Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Hope everyone is doing well. Not sure what is going on with @VOLSONLY but sending good vibes your way. I haven't been on much since Christmas.....been a little down.

The day after Christmas I was in a bad wreck. I was on a 2 lane highway coming back near the city, 60mph speed limit. The car in front of me that I was coming up on was going a little slower than my 65 or so. The driver tapped their brakes and then let off the brake and kept going. I saw this happen and let off the gas....I wasn't sure why they had done that but didn't see anyone ahead of them that would have caused it so I started to get back up to speed and was thinking about whether I was going to pass on the dotted yellow line or wait and see what they did. A lot of older), country folks in that area will go 10 or 20 miles under the speed limit and passing is common when safe. Unfortunately, the highway dipped diwn not far past them so couldn't tell if a car/truck might be coming. It was also dark.

All of a sudden, the driver comes to a dead stop right as I was reaching my top acceleration. I tried to react but by the time I could I slammed into them at about 60. I never saw who was in the vehicle but after I came to, turned off my engine, got helped out of the car, got looked at in an ambulance, my head cleared some from airbag impact to the face and steering wheel to the sternum and I started getting my license plate and work gear out of the car.....an officer approached me. I asked him what happened and if everyone was OK.

He told me that the lady in front of me saw traffic/emergency lights from another wreck a mile up and couldn't decide if she wanted to keep going and get caught in traffic or turn around and go back the other way. I asked how she could possibly see a wreck a mile away with dips, curves and woods everywhere...no answer on that other than "maybe saw tail lights or emergency lights bouncing off trees in the distance." This lady decided to go back the other way and stopped dead in the road right in front of me to turn around. I couldn't believe it....who the hell does that at high speed instead of using a side road or emergency flashers and the shoulder? The cop then said nobody was being ticketed but I'd be held responsible "because she was in front of me and could decide to do what she wanted and it was my responsibility to avoid her." I couldn't believe what I was hearing and my attorney also disagrees. My wife was there by then and we made a smart-ass point about what if I did that on the interstate. Would the pileup be everyone else's fault? Anyway, FL is a comparative liability state and one of a few where you can settle or win in court as long as you aren't 100% at fault.

I went to the ER and they acted like nothing was wrong from X-rays and told me to "be active so I wasn't too sore" and go see an Orthopedic doctor. Well....I got my MRI results and I shredded the muscles and soft tissue attached to my sternum, have 7 herniated discs in back and neck that are severely inflamed and I also have a fracture of my anterior column(part of spine) by one of the herniated discs in my lower back. Yay me....I've gone my whole life without a major back injury and now this happens. Definitely put a damper on the holidays. Any VN attorneys have thoughts on if that officer was as wrong as he sounded?

That...right there...is why I NEVER get within 5 car lengths of these idiots up here on these insane curvy up and down roads. I drive hundreds of miles everyday on two lanes through these mountains picking up and delivering folks to their appointments...I nearly get killed about once a week by some moron doing exactly what you described, or coming around a blind curve in my lane, or pulling out right in front of me as I'm driving 60 mph...I hate the idiots.

Just about anytime you rear end somebody, you will get the blame...their stupidity notwithstanding...unless you can prove their brakelights or turn signals were not working.

It's a job hazard for me and my company grills us relentlessly about it.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

We made sure you didn’t miss it!

Appreciate it...my old drug addled brain sometimes needs to be told something several times...lol.

 

[85SugarVol]

I think I saw a doc on that. Most or some are olympic leveo athletes.

Oh yea - her death was a major incident. Her husband murdered her, tampered with the air bag that was supposed to return her to the surface.

I think ESPN did the documentary.

 

[thistime]

Run out of air? Its free diving, lol. It's sheer lunacy.

I had a friend that was on a submarine in the Navy and we were talking about what they did in an emergency. He said that at depth ( whatever that was to someone on a Submarine ) that when you came up it was hard to get all the oxygen out because of it's expansion in your lungs. He could tell some wild stories but he never would tell how deep the sub he was on would go.....secret stuff.

 

[85SugarVol]

I had a friend that was on a submarine in the Navy and we were talking about what they did in an emergency. He said that at dept ( whatever that was to someone on a Submarine ) that when you came up it was hard to get all the oxygen out because of it's expansion in your lungs. He could tell some wild stories but he never would tell how deep the sub he was on would go.....secret stuff.

Silent Service

 

[Aesius]

I don’t blame him for wanting to try his hand on a bigger stage, but Kermit Davis really shouldn’t have left MTSU.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Hard to fight (win) when you rearend someone. They’ll always stick with the idea that you should have had more distance in between you and the car in front of you and or less speed.

That is exactly what our company insurance reps tell us and they send us memos about it all the time.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Is the Kennedy "missing bullet" there?
Are the remnants of the "Amber Room" there?

The Amber Room...that is something that I wish had never been destroyed.

 

[thistime]

Silent Service

The wildest thing he told me was that they were somewhere in the Atlantic and were on top of the water. He was on look out ( he said it was a tradition of some kind because they could see a bird or hear a minnow at 100 miles) but he said there was no moon that night and you could see the green trail from the plankton behind them and you could see stars from horizon to horizon. I always thought that it would be neat to look sideways and see stars instead of just up.

 

[volbeast33]

 

[tn88volfan]

Just saw TCU obliterated Kansas. That’s somewhat odd.

they beat them so bad, the refs couldn’t even get in on it

 

[scienceteaching_vol]

Oak Ridge history has always interested me because my grandfather and grandmother were some of its first citizens. My grandfather had just graduated from NYU in engineering, was recruited to come to the "secret city," where he met my grandmother, who was living around Oak Ridge at the time.

So I randomly come across and dive into its history from time to time. I read about the local "Calutron Girls" today and found the whole story fascinating (wiki has the full story, but this little tidbit made me chuckle):

Calutron Girls - Wikipedia

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Growing up close to Oak Ridge it's history always fascinated me.

I would also always look at my papaws grade school dictionary which I now have. It has consensus data in the front from 1940 and 50. No data is recorded for 1940 (which means less than 4500) but by 1950 the population was 30,000.

Fascinating history. Lots of crazy stories from that time.

 

[SoilVol]

Plausible theory and interesting, though it was night time. It's basically impossible not to notice headlights behind you. Any time you look up for even a second they can be annoyingly apparent. She had to know someone was behind her.

You'd think, but newer rear view mirrors have those filters that dampen the light.

 

[Tri-CitiesVol]

Buzz Aldrin marrying young enough to be his granddaughter

robbing that cradle

Buzz Aldrin marries for the fourth time, aged 93 Buzz Aldrin marries for the fourth time, aged 93

93/2=46+7=53

He had some room to spare according to the general rule of thumb.

 

[GoBigOrange86]

 

[scienceteaching_vol]

Silent Service

Worst nes game ever. Ha!

 

[butchna]

The Amber Room...that is something that I wish had never been destroyed.

We don’t know that it was. Nazi’s absconded with it…whereabouts unknown.

 

[nicksjuzunk]

Dive down into that hole that’s underwater. It’s pitch black dark, and you won’t know up from down - so take a flashlight!

Don’t run out of air…

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I watched that video and then a recommended video popped up. . . called "The Nutty Putty Cave Incident". . .

What a friggin nightmare. I mention it because some of you have been talking about solo climbing.

I know they're completely different, but rock climbing and spelunking seem very similar to me, as far as outdoor sports go.

Any of you guys ever heard of this story? @Ulysees E. McGill @VolsDoc81TX etc?

Never heard of that one

 

[scienceteaching_vol]

We don’t know that it was. Nazi’s absconded with it…whereabouts unknown.

Read this years ago. Good book.

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

We don’t know that it was. Nazi’s absconded with it…whereabouts unknown.

I wish someone could find it.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Hot take, Vols struggle, very well could lose today.

 

[Rishvol]

Is it the amount of commercials or the refs wanted all eyes on them that makes these games longer?

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

I am so sorry!!! This happened to us when a couple of girls stopped in the middle of the road. They acted like they were going to turn then stopped. My husband had slowed down then tried to stop. Unfortunately it had been raining so we slid right into them. Fortunately no injuries. While we were waiting on the police to arrive, they said they were looking back to see if the beauty shop was open because they wanted to get their hair done before going to the fair. They said not to worry about their (big old) car since daddy could beat those dents out with a hammer. We said nothing while looking at our 3 month old new car that was smashed too bad for a hammer. Then the policeman came and said it was our fault because we hit them from behind. Didn’t matter that they were just sitting there or the road was wet.

That's what they tell us.

 

[Aesius]

Hot take, Vols struggle very well could lose today.

Their struggle will definitely lose today, which is why they will win.