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RevolutionIsLive t1_jd49igb wrote

Reply to comment by Sub_pup in 2 Illinois teens on spring break killed in a sledding accident at Colorado's Copper Mountain | CNN by Lampwickhu

Sometimes I’ll have a drink with some old high school friends and we’ll reminisce about all the times we nearly died that our parents never heard about.

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xfd696969 t1_jd4c9ux wrote

It blows my mind how I was so stupid that I would get behind my car fucked up. I would never, ever do that now. And it was a normal thing for me/my friends back then. We didn't even think twice.

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Sub_pup t1_jd4k8je wrote

I use to get high and "hood surf". The one time I fell of at any real speed, my lucky ass landed in some thick bushes.

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[deleted] t1_jd4e00f wrote

I recall driving a moped home, 8 miles away down busy roads, while both—drunk on gas station cans of energy drink / alcohol, and high on more weed than I’d ever smoked in my life prior to that moment, at the ripe age of 14. I don’t remember the drive at all, except for a small insignificant moment where headlights from another car glimmered on the asphalt in front of me.

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357FireDragon357 t1_jd6meo8 wrote

SUMMER OF 1992 COCOA FLORIDA

I was 18 and I had an argument (with my then 33 year old stripper) girlfriend. I packed my beat up and rusty 1975 Chrysler Córdoba with furniture and hauled my drunk ass, speeding down U.S. #1 (jamming out to Guns N Roses with my Pioneer tape/radio )from Cocoa to Titusville. I was feeling freedom and great. So great that I waved to a cop that was sitting in the median.

About a mile down the road, I see blue lights flashing. I pulled over and he and he walks up to the side of my car and asks, "Do I know you?" I replied, 'No, why?'

His reply, "Because you waved to me back there. I thought I knew you." Nope! Just happy to be getting out of an abusive relationship.

Officer: "What's all that stuff in the back of your trunk?" Me: "I moved out"

Officer: "You been drinking?" Me: 'Yes sir'

Officer: "About how much?' Me: "About a fifth of Jack Daniels"

Officer: "Wow!" You seem pretty sober for drinking that much alcohol. How much further you gotta go and where you going?" Me: 'My parents house, which is about 3 more miles.'

Officer: "Ok, be safe and slow it down. I'm not going to arrest you because your speech is normal and honest and had the guts to be straight with me. Me: "Ok, thank you" (heart racing, thinking; damn I'm going to the slammer and no one's gonna bail me out.)

Similar incidents happened a few times in my late teens and early 20's. Thankfully never got locked up for it. I finally smartened up and realized it was frikken selfish of me and that I could hurt or kill someone.

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margot_in_space t1_jd583eu wrote

Glad you made it, but this is the biggest reason I hate driving lol

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2boredtocare t1_jd4jmz6 wrote

When I was 15, my two friends and I hopped a plane to visit the 4th friend who had recently moved to Arizona. I'm not telling tall tales, but we were good girls: honor roll, etc. Well, this 4th friend had become part of the "cool kids" clique in her new school, and the coolest thing for high schoolers to do was cross the border into Mexico where the drinking age was 16 at the time, and they barely checked ID. So off we went (this was way pre-9/11, border was open to Mexico and Canada back then) to a really fun little bar in Mexico that played great rock music. Things were going great until the music came to a screeching halt, the lights came on, and a bunch of armed men came in. I had never even seen a gun in person, and here's this group of men with guns pointed. They brusquely checked the bathrooms, talked to the manager, then left.

Now me, as a 15 year old girl WHOSE PARENTS DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I WAS IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, where I was drinking, for the first time, underage (I was a month away from turning 16) was about shit my damn pants.

Apparently it was a fairly common thing for bars to be checked that way for drugs, etc, but holy shit. All I could think was I'd have to call my parents from a Mexican prison, to tell them I had been busted drinking (i had all of 2 beers).

My girls are 16 and 19 now, and I don't even know how I would react if I found out they did something so stupid. lol. I mean, I'm sure they have, I guess they were also just smart enough to not get caught.

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19GK50 t1_jd51t37 wrote

Damn, was it Nogales ??

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2boredtocare t1_jd7uq4t wrote

Yes! lol. My first foreign country experience. Good old Nogales.

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19GK50 t1_jd7v7fu wrote

LOL, , I was in the service, Ft. Huachuca was my last station before discharge when I left Nam.

WHAT a EYE OPENER !

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Brock_Hard_Canuck t1_jd6vwal wrote

I remember when my dad first told me the story of when some of his friends from his high school actually did die.

Near my city, there's a very fast flowing river, called the Willow River. An "average" river flows at about 5 km per hour. The Willow River flows at about 30 km per hour.

About 50 years ago, 7 teenagers wanted to take a canoe / kayak trip down the Willow River to celebrate their high school graduation.

Unfortunately, the waters of the river are too tough and impassable, so they all drowned.

You can see a photo of the river in the article here, and also a video of what the water flowing through the canyon looks like too.

The Willow River is very rough in spring (when the boys took their trip), because all the water melts from the ice and snow on the mountains, and greatly increases the flow downstream.

https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/local-news/forty-years-after-river-tragedy-3699978

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VyBo6SVlog0

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