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Old 05-03-2009, 12:36 PM   #1
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no matter how many times i watched it i can't believe the guy lived. absoutely amazing.
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Old 05-03-2009, 12:44 PM   #2
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WOW!!! I'd be bbuying a lotto ticket
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Old 05-03-2009, 01:08 PM   #3
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Fruit a duck...amazing.

Pointless buying a lotto ticket...I think his good luck was used just there.
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Old 05-03-2009, 01:14 PM   #4
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Old 05-03-2009, 02:09 PM   #5
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Old 05-03-2009, 02:34 PM   #6
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That bloke has just used all of his lives!! That was un-bloody-believable.

As for Top Gear - how as that slow mo!!
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Old 05-03-2009, 03:23 PM   #7
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Old 05-03-2009, 03:36 PM   #8
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Old 05-03-2009, 03:44 PM   #9
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Theres your problem! he wasn't wearing his high visibilty safety vest!!
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GAWD....................lucky bugger.

Also, that railway crash was a bit decieving, since when to train drivers just keep plugging along when they see a car on the tracks, me thinks they would hit the anchors, and pritty damn quickly.
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Old 05-03-2009, 08:27 PM   #11
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GAWD....................lucky bugger.

Also, that railway crash was a bit decieving, since when to train drivers just keep plugging along when they see a car on the tracks, me thinks they would hit the anchors, and pritty damn quickly.
The Top Gear clip was extreme, but I would think that a train going full pelt would need a km or two to come to a halt.

If the train driver wasn't paying close attention, or the car blended in with its surroundings or was around a bend, there would be no chance that the train would stop in time.
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GAWD....................lucky bugger.

Also, that railway crash was a bit decieving, since when to train drivers just keep plugging along when they see a car on the tracks, me thinks they would hit the anchors, and pritty damn quickly.
As someone who has been on a train that has hit a car (we didn't come off much better) let me tell you that trains take an awfully long time to stop and sometimes there just isn't time to react.
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