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krazykuda said:
Th,ey had a hell of a crash in Palos Heights not far from my friend Doug's house that closed the road and bridge down that I use to get to his place... Luckily it wasn't when I was going there, but his wife was trying to go that way and had to re-route around it...

It split a fox body Mustang in half... Literally... Look at the picture of the whole car and notice there is no rear wheels/axle... :wtf:

It separated the back of the car from the front... :wtf:


Ridgeland Reopens After 2-Car Crash In Palos Heights

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Kragle!

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Sublime one said:
Sadly I have to jump off as it is Loud Lunch Friday and I need to pack up my kit. Explanation: LLF is when a bunch of us take a mess of pistols to the range and shoot for lunch, hence loud lunch! One of my buddies has never shot a model 29 so I am dragging mine out of retirement and going to let him burn some ammo thru it. We have a blast. Then wash it all down with a burger and adult beverage. Nice way to end a week.
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I wouldn't recommend washing down your guns with a burger... The burger will leave a residue on the gun...
 
krazykuda said:
They had a hell of a crash in Palos Heights not far from my friend Doug's house that closed the road and bridge down that I use to get to his place... Luckily it wasn't when I was going there, but his wife was trying to go that way and had to re-route around it...

It split a fox body Mustang in half... Literally... Look at the picture of the whole car and notice there is no rear wheels/axle... :wtf:

It separated the back of the car from the front... :wtf:


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Man that is horrible. I hope the person/person's are ok.
 
krazykuda said:
They had a hell of a crash in Palos Heights last Friday not far from my friend Doug's house that closed the road and bridge down that I use to get to his place... Luckily it wasn't when I was going there, but his wife was trying to go that way and had to re-route around it...

It split a fox body Mustang in half... Literally... Look at the picture of the whole car and notice there is no rear wheels/axle... :wtf:

It separated the back of the car from the front... :wtf:


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Somebody got hurt bad in that one..
 
memike said:
that looks bad !! Was it a bridge that lifts ?
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No, just one of those metal bridges that are permanent... They have many of them to cross the Cal-Sag river/channel here...

Interesting that the Cal-Sag channel/river was dug by hand by the Irish here way back in the day... There are barges and boats going up and down it... However, they don't recommend going in the water or eating any fish out of there as it's as polluted as the Chicago River... They are doing a study at Argon National Laboratory here to see what they can do to clean it up and balance the pollutants in both rivers.... Argon National Laboratory was part of the Manhattan Project....

I guess that's one of the reason's that there is a large Irish population around here... 25% of the population of Palos Park is Irish, the next most popular population is 16%, so the Irish are the majority around here.. Nothing wrong with that, they are good people and great neighbors...

The old guy across the street that passed away last year was Irish, and his father and my grandpa used to garden together in his empty lot across the street... I would not be surprised if they spent alot of the time BS'ing and drinking beer.... Our families have been friends for 4 generations...

The lady next to me on the corner is also Irish... That's the one that I help with the yard maintenance and snow blowing...

There is also a big Gaelec center not far from here and they have a HUGE picnic every spring...

There are so many of them that they are known as the "South Side Irish"... They even have t-shirts that say that...
 
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The Irish are a fun bunch. We have a big celebration here every summer.
 
memike said:
yes it is, but if you look at her white chest paint Buddy looks just like her, spooky eh !! They both are black face
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A chip of the old block... :thumbsup:

I had a great Dalmatian when I first got married... She was so perfect for our family and I would love to get one related to her... However I think she was from one of the puppy mills in Missouri... So was the other one that we had at the same time... They were both from Missouri and born one day apart, with one brown eye and one blue eye, but on opposite sides... We got them from the same pet store in Detroit right after we got married... Different parents, but they were such a great match for each other... I called them bookends as when they sat together the same color eye was on the inside with the opposite one on the outside...

The male turned out to be deaf, but that was no handicap to him as he keyed off the female who was the dominant one... I didn't know he was deaf until he was 9 months old and my dad was watching them while we were moving from Arkansas to Michigan and he took him to the vet and had his hearing tested while he was there... He was completely deaf, with no ear drums formed from birth... But he picked up on training just as fast as the one that could hear as I trained them both with voice commands and hand signals at the same time...

I would flash the flood lights on and off two times to call them in from the back yard at night... I was able to train the female to "go get Buster" and she would go find him in the yard and let him know it was time to come in...

Buster had good peripheral vision, one time we had some chicken from a local chicken joint and we put the leftovers on the kitchen counter... They raided the leftovers and when I was coming down stairs, saw them in the kitchen and buster caught me in his peripheral vision and dropped his chicken and hi-tailed it to their bed in the living room... The female kept eating and as I walked in the kitchen said, "You're busted"... She dropped the chicken and made a round to the living room, passed up their bed and tried to go back through the kitchen and pick up the chicken again... I told her that she was busted again, then she went to the living room to their bed and hung out with Buster...

Another time she was being stubborn and was not listening to me... Buster did, and I told her, "He's deaf and he listens better than you"... She didn't know how to respond to that when I called her out...

They were great dogs...
 
toolmanmike said:
The Irish are a fun bunch. We have a big celebration here every summer.
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I had an Irish room mate from Boston my first year of college... Let me tell you - don't get in the way of an Irish man and his beer/liquor... That's grounds for a fight...

However, buy them a beer or whiskey and you make a friend....

He would stay at the frat parties until the keg ran dry... He stumbled in at 9 or 10 AM the next morning many times after a frat party... Then would tell me to make sure that he's awake by 5 or 6 that evening for the next party...

He had a large beer mug that could hold two beers and would hold it with both hands so it wouldn't spill when people bumped him trying to pass by at a full party... He would hold it with one hand on the bottom and one hand on the handle...
 
R4Sedan said:
Man that is horrible. I hope the person/person's are ok.
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Ben Drinkin said:
Somebody got hurt bad in that one..
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toolmanmike said:
Another Mustang crash!
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memike said:
that looks bad !! Was it a bridge that lifts ?
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More info on the crash:

PALOS HEIGHTS, IL -- A man was seriously injured Friday afternoon when his Ford Mustang split in half after crashing into another vehicle on the Ridgeland Avenue bridge, Palos Heights police said. The man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Ridgeland Avenue was closed in both directions during the afternoon rush hour between Route 83 and 115th Street.

Deputy Chief Bill Czajkowski, of the Palos Heights Police Department, said they received a call of an accident around 3:20 p.m. on the Palos Heights-Worth border. The Ford Mustang, driven by a sole male driver, was traveling southbound when the Mustang hit an SUV traveling northbound in the middle of the bridge. Witnesses told police that the driver of the Mustang appeared to have lost control of the car.

The Mustang shot across the bridge into the northbound lanes and struck the guardrail, shearing the car in half, ejecting the driver. The car came to rest in the southbound lanes. The woman driving the SUV did not appear to have serious injuries. The driver of the Mustang was "not in good shape" and appeared to be unconscious, the deputy chief said.

Worth and Palos Heights police continue to investigate. Czajkowski said the drivers of both vehicles appeared to be in their thirties. He did not know the condition of the injured Mustang driver.

There was so much debris from both vehicles that we had to bring in a street sweeper," the deputy chief said. "It took some time for the towing company to dislodge the rear half of the Mustang that was impaled on the guard rail."

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krazykuda said:
A chip of the old block... :thumbsup:

I had a great Dalmatian when I first got married... She was so perfect for our family and I would love to get one related to her... However I think she was from one of the puppy mills in Missouri... So was the other one that we had at the same time... They were both from Missouri and born one day apart, with one brown eye and one blue eye, but on opposite sides... We got them from the same pet store in Detroit right after we got married... Different parents, but they were such a great match for each other... I called them bookends as when they sat together the same color eye was on the inside with the opposite one on the outside...

The male turned out to be deaf, but that was no handicap to him as he keyed off the female who was the dominant one... I didn't know he was deaf until he was 9 months old and my dad was watching them while we were moving from Arkansas to Michigan and he took him to the vet and had his hearing tested while he was there... He was completely deaf, with no ear drums formed from birth... But he picked up on training just as fast as the one that could hear as I trained them both with voice commands and hand signals at the same time...

I would flash the flood lights on and off two times to call them in from the back yard at night... I was able to train the female to "go get Buster" and she would go find him in the yard and let him know it was time to come in...

Buster had good peripheral vision, one time we had some chicken from a local chicken joint and we put the leftovers on the kitchen counter... They raided the leftovers and when I was coming down stairs, saw them in the kitchen and buster caught me in his peripheral vision and dropped his chicken and hi-tailed it to their bed in the living room... The female kept eating and as I walked in the kitchen said, "You're busted"... She dropped the chicken and made a round to the living room, passed up their bed and tried to go back through the kitchen and pick up the chicken again... I told her that she was busted again, then she went to the living room to their bed and hung out with Buster...

Another time she was being stubborn and was not listening to me... Buster did, and I told her, "He's deaf and he listens better than you"... She didn't know how to respond to that when I called her out...

They were great dogs...
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my little brother had one also, great fellow but was deaf also.. fun story thank you for sharing
 
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