So I finally get a chance to go fishing and…POW!

Thought this would be a good one to pass on. I finally got the chance to get out on the ice after moving my office and house these last few months. Saturday comes and I am on my way down to Stoddard for a few hours of gill fishing. Ice has been bad there for a LONG time and I thought it would be a great day for second first ice…(-: I park at least 6 feet off the road since traffic is 55 mph in that area. Head on out for an exciting day of fishing. Ice was okay…(-: Good enough for this guy at least. Sit down and start fishing. Just when I am getting into my groove…I hear this noise that two train cars make when they connect. Only thing was…there wasn’t a train on the wisconsin side. I instantly said to myself…car accident. Five minutes later I see this fire truck drive to the vicinity where my truck is. I can’t see my truck through the trees, but it was in the area. I start thinking…oh great, what is he doing there. At that point, I am a little nervous. Five minutes later an ambulance shows up but drives ahead a few hundred feet further into town. Then I think, alright he is just slowing traffic down for the accidnet in town. All of a sudden…beep beep beep…my car alarm goes off. At that point I am really getting nervous. But then it shuts off. I still am pretty nervous. I keep fishing and think, they know where to find me if it is my truck. 10 minutes go by and I say…they would have come down here by now if it was my truck. No more than a minute after I said that I hear a loud yell from shore…does anyone own a 4 door chevy truck…I just shook my head and packed up. He then made me feel even better…he said it just got hit and it isn’t pretty. So, I mosey on up there and see my baby…TOTALLED!!!! Supposedly his wheel fell off his suburban and he ran his vehicle into my back left corner of the box of my truck. I only have a picture of it on my phone or else I would upload it. Bent my axle forward a foot or two and ran up the side of my driver side. He drove his suburban into town on three wheels and that is why the ambulance went up ahead. And to top it off, the fishing was slow. I would have had a real problem if I would have left my one man in the back of the box like I was originally planning…(-: Then there would have been heck to pay. The guy got released from the hospital later that day and, from what I hear, is doing okay. Talk about luck. I could park my truck there every day for the rest of my life and not have something like that happen to it. In all honesty, I am happy the guy didn’t die and that I wasn’t in my vehicle or walking next to my vehicle when this went down. Thought I would just pass on one day of fishing I will never forget. Ted

I know it may not make you feel better right now but be thankful you weren’t unloading the truck when he came along.
Vehicles can be replaced but life cannot.

WOW….that has to really bite
Like you said, good thing you or somebody else wasn’t walking anywhere near when that happened. Look at the bright side….now you will have a new “baby”

That is too bad, what a way to wreck someones fishing trip…

I’ve been amazed at the number of vehicles along side the road who’ve had their tires fallen off. I saw one today on the way home. People NEED to continuously check their tires, tire pressure, and lug nuts. Your life and someone else’s life may depend on it.

Blue~
Thanks for that reminder I have not checked my aluminum rims in sometime now and with the flex in weather I am sure they are not torqed properly. First thing on my agenda for tomorrow…

daaang…and I thought I had it bad yesterday getting cold ears…

Sorry to hear that

Ted, sorry to hear about your truck, that really sucks, but like you said, at least no one got seriously hurt. Good to see that you finally made it out fishing after the move, I will have to come visit your new business sometime.

a thought to ponder… if your truck hadn’t been park exactly where it was parked, what else would have stopped that guy’s Suburban? Would he have plowed head-on into a tree? Flipped in a ditch? If your truck hadn’t been there, I wonder if the other guy would have been worse off…

Traffic doesn’t seem to slow down much through there regardless of people or vehicles…glad you didn’t get hurt. No matter how you hear it though the traffic that won’t slow down will blame it on the fishermen parked in the area.

I hear they are now writing $138 tickets for illegal stopping in the area between the guard rail and the white line. We got a warning back around Christmas but I heard they are writing them for real now. The law says, according to the fella writing our warning, if you have to go into the lane of traffic to access your vehicle it’s illegal. Best bet, don’t park within about 6 feet of the white line with your door open.

Two good things- you didn’t get hurt and you had your fishing equipment with you!

Glad to hear that you and everyone involved will be ok.

On a lighter side….Now that your in need of a new truck, real trucks say FORD on them.

i seen the aftermath of the accident and thought someone will be hurt out of that one! Didn’t see the suburban but i saw your truck which didn’t look to good after that happened. sorry to here that

Dang good thing you weren’t there!!!!!!!

Although, I do admit, I want to see what that burb looked like, driving down the highway on 3 tires! ………The images of the movie “Dumb and Dumber” keeps popping in my head.

Man, Sorry to hear that Ted…Thats some bad news Now I see why they are trying to enforce that no parking deal down in Stoddard…This should only add fuel to the fire. The town of stoddard really needs to get it together and get a designated parking area for this very reason. Thank God nobody was seriously hurt!