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[Daytona Crash] - NASCAR Wreck WAY TOO CLOSE. (Original Post) AsahinaKimi Feb 2013 OP
I'll bet that one boy was just lookin for an excuse to take his shirt off Bucky Feb 2013 #1
This...is why AsahinaKimi Feb 2013 #3
The first thing I thought of Plucketeer Feb 2013 #5
It happens a lot in sports. Cleita Feb 2013 #2
It's part of the inherent risk of attending jberryhill Feb 2013 #6
I have probably been to over 50 AsahinaKimi Feb 2013 #7
I'd bet a ten dollar beer Plucketeer Feb 2013 #4
carefull cletus and brandine! 02potato Feb 2013 #8

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)
3. This...is why
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 02:14 PM
Feb 2013

Watching Baseball is little safer, although I have seen Baseball bats fly into the stands, a tire weighs a tad more, and comes in pretty fast.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
2. It happens a lot in sports.
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 02:13 PM
Feb 2013

I nearly got clocked at a Dodger's baseball game once. Fortunately three guys in front of me jumped for it. One got it and another got injured because of it. I refused to go with my husband after that. I don't like spectator sports that much anyway.

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)
7. I have probably been to over 50
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 04:48 PM
Feb 2013

San Francisco Giants games in my life. Of all of that, three balls came very close to hitting me. One time, I was not paying attention. It was during batting practice before the game. I was walking down the aisle with a cardboard container, holding two large cokes with ice in plastic glasses. Suddenly I was covered in soda. The ball came flying in to the left field bleachers and hit my tray exactly spraying me with soda. It scared the hell out of me, but I was not hurt. I did have to go back and buy two more cokes, which was frustrating because they were expensive!

But You know, it probably wasn't as bad, as being at an LA Kings Hockey game and having a puck hit my buddy on the side of her chin. She was lucky she just got a cut. It could have been a lot worse. Had it been a bit higher, it could have done real damage to her face.

Every time I step into a stadium, and I am on the ground level, I want to make sure I am aware of what's coming and going on.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
4. I'd bet a ten dollar beer
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 02:39 PM
Feb 2013

That those who weren't seriously wounded, feel like they got EVERY PENNY'S worth of their ticket's price. If the destruction and carnage weren't one skid away, half of them wouldn't be in those stands. Just THINK of the bragging rights those with lasting scars will have!

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