So, a man and his 1 year old child are taking a nice walk through the neighborhood when they happen to see a pickup truck parked in a driveway. Not so unusual in and of itself, but this truck was different. You see, it had a decapitated body hanging out the passenger window. The man called 911. When the police arrived they entered the house and found the owner of the vehicle asleep in his bed, still wearing bloody clothes. It turns out that the headless body belonged to the driver’s best friend. They had been coming home from a night of heavy drinking. One drunk driving the truck, the other hanging out the passenger window for whatever reason. The driver left theroad and clipped a telephone guywire, severing his outside mirror and his best friend’s head. Apparently the driver never realized what happened. He drove 12 more miles to his house, parked the truck and went to bed. The police found the severed head in some bushes beside the road.
Don’t believe me? Think it’s an urban legend? Nope, it’s all over the local news. Check out http://www.ajc.com/ for the story. You have to complete the free registration to see more than just the head line.
You didn’t believe him? Geez, a kick at my school got his arm cut quite seriously from sticking has arm out the school bus window. A low hanging tree branch clipped him. Luckily it was the skinny, tapered, leafy end so it had an effect more like a whip – cut his arm rather than lop it off.
BTW, check the pit for another thread on this subject.
Come to think of it, I’m not entirely sure why that other thread started out in the Pit. Must go re-read the OP…
picunurseIt is without a doubt true. The link I posted is the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The story has been all over the local radio and TV news. It happened in Cobb county, a suburb of Atlanta.
You know, I’ve been pretty drunk before, but never to the point where if I’d leave a heavily intoxicated friend in the car and go to bed, not to mention failing to notice that said friend was lacking a head, especially if I was covered in blood.
I seriously can’t imagine how he can claim he didn’t know. Being splattered with something warm and sticky would tip me off that all might not be well, especially if I’d just had an accident, and my friend wasn’t answering me.
You know, I can actually imagine something like this being said by the driver:
“What is this sh-- Man, you puked on me, gross. Don’t wanna wake up, huh? Alright, you can just sleep in the d— truck all night, see if I care!”
Because when you’re really trashed, you’re just not that strongly connected to reality. So maybe he thought the warm sticky was used booze? 'Specially if the driver had heaved once or twice himself, too.
My friends are always telling me to get drunk and have the time of life. This is why I prefer to avoid alcohol.
These guys probably thought they were having fun too.
“I have an idea. Let’s get so drunk we won’t remember the entire night! You know we’ll have fun then!”
How could he be sufficiently drunk not to notice what had happened, but still able to drive and find his way home? I mean, I know there’s this thing about drunks having homing instincts, but it seems rather odd that he’d actually manage to (more or less successfully) operate a motor vehicle if he was so wasted that he failed to notice his friend’s decapitated body spraying blood all over him.
