I know this probably isn't the place, however I wasn't sure where to put this. Toady was hit by a drunk driver today. He had to be cut out of his truck. He was taken to the hospital and is home tonight. They didn't find anything major wrong with him. He is sore and bruised and with his left hand, can't hold on to anything. He has re-injured his lower back and His truck is a total loss. He was trying to sell it too.
Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. This is the last thing that he needed. It has been such a bad year so far for him. I know that you all like him and consider him a friend. Let him know how much you care.
SSF
OK Toad: Enough already, wrecking the truck to get the money to make the monthly payment is not the way to go. (enough of my sick humor)
Get well my friend.
Tom Trigg
Man this is not a good thing to hear, hope he's doing well for now, will call you and Ma tomorrow Toad....
Byron
Yes, it was paid off........in hand pink slip! Now I can not wait to look at it.
And yeah I am typen one handed. It was a suprize to see this post....
Thankz
Get well soon my friend. I am glad you are still with us in the land of the living. Drunk drivers have taken five of my friends over the last several years. Forget the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is one on our very streets that takes tens of thousands of lives a year.
So now what to spend the insurance money on, hmmm............
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Thanks guys/ladies I was just tryn to get out of the way. He was DWI and I was given a nice citition/ticket by MR STATE TROOPER.
Can still look in law book and find it still is to the descrition of the Police Officer what to do. So this very nice TROOPER (NOT) got him what we call in police turms 2 ducks, 1 DWI and 1 ticket. Jerk! Sadly he knew I was ex-cop. Joy!
I sorry all my brain is still abit fried......need to zip the lip
Glad to hear that you came out of the wreck alive Toad. I hope you have a speedy recovery.
Drunken drivers, yes, they are the scourge of all countries it seems.
Alan, Oliver & North Fork Railroad
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If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. Lewis Carroll English author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898)
SNOWSHOE wrote: Whenever I bust one I make sure I hit them with everything.
Yo man, did the same thing till found out the courts just was not willing to go the distance.
But in another case the DA stroked a guy for killing a dog that WAS after his cats and had alread killed one! Go figure!!!! He got 2 years jail time. Something wrong here man.
Toad
Great Western wrote: Glad to hear that you came out of the wreck alive Toad. I hope you have a speedy recovery. Drunken drivers, yes, they are the scourge of all countries it seems.
My buddy from across the pond, we could be at a pub drinking but I would call a taxi!
Count your blessings my friend. I am glad you are ok. Hopefully they will lock up that person for a long time but I doubt it. Giving you a citation is crap!
Glad you're still with us ToadFrog. Most everyone has some horror story about personal tragedy at the hands of a drunk driver (My Mother-in-law was the picture of a perfect Grandma and was on her way home from church on a Sunday night when a drunk in an Lincoln Towncar ran a stop sign at about 70 mph....). Although a time-consuming hassle to prosecute, I always felt that arresting a drunk driver was one of the best things I could do as a police officer.... didn't keep track of how many over a 30-year career, but I hope some lives were saved along the way. The world still seems to be full of folks who think they can beat those odds, though, and they selfishly still try to drive.
Keep the X-acto out of that left hand until you're healed!
Bill
No modeling yet, still shot but have to keep up with people buyn stuff from my eBay and I am not really want to do it. Just feel crappy.
Toadie
Yeah was in ER, got x-rayed (no kids now), CT Scan to.
But as this night goes on I am hittn bottom! Had to call a Dr. friend of mine to ask her sup and she told me what to do.
Toad; although I'm new on here I enjoy your postings feel you're a friend. I wish you a speedy recovery.
Rob
I can't figure out how they can say smoking is bad, so we'll make it illegal most everywhere and tax the hell out of it; but they can't put an equal tax on the booze! Tax the heck out of it and maybe we'd have fewer drunk drivers!
Toad, I'm glad you're still around, don't let it get you down cause that would be letting the ba----ds win!
Wow, you guys are great. How you come to the rescue of one of your fellows. I think it's wonderful. It sure makes you feel good about things.
I know you guys have really made his day, and mine too.
Dude, sorry to hear this, what a bummer!
Glad to hear you sound like it wasnt too terrible on your body. Hopefully the insurance will buy you a nice replacement vehicle or at least the green to buy a better one. More hopefully the bum that hit you gets a nice booking in the greybar hotel.
Take a couple days off if you can, to let your body adjust and recover, hang in there Bro!
Later Vic
Have fun with your trains
OUCH, get better sooner then later.
Dave
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
What would we do without the Toad, GET WELL SOON
Steve
As a serving member in the front line of alcohol and drug impaired driver detection, I wish you all the best, Toad. Down Under we take drink and drug driving very seriously. We care about the civil liberties of the victims. Stuff the civil liberties of the offending driver! Get well soon, Toad.
Mick.
Mick
Chief Operating Officer
Northern Timber Company - Mt Beenak
Thanks All! I really do mean it.
One thing to remember when making a movie of photos for your friends to see Photobucket will not accept this:
"Video upload failed Upload failed for Accident 2008 GMC.wmv with error: This is to notify you that the content uploaded was recognized by Photobucket's copyright filter and as a consequence, has been blocked."
All I did was abit of humor at the end credits with © (Alt + 0169) William Pugh.
So they zapped me. My truck, my pixs, my movie.....if I could I would shoot them the bird to.
On to You Tube (I hate).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD5JRaBgMEk
William
Word of advice, make sure YOUR insurance adjuster looks at your truck also, not just that other bums insurance agent. Reason?
A few years ago our parked car, a Toyota RAV4 got hit by someone, tore the back end of it up, but the insurance company said it could be fixed and sure enough they did a bang up job of it, BUT... a few years later when we were looking for a new car, we found to our shock that the dealer wouldnt give us anything in trade in, why?
Because in the accident the frame got bent, and the repair shop put it on a straightening rig and the marks from that rig were noticed by the estimator, turns out cars that have been in accidents bad enough to warrent a frame realignment are in the eyes of a dealer, unsellable as they have potential hidden damage/weaknesses and/or non-factory welds or repairs that no dealer wants to take the long term liablity if in a future accident those repairs should fail and resulting in worse injuries and that our best option ws to sell it on our own and come back with the green we got for it. Thats what they told us, we were totally shocked to say the least.
The result was that we had to sell the car on the open market, which was a big PITA for us. So if your insurance agent says that the frame has indeed been bent, mention our case and have your agent do their best to get the car declared totaled, and have the bums insurance pay for a new vehicle.
It sure looks bent to me.
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