Blaze
01-18-2007, 11:49 AM
This week I was stuck working in Coalinga at a state mental help prison. There aren't a lot of happy people there....or sane ones.
I took off around 330 to head home to my family. I was travelling southbound on the I5, when suddenly it happened. Traffic. Yes, yes, it may come as no surprise to many, but this time, there was something different about it all. As I rounded the last bend heading into the base of the grapevine pass, I realized that all cars were being diverted off the freeway, but why? I pulled into a shell station and asked what was going on and I learned some startling news. Apparently, the pass was all but shut down. The cause of this was, again, snow.
I waited in the cue for a little over an hour when suddenly it happened. The CHP, got on the loud speakers and made an announcement that to this day and hour sends chills down my spine. "The pass is closed," they said, "go back to Bakersfield." But I knew better (or so I thought).
Rocketing Northbound on the 5 I took the 58 freeway across the badlands and into the middle of BFE. Cossing over nowhere, I found the 14 and later the 138 somewhere just past hicksville. The roads were narrow, but somehow passable and some 3-4 hours later, it suddenly happened. Like a brilliant ray of light, the clouds parted and the southbound 5 again appeared in front of me.
Another few hours on the road and my 7 hour drive home was complete. I pulled into the driveway, and stumbled out of my car. I walked into a dark house and navigated though it to my bedroom. And here....HERE is where it happened. HERE is where I made the final, FINAL discovery, of which this inane post is subjected. My son, my own flesh and blood had somehow gotten a hold of my car and recked it. How, I have no idea. No, it wasn't the evo and no, it wasn't the M. My son (age 1) has crashed, my Ferrari. I was told it fell of it's rolled off it's stands, fell and hit so abruptly that the two rear hubs broke away.
Pictures below.
http://www.socalevo.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10569/normal_100_0950.JPG
http://www.socalevo.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10569/normal_100_0952.JPG
And the next time something says ages 3+, I hope you'll understand that manufacturers put that there for a reason.
This is a tragedy that could have been avoided.
I took off around 330 to head home to my family. I was travelling southbound on the I5, when suddenly it happened. Traffic. Yes, yes, it may come as no surprise to many, but this time, there was something different about it all. As I rounded the last bend heading into the base of the grapevine pass, I realized that all cars were being diverted off the freeway, but why? I pulled into a shell station and asked what was going on and I learned some startling news. Apparently, the pass was all but shut down. The cause of this was, again, snow.
I waited in the cue for a little over an hour when suddenly it happened. The CHP, got on the loud speakers and made an announcement that to this day and hour sends chills down my spine. "The pass is closed," they said, "go back to Bakersfield." But I knew better (or so I thought).
Rocketing Northbound on the 5 I took the 58 freeway across the badlands and into the middle of BFE. Cossing over nowhere, I found the 14 and later the 138 somewhere just past hicksville. The roads were narrow, but somehow passable and some 3-4 hours later, it suddenly happened. Like a brilliant ray of light, the clouds parted and the southbound 5 again appeared in front of me.
Another few hours on the road and my 7 hour drive home was complete. I pulled into the driveway, and stumbled out of my car. I walked into a dark house and navigated though it to my bedroom. And here....HERE is where it happened. HERE is where I made the final, FINAL discovery, of which this inane post is subjected. My son, my own flesh and blood had somehow gotten a hold of my car and recked it. How, I have no idea. No, it wasn't the evo and no, it wasn't the M. My son (age 1) has crashed, my Ferrari. I was told it fell of it's rolled off it's stands, fell and hit so abruptly that the two rear hubs broke away.
Pictures below.
http://www.socalevo.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10569/normal_100_0950.JPG
http://www.socalevo.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10569/normal_100_0952.JPG
And the next time something says ages 3+, I hope you'll understand that manufacturers put that there for a reason.
This is a tragedy that could have been avoided.