You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

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This Is What A $563,000 Car Key Looks Like

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Originally Posted by Mr70

The driver wrote,"I rlly shld pul ovr to text ths, but fk it,I can do both."

Same thing happened to a buddy of mine in the early 80's. Fell asleep at the wheel and hit the end of a guard rail. He lost both legs.
The silver lining was we found out that concert venues had awesome wheelchair seating and allowed one escort with the wheelchair bound individual. Great way to get great seat for a sold out show.

When I was an Atlanta firefighter we caught a call where a guy took the top rail of a chain link fence through the windshield. Hit him dead center of the forehead(I'm surprised it didn't skewer his head, it went through the head rest). He was sitting in a chair and talking when we got there. When they loaded him up they got his legs above his head and that was it. Instant death. I got two lines started enroute to Grady Hospital. I wasn't the best at starting IV's, so getting two going in a bouncing ambulance was a high water mark.

I wish we would have had cell cameras back then. We rarely got any pics.

Random roll over pic. I'm on the far right. That was in a 25mph zone.

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The US Postal Service will issue a commemorative transcontinental railroad 150th anniversary stamp set on May 10.

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Union Pacific Big Boy 4014



Union Pacific said Wednesday steam shop crews lit a fire in Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 for the first time in 60 years on April 9. It was the first time the engine was fired up as an oil burner.

The May 9 ceremony will feature Union Pacific's iconic steam locomotives, Living Legend No. 844 and Big Boy No. 4014. The two will meet, recreating the historic image taken at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869. The Big Boy is one of eight left in the world. It's newly refurbished and the only one in operation.

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Snow covers the saguro cacti and palm trees near Carefree, Ariz. Feb. 21, 2019.

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Back in April 1939 and armed with a $5,000 grant supplied by the Rockefeller Foundation, Columbia University Teachers College professor Frank Cyr took a tour of ten states to gauge the extent of school transportation issues. What he found proved that student transportation was in a sorry state—many students had no dependable way to get to school and the ones who did often traveled in unsafe, unstandardized buses in the over 100,000 school districts that existed back then (in contrast to the roughly 13,000 that exist today). One of the huge variations in school transportation that he saw? Bus color.

There were many different bus colors in the United States before this conference; several districts even planned to have red, white, and blue buses as a way of promoting patriotism among students. Cyr presented his new options to education officials, a reported '50 shades ranging from lemon yellow to deep orange-red.' The matter was settled quickly. Yellow, or 'National School Bus Glossy Yellow,' as it is officially called by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, was chosen for its high visibility and the way it emphasized the bold, black writing that would be on the side of each bus to denote its respective school district, important factors for vehicles that travel during early morning and late afternoon hours.

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California gas prices reach almost $4 a gallon