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Old Jan 14, 2007 | 04:24 PM
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Default Very lucky driver
This driver had someone watching over him...

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Old Jan 14, 2007 | 05:44 PM
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Yikes! Yikes!! And triple yikes!!!

If that was me they'd have to carry me out of the truck and up the bank because my whole body would be a quivering mass of Jell-O....
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Old Jan 14, 2007 | 08:30 PM
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my stomach dropped looking at that pic!
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Old Jan 14, 2007 | 09:15 PM
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I wish I can see a video clip of how it happened . . .
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Old Jan 14, 2007 | 10:16 PM
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woh... scary.... my jaws dropped when i saw the second pic

those rescue workers should have some safety harness or something


good thing no one died there
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Old Jan 15, 2007 | 12:18 AM
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WOW...OMG! He has some thanking to do to someone. I only see a break in the guard rail on the other side of the drainage tunnel, I hope he didn't jump it or something.
BTW is that like a little village at the bottom?lol
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Old Jan 15, 2007 | 12:29 AM
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DAMN! Lucky indeed. That is a LOOONG drop with nothing to break the fall except the ground at the very bottom.
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My heart skipped a beat when i saw that second picture. HOLY SH@T.
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I would have still been screaming and wetting myself while the rescue people peeled me out of my car...
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WHA!!!
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The rescuers don't seem rattled. Someone mentioned on another forum that it's a photoshop, but I can't see it being one.
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Originally Posted by DriftNsc3
BTW is that like a little village at the bottom?lol
no i think those are some cars that have already fallen from before! i'm not clearly sure but i think i see a bus in there or something

i was letting my friends see this on the other forum and they jumped like hell - got scared when they saw the next picture!!!
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Originally Posted by manila_boy
no i think those are some cars that have already fallen from before! i'm not clearly sure but i think i see a bus in there or something

i was letting my friends see this on the other forum and they jumped like hell - got scared when they saw the next picture!!!
i think its just garbage brought by that sewage drainage pipe above the cliff
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