Sunday, February 13, 2011

Bark on the car

Dave Jackson and I road our bikes to Stanly Park. We road around most of the day thought the park trials and roads. We stopped at the overpass just off the end of the Lions Gate Bridge
As usual we were jut looking for something to do. We stopped on the overpass and watched the cars go by for awhile. Then we started to wonder if we could hit one of those cars if we dropped something at just the right time.
Next thing you know, we are walking into the bush and come back with a huge chunk of bark off the 200 foot high trees in the park. It must have weighd about 100 lbs, cus it took 2 of uss to carry it. Well, we werent that big then, maybe 50 lbs, anyway it was a preety big chunk of bark.
We set it up on the concrte rail over the busyest triffic lane. Then we broke off peacess of bark about the size of our fist and tried to drope them on the cars as they came out from under the bridge.
We couldnt get the timeing right cus the cars were going too fast. So Dave got on the other side of the bridge and yelled when a car was comeing. When he yelled "now" I droped the peace of bark. Missed again. We tried for a long time to hit a car but then tired of the game and decided to go do something else.
Well, we had already hauled that big peace of bark out there and we werent going to just let it sit there on the rail. So, we pushed it over the side.
It seems now, i watched it falling to the road in slow motion and SMASH into the hood of a blue car. I saw the hood cave in and the car went slideing and turning down the road. Tires sceaming with the brakes locking up all four tires. I was amassed that the bark stayed on the smashed in hood till the car stopped. We watched till the car stopped. There was lots of traffic and cars were screching and slideing everywhere trying not to hit each other.
IT all happened in a few seconds. We looked at each other with eyes as big as soccers and ran for our bikes. jumping on at a running start we headed down the road and into the bush at the nearest trial, we pedaled for all we were worth for as long as we could then hide our bikes in the bush and started walking.
WE never did hear anymore about it. WE did worry about it for many days, expecting a cop car to show up at our homes anytime.
We figured we were lucky nobody got hurt, there was a lot of traffic and i dont hink any of those cars hit each other. We always said if we had pushed it off one second later it would have gone thro the windshield of that car and killed the driver.
I even swet a little bit when i think of it today

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