#1: In an above-ground pool with a couple of friends, I was waving around one of those nets on the 20' pole. After a couple of swings one of the guys saw me, dove, and knocked the pole out of my hands and out of the pool. I looked up and saw a power line sitting about 15' above us, and wondered how in the hell I avoided hitting the thing.
#2: Working on the shoulder of a highway during the summer, I was hit by a truck doing 60mph that had veered over on the shoulder. This one really gets to me every time I think about it, because I had straightened up (was bent over) to stretch out my back when the entire side of the truck swept across the front of my chest. Another .2 seconds bent over and my head would've been launched about 200 yards.
#2: Working on the shoulder of a highway during the summer, I was hit by a truck doing 60mph that had veered over on the shoulder. This one really gets to me every time I think about it, because I had straightened up (was bent over) to stretch out my back when the entire side of the truck swept across the front of my chest. Another .2 seconds bent over and my head would've been launched about 200 yards.
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