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probably ten full feet. Now he was wedged, tight.
They knew about letting the air out of the tires to lower the truck and free it up. They tried it and failed. They got another truck to pull on it. Tried it and failed. No, they had to offload all the expensive film equipment so they could torch off at least ten feet of roof.
I could tell it was only a marginally safe clearance to the ceiling, but to race the truck while barely missing the roof and then shoot up the exit with the uplifting ramp? He was in trouble now. If Fear Factor show wanted to film fear they just needed to get their own driver's face as he watched his truck and his job collide.
DRIVING STUNTS
If you drive a cab for more than a year you will have many stories about driving stunts. You may even be one of them.
The worst I ever saw was on the frontage road, now called Dean Martin Road. This one would have rolled Dean over in the box. I saw the police fatal team wrapping up their investigation on an accident that was severely ghoulish. Evidently, at 3:00 a.m. a pickup truck full of celebrating off-duty Air Force airmen who had some fun earlier and had some girls with them in the truck and in back, drifted over the line at high speed and hit a poor limo driver, unloaded, hurrying back to the Strip for his last ride of the night.
All I saw was the white stretch-limo front end, motor and all pushed back into the passenger area. This was a distance of at least seven feet. After a horrible scene like that the mind protects us by saying thing like "He never felt a thing, he was gone so fast he was in heaven before the tires stopped.” I would want to be out of there between, "Oh...” and… “S_ _ T."
We found out later he was well-liked and missed. Now his spirit can ride in any limo any time he wants.
++++
I saw an accident that could have been bad, but wasn't. In fact, it was funny. By the airport, in a motel parking lot I spotted a limo lying on its back. Limo drivers think they are better drivers than taxi drivers but this made it totally clear. They are not better, just longer.
This driver had rolled his stretch limo. How do you roll a stretch limo with that long base and very heavy chassis? We got to laugh because the driver was out laughing and there were no passengers or ambulances, just a motorcycle cop taking his helmet off, to stay a while.
Every time I drove by the scene to take people to the airport, more and more cops arrived to enjoy a look. Too bad this was before cell phone cameras because this was such an oddity in our world. Again and again I went by trying to figure how he did it. Then I saw the car's location with new eyes and I think I know the only way he could have managed it.
I think the driver entered the parking lot of the motel a little bit too fast for this driveway ramp. The entry angle could very possibly start the car to rock. And then I noticed broken bricks on a flower planter, suggesting he hit this, too. A bigger bump so soon after the other bump, and at just the right time, would give the limo two large flexes and possibly rock it up and even over. Years before, I had seen a stunt driver do it on TV, on purpose.
Hollywood stunt driver, Joey Chittwood, showed everybody how he rolled cars up on two wheels and drove them this way. He would overfill the tires on the driver’s side and run the car up a short ramp at just the right speed. This would rock the car up, intentionally. This crazy stunt was visually freaky but was easy for one who practiced it. This limo driver guy was not expecting it, and he was now waiting for his boss to show up. I drove on.
++++
Another driver pulled a unique stunt. While he was fleeing a felony with cop cars right behind him he decided to use the Strip to escape. What was he thinking? He must not be from around here
“ Maybe this bad idea showed why he turned to a life of crime. He didn't have a clue.
They knew about letting the air out of the tires to lower the truck and free it up. They tried it and failed. They got another truck to pull on it. Tried it and failed. No, they had to offload all the expensive film equipment so they could torch off at least ten feet of roof.
I could tell it was only a marginally safe clearance to the ceiling, but to race the truck while barely missing the roof and then shoot up the exit with the uplifting ramp? He was in trouble now. If Fear Factor show wanted to film fear they just needed to get their own driver's face as he watched his truck and his job collide.
DRIVING STUNTS
If you drive a cab for more than a year you will have many stories about driving stunts. You may even be one of them.
The worst I ever saw was on the frontage road, now called Dean Martin Road. This one would have rolled Dean over in the box. I saw the police fatal team wrapping up their investigation on an accident that was severely ghoulish. Evidently, at 3:00 a.m. a pickup truck full of celebrating off-duty Air Force airmen who had some fun earlier and had some girls with them in the truck and in back, drifted over the line at high speed and hit a poor limo driver, unloaded, hurrying back to the Strip for his last ride of the night.
All I saw was the white stretch-limo front end, motor and all pushed back into the passenger area. This was a distance of at least seven feet. After a horrible scene like that the mind protects us by saying thing like "He never felt a thing, he was gone so fast he was in heaven before the tires stopped.” I would want to be out of there between, "Oh...” and… “S_ _ T."
We found out later he was well-liked and missed. Now his spirit can ride in any limo any time he wants.
++++
I saw an accident that could have been bad, but wasn't. In fact, it was funny. By the airport, in a motel parking lot I spotted a limo lying on its back. Limo drivers think they are better drivers than taxi drivers but this made it totally clear. They are not better, just longer.
This driver had rolled his stretch limo. How do you roll a stretch limo with that long base and very heavy chassis? We got to laugh because the driver was out laughing and there were no passengers or ambulances, just a motorcycle cop taking his helmet off, to stay a while.
Every time I drove by the scene to take people to the airport, more and more cops arrived to enjoy a look. Too bad this was before cell phone cameras because this was such an oddity in our world. Again and again I went by trying to figure how he did it. Then I saw the car's location with new eyes and I think I know the only way he could have managed it.
I think the driver entered the parking lot of the motel a little bit too fast for this driveway ramp. The entry angle could very possibly start the car to rock. And then I noticed broken bricks on a flower planter, suggesting he hit this, too. A bigger bump so soon after the other bump, and at just the right time, would give the limo two large flexes and possibly rock it up and even over. Years before, I had seen a stunt driver do it on TV, on purpose.
Hollywood stunt driver, Joey Chittwood, showed everybody how he rolled cars up on two wheels and drove them this way. He would overfill the tires on the driver’s side and run the car up a short ramp at just the right speed. This would rock the car up, intentionally. This crazy stunt was visually freaky but was easy for one who practiced it. This limo driver guy was not expecting it, and he was now waiting for his boss to show up. I drove on.
++++
Another driver pulled a unique stunt. While he was fleeing a felony with cop cars right behind him he decided to use the Strip to escape. What was he thinking? He must not be from around here
“ Maybe this bad idea showed why he turned to a life of crime. He didn't have a clue.
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