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Post by Clipper on Apr 22, 2021 15:56:42 GMT -5
I got held up in traffic just up the road when I went out this morning to look at a used motorhome. Some idiot was flying low going into Bristol and tried to turn a corner so fast that he climbed the guy wire on a pole all the way to the top of the pole, got the car tangled in the wires and broke off the top 10 feet of the pole. He ended up hanging upside down about 8 or 10 feet from the ground in his totally demolished car. The unbelievable thing is that the guy was able to walk away unscathed. He told the cop he was doing the speed limit and someone put their brakes on in front of him. The speed limit is 35 at that intersection, haha.
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Post by Clipper on Apr 22, 2021 16:12:35 GMT -5
When I went by on the way home a few minutes ago, they had 4 bucket boom trucks from the power company there. The car was upside down on a flat bed where they must have hooked cables to it, cut the guy wire and power lines where he was tangled in them, and lowered the car onto the flat bed. You could not even tell what make the car was. It was hard to tell how it would have been so torn up but both ends were demolished and the roof was flattened. I bet the first cop on the scene must have scratched his head wondering how they would ever get the car untangled, haha.
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Post by BHU on Apr 22, 2021 16:35:42 GMT -5
People have been cut in half by those guy wires. He is one lucky dude.
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Post by Clipper on Apr 22, 2021 16:42:38 GMT -5
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Post by artsyone on Apr 22, 2021 18:12:16 GMT -5
On the 14th of April, 1954, a Federal man sent word he better make his run no more. Son, his daddy told him, make this run your last, you're all tuned up and gassed, now if you can't get through, I'd rather have you back again than all that mountain dew. Crawling out of Nashville, revvin' up his mill, he shot the gap at Cumberland and streamed by MaynardVille. G men on his taillights, and some up ahead, the mountain boy took road that even angels feared to tread. He left the road at 90, that's all I have to say. the Devil got the moon shine and the mountain boy that day.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Apr 22, 2021 18:32:42 GMT -5
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Post by Clipper on Apr 22, 2021 22:04:28 GMT -5
LOL! The latest news update says that the driver was driving on a suspended license, had no insurance and received a summons for reckless driving. I first passed the scene a little after 3 this afternoon. When we just came in from bowling there was still 3 power company trucks there. The pole carries a lot of different communications as well as power, and there were two transformers on the pole also. I wouldn't mind getting the overtime pay that those guys must be accruing.  |
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Post by artsyone on Apr 23, 2021 8:30:05 GMT -5
Thanks. Robert Mitchem in the video doesn't quite cut it. I remember an earlier version, I knew all the words by heart and I used to sing it to myself before I went to bed. Some 9 year olds pray, I sang Thunder Road and other torch songs. My mother would only tolerate it so long, then she would yell at me to shut up and go to sleep. |
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Post by Clipper on Apr 23, 2021 21:55:18 GMT -5
On the 14th of April, 1954, a Federal man sent word he better make his run no more. Son, his daddy told him, make this run your last, you're all tuned up and gassed, now if you can't get through, I'd rather have you back again than all that mountain dew. Crawling out of Nashville, revvin' up his mill, he shot the gap at Cumberland and streamed by MaynardVille. G men on his taillights, and some up ahead, the mountain boy took road that even angels feared to tread. He left the road at 90, that's all I have to say. the Devil got the moon shine and the mountain boy that day. Funny you should mention the Cumberland Gap. We "shot the gap at Cumberland" just today. We went to Corbin Ky. to look at a real nice used motorhome. |
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Post by artsyone on Apr 24, 2021 14:07:17 GMT -5
Did the revanewers get ya?
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Post by Clipper on Apr 24, 2021 18:27:50 GMT -5
No, not today. It was a trial run. I'll bring the shine along when I determine it is safe. I have an idea to make double the money. I will go TO Kentucky with Tennessee moonshine and find a client to pay me to bring KENTUCKY shine back to Tennessee. No sense running empty on the return trip. |
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Post by artsyone on Apr 24, 2021 18:48:45 GMT -5
speaking of which: did you know there is a new movie out about the Loomis Gang? My greats on my mothers side were all hops farmers from Waterville and were somehow involved with them...
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Post by Clipper on Apr 24, 2021 20:21:57 GMT -5
My maternal grandmother's family farmed in the area. One of them actually owned land that was part of the Nine Mile Swamp. The family later farmed on the back side of Leland Pond and THAT farm is still in the family, although they sold the cows and quit farming years ago. That farm always brings back the memory of driving a motorized vehicle for the first time. They were picking up hay bales off the ground and putting them on a wagon. They let me slowly idle along with the tractor and I was instructed that when the told me to stop I was to stand up on the brake pedal and the clutch pedal at the same time. I was probably 10 at the time.
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