When I read this i was amazed. I recommend you check it out.
http://www.iwsti.com/forums/general/214177-my-sti-saved-three-lives-yesterday.html
Wowzers. That’s pretty crazy he made it out, even more so that the car still worked!
Well, I don’t think that is a 6 foot diameter tree, but HOLY SHIT @ pic.
Props to his ability to makes those calls in a split second.
I wonder if the car did a wheelie
Definitely one for the ages right there. Subaru has some commercials about saving lives, I wonder if this story could end up into one of them.
I’m sure if he pitches it to Subaru, he’s gonna get a nice present from them.
I’m gonna go with he screamed like a girl, the car never moved and he was damn lucky the tree landed on the trunk and not the roof.
yeah wtf, the tree hit them still.
what a shitty story
Wow. Incredible damage:
^lol?
edit meant for breaker
im gonna re write the story to make it better
---------- Post added at 09:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:57 PM ----------
The sheer magnitude of this story makes it difficult to recollect. Nothing like it has ever happened to me or anyone I know. It is probably best to start at the beginning.
I was one of those irritating new blackberry forum posters. I spent months reading and lurking through the sites and had a number of what I would consider ‘new blackberry shopping question’. Everyone was patient and helpful even though they had probably given the same advice a hundred times to people just like me: get a 9700 and headset, don’t forget to check out the torch website as there is a ton of good information there.
This led me to purchase my first Blackberry: a Black 9700. Words can’t describe how much I’ve enjoyed this phone. It was a college graduation present to myself and there is nothing I’ve enjoyed more. I had a 8gb memory card and a slick new case for it. What I would consider tasteful modifications.
Two days ago, my brother and I spent the entire day installing my new screen protector. Going to pacific mall for the protector was the most rewarding process I have –ever- done to a phone. The goal was to complete the upgrade so I could put the phone in my pocket the next day.
Yesterday was a beautiful day. I, my girlfriend Alia, and my class mate Pat headed to the Cineplex to see Battle LA for the first time. The conditions where beautiful, but unfortunately they wouldn’t remain that way for long. We got to the theater at around 7 pm.
On the way in we dove directly into line in the middle of the march break while kids were just realizing they were off for a week. Within no more than 30 seconds, we went from typical white people seeing a movie, to an onslaught of seventy vampire loving tweens. It was here I knew we were in trouble.
We were the only “adults” in sight and the tweens were discussing team Edward and team Jacob. Love struck kids battled as I attempted to navigate between the spit of the kids with braces. I then noticed the first tween, easily 13 years old and probably 6 feet in height, shouting in front of us. I stopped moving in line and the kid started moaning about how twilight isn’t real, but warewolves are cooler then vampires anyway.
At this point the sheer magnitude of the situation pressed on me. We were surrounded on both sides by disgusting pimply faced tweens. In addition, we were easily 30 minutes to the front of the line and getting around the kids would have been impossible.
I did the only thing that made sense. I whipped out my blackberry and intended to order the tickets with an app. I gave it some time to load and witnessed the worst thing I have ever seen in my life; braces, bigger than I had ever seen, in the mouth of a kid about to talk. His jaw was at roughly a forty degree angle already and the next second was the longest in my life. Three things happened within the next second. I did my best to judge where his spit was going to fall; it was directly on the screen of my blackberry. I then ripped the phone from app surfing and into locked mode so I could put it in my pocket out of harms way. Knowing there was nothing more to be done I screamed ‘get down’.
No more than a quarter of a second later the spit fell on top of it. The spray was like nothing I had ever seen before. The screen was darker now, under the girth of the wetness it blotted out the backlight. I wheeled around to check on Alia and Pat. Everyone was okay. I turned off my phone and attempted to judge the situation. There were five-inch wide drips surrounding the phone. Several of which were on top of the case. The screen protector had held.
I fired the 9700 to life and it rumbled with the sound of power. The phone groaned as it began to boot up. My faithful blackberry, with its brand new case modification still worked after water damage. We got out of the theater and ran to dry off the phone in the parking lot and wait out the line.
My faithful blackberry, with its brand new case protected itself from a disgusting kid with braces. Its screen protector had stopped 5 inch droplets from getting it all nasty. The spit of the fucker fell less than two inches behind where the battery was sitting. If any of these circumstances had been changed I would have had to get a new phone.
I’m going to include the pictures we took of the accident. Take a look at the angle the spit hit the phone. That shows the strength of the case. The phone walked out without a scratch after having a young mutant nearly kill it. Today, a blackberry saved its life.
that is nuts.
agreed^
Ummm, what? You realize they almost died?
that tree doesn’t look as big as he says, but in that region there are definitely some insanely large trees
100%
you realize people almost die everyday?
you realize that i commute into markham everyday?
you realize that 16 year old chinese girls on cellphones are way more dangerous then a shitty tree?
you realize that i dont come home after said commute and write a 2 page blog entry about almost getting killed by said girls?
who cares, the fucking guy broke his car and told a sub par story that probably isnt even real. id rather read a documentary about limestone then read his post again.
wow breaker, you’re an asshole
Yeah lol, who pissed in your cheerios?