Gosh, I can’t believe how time flies. We’ve moved
and have been in our new house for several weeks. The moving process has kept all of us pretty
busy, most of the boxes have been unloaded, and our 3 bedroom house is starting
to look like a real house.
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While preparing to move our son, Tank found himself
a nice welding job with an oil company closer to our new home. One morning (4:30 AM) while commuting to his
job on an old country highway going the speed limit, which was 65 MPH, this herd
of wild boar ran out in front of him. He
hit his brakes, and turned his wheels; the herd of approximately 15 pigs,
passed directly in front of him. Tank thought he was safe to continue on; when
out of the blue, 2 straggler pigs ran directly into front of his truck. The bumper threw one pig under his truck and
immediately the pig rolled out the back of the truck and under the vehicle
behind our son’s truck. The second pig
was pushed under the truck from the bumper and run over by our son’s dually
tires, which caused the pig to go air borne; approximately 100 feet up over the
opposing lane, and embankment. The scene
looked like something from the “Walking Dead”.
Body parts everywhere. I’ve refrained from sharing with you the video,
but have attached a few pictures of the pigs.
Warning, one picture is bad,
don’t look if you can’t handle blood!!!! Tank’s truck could not be
controlled by the steering wheel because the tie rods were broke and bent. Tank tried to maintain control of the vehicle
and was able to get his truck off the highway on the downward slopped
embankment without flipping it
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The vehicle behind our son’s truck was that of
another employee who worked at the same location as Tank. Tank made sure this guy was okay, and helped
him pull the pig out from under his vehicle.
This vehicle was drivable, he lost only a bumper. The guy offered our son a ride to work since
Tank’s vehicle was not drivable. At
4:45AM Bulldog Man and I get a phone call from Tank explaining the
situation. Since his vehicle needed
towing, and he had no functioning vehicle we came to his rescue.
Bulldog Man and I arrived to the scene of the
accident with our car and truck. We made
sure our sons vehicle was secure, took pictures of the scene for insurance, and
then drove to our sons work site to drop off my car for him to use, and we
returned to the accident to wait for a tow truck.
While waiting for the tow truck, two separate
vehicles, at different times, drove by and turned around, not looking to help;
they were looking to steal our son’s tools and equipment. Each vehicle didn’t see our truck across the
highway, parked in the ditch, next to a tree, until they went past our son’s
truck and turned around. Each subject nearly crapped their pants when they saw
two people sitting in a truck watching our son’s broken down flatbed loaded
with tools. Little did they know, we
were prepared to provide lead poisoning if something were too happened.
Both vehicles, after spotting us, took off like a
bat out of hell. We took pictures of each
vehicle along with their vehicle license number.
Approximately 2 hours later, our son’s truck was
picked up by a tow truck and brought to a dealership for work. Both pigs caused nearly $3,000 worth of
damage to the underside of Tanks truck.
There was no body damage at all to his vehicle. His truck has been fixed
and is back up on the road.
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Our first project on our new home is to put up rain
gutters. We’ve taken complete measurements of the exterior of the house, and
gone into town to one of the big box stores and purchased all the gutter
material needed to frame the house along with the down spouts, connections,
screws, and glue. We’re hoping to have
this project complete in the next two weeks.
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| Gutter Parts and New Ladders for Project. |
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Here are a few pictures of some more critters living
on our property.
I will say living out in the country has been very
peaceful and exciting, never a dull moment.
I will say living out in the country has been very
peaceful and exciting, never a dull moment.
