# Were you driving with a bag over your head?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-driving-with-a-bag-over-your-head/317318>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 16, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-driving-with-a-bag-over-your-head/317318 "2005-08-16T20:29:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Obsidian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/51bf81/32.png) [@Obsidian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obsidian)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-driving-with-a-bag-over-your-head/317318/21 "2005-08-17T00:03:44Z")

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> [@Revtim](#):
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> Heh, I knew what cervical collar is, I even did a Google image search just to make sure. I was making what some call a “joke”.

Now, now. Messing with the narcotics addled is just mean 😛

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**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-driving-with-a-bag-over-your-head/317318/22 "2005-08-17T01:53:03Z")

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> [@vetbridge](#):
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> I have known people in **Obsidian’s** _exact_ situation who have collected from the driver of the vehicle they were in. Kinda weird going after a friend, but totally legit. IANAL.

Well, that would be a little weird, defiinitely - I was referring to the other car, whose driver’s actions were the direct cause of the injury.

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-driving-with-a-bag-over-your-head/317318/23 "2005-08-17T03:39:48Z")

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> [@Obsidian](#):
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> Now, now. Messing with the narcotics addled is just mean 😛

Tramadol is classified as a non-narcotic.

Hope you get to feeling better. Good luck with your seminar.

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**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-driving-with-a-bag-over-your-head/317318/24 "2005-08-18T04:29:07Z")

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> [@askeptic](#):
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> Then you are doing it wrong.

…i thought it was funny…

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**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-driving-with-a-bag-over-your-head/317318/25 "2005-08-18T14:41:49Z")

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Hey **Obsidian** this wouldn’t have been near 880 in Hayward would it? I swear morons stalk that part of the freeways here.

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-driving-with-a-bag-over-your-head/317318/26 "2005-08-18T23:05:39Z")

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> [@vetbridge](#):
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> Kinda weird going after a friend, but totally legit. IANAL.

I wouldn’t call it weird. I’d call it pretty shitty, since it’s due to Friend’s fast reflexes that **Obisidian** wasn’t more seriously injured.

Feel better soon.

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**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-you-driving-with-a-bag-over-your-head/317318/27 "2005-08-19T12:15:03Z")

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> [@ivylass](#):
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> I wouldn’t call it weird. I’d call it pretty shitty, since it’s due to Friend’s fast reflexes that **Obisidian** wasn’t more seriously injured.

Yes, but in a similar situation _with_ severe injuries, it may have been how things wound up. I am not an insurance guy, but I think that if **Obsidian** had been hospitalized, his medical insurance would have attempted to subrogate via the driver’s insurance company.

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