Amazing Luck

seaeagle · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: Amazing Luck

Amazing Luck

They say that God watches over fools and the feeble-minded.

Do not scroll down until you have read the scenario below this photo.

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Look at this picture above and you can see where this guy broke through the guard rail (right side where the people are standing on the road).

His truck left the road, travelling from right to left. He flipped end-over-end, across the culvert outlet and landed on the left side of it.

Now look at the 2nd picture below

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Would you say he was lucky?

Werebo · Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:36 am Post subject:

WOW!!! If he didn't before, I bet the driver believes in 'Guardian Angels' now..... Wink

micker377 · Joined: May 27, 2005 Posts: 1059

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seaeagle

Thanks micker377 -

I suffer from Acrophobia and just looking at the picture made me feel giddy. I don't think our highest mountain down here would be as high as that cliff Laughing

. Australia's the flattest continent on the planet - our tallest mountain (Mount Kosciuszko) is only 2,228 metres (7,310 feet) above sea level - I think you would call that a big hill in your part of the world Laughing

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Werebo

seaeagle

Definitely not me. The funny thing is I'm okay with flying on aeroplanes & when I know that it is not possible for me to fall (I love going up Sydney Tower for example).

Years ago when I worked for our Water Board I spent a few months working at one of sewage treatment plants. At that time they discharged directly into the ocean, and the boss took me up to show me where the pipe came out. We were at the edge of the cliff a couple of hundred feet above it, and while he was pointing down to the spot I was lying on my stomach holding on for dear life.

The fear isn't actually of falling. The fear is of having some type of brain explosion and jumping, or tripping over and falling.

Werebo

Mind you, the falling part is perfectly safe, it's the stopping at the bottom that can be painful Wink

I must admit, the only time I'm wary of heights is when what I'm standing on is rickety - old ladders or steps, for example.

Many moons ago, when I worked on building sites for a while, I was the fastest guy on-site to erect scaffold-towers, and in all sorts of odd shapes to fit the building. Great fun, I could play with scaffold-towers all day, better than a 'Meccano Set'

bern · Joined: Mar 12, 2007 Posts: 1487 Location: ann arbor

Werebo

I had a very close look at this piccie and there's no apparent 'fiddling' or superimposition with it, i.e. even pixelation and colour blends between subject edges etc.

It originially came in an email titled 'Famous Last Views', along with these:

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Don't look at this one Seaeagle Wink

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I'm not too sure about this last one though. Unfortunately, it's too compressed/pixelated for a close examination.

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bern · Joined: Mar 12, 2007 Posts: 1487 Location: ann arbor

These were also very good.

But, in the lumber truck one, there are a bunch of logs on the ground next to the truck suggesting that the truck is standing still. If so, then a log cannot be launched as indicated. This pic, then, is a fake.

In the train pic, there wouldn't be such a highway construction sign indicating "wrong way" and the people would be screaming, as this has been happening for awhile, as there is no engine, which has already fallen off and broken from the train.

The rope bridge is suspicious for the way the "broken" cable ends splay out, as well as for the unexplained diagonal line going up and to the right from just above the "break".

So, there is sufficient evidence with at least some of the pics to make me suspicious of all of them

Werebo

bern · Joined: Mar 12, 2007 Posts: 1487 Location: ann arbor

Oh yeah. In the golf pic. the club in use is a putter and the golfer is in traditional putt stance. Would hardly have launched said ball.