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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 11:06 AM
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Glad to hear that you are out of the Hospital...hope the legal issues are not a big deal.

the vid's that alex and superbleeder did are frigging awesome.

I take it though that your attempts to get noticed by Top Gear are failing so you are gonna head over to Customtacos.com and check the classified for a truck with a lower COG?
maybe something like this little Gem:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=130291615370
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by ocdropzone
maybe something like this little Gem:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=130291615370


LOL.


Sorry about what happened! Hope your doing better...I wanna see this video when I come back from school...it better be up

Hehe
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 11:11 AM
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How much for that chick in the tube top?
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 11:51 AM
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How much for that chick in the tube top?
Yeah, holy crap - the damage didn't look too bad with her standing next to it.
Glad you're back home and doing better!

Sorry to hear about the wreck - hope everybody else involved is doing okay.
Look forward to seeing the vid!

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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 12:52 PM
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AH, that doesn't look too bad. You can just buff out the scratches and get a new windshield and be back in the game.

All joking aside...where's the video?!
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 01:33 PM
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JESUS!!!! I just got to the house and got to see the pictures!!

ST how you feeling?

edit: Yeah the tube top makes the picture less terrible to look at and all that sand makes me miss the hell out of the Texas beaches.

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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 01:50 PM
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I'm pretty beat up. My knee was pinned between the steering wheel and the roof (there's only a good 4.5" gap between them) with my head out of the beer window, when it was upside down. When they lifted the truck off my friend Will, who's arm and leg was caught under the tube of the bed, they snapped my ankle because it was out the drive side window and they were rolling it towards it, so it snapped like a pencil. So they had to lift it again from the other side when I started cursing at the top of my lungs to stop because they were breaking me in half it felt like. So I finally was able to get out. I ended up being the most injured, my cousin having been catapulted a good 20 feet away from sitting on the bed, and my buddy will being caught under the bed. My cousin just had a sprained back, and will had a sprained ankle. I just got some whiplash, tore just about everything in my knee from being crushed in between the roof and the steering wheel, and my ankle being broke from having the truck pivoted on it...

I'll always remember the poor ST2 like this just moments before it happened:



And I'm still waiting for all my friends to upload the videos and pictures to me.
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 01:56 PM
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Man that sucks pretty bad. I bet that hurt so bad. I can't imagine breaking a bone.

You must be one tough sucker.
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 02:03 PM
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Clint I feel for you. I've broken a bone or two but never in a vehicle wreck.


I hate to ask this but were you wearing a seat belt?
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 02:04 PM
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You name it, I've probably broken it more than once.

I actually didn't realize I was so messed up at first. When I crawled out from under the truck to a wall of beautiful women who had rushed over, all I could think about was "Am I in heaven, and are these my 42 virgins?", then I saw my friend and cousin and ran over to them. Then I realized my hat was still in the truck, so I had to go back in for it (not kidding, they have it on camera).

Someone called the ambulances, and I refused to get checked out, but I road in my cousin's ambulance (we were worried that he broke his back) to the hospital. When I was raising holy hell that I wanted to go into my cousin's room, the doctor was like "You were in the rollover?" and I told him I was the driver. He calmly pointed down and told my ankle was broken (was twisted a weird way), and he made me get checked out. Thats when they figured out the extent of my injuries...

None of us were wearing seatbelts. My cousin and my friend were sitting on the flatbed when it happened, so there wasn't even any seatbelts to be worn.

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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 02:07 PM
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ok wow, i feel bad for you, wreckin your truck and urself

hope u heal fine

but how did it happen?
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 02:09 PM
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By reading your sig, I just noticed something about the year of each Toyota you've had...

if the trend continues, you next Toyota will be a 1980


glad your ok man

I'm patiently awaiting the video
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 02:39 PM
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IDK Clint.... seatbelts are a good thing bro, next time fo' sure right?
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by SwampThing

None of us were wearing seatbelts. My cousin and my friend were sitting on the flatbed when it happened, so there wasn't even any seatbelts to be worn.
Clint when I get back to Texas I'm coming to your house with a case of "Swampthings" on ice and we're going to drink about half of them. After that I'm going to waltz your butt out to the yard and do my best to beat into you the need for seatbelts. After you pick my bleeding @$$ up out of your yard and drag my body back to the table we're going to finish that case..... then we go to the beach.

Man all joking aside I'm glad you're ok.
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 02:51 PM
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Jeeze! You guys are lucky nobody was seriously injured or killed. Specially the guys in the back.

So next truck gets a full exo right? rightttt???

Bring on the video!!!

A moment of silence for ST2, may we remember her in her former glory..
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by jay351

a moment of silence for st2, may we remember her in her former glory..
ooohhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........................... ..........
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Junkers88
ooohhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........................... ..........
not meditation...

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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 03:06 PM
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AH, that doesn't look too bad. You can just buff out the scratches and get a new windshield and be back in the game.

All joking aside...where's the video?!
X2
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 03:10 PM
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A couple more feet of exo cage and you the cab would have been fine.

Good time for folks to realize, even a minimal rollover on the soft sand can screw up your truck and even worse, you.

Be careful out there...especially if you ride with Clint.


Hope you get better soon buddy. I got that stuff you wanted. Send me an email and I'll send it to you cause your old email address I got doesn't work.



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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 03:27 PM
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Glad you're OK, but joyriding on the beach with people in the back of your truck certainly isn't the smartest thing to do.
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