Author Topic: World's Biggest Paper Cut?!?! (Read 699 times)

kamilyun · « **on:** July 02, 2006, 08:05:59 PM »

In the Tour de France...

This one made me want to throw up. This guy is finishing the race, heartrate at 190 bpm, and he gets a 5 cm papercut in his arm from one of these green hand thingies.

Ugh.

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 02, 2006, 08:08:30 PM »

Saw him laying on ground bleeding on the news. That sucks.

nirvana · « **Reply #2 on:** July 02, 2006, 08:54:32 PM »

Did it hit the jugular or something? Jeez...

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 02, 2006, 09:36:58 PM »

All parts of your body can bleed pretty well if hit in the right spots.

Reynolds · « **Reply #4 on:** July 02, 2006, 09:38:30 PM »

How the hell did it happen?!?

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 02, 2006, 10:04:40 PM »

Err, it's explained in the first post...

Reynolds · « **Reply #6 on:** July 02, 2006, 10:07:33 PM »

But how did the green thing connect with his arm? Did the guy stick it out into the track, and the rider hit it? or what?

Cougar68 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 02, 2006, 10:33:21 PM »

Here ya go

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/tdf2006/news/story?id=2507382

kamilyun · « **Reply #8 on:** July 02, 2006, 10:55:09 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
All parts of your body can bleed pretty well if hit in the right spots.

Yeah, and I forgot to mention, they're going about 40+ mph when they come into the finish like that. Not exactly typing paper, more like posterboard, but stilll...it's paper.

Kind of amazing...kind of like when a tornado pushes straw through fenceposts.

Reynolds...in the finishing straight, the fans are all leaning over the barriers to get a better look. They also pass out all those green PMU hands so people can wave them and crap. Someone just had it hanging over the edge and the dude hit it at 40 mph.

Similar thing happend to Armstrong when he rode to close to fans. Caught something and crashed:

Reynolds · « **Reply #9 on:** July 02, 2006, 11:41:46 PM »

Okay, that makse sense

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #10 on:** July 02, 2006, 11:54:13 PM »

"Organizers said the "hands" will now be prohibited in the arrival zone. Security teams will patrol the barriers that line the area and make regular announcements of safety measures. "

Screw that. What they ned is MORE of those cardboard thingies.
To win the race you should have to run a gauntlet of them and make it to the end.

Then and only then will I give a damn about some clown riding around on a bike with one nut.

Speaking of which.
I almost ran down one of these wannabies today.
He was dressed int he full garb and ran a redlight and pulled right out in front of me. I was like Get out of the f)@@)en road A-hole!

He uses the F bomb on me

"Oh yea. Pull out in front of me like that again and I'll run over your arse like you were a paper cup"

God I am really starting to DETEST bycyclists

Pooh21 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 03, 2006, 12:02:48 AM »

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
"Organizers said the "hands" will now be prohibited in the arrival zone. Security teams will patrol the barriers that line the area and make regular announcements of safety measures. "

Screw that. What they ned is MORE of those cardboard thingies.
To win the race you should have to run a gauntlet of them and make it to the end.

Then and only then will I give a damn about some clown riding around on a bike with one nut.

Speaking of which.
I almost ran down one of these wannabies today.
He was dressed int he full garb and ran a redlight and pulled right out in front of me. I was like Get out of the f)@@)en road A-hole!

He uses the F bomb on me

"Oh yea. Pull out in front of me like that again and I'll run over your arse like you were a paper cup"

God I am really starting to DETEST bycyclists

same thing happened on the way to work yesterday morning I had a green right turn arrow, and as usual unlike every other driver I look left even on a green arrow sure enough here comes a bike running the red light, so close had I just gone I woulda squished him like the maggot bike riders are. I have to wait for him to go by, so I go. get up to about 35 and am in the far left lane on a four lane road, when he glances over his shoulder and cuts across all four lanes, prompting me to brake for him hard. I am sure a big white fedex truck is not that hard to see.

I hate bicyclists

nirvana · « **Reply #12 on:** July 03, 2006, 12:04:19 AM »

Dred The bikers in the mountains here are pretty violent, single lane roads and those bastards expect vehicles to pull over.

StSanta · « **Reply #13 on:** July 03, 2006, 12:24:36 AM »

Yes, because people on bicycles are very dangerous to people in cars. Imagine what would happen in a crash.

And it's not normally idiotic people in cars who neglect to pa attention to what they're doing and thus end up torpedoing a cyclist, killing or maiming 'im oln the spot.

Those damned car-hating cyclists! They make the streets unsafe for big SUVs.

Reynolds · « **Reply #14 on:** July 03, 2006, 01:22:39 AM »

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Originally posted by Pooh21
same thing happened on the way to work yesterday morning I had a green right turn arrow, and as usual unlike every other driver I look left even on a green arrow sure enough here comes a bike running the red light, so close had I just gone I woulda squished him like the maggot bike riders are. I have to wait for him to go by, so I go. get up to about 35 and am in the far left lane on a four lane road, when he glances over his shoulder and cuts across all four lanes, prompting me to brake for him hard. I am sure a big white fedex truck is not that hard to see.

I hate bicyclists

See? Thats why the US Government will never give me a driver's liscense: I woulda just hit the bast@rd!