Actually, I don’t have the whole story yet, just listened to a frantic voicemail from my sister-in-law. Apparently he thought the truck wasn’t starting/running properly so he got out to check and it somehow ran him over. He is on his way to the Emergency Room with a suspected separated shoulder. This was “the work truck”, not sure how big it is, but I’m guessing fairly big.
I suspect he climbed under to take a look and it either went in gear or just rolled over him. He lives in Virginia Beach, and his wife is on the way to the hospital. They have a couple of very young kids, plus one older, and she is pregnant again, so I hope she is careful on the way there.
I hope he’s okay because it will make the next family holiday so much fun. Might have to get t-shirts made.
Her car was leaking transmission fluid. She only added more when the car basically would not go when put in drive. She was putting the fluid in one time but forgot to put the car back in park. As soon as enough fluid hit the gears it knocked her to the ground crossed over the lawn then over a curb and then across the street and hit a building.
Lucky she was not hurt or anyone else for that matter.
Minor Hijack:
My wife and I were inside our bedroom when we heard a “boom” followed by some screaming. I ran outside to find our neighbor lying beside her SUV, which was backed into her now-destroyed block wall. The neighbor was hysterical, and kept saying that she had “fallen out.” We called 911, and finally figured out that she had tried to get out of the SUV while it was in reverse. It started moving, she fell, and got tangled in the seat belt, and was dragged as the SUV made a big circle out of her driveway and around until it hit the fence. The neighbor was not seriously injured, but when she got back from the Emergency room, she said that the doctors told her that they see this happen frequently, and often the people get run over, so she was pretty damn lucky.
Sorry, connectivity issues off and on for most of the days. Initial follow up was that he’d been given some opiates and was awaiting surgical consultation. Later heard that he’d been sent home (probably with more painkillers) and has to go back in a week to see if needs surgery.
This brother joined the Marines when he was 16, so he has plenty of pain tolerance and generally dopeyness to spare (he’s been out of active duty for well over 20 years). His wife is Navy and just completing her JD.
