doug

Tue, 24 May 2005 13:24:40 -0500

I had an amazingly similar experience in February. While biking to Beacon Hill to testify in a hearing concerning the DCR's inadequate plowing of its bikepaths, something happened to me in the Harvard Square underpass. There was a giant pothole and I either hit it or was hit from behind while going around it. It took me a while to figure out the date for the paramedics, too. It took longer to get to MGH, but the ambulance found me fairly quickly, before I regained consciousness. The paramedics thought I crashed after passing out rather than because I hit the ground hard. No witnesses to the crash came forward, though a cabbie told the paramedics that he almost hit me while I was on the ground, bumping into my bike instead. I lost one of my best shirts *and* my best pair of pants in the ER.

ed

Mon, 23 May 2005 15:56:26 -0500

that is a fantastic sign. hte biker's helmet looks a little like a beret.

jon

Mon, 23 May 2005 11:25:08 -0500

Same "favorite dress shirt" example goes for car accidents. I was hit by some reckless driver who totalled my car. The paramedics cut not only a favorite pair of jeans off my body but my bestest belt ever.

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doug

ed

jon