Bear With Me
About 10 years ago, when I was 17/18 I pulled into my driveway at about 2 am after being at a party. as I pulled in, I saw a MASSIVE brown animal in our driveway. I started freaking out, thinking it was a bear. I live on the outskirts of Birmingham, AL so idk how realistic a bear really was, but I digress.
I started calling my dad from my cell phone, as he was inside dead asleep. he answers and I’m crying saying there’s a bear in the driveway and I can’t get out of my car. he instantly starts asking if I’m drunk or high and I swear I’m not but he doesn’t believe me. after a few more minutes of me frantically crying and begging him to come outside, he finally agrees.
now, my dad just sleeps in his underwear. tighty whities to be exact. so he comes busting out the front door in his whitey tighties and an open robe, with his loaded shotgun in hand.
turns out it wasn’t a bear, but a GIANT dead boar. apparently, someone had killed boars and were dumping them in random yards around the city. I have no idea why. we didn’t know what to do so we called the cops, and they came out, and requested I take a picture of them with it.
it was an old flip phone, so forgive the quality but hey, at least I have pictures of it. wish I had a picture of my dad looking like a stereotypical Alabamian, but I didn’t snap a pic of him ????
alison_bee
Breakout
August 27, 1995 the prisoners of Vridsløselille State Penitentiary in Denmark were allowed into the yard for a barbecue when a 30 ton Caterpillar 980C wheel loader rammed through the prison wall and created a huge hole where the wall once stood. (photo)
13 dangerous prisoners scaled the rubble and ran to freedom.
Soon after my dad got a call on the phone and told us to turn on the television.
Why? – It was our wheel loader that had been stolen from our family company (a gravel pit) and been used for what is to this date still Denmarks most spectacular prison break.
I remember my dad swearing and cursing (like many dads he can have quite a temper) and being very upset about 3 things.
Some guy had stolen our wheel loader and rammed it into a fucking wall and caused major damage to it!
That guy had also rammed through our company gate, completely trashing it. (Which BTW was totally unnecessary because the dirt barriers that surround the gravel pit keep cars and trucks from passing them, but a wheel loader can easily scale those, so the thief could just have driven around the gate and over the barrier)
As we could now see on live television the police were now driving the wheel loader and using it to clean up the scene – potentially causing further damage to it’s damaged hydraulics.
In the months after the prison break, people at my college and elsewhere kept asking me mainly two questions :
Could I drive that thing? – Yes.
Did I drive that thing – No!
CeeJayDK
PeeWee
Pee-wee Herman helped me propose inside Pee-wees Playhouse.
theflippist
