Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Feb 20, 2013 - 10:34am PT
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I fell about thirty feet straight to the ground and directly on my feet. My left leg absorbed the bulk of the impact and when I rolled up and looked down I saw a fist-sized hole in my shin, my tibia sticking out and bone chips all around. I laid back and thought, "This is gonna be a long one."
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stich
Trad climber
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Feb 20, 2013 - 10:39am PT
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Sh#t, seeing chips of your own bone and blood everywhere has got to be disturbing. Now when Hank Williams, Jr. fell off that cliff drunk and his eye popped out and he was looking back at his own face from a weird angle, that must have been really disturbing.
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Feb 20, 2013 - 10:40am PT
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"This is gonna be a long one."
Nice punn Stonemaster
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The Warbler
climber
the edge of America
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Feb 20, 2013 - 10:51am PT
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Witnessing dubya get reelected is high on my list.
The Bobcat thread is pretty bad too - that trapper guy's ribcage should be made into a bobcat litter box.
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Ron Anderson
Trad climber
Soon to be Nipple suckling Liberal
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Feb 20, 2013 - 10:52am PT
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Dang Largo! Already back at it... Aneemule,, pure ANEEMULE...
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splitter
Trad climber
Cali Hodad, surfing the galactic plane ~:~
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Feb 20, 2013 - 09:36pm PT
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Rupple,
That vid wasn't meant as an attack on you for your actions. It was more food for thought. Plus I really like that movie. Oh! Sorry about the misunderstanding.
Actually, I didn't even watch the vid, I just related to the title, "Fear the indiference of good men.", and the cover picture on it looks like the Pope or somebody giving a lecture on indiference/apathy/cowardly actions, etc, and I thought, "Woe, dood (rupple) is really sticking it to me."! I was already feeling guilty enough (in regards to not doing the right thing/following through). SO, i just skipped watching it. Still not sure what it's about, but I will watch it now (you piqued my curiosity).
Your right, I don't know you... You don't know me either... Wow, awesome story, bro! I meant to add that I had a much greater appreciation for firefighters after that evening...that would be one tuff job to go to day after day. And, WAY bold decision, on the part of you and your buddy that day. Especially since you new "EXACTLY" what kind of a situation you were getting yourselves into. Glad to here it had a happy ending.
If this story has a moral, sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to do the right thing. So true! Particularly when it's not selfserving and, in fact, may end up costing you dearly. "Greater love has no one than this..." comes to mind!
BTW, now we "know" each other a little better, eh? One of the better aspects/occasional outcomes of ST. Thanks for getting back to me & relating/sharing your remarkable story!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 23, 2013 - 08:05am PT
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New adventures in stalkerdom, blocked phone number addition.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 23, 2013 - 11:56am PT
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On Tuesday i had to catheterize myself. You look at the catheter and then you look at your member and you go....oh my God!
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Mar 23, 2013 - 01:20pm PT
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Jim,
I have a friend who has to have shunts or something installed into his kidney every couple of years. So you get used to it, I guess.
OK. I haven't read the whole thread, so I am going back to disturbing events.
I was in my office 20 miles away when this happened, but my wife was in the playground at our son's daycare when Tim McVeigh's bomb went off. They were outside and 9 blocks away. It blew out a lot of windows that were facing that direction, so it was good that they were outside.
So they come home and Sam, who was 3 or so, just said, I heard a really loud BOOM!
My wife said it was incredibly loud and sharp. The whole city thought it was surely a leak from a gas line or something. Ten minutes later I got a call from a friend and went home to see the carnage.
That was a bad one.
Tim McVeigh was not from Oklahoma. They built the bomb in Kansas. He was from Michigan and was what we would now call a tea party type. He was a gun nut who hated the federal government. Too bad he was executed. I think that they should have water boarded the bastard because it is physically impossible to grind and mix that ANFO in one day. He had help.
The bombing touched a lot of lives. My landlord was across the street taking a dump when it went off and was injured when the ceiling collapsed on him. A really close friend just missed an appt. with some people in the building, people she knew very well, and they were on the 2nd floor facing the bomb. All dead. The whole city was in tears while the AM radio f*#k wads were blaming the deaths of the children on the government.
I believe that to this day, there are body parts that don't match with anyone known. Perhaps it was a street person with no real contacts.
I had to go up there 2 days later, when they had moved the barricades back from the main downtown buildings 5 blocks to the south. The streets were covered with broken glass. In the gutters the glass was several inches deep. It blew out a lot of windows in the skyscraper windows which faced the bomb.
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