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When it's not your time to die
Just had a call from an old friend. Like us, she went skiing at
half-term, with her daughter. And she took a tumble and (it turned out) did her cruciate ligaments in one knee. Anyway, she was very high up at Les Arcs, and for some reason the ski-doo blood wagon couldn't get to her, or there wasn't one available anyway, so she was loaded into the old-fashioned stretcher with one rescue bod fore and one aft. You know the things. And off they set. "All you can see is sky," she said "because you're strapped in." And then there was a loud *CRACK*. That was one of the handles breaking off, that was. And off went the stretcher, with nobody holding it, and her still strapped in. It didn't slide. It rolled. Snow-sky-snow-sky-snow-sky-snow-sky and by the grace of God she still had her helmet and goggles on as her face was being mashed into the snow on every revolution. It came to a halt 10 feet from the edge of a precipice. The rescue bods caught up "looking shocked". I bet they did. They must have thought: "Oh well, we're not going to get that one back." -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com |
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