Apr 22 2008
A lucky night for some…
Last night as I sat on the couch playing Rainbow Six: Las Vegas II with Mike a large crash shook my humble little abode. I’ll admit that my first thought was that the house had been struck by a rather solid object. Peering out my window I noticed that a rather solid object had struck the concrete telephone pole at the end of my driveway instead.
A minivan had seemingly done it’s level best to absorb the telephone pole, a few citizens had already gathered around the minivan so I figured a call to 911 was probably going to be the extent of my involvement.
I spent a few minutes watching the crowd growing, but soon tired of things and went back inside, when Lisa pointed out that the impact may have been captured on our surveillance system. As I played back the events recorded I found she was right, and while the action takes place at the very edge of the image (obstructed by the time stamp) you can clearly see that the two pedestrians were luckier than they likely imagined when they started their walk.
In the end I flagged down one of the Constables and advised them that one of my cameras had captured the impact, offering them the footage should they need it. They collected the footage (burned onto a CD for them, now that’s service) just before I called it quits with Mike for the night.
Lesson learned? Motor vehicle accidents are no substitute for terrorist hunting mayhem.
(The officers advised me that the driver was ok, seems everyone involved was just lucky enough)
The tape assures a nice ticket. A little measuring and the frame rate of the video means that with some math equations, they can nail down how fast they were going. IIRC, your street is at most a 50kph zone. With Ontario’s anti-street racing laws, doing an rough WAG on looking at it, they could get nailed with the $10,000 fine to boot.
Forget the drunk, who won the video game?
It was co-operative, so there were no winners.
Just me consistently getting more kills than Erik.
A lot.
“Just me consistently getting more kills than Erik.”
Hey, it’s a team effort.
Who’s really keeping track of the kill rate?
I only say that cause last game I got all of 2 kills.
But you get away with that.
Because you’re **The Man**
I can’t be the man, you’re the man!
jeez talk about close calls. those peds should buy lottery tickets.
I agree with Dave and luckly the van didn’t hit your house. Mike keep destroying Erik
Wow! Talk about something random just happening eh?
Pretty cool that it was captured on video..
People, people! We’re missing the big picture here. My baby brother is kicking Erik’s ass! Woo-hoo! Erik, defend yourself.
Theodore, truthfully Mike is consistently the best player amongst us three. I’d rate Piet and I on the same level, although much less consistently and with significantly different playing styles.
There have been some shifts in tactics amongst us, but I personally tend to shift back to “careless - charge’em!” whenever I get a little bored.
Suffice to say I don’t see Mikes standing on the kill board slipping much anytime soon.
-GRIN-
Kid’s and old age ‘ll do that.
Sigh. Hearing these tales of R6-LV makes me think back to the days of “The Doom Platoon” nights.
Greg: You should see some of the “uniforms” Erik’s tried out. I kno wPiete called me the fashion police and all, but no one should approve of the “Wasp” camouflage. Especially Erik.
Wow…I’m a slacker keeping up on these conversations.
Greg, I miss those dark dreary graveyard shifts. It was quite the collection of security vehicles on these evenings…
Mike, the uniforms have been a little violent asthetically, especially considering my rather conservative nature.
-GRIN-
Now that is some crazy frickin’ footage… Good to see they were able to walk away from it, though.
Braaaaaaains!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cwage/sets/72157604988576822/detail/
Isn’t it about time for the monthly update?