OK, so i nearly died today! - Page 2

RED_EL_XR8 · 23-10-2005, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by CH7472

How about you look at what would have made this person do this sort of thing. I know what he was going to do to you and your family was shocking, but i think it is more a case of deep rooted trouble for this person. I am in no way condoning what they did i just think there may be more to it than just some dick head out there trying to kill you. Do you know that the death rate of country kids is double that of the city cousins. Glad you and you family are ok. John

I doubt the intentions were suicidal, more likely some goose trying to prove something to himself and all around him. The game of Chicken lives on!

sfr rob · 23-10-2005, 11:10 PM

well i have never heard of someone playing chicken with a tree! LOL
clown.

LUXO_8 · 23-10-2005, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by sfr rob

well i have never heard of someone playing chicken with a tree! LOL
clown.

trees dont get out of the way..... i think he found out lol...

nah its pretty blatently trying to kill himself id imagine.....

RED_EL_XR8 · 23-10-2005, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by sfr rob

well i have never heard of someone playing chicken with a tree! LOL
clown.

Yeah no-one doing the dumb guy thing has ever lost it and come of 2nd best, that could never happen!!

I appreciate your fright from what has been a nasty situation but it is unlikely, (not impossible) that your oncoming risk was an intended suicide pilot! Thankfully in your case at least no injury or death was encountered!

It may have been your frightening situation but judging someones mental state whilst trying to avoid a collision and maintain control of your own vehicle, will be just as much a guess as any other assumption. I'm surprised drugs and or alcohol have not been suggested either.

Danny · 23-10-2005, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by needfordspeed

The guy sounds like a c**t, pity he didn't die.

No, Because if he had died, then he would have achieved what he wanted. Hopefully he has to now suffer for his weak and selfish actions. If he's paralyzed, He'll have no way to use a car in order to take hgis own life or any others, If he gets back to 100% health, then that would be a worry. Hopefully he does suffer for what he has done....

Take life one day at a time, and count yaself lucky that your number didnt come up today.

RED_EL_XR8 · 23-10-2005, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Danny

No, Because if he had died, then he would have achieved what he wanted. Hopefully he has to now suffer for his weak and selfish actions. If he's paralyzed, He'll have no way to use a car in order to take hgis own life or any others, If he gets back to 100% health, then that would be a worry. Hopefully he does suffer for what he has done....

Take life one day at a time, and count yaself lucky that your number didnt come up today.

Either way its a pretty sad outcome, paralyses himself the community ends up footing the bills! Your last sentence pretty much sums it up.

vztrt · 23-10-2005, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Danny

No, Because if he had died, then he would have achieved what he wanted. Hopefully he has to now suffer for his weak and selfish actions. If he's paralyzed, He'll have no way to use a car in order to take hgis own life or any others, If he gets back to 100% health, then that would be a worry. Hopefully he does suffer for what he has done....

Take life one day at a time, and count yaself lucky that your number didnt come up today.

Well if this was an attempt on his life, maybe he might realise what he was trying to do was the wrong thing. You do hear stories of people trying to take their lives, but surviving and having a new outlook.

Dave_au · 24-10-2005, 09:37 AM

We really should try and work out what the motive of the driver was before we just assume he was trying to kill himself - although that said, a high number of single car accidents involving males are suicides

SunDrifter · 24-10-2005, 10:47 AM

Glad to hear your ok Rob.

I just hope that should this d|ckhead recover, the cops ban him from driving. Hopefully if nothing else they follow up on your report.

Now, find him and make sure that this isn't the last time he's in hospital. (if you get my drift).

Deadman · 24-10-2005, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by sfr rob

spooky thing was just last night i was talking to my girlfriend about when you drive, you have to have 100% faith in other drivers, especially with on coming traffic, because if someone is in that state of mind to commit suicide they don't really care who they hurt along with them self.

Great to hear you are both ok!!

Just on the quote above - this is something I always stress to my wife. No matter how safe you are when it comes to driving, you have to constantly be aware of your surroundings - because you might not be the one that causes the accident.

Being aware of dangerous drivers (intentional or not) is one of the most important skills drivers can have on the roads (checking mirrors, being aware of 150m ahead, not just 20m etc etc). Good to see you have these skills and they saved you from a very bad situation!

EDIT:

On a side note - a few months back I was driving home in QLD (along the ipswich mottorway from jindalee area towards mt gravatt for those who know it) and it's a 4 lane motorway (2 lanes each way with a massive 4 meter wide division between the two) - and a Taxi was driving on the wrong side of the road right towards me...

I ofcourse slowed down and got over incase it was a similar situation to what Rob described - thankfully I think he was either to drunk (hope not - being a Taxi) or to stupid to know what he was doing... how this moron is driving a taxi is beyond me!

(before anyone asks - i wasn't able to get any details such as licence etc to inform the taxi company as it was at night time and avoiding the oncoming headlights was more important)

donno · 24-10-2005, 11:51 AM

Just reading that sent a chill down my spine. Never would I have thought of a situation like that. Great piece of wheelwork to get yourself and better half out of trouble.

gtfpv · 24-10-2005, 12:02 PM

glad you are ok . i'd make sure i catch up with this bloke in hopital if i were you. if nothing else just to twist his broken leg .but i'd embarrass the priyyk. and ask him what you did in life to make him try to murder you. and if you should consider him your enemy .make him feel it man he has done a terrible thing . but you will probably find he will pay for this all his life . and he was probably under the influence of something.looking forward to the story here . keep us posted .

Gunns · 24-10-2005, 12:49 PM

Good to hear your came out of it without a mark on you, the misses or the car. A good bit of driving by the sounds of things. To bad you weren't driving a Mack truck with a big bull bar.

Phillo62 · 24-10-2005, 02:58 PM

Good to hear that you came out of this with a valuable lesson, you cant trust anyone else on the road, as much as you want to. As some other people have said, i hope he is confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life so he has time to think how he could have hurt innocent people. What a looney.
Cheers

Philthy

vino3o2 · 24-10-2005, 03:17 PM

Great to hear ya both survived! I never heard of such madness in all my life!! Well done in avoiding what could have been a fatal accident....

Dezza · 24-10-2005, 03:42 PM

Wow, that is insane. You are very lucky. I wonder if the idiot is from Rosedale, or even from the area. The person was probably on drugs or something. There are quite a few druggos at Rosedale. I grew up around that area (at Maffra) and I travel those roads regularily. It certainly makes me worried for my safety knowing these tools are on the road. It is very selfish of them, trying to kill innocent motorists, just because they want to kill themselves. As for the empty police station, from what I've heard, that is pretty common at Rosedale.

TZENU · 24-10-2005, 04:07 PM

Good to hear you're ok, well physically at least!!!
And just think about it; it could happen to anyone out there. I think that is what makes it even more spine chilling!

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Originally Posted by RED_EL_XR8

Either way its a pretty sad outcome, paralyses himself the community ends up footing the bills!

Hit the nail on the head!

HLC · 24-10-2005, 04:11 PM

what a pr1ck. like some dude said, go down to the hospital and see if he is ok, and if he is, bash him senseless.

and what loser fails at suicide? seriously? noone can be that bad that they cant even kill themselves.

good to hear you and the missus are ok though!

sfr rob · 24-10-2005, 04:19 PM

thanks for the comments guys!
I would like to catch up with the loser some time down the track once i find out who he is etc and say g'day.

I would assume he was under the influence, of what? i dont know.
It would explain to me how you could even contemplate doing something like that.

i am really spewing i didnt have my digital camera, i left it at home on purpose before we left, would be good to show you what the car ended up like!

Casper · 24-10-2005, 04:51 PM

Guys.. even though what he did was both insane and wrong... and its a shame that the tree didnt do a better job in a lot of ways... its probably worth thinking about that whatever drove him to do it is probably an illness of some kind. Going to pay him a visit and give him a "bashing" probably wont help either Rob or this guy get over this. Maybe a visit to see if he's ok.. and a talk to try and find out why first would be a better way to move on.

I'm not condoning his actions but does that make doing something even worse right? We are often judged by how we react to things in our lives... maybe a bit more thought on how Rob would be judged after bashing this guy is something we should think of.

Rob, dont do it. Talk to him if you must but dont go and do something that you may regret later.

Mr Cube · 24-10-2005, 04:54 PM

That is exactly why I am always looking for an escape route.. Have had a few close calls myself. driving on country roads and impatient people mostly in Patrols or Landcruisers doing stupid overtaking moves.

You have to ask why wouldn't he have just stayed in the garage with a hose? or like in groundhog day jump in the bath with a toaster??

Glad to hear you and the mrs are ok...

sfr rob · 24-10-2005, 04:55 PM

yeah casper, i agree, there is no way that I would be able to do such a thing, i am a gentle man.
I dont want to take it any further, what nearly happened was enough to give me a sleepless night, i dont need more!

cheers
rob

JC · 24-10-2005, 05:05 PM

Rob. Two things:

1. I hope there were no scratches on your car.
2. Perhaps the guy was having a fit (Epileptic, diabetic, etc). Your sister should be able to find that stuff out.

I know it seems like he kept swerving at you, but it is poosible that if was having a fit and his body slumped one way or the other, it just kept going. Of course, it may be that he did want to take you out too, and you certainly did a good job avoiding that.

sfr rob · 24-10-2005, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by JC-XRWgn

Rob. Two things:

1. I hope there were no scratches on your car.
2. Perhaps the guy was having a fit (Epileptic, diabetic, etc). Your sister should be able to find that stuff out.

I know it seems like he kept swerving at you, but it is poosible that if was having a fit and his body slumped one way or the other, it just kept going. Of course, it may be that he did want to take you out too, and you certainly did a good job avoiding that.

no scratches mate!

i dont think that while having a fit, you can follow my cars every attempt to get out of the way, what i mean is, when i swerved so did he.... oh well!

she is going to get the low down on it all for me some time this week!

cheers
rob

rapidxr6 · 24-10-2005, 05:15 PM

PHEW!! Bet that made the sphincter twinge!
Great that you and the 'wife to be' are unharmed.
Lucky that the tool in mention did come on your side of the road from a bit of a distance, not half a car length. Bit of warning is better than none! Great skills by the way.
These sick minded individuals that do this sort of crap have no place in society, have them condemned to a mental institution, they obviously have a "problem", lockem up and throw away the key. And this go's for people that throw projectiles out of their windows at oncoming traffic

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The wife and i never trust other drivers, very defensive, the girl as got skills! gotten us out of trouble a few times.

Also, i agree with capser on the "don't do anything you will regret" thing.

have him charged for attempted murder X2 using a motor vehicle as a deadly weapon, dangerous, reckless driving, endangering life X2.....i can go on if you like.

If you "smack him in the ear" expect yourself to be charged for a minor assault, and then kiss any chance of getting that ***** off the road good-bye.

Zoll & Kez

sfr rob · 24-10-2005, 05:18 PM

how would i go about laying charges, i didnt even think of doing that, but it might be worth while!

and mate, the sphincter was certainly getting a work out afterwards! LOL

rapidxr6 · 24-10-2005, 05:40 PM

Well, if the cops were at the scene of the accident where the dick hit the tree, i'm sure they would've done an accident report. Usually if there's a witness who seen them on the road are asked their 'actions'. You i believe.
Make a statement to the cops and have it put in the accident report.? :Up_to_som

sfr rob · 24-10-2005, 05:42 PM

yeah i did make a statement at the scene of the crash.....

xrobx · 24-10-2005, 06:03 PM

Thats insane. It makes me sick that someone who obviously didn't want to live would try and steal someone elses life aswell. Absolutley discusting.

Glad you are ok.

NC 5ltr · 24-10-2005, 07:06 PM

shiite thats close ,glad you and your misses are fine ,as for the mofo,if he wanted to kill himself goto the hospital and do it for him,so you can save someone else from going through what you went through