculous. That's also when the EPA was attempting to legislate hot rods, off road vehicles and race cars out of existence. FUCK THE GOVERNMENT.
I was on a work trip once and a semi trailer spun the tread off a rear tire. It came airborne in a long strip headed to our car window. The bottom edge went under the bumper and the top edge whipped down at well over the 70mph we were going.
It left a 1/4-1/2 inch deep dent 3 ft long and 5-6 inches wide on the hood of the rental. It sounded like a bomb going off inside the car. But slid off to the side of the road safely.
Glad I had the brown pants on that day.
It left a 1/4-1/2 inch deep dent 3 ft long and 5-6 inches wide on the hood of the rental. It sounded like a bomb going off inside the car. But slid off to the side of the road safely.
Glad I had the brown pants on that day.
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Blue, why you gotta do me like that?
I'm trying to remember where a picture of the truck is so I can put your mind at ease.
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Middle school teacher jailed for raping 15-year-old is killed in prison by convicted murderer
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15172255/Teacher-rapist-killed-prison-cell-North-Carolina.html
A middle school gym teacher who was jailed for repeatedly raping a 15-year-old girl has been killed in prison.
Ernest Nichols, 60, was found unresponsive inside his cell at Greene Correctional Institution in Maury on Sunday morning at around 6.50am, according to officials.
The facility in North Carolina was sent into lockdown, and he was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later.
Nichols was convicted of statutory rape in 2011 and was sentenced to 15 years behind bars. He was set to be released in September 2027.
On Tuesday, the Greene County Sheriff's Office issued a murder warrant for Wilbert Baldwin, 41, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 2010.
The disgraced former gym teacher at Ransom Middle School was first charged with statutory rape and a slew of other sex offenses in 2009, WBTV reported.
According to a search warrant, Nichols raped the teenager multiple times over the course of six months starting in the fall of 2008.
The former teacher was also said to have watched his young victim have consensual sex with another male during the same time period.
Former school teacher
Guy who allegedly killed former teacher
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15172255/Teacher-rapist-killed-prison-cell-North-Carolina.html
A middle school gym teacher who was jailed for repeatedly raping a 15-year-old girl has been killed in prison.
Ernest Nichols, 60, was found unresponsive inside his cell at Greene Correctional Institution in Maury on Sunday morning at around 6.50am, according to officials.
The facility in North Carolina was sent into lockdown, and he was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later.
Nichols was convicted of statutory rape in 2011 and was sentenced to 15 years behind bars. He was set to be released in September 2027.
On Tuesday, the Greene County Sheriff's Office issued a murder warrant for Wilbert Baldwin, 41, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 2010.
The disgraced former gym teacher at Ransom Middle School was first charged with statutory rape and a slew of other sex offenses in 2009, WBTV reported.
According to a search warrant, Nichols raped the teenager multiple times over the course of six months starting in the fall of 2008.
The former teacher was also said to have watched his young victim have consensual sex with another male during the same time period.
Former school teacher
Guy who allegedly killed former teacher
Sounds like someone needs money on their books for taking out some trash.
Even hardened criminals have zero tolerance for sex crimes against children.
I'm a little surprised, and disappointed, that he made it that long. If it was bad enough to lock him up, it was bad enough to let his air out. A guy from my high school got picked up on child porn charges earlier this year and I keep hoping to read or hear about him being room temp.
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A deranged crook with a mile-long rap sheet allegedly confessed to savagely beating a stranger to death outside a Brooklyn subway station — coldly telling cops he didn’t like the way the victim “looked at him,” sources revealed Wednesday.
David Mazariegos, 25, was charged with murder in the senseless Tuesday afternoon assault near the Jay Street-MetroTech Station, law enforcement sources said.
The creep flashed a sinister, partially toothless grin Wednesday as he was carted out of a Manhattan courthouse, where he was first arraigned on charges from a past case and his dramatic arrest with a samurai sword in Times Square hours after the brutal slaying.
“Why’d you take my planet?” Mazariegos raved outside the courtroom when asked why he killed the man.
Sources said the sicko allegedly copped to attacking 64-year-old Nicola Tanzi in downtown Brooklyn because the hapless man held a subway gate door open for him — an act of kindness that the hotheaded hoodlum told cops he disliked.
A shockingly brutal attack followed, with the assailant repeatedly pummeling the victim’s face and stomping on his head up to 15 times, sources said.
The beating lasted 10 minutes before the sadistic attacker took Tanzi’s wallet and ID — which delayed his identification by police — and left him battered and unconscious near Lawrence and Willoughby streets, according to sources.
The brutalized man died roughly an hour later in New York-Presbyterian Hospital Brooklyn Methodist.
Tanzi, who had lived in Brooklyn for over 20 years, worked in security and planned to retire next year, his pals the The Post.
“We lost a good friend. He was a really good guy,” said Carmina Racaro, owner of a flower shop near Tanzi’s Bensonhurst apartment. “He would come here for espresso, ask ‘How are you?’ He was happy.”
Racaro said Tanzi originally hailed from Bari, Italy, and was a regular church usher during the Italian-language church services at the Catholic St. Dominic parish. He also belonged to an Italian club in Carroll Gardens, friends stated.
Tanzi’s alleged attacker, of the Bronx, has at least 33 past arrests, including both sealed and unsealed cases, and is listed on the city’s transit recidivist database, sources said.
In between arrests, Mazariegos appears to be a gifted parkour enthusiast and street artist, according to dozens of social media videos alternately showing his brightly colored artworks and him engaging in feats of athleticism, including flipping into a river, twirling nunchucks and hanging off the Brooklyn Bridge’s cables. “IM DA ILLEST GRAPHIC ARTIST,” boasts the “Dartist Mazarati” YouTube page apparently belonging to Mazariegos.
Most of his arrests going back to 2019 involved small-time offenses such as fare evasion, graffiti and petty larceny, according to the sources.
But records also hint that Mazariegos could violently snap, as he allegedly did at a Manhattan security guard in June — an assault that showed eerie similarities to the fatal beating in Brooklyn.
A month later, Mazariegos allegedly jumped on top of a car in the Bronx, shattering its windshield, while maniacally yelling, “Come get me. Y’all afraid of the government,” court records state.
He was released on his own recognizance in the case, which was his last arrest before the beating death in Brooklyn, records show.
The shocking attack prompted NYPD officials to send a department-wide emergency alert to cops’ phones during the manhunt for the killer that ended up leading to Mazariegos’ arrest, said Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
“Eagle-eyed cops working near Times Square recognized this perp from the photos they had just received and immediately brought this dangerous criminal into custody,” she wrote on X.
Street photographer Christopher Gonzalez, 36, chanced upon the arrest after he got a Citizen app notification that someone was spotted walking into a West 42nd Street store with a sword.
Mazariegos bizarrely was laughing when NYPD cops swarmed him, a stunned Gonzalez recounted.
“He didn’t have the sword drawn or anything like that, but there was a samurai sword,” Gonzalez said.
“Even when I saw him yesterday, before I knew it was the same person (as the Brooklyn beating), I’m like, ‘This guy’s not right in the head.’”
Sources said Mazariegos told cops he bought the sword on Canal Street. He also carried a set of nunchucks, according to the sources.
The wacko was hauled into Manhattan Criminal Court to be arraigned on a weapons charge, as well as on an outstanding larceny warrant for allegedly stealing from a deli’s tip jar on September 26.
“It is the people’s understanding that he is going to be immediately arrested by detectives for a homicide,” Manhattan Assistant District Attorney James Edwards-Lebair said.
Two NYPD detectives stood behind a handcuffed Mazariegos, who wore what appeared to be a torn white Tyvek suit.
Outside the courtroom, Mazariegos raved about his dead ancestors, blamed Western medicine for his family’s demise and questioned how many bodies were buried under the courthouse.
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A deranged crook with a mile-long rap sheet allegedly confessed to savagely beating a stranger to death outside a Brooklyn subway station — coldly telling cops he didn’t like the way the victim “looked at him,” sources revealed Wednesday.
David Mazariegos, 25, was charged with murder in the senseless Tuesday afternoon assault near the Jay Street-MetroTech Station, law enforcement sources said.
The creep flashed a sinister, partially toothless grin Wednesday as he was carted out of a Manhattan courthouse, where he was first arraigned on charges from a past case and his dramatic arrest with a samurai sword in Times Square hours after the brutal slaying.
“Why’d you take my planet?” Mazariegos raved outside the courtroom when asked why he killed the man.
Sources said the sicko allegedly copped to attacking 64-year-old Nicola Tanzi in downtown Brooklyn because the hapless man held a subway gate door open for him — an act of kindness that the hotheaded hoodlum told cops he disliked.
A shockingly brutal attack followed, with the assailant repeatedly pummeling the victim’s face and stomping on his head up to 15 times, sources said.
The beating lasted 10 minutes before the sadistic attacker took Tanzi’s wallet and ID — which delayed his identification by police — and left him battered and unconscious near Lawrence and Willoughby streets, according to sources.
The brutalized man died roughly an hour later in New York-Presbyterian Hospital Brooklyn Methodist.
Tanzi, who had lived in Brooklyn for over 20 years, worked in security and planned to retire next year, his pals the The Post.
“We lost a good friend. He was a really good guy,” said Carmina Racaro, owner of a flower shop near Tanzi’s Bensonhurst apartment. “He would come here for espresso, ask ‘How are you?’ He was happy.”
Racaro said Tanzi originally hailed from Bari, Italy, and was a regular church usher during the Italian-language church services at the Catholic St. Dominic parish. He also belonged to an Italian club in Carroll Gardens, friends stated.
Tanzi’s alleged attacker, of the Bronx, has at least 33 past arrests, including both sealed and unsealed cases, and is listed on the city’s transit recidivist database, sources said.
In between arrests, Mazariegos appears to be a gifted parkour enthusiast and street artist, according to dozens of social media videos alternately showing his brightly colored artworks and him engaging in feats of athleticism, including flipping into a river, twirling nunchucks and hanging off the Brooklyn Bridge’s cables. “IM DA ILLEST GRAPHIC ARTIST,” boasts the “Dartist Mazarati” YouTube page apparently belonging to Mazariegos.
Most of his arrests going back to 2019 involved small-time offenses such as fare evasion, graffiti and petty larceny, according to the sources.
But records also hint that Mazariegos could violently snap, as he allegedly did at a Manhattan security guard in June — an assault that showed eerie similarities to the fatal beating in Brooklyn.
A month later, Mazariegos allegedly jumped on top of a car in the Bronx, shattering its windshield, while maniacally yelling, “Come get me. Y’all afraid of the government,” court records state.
He was released on his own recognizance in the case, which was his last arrest before the beating death in Brooklyn, records show.
The shocking attack prompted NYPD officials to send a department-wide emergency alert to cops’ phones during the manhunt for the killer that ended up leading to Mazariegos’ arrest, said Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
“Eagle-eyed cops working near Times Square recognized this perp from the photos they had just received and immediately brought this dangerous criminal into custody,” she wrote on X.
Street photographer Christopher Gonzalez, 36, chanced upon the arrest after he got a Citizen app notification that someone was spotted walking into a West 42nd Street store with a sword.
Mazariegos bizarrely was laughing when NYPD cops swarmed him, a stunned Gonzalez recounted.
“He didn’t have the sword drawn or anything like that, but there was a samurai sword,” Gonzalez said.
“Even when I saw him yesterday, before I knew it was the same person (as the Brooklyn beating), I’m like, ‘This guy’s not right in the head.’”
Sources said Mazariegos told cops he bought the sword on Canal Street. He also carried a set of nunchucks, according to the sources.
The wacko was hauled into Manhattan Criminal Court to be arraigned on a weapons charge, as well as on an outstanding larceny warrant for allegedly stealing from a deli’s tip jar on September 26.
“It is the people’s understanding that he is going to be immediately arrested by detectives for a homicide,” Manhattan Assistant District Attorney James Edwards-Lebair said.
Two NYPD detectives stood behind a handcuffed Mazariegos, who wore what appeared to be a torn white Tyvek suit.
Outside the courtroom, Mazariegos raved about his dead ancestors, blamed Western medicine for his family’s demise and questioned how many bodies were buried under the courthouse.
And people will defend that guy. What have we come to?
It sounds like they have the necessary evidence. They should go ahead and bury him.
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