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2005-08-14, 22:41

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Originally Posted by thegelding
plus i actually think weird shit happens to all of us all the time...
Well, g, part of the reason I laughed so hard is that I actually *have* experienced the horrifying ordeal of rolling backward off the edge of a mountain road.

But the terrain "over the edge" turned out to be fairly smooth - a grassy, sparsely-forested slope - and not 'too' steep. So when the brakes finally 'took hold', damage from the backward plunge was minimal - an external rearview mirror fixture bent by a tree. I mean, it could have been *SO* much worse. ACK!
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