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Motorcycle crash commercial..

fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
edited May 2009 in General Discussion
Anyone else have to turn the channel, or look away when it comes on?
The crash looks so real, it gives me the willies, every time!![xx(]
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  • asphalt cowboyasphalt cowboy Member Posts: 8,904 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Haven't seen it. Is it put out by MSF or the insurance companies?
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    MSF, i believe. It makes no mention of ins. companies,just to LOOK # TIMES, before you pull out into an intersection.
    Looks so real, it gives me the willies!!
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932
    edited November -1
    It gets your attention!
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,639 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I came upon a car vs. motorcycle wreck yesterday afternoon about 5 minutes after it happened. Man and his 9 year-old daughter were riding. 89 year old women turned left into them as they were going probably 55 - 60 MPH.

    Ran to help, but the situation was being handled well. There was nothing I could add, and would have just been in the way like 5 or 6 others that were standing around. It was one of the most gruesome things I have seen.

    Daughter died at the scene. Father is in serious condition, legs appeared to be shattered, doubt he'll ever walk again.

    The commercial has always bothered me. It is nothing compared to the real thing.
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  • JamesQuinnJamesQuinn Member Posts: 123 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I gave up motorcycles after a similar wreck cost a friend his leg. The driver of the car "never saw him".

    Many, many times I dodged cars which never saw me, and I quit while I was ahead.
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,093 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There are only two types of motorcycle riders: Those that have crashed, and those that are about to crash.

    I've been to too many fatal crashes. You will not get me on a motorcycle on the road.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

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  • bhale187bhale187 Member Posts: 7,798
    edited November -1
    Everytime I get a wild hair and decide I'm ready to buy a motorcycle I come across another MC crash adn the rider is splattered across the road, 9 times out of 10 at no fault of the MC rider.
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  • Allison9Allison9 Member Posts: 388 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you ride, just wear a helmet. In our area, I'm on fire dept, it is the difference between a ambulance, or a medevac chopper,ride to the hospital.
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  • Tailgunner1954Tailgunner1954 Member Posts: 7,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Allison9
    If you ride, just wear a helmet. In our area, I'm on fire dept, it is the difference between a ambulance, or a medevac chopper,ride to the hospital.


    Helmet = the difference between a smashed skull and a severed spinal cord. Now, in a low speed "Tommy tip over" and off road riding, the helmet is helpfull, and they do a nice job of keeping your "pocket plunder" together overnight, but that's about it.
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  • HavegunJoeHavegunJoe Member Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm new to riding. Just started last year as a matter of fact and I love it. I haven't seen or been in an accident yet and I hope I never will. There are a lot of idiots out there with driver's licenses that is for sure and it does scare me. I try to be extra vigilant when riding.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by HavegunJoe
    I'm new to riding. Just started last year as a matter of fact and I love it. I haven't seen or been in an accident yet and I hope I never will. There are a lot of idiots out there with driver's licenses that is for sure and it does scare me. I try to be extra vigilant when riding.




    You will. Me I hope I've paid my Dues. Deer were my payment. Even thinking about it my right knee starts to hurt.
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  • jeffie076jeffie076 Member Posts: 1,965 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've been riding for 35 years[:0]......3 major wrecks[:0], still no fears[:D]!
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  • asphalt cowboyasphalt cowboy Member Posts: 8,904 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by HavegunJoe
    . I try to be extra vigilant when riding.


    Don't try, Do, be extra vigilant. The most nimble machine or brightest riding gear won't keep you alive. That gray matter betwixt yer ears will though.

    I've been riding since early 1982 and I've only been down twice. The first was unavoidable. He caught me setting with my side stand down, pulling my helmet off. The second was avoidable. I focused a fraction too long on one cager, and another got me.
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  • Bubba Jr.Bubba Jr. Member Posts: 8,301 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My cousin was a deputy sheriff in Arizona years ago. He was on his motorcycle on his way to work when some fool passed him on a curve and forced him into a guard rail. He lost his right leg and his right arm was pretty much rendered useless, plus other injuries. He was put on disability, eventually moved to Florida, became a hermit, and wound up taking his own life.

    When I was still young and stupid, I traded a friend of mine his Triumph Bonneville for my Plymouth Satellite for the day once. I got all that nonsense out of my system that day, and have never had the desire to get back on one since. Nobody was hurt or killed that day, but it wasn't for lack of trying.[}:)]
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  • dakotashooter2dakotashooter2 Member Posts: 6,186
    edited November -1
    Riding a bike really requires that you be an accomplished DEFENSIVE DRIVER. It is really best to assume that no-one sees you and drive accordingly.
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