This drives me nuts. All fine and dandy until an airbag goes off. I will NOT let my wife do that.
Yeah, I saw the story before and I’ve got to nit-pick too. It’s a hatchet, not an ax. Also hate it that reporters call every and any type of construction equipment a ‘bulldozer’
And I bet it did bounce off the road. It had to lose speed to come crashing through the window.
Once had a piece of rebar fall off a truck in front of me while doing about 60 on the interstate. Bounced once and went harpoon-like through the radiator of my Volvo wagon. It was stopped by the front of the engine block. Mass mechanical chaos erupted, and I’m sitting on the side of I-85 in North Carolina waiting on a tow truck. 8 inches higher and it would have been in my windshield.
Shit happens.
Too bad he didn’t have just one stitch before he left home that day.
In this particular instance I believe Wiki is wrong.
I spent two summers doing a lot of brush/small tree cutting down in paw paw bottom swinging a double bit 6 pounder. I had nuff close calls to make me not want to do that anymore.
As a pilot, when things come through the front windows, ( buzzards, hawks, large hail chunks, etc., ) it usually made me squeak a bit so if I did not see it come off the truck & was a total surprise, yeah, I would prolly squeak :eek: but of course then I would make lightning quick ( I am way over qualified to do that ) decisions that would save the rest of the day. 
Well, I agree that something made it spin fast for it to chop that hole & stick in the dash that way but not hitting the wood end even once at those speeds to create that spin is questionable. The picture is actually pretty good for detail in that respect IMO
That is why my armor is so stained, it is a PITA to get really clean. I don’t have any serfs to do that for me & I;m lazy about it.
Perhaps he’s Rincewind.
Ok, I LOL’d
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Look up Gambler’s Fallacy
This is needlessly picky. Look in any dictionary. The entry for “hatchet” is going to start with " a small ax with…". You’re comment is akin to saying “that’s not a vehicle, it’s a Toyota Corolla”
…who axed the ‘e’ in ‘axe’?
I had an unsecured flashlight in my truck once. I was in a head on collision, and it flew past my head and embedded itself in the windshield. A few inches to the left, and it would have embedded itself in the back of my head.
Those horror stories they tell in driver’s ed can actually happen.
We Americans. Seriously. The change from “axe” to “ax” is an Americanism. One of the things that make American English, well, American is the dropping of letters that aren’t needed phonetically. To throw out an easy example: think about colour vs color.
Thanks, armdmonky. I know you guys favour ‘z’ over ‘s’, generally hate ‘u’ and will happily omit the odd ‘i’, but ‘ax’ just looks ridiculous.
I’m not playing Scrabble with any of you.
Sorry for the sidetrack.
I’m sure the passenger correctly identified the said item as a “FUUUCK!!”
Regardless of whether or not hatchets have hammer heads, what do you think a hatchet is, if not an axe?
I think you mean “foneticly”.
But it’s awesome in a menacing Yardie accent.
‘Did I ox you?’
I hate to break this to you, but Srabble was invented by an American.
ETA. I tried to make a joke about Scrabble, and I spelled it wrong. Take that as you will.
Did you even read the OP or any other post in the thread?
Inventing the tiles and board was the easy bit - actually arranging them into correctly spelled words, well…
Anyway, shouldn’t that be ‘Scrabl’?
I don’t like my American name. It’s like a digestive problem. Or the mutterings of someone recovering from an axe flying through the windscreen of their car.
I’ll remember that the next time I’m in a q.
