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Walker

2011-11-15 02:47:53 PM

She would have gotten more nutrition if she ate her dead dad.

/I don't think he would mind

Diogenes

2011-11-15 02:58:54 PM

How profoundly melancholy I feel now. Of course I'm happy the girl made it but how sad she had to watch her father slip away like that.

vartian

2011-11-15 03:06:26 PM

Diogenes: How profoundly melancholy I feel now. Of course I'm happy the girl made it but how sad she had to watch her father slip away like that.

Happened to a friend of mine. He was 6, and his two younger siblings were in the back seat with him. Car went off the road and into a 50' steep drop. Both parents in the front were killed on impact, brother and his siblings were hurt but alive. He told me he remembered feeling scared, and sad, but mainly that he had to protect his brother and sister because he was the oldest now. They were in the car over 20 hours before someone found them.

He told me all of this, perfectly matter of fact, over a single beer. I'm still a little haunted by the story; I have no farking idea how he deals with it.

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian

2011-11-15 03:08:08 PM

that kinda lunch isn't just for kids.

\wish I could say I haven't eaten like that since I was a kid

Loaf's Tray

2011-11-15 03:08:57 PM

FTA: "Police said the speedometer on the car was stuck at more than 100 mph. Douglas Landon's employer and friend, Butch Morse, said he found hard to believe Landon was going that fast."

Yeah, I'm sure slamming upside-down into a ditch couldn't POSSIBLY have damaged the gauge any...

cgraves67

2011-11-15 03:09:54 PM

Pfft. you call that lunch? Where is the half a box of oreos and the Snickers bar?

Diogenes

2011-11-15 03:11:33 PM

vartian: Diogenes: How profoundly melancholy I feel now. Of course I'm happy the girl made it but how sad she had to watch her father slip away like that.

Happened to a friend of mine. He was 6, and his two younger siblings were in the back seat with him. Car went off the road and into a 50' steep drop. Both parents in the front were killed on impact, brother and his siblings were hurt but alive. He told me he remembered feeling scared, and sad, but mainly that he had to protect his brother and sister because he was the oldest now. They were in the car over 20 hours before someone found them.

He told me all of this, perfectly matter of fact, over a single beer. I'm still a little haunted by the story; I have no farking idea how he deals with it.

I can't imagine living with survivor's guilt after something like that. Maybe the realization of his new role in the family steeled him.

cbackous

2011-11-15 03:11:52 PM

I bet she updated here FB page mulitple times too.

Lone Stranger

2011-11-15 03:12:08 PM

What kind of Pop Tarts were they?

bikerbob59

2011-11-15 03:13:03 PM

Diogenes: How profoundly melancholy I feel now. Of course I'm happy the girl made it but how sad she had to watch her father slip away like that.

Not a cool story, bro.

cgraves67

2011-11-15 03:17:14 PM

Loaf's Tray: FTA: "Police said the speedometer on the car was stuck at more than 100 mph. Douglas Landon's employer and friend, Butch Morse, said he found hard to believe Landon was going that fast."

Yeah, I'm sure slamming upside-down into a ditch couldn't POSSIBLY have damaged the gauge any...

If the car went airborne or even lost traction with the driver's foot on the gas pedal, the tires could've easily reached a rotational speed equivalent to 100mph velocity and the gauge became broken and stuck upon impact.

h2oincfs

2011-11-15 03:18:32 PM

"He was curled up in a ball with his arm right across his chest and his other arm pushed out across Jordan. He was trying to hold her and trying to keep her protected, he was a good father," Kevin Brinson told the TV station.

so, the daughter was driving?

Onkel Buck

2011-11-15 03:19:09 PM

My mom used to give me a cigarette and a piece of gum for lunch

Clint_Torres

2011-11-15 03:20:23 PM

Or as I call it, Monday through Sunday.

Okieboy

2011-11-15 03:21:09 PM

Usually it's 'survived on bugs and drainage ditch water' - this girl had pop tarts and gatorade??? This was basically like a sleep-over, except it was with her dead father instead of her little girlfriends.

ZAZ

2011-11-15 03:21:41 PM

He was curled up in a ball with his arm right across his chest and his other arm pushed out across Jordan

Or he was curled up in a ball until Jordan pulled his arm out to see if it tasted better than pop tarts.

Ben Enya

2011-11-15 03:26:49 PM

Better drink your own piss

Aeronas

2011-11-15 03:27:21 PM

I wonder why she didn't use Dad's cell phone to call for police... I mean, 4th graders even have cell phones these days

Bendal

2011-11-15 03:27:21 PM

What's even more ironic is the girl's mom was involved in a car crash while looking for her and her dad. IIRC she wasn't seriously hurt but had to go to the hospital to make sure.

/local news covered the story this morning

DubyaHater

2011-11-15 03:28:28 PM

You mean Skoal and Olde English, right Subby?

SirDonut

2011-11-15 03:29:26 PM

self-hero tag?

Surool

2011-11-15 03:29:38 PM

Loaf's Tray: FTA: "Police said the speedometer on the car was stuck at more than 100 mph. Douglas Landon's employer and friend, Butch Morse, said he found hard to believe Landon was going that fast."

Yeah, I'm sure slamming upside-down into a ditch couldn't POSSIBLY have damaged the gauge any...

Do you think that once the wheels come off the road, and the driver is panicking (possibly mashing the gas pedal) that maybe the speedometer was no longer registering the actual velocity of the car?

cbackous

2011-11-15 03:32:21 PM

Surool: Loaf's Tray: FTA: "Police said the speedometer on the car was stuck at more than 100 mph. Douglas Landon's employer and friend, Butch Morse, said he found hard to believe Landon was going that fast."

Yeah, I'm sure slamming upside-down into a ditch couldn't POSSIBLY have damaged the gauge any...

Do you think that once the wheels come off the road, and the driver is panicking (possibly mashing the gas pedal) that maybe the speedometer was no longer registering the actual velocity of the car?

well then how do airplane speedometer's work then? huh Mr. Smarty pants??

Loaf's Tray

2011-11-15 03:34:43 PM

cgraves67: Loaf's Tray: FTA: "Police said the speedometer on the car was stuck at more than 100 mph. Douglas Landon's employer and friend, Butch Morse, said he found hard to believe Landon was going that fast."

Yeah, I'm sure slamming upside-down into a ditch couldn't POSSIBLY have damaged the gauge any...

If the car went airborne or even lost traction with the driver's foot on the gas pedal, the tires could've easily reached a rotational speed equivalent to 100mph velocity and the gauge became broken and stuck upon impact.

This is true too, but my point was that the fact that the gauge may have simply been jolted into that position by the impact - most vehicles with electronic speed sensors use air-core gauges which don't have a return spring like old magnetic speedometers did, and a good mechanical shock can easily move the needle when no power is applied. To even allude to it as a possible indicator of speed at the time of impact is silly - it would be like concluding that the driver wasn't even trying to stop because his foot wasn't on the brake when they discovered the wreck.

Gonad the Ballbarian

2011-11-15 03:37:12 PM

2 days?

"SURVIVED by eating..."

for 2 days?

jebus christ, she would have survived not eating anything at all, probably would have been good for the little porker if she has the kind of parents who drive around with gatoraid and pop-tarts in the car...

shaunmark

2011-11-15 03:39:55 PM

Oh, look, daddy's dead. Man these pop-tarts and gatorade are really hitting the spot. No horrible memories here.

huskerdu

2011-11-15 03:46:01 PM

Surool

2011-11-15 03:46:11 PM

cbackous: Surool: Loaf's Tray: FTA: "Police said the speedometer on the car was stuck at more than 100 mph. Douglas Landon's employer and friend, Butch Morse, said he found hard to believe Landon was going that fast."

Yeah, I'm sure slamming upside-down into a ditch couldn't POSSIBLY have damaged the gauge any...

Do you think that once the wheels come off the road, and the driver is panicking (possibly mashing the gas pedal) that maybe the speedometer was no longer registering the actual velocity of the car?

well then how do airplane speedometer's work then? huh Mr. Smarty pants??

If an airplane was involved, maybe I'd give a f*ck.

Jument

2011-11-15 03:46:53 PM

+1 on the speedo stuff. There's just no way it accurately gives his speed just before the impact.

Pretty cushy survival. Except for the dead dad and all that.

huskerdu

2011-11-15 03:47:10 PM

huskerdu: cgraves67: Loaf's Tray: FTA: "Police said the speedometer on the car was stuck at more than 100 mph. Douglas Landon's employer and friend, Butch Morse, said he found hard to believe Landon was going that fast."

Yeah, I'm sure slamming upside-down into a ditch couldn't POSSIBLY have damaged the gauge any...

If the car went airborne or even lost traction with the driver's foot on the gas pedal, the tires could've easily reached a rotational speed equivalent to 100mph velocity and the gauge became broken and stuck upon impact.

The Troopers can deduce the speed the car was traveling by the trajectory and severity of damage. They aren't just going by the speedometer reading.

*if at all.

Mija

2011-11-15 03:48:53 PM

A stuck eccelerator would account for the speedometer reading and the accident. Just a random theory. Poor kid.

PirateKing

2011-11-15 03:49:29 PM

Could have been worse, I suppose.

Could have been Power-Aid and Toaster Streudel.

Loaf's Tray

2011-11-15 03:52:20 PM

Keigh

2011-11-15 03:54:50 PM

Trapped girl survives after car wreck by drinking Gatorade and eating Pop-Tarts, or as your kids call it, "lunch" with her dead father

just sayin

huskerdu

2011-11-15 03:55:24 PM

Loaf's Tray: Exactly, so why mention it? All that information will do is lead some people to conclude that the vehicle was doing over 100 when it crashed and the needle somehow cartoonishly stuck there to tell the tale

FTA:

Troopers investigating the crash say her father was driving about 105 mph. The posted speed limit was 55 mph.

Frank and Beans

2011-11-15 03:57:33 PM

In such a situation, I would have drank my own urine. Any chance I get to do so, I'm going to take it.

KrispyKritter

2011-11-15 03:58:48 PM

impressed by the wide variety of motor vehicle instrument gauge design, testing and production engineers / specialists fark has.

huskerdu

2011-11-15 04:02:32 PM

KrispyKritter: impressed by the wide variety of motor vehicle instrument gauge design, testing and production engineers / specialists fark has.

Yoda, Is that you?

huskerdu

2011-11-15 04:03:46 PM

Frank and Beans: In such a situation, I would have drank my own urine. Any chance I get to do so, I'm going to take it.

Meh. Who needs a reason.

Loaf's Tray

2011-11-15 04:04:13 PM

huskerdu: Loaf's Tray: Exactly, so why mention it? All that information will do is lead some people to conclude that the vehicle was doing over 100 when it crashed and the needle somehow cartoonishly stuck there to tell the tale

FTA:

Troopers investigating the crash say her father was driving about 105 mph. The posted speed limit was 55 mph.

Ah - I missed that. Read a different article this morning about the same accident so I just skimmed this one.

huskerdu

2011-11-15 04:09:39 PM

Loaf's Tray: huskerdu: Loaf's Tray: Exactly, so why mention it? All that information will do is lead some people to conclude that the vehicle was doing over 100 when it crashed and the needle somehow cartoonishly stuck there to tell the tale

FTA:

Troopers investigating the crash say her father was driving about 105 mph. The posted speed limit was 55 mph.

Ah - I missed that. Read a different article this morning about the same accident so I just skimmed this one.

I remember the old man launching his 69 Thunderbird off a bump in the road at 100+ MPH with me in the car back in the 70's. He did this every time we went down this particular stretch of road. I loved it! Not saying it was the brightest thing he ever did....

OnlyM3

2011-11-15 04:09:51 PM

Diogenes

...watch her father slip away like that.

Slipped away? slipped away?!
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andyofne

2011-11-15 04:17:15 PM

Why would it be so hard to believe that he was driving 105? And how would his coworkers know, for a fact, that he wouldn't drive that fast?

SecretAgentWoman

2011-11-15 04:17:42 PM

vartian: Diogenes: How profoundly melancholy I feel now. Of course I'm happy the girl made it but how sad she had to watch her father slip away like that.

Happened to a friend of mine. He was 6, and his two younger siblings were in the back seat with him. Car went off the road and into a 50' steep drop. Both parents in the front were killed on impact, brother and his siblings were hurt but alive. He told me he remembered feeling scared, and sad, but mainly that he had to protect his brother and sister because he was the oldest now. They were in the car over 20 hours before someone found them.

He told me all of this, perfectly matter of fact, over a single beer. I'm still a little haunted by the story; I have no farking idea how he deals with it.

Dammit, I come here for the snark, not the sad.

Goddamn dust. *sniff* and now I'm getting a cold, I'm sure...

Thegreaser

2011-11-15 04:22:16 PM

Lunch? Switch that Gatorade out with a Cherry Pepsi and I call it breakfast. :)

mod3072

2011-11-15 04:34:59 PM

DubyaHater: You mean Skoal and Olde English, right Subby?

Dad?

SweetSaws

2011-11-15 04:37:48 PM

cbackous: I bet she updated here FB page mulitple times too.

And probably with one of those vague, attention-whoring statuses, for example "OMG this like sucks..."

Dee Snarl

2011-11-15 04:38:06 PM

"You had Lunchables for dinner!! You're a man-child!"

/I'm sure that movie was terrible, but that line still makes me laugh...

GBB

2011-11-15 04:41:32 PM

I can think of 1 person who might know how fast he was going....

Surly U. Jest

2011-11-15 04:48:54 PM

Ben Enya: Better drink your own piss

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