Author Topic: What they mean by, "Wrapped around a tree." (Read 854 times)

Furball · « **Reply #15 on:** September 19, 2003, 11:47:58 AM »

looks like a Ford Escort RS

capt. apathy · « **Reply #16 on:** September 19, 2003, 12:11:40 PM »

the engine, tranny and front end is probably 1/4 mile down the road.

a few years ago I was headed down I-84 late at night, and I noticed there was no oncoming traffic. then I see an engine and transaxle in the middle of the freeway. a bit later I see a tire, then another, a couple hundred yards and I see the drivers seat complete with a piece of the floor still attached, from there the next hundred or so yards was just littered with debris. then I came upon the ambulance and the 6 or so cop cars, with a car wrapped around the top of a light pole (laying over at about a 30 deg angle) and about 4 light poles that where down (bolts are made to sheer at the bottom for safety) each folded at a gradually increasing hight, you could picture the car going airborn and catching each pole at a higher point.

anyway the point is there wasn't any more of that car left than the one in the pictures above. and actually they are fairly simular in what was left wrapped around the final stop.

Chaos68 · « **Reply #17 on:** September 19, 2003, 04:39:41 PM »

looks like someone is trying to make a statement/art.

if it was real the car would be roped off with police tape.

I SAY ITS FAKE/someones art.

JB73 · « **Reply #18 on:** September 19, 2003, 04:46:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Chaos68
looks like someone is trying to make a statement/art.

if it was real the car would be roped off with police tape.

I SAY ITS FAKE/someones art.

look at the first pic.... thats some type of european license plate.

i dont know what the police in other countries do. maybe they dont rope off something like this.

capt. apathy · « **Reply #19 on:** September 19, 2003, 06:01:17 PM »

so how did they bend it around the tree? I see no smashed flat areas where it was pushed around the tree, or any spots that look like a line was attached to pull it around the tree.
looks real enough to me.

especially the way that if you look at it the heavier pieces (engine, tranny, wheels/hubs, axels) are all either stretched forward or missing, while the lighter pieces (holding less energy) are stopped by the tree and stretched out by the heavier pieces being torn off.