The Like/Hate Thread

[Ashe]

I'm sitting in here on the computer, messing with my Magic cards and crap, when I hear a loud noise outside of my apt that sounds a lot like when the dumpsters get emptied. It was so loud though that I got up and told Erin I was looking outside a moment. So I get outside, and I see a car sitting with hazard lights at the entrance, so I tell Erin that I thought someone had just had a wreck.

I was looking at the wrong car. I grabbed my shoes and a jacket and Erin grabbed my phone, following me out. We get outside and there's this car sitting on the damn hill beside the entrance, at the top of it where he hit a tree.

Basic jist of it is that some dude was driving back from a Super Bowl party, fucked up on all sorts of drugs and alcohol. He was coming around the corner so fast that he couldn't stop in time for someone who was turning left across his lane into their complex. Someone else was turning right into our road. He tried to swerve into the left lane to dodge the guy turning in front of him, and in doing so he turned his car sideways a bit (angled), hit the curb, went completely sideways (somehow going between a smaller tree, a few bushes, and having his wheel just barely bump the street sign), hitting a tree in front of him that stopped him completely, the tree pretty much remaining unharmed (despite only being about 4-7 inches diameter). If he hadn't hit the tree and then bounced down into his normal position, he'd have slid right into some neighbors bedroom walls just over the hill.

Talked to the cop about the hilarity of it for a bit after stuff was taken care of, and he filled me in on what the actual witness said, then we helped him, the tow guy, and those last neighbors to gather up the remaining car parts.

I tried to take a picture on my phone, since that was all I had, but with all the lights around the area from vehicles, the flash wouldn't work and the car was too dark to tell anything. Funny enough, as usual, the driver was completely unharmed, with just a cut across his forehead. His pupils wouldn't dilate to light at all though, and he basically didn't even know where he was or remember much, supposedly a bit more beyond the shock typically encountered.

The first words of the tow guy the moment he got out of his truck were golden. "How the hell did he get up there?"