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[Eric P]

welcome back

that sucks.  i had something similar happen with my first car.  the oil basically vanished one day and it started smoking and caught a slight fire.  thankfully i carry a fire extinguisher so i could take care of it quickly

[demi]

So... was the food good? That's not even close to a near-death experience, btw.

[crimsondynamics]

As long as nothing happened to you or your mom it's cool.

I was about 1 second away from a fiery death in a vehicle once. The car suddenly stopped accelerating, and for some reason my instinct told me to turn off the car. Then this acrid smell of burnt rubber started seeping in.

When I checked, there was a short-circuit on this wire going from the engine compartment all the way to the fuel pump. It had less than a yard to go; if I hadn't turned off the car, the short-circuit would have continued burning.

[Great Rumbler]

I have a somewhat similar story:

Some years ago, I was riding on a school bus one morning, when smoke suddenly started coming from under the hood. As the driver grabbed the gear shift, a pillar of FIRE came up from under the vehicle and literally singed his hand. He grabbed the fire extinguisher and ran outside as smoke boiled from under the hood.

He put the fire out with a few blasts but by then the fire extinguisher was empty and we were stuck on the road about a mile from where several buses meet up to swap kids. So, the driver decides that he can make it since it's just a mile.

We get almost to the spot and the fire starts up again. As we're going down the road, FLAMES are shooting out from the bottom of the bus. The driver quickly pulls into the parking lot, opens the doors, and about thirty frightened grade-schoolers pile out of the bus and cower in fear behind nearby cars. Another driver comes over with a fresh extinguisher and helps put out the fire.

The bus's number was 13.

[xnikki118x]

I have a somewhat similar story:

Some years ago, I was riding on a school bus one morning, when smoke suddenly started coming from under the hood. As the driver grabbed the gear shift, a pillar of FIRE came up from under the vehicle and literally singed his hand. He grabbed the fire extinguisher and ran outside as smoke boiled from under the hood.

He put the fire out with a few blasts but by then the fire extinguisher was empty and we were stuck on the road about a mile from where several buses meet up to swap kids. So, the driver decides that he can make it since it's just a mile.

We get almost to the spot and the fire starts up again. As we're going down the road, FLAMES are shooting out from the bottom of the bus. The driver quickly pulls into the parking lot, opens the doors, and about thirty frightened grade-schoolers pile out of the bus and cower in fear behind nearby cars. Another driver comes over with a fresh extinguisher and helps put out the fire.

The bus's number was 13.

If this happened today, every single one of those kids' parents would be suing. Wow.

[Great Rumbler]

I have a somewhat similar story:

Some years ago, I was riding on a school bus one morning, when smoke suddenly started coming from under the hood. As the driver grabbed the gear shift, a pillar of FIRE came up from under the vehicle and literally singed his hand. He grabbed the fire extinguisher and ran outside as smoke boiled from under the hood.

He put the fire out with a few blasts but by then the fire extinguisher was empty and we were stuck on the road about a mile from where several buses meet up to swap kids. So, the driver decides that he can make it since it's just a mile.

We get almost to the spot and the fire starts up again. As we're going down the road, FLAMES are shooting out from the bottom of the bus. The driver quickly pulls into the parking lot, opens the doors, and about thirty frightened grade-schoolers pile out of the bus and cower in fear behind nearby cars. Another driver comes over with a fresh extinguisher and helps put out the fire.

The bus's number was 13.

If this happened today, every single one of those kids' parents would be suing. Wow.

I live in rural nowhere, so probably not.

The school I went to was super-poor and the bus route I rode was the longest and always had the junkiest buses. They were old, backfired on occasion, and broke down about once a month on the side of the road.

[crimsondynamics]

The bus's number was 13.

This happened to my old man in Taiwan:

He was going to a party, early evening - you could still see the skyline. He was going down this hill and he completely lost his brakes. The car just kept on speeding up downhill.

My dad caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a large shadow, so he assumed it was some large object that could break his speed. He was correct - it was a giant boulder just to the side of the road. He turned towards the boulder, the car flipped several times and finally stopped upside-down, totally crushed (it was a Ford Galaxy, btw).

He broke several metacarpals and was never able to make a fist with his left hand again. He broke a few other bones, but other than that, he was ok. He did take out a motorcyclist in the process, though, although the motorcyclist also eventually made it out alright.

What freaked my father out initially was hearing this guy scream, "My eyes! My eyes!" He thought he ran into someone and took out his eyes. It turned out that the guy was only looking for his eyeglasses (they both sound terribly similar in Chinese).

This all happened exactly one day after his car insurance ran out, and my dad figured "hell, what could possibly happen in one day?"

The date was April 4, 1974. Pretty ominous when you consider the accident happened in Taiwan, and normally buildings in Taiwan do not use the number 4 because the Chinese character for that number sounds very similar to the character meaning "death".

But then again, I've always believed it's bad luck to be superstitious...

[Great Rumbler]

That's some scary stuff. At least he lived through it without to much damage.