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Originally Posted by Mistress
instant karma's gonna get you....
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A few years ago I was driving the fire engine non-emergency to go check an old lady's smoke detector. As I prepared to turn left a Ford Ranger cut across from the lane that goes straigt and cut me off. I locked up the brakes and my Lt. yanked on the air horn at which time an arm with an extended middle finger came out of each window of the Ranger.
Due to the air horn blowing, drivers thought the fire engine needed the right of way and the cars pulled to the side to yield, except for the Ranger speeding through them. The fire engine continued on with the cars falling in behind us.
At the next intersection the Ranger pulled into a lane to turn left. As the engine continued past them going straight, they were so occupied with continuing to flip us off that they turned left into the path of an on coming flat bed truck carrying concrete blocks.
I saw what happened in my mirror, we turned the engine around and had to use the Jaws of Life to cut them out of the Ranger that had been rolled onto its side! As we were cutting them out of the truck we were telling the police officers and the ambulance crew about what happened leading up to the accident. All of the cars that had earlier pulled over also stopped with the drivers telling P.D. about the Ranger weaving through traffic and cutting the fire engine off.
Those guys had I.V.s started on them with the largest catheters we had, 14 gauge. P.D explained to the driver that due to the injuries to the passenger, he was looking at felony traffic charges. Plus they both admitted to being high on pot at the time.
I know it's a long post, but if that's not karma, I don't know what is