These are the incidents that religious people hate to hear happen because they get flooded with questions like “How can a loving God make a man live for 3 seconds let alone 3 hours after he has been rolled over and cut in half by a fucking 18-wheeler?” What do you say to a family after some shit like that?
”Uh, I guess God had his reasons?”
”I got that much father, any idea what the fuck just one of them might be?”
I know the things that you read here at 8BM.com are hard to believe sometimes, but for those of you that are new to the site, I don’t make this shit up. The only thing I do is comment on things that I read or hear in the news. This is not the Onion. This is the news the way I want it to be presented. The Onion is funny. I am not funny. I am the guy that wants to turn on the television and yell, “Enough with the Alan Greenspan and Dubya’s tax cuts already, you can get that anywhere. Where am I going to find a story on a poor slob that got cut in half by an 18-wheeler and lived for 3 hours?” I want to know what channel is that shit on?
Yes, you read the headline right. A man in Texas lived for more than three hours after he was cut in half by an 18-wheeler according to the Pensacola News Journal.
Emergency officials took 59-year-old Herbert Lee Grossman’s legs to the West Florida Regional Medical Center by ambulance while they airlifted his torso by Baptist Flight helicopter. Amazingly enough the poor bastard was alive the entire time!
A man who witnessed the 18-wheeler accident says: "I couldn't believe it.
If you're cut in half, wouldn't you die instantly?"
Apparently not.
"The driver said he rolled out, looked in his rearview mirror and all he saw was legs," said Don Leggett, 53, a truck driver from Pensacola. "He just figured there would be a body attached. I couldn't believe it. If you're cut in half, wouldn't you die instantly?"
Nobody is sure how Grossman got caught under the truck, which was traveling less than 5 miles per hour in the parking lot of Speedway in the 3200 block of West Nine Mile Road.
The driver of the truck, Eddie Patterson, 55, was not charged. Florida Highway Patrol trooper Melissa Pestana explained it was just a "freak accident."
"We got the call as a signal seven (dead person). And then a few minutes later, I heard them saying, `We've got breath,"' Officer Pestana said. "When the paramedics got up to him, he was breathing, and he raised his arms to them. I've seen a lot of very horrible accidents, but never one this horrible where the victim actually survived."
Dude, if I would have seen him lift his arms up screaming and shit like I know he had to have been, I would have fucking fainted right there in that parking lot like a little bitch.
In other words, I am not the person that you would want to carry the vital and expensive equipment as we are running up to a body that has been severed in two pieces, because of the remote chance that those legs may start walking or the top half of this poor bastard starts reaching out to me, because if I see that, all of that expensive equipment is going to be scattered all over the parking lot.
Although Herbert Grossman was pronounced dead at 1:32 p.m., the fact that he survived as long as he did was a shock. |
