My little travel incident................

Last night (Tuesday) I flew in to LA from Seattle. My buddy picks me up, and only for the purposes of this story shall I name the kind of car he drives........

A new Chrysler 300hemi  heavy ass Tony Soprano-ish modern day luxury muscle car......


Anyway, cruising towards Marina Del Rey from LAX, a close drive as some know, not really that much traffic at all, stopped at a light, talking fun shit, you know........and all of the sudden......

BAM!


Some whacked out chick, drunk if nothing else, but high on something.....hits us doing 55 minimum. I'm of course not wearing a seatbelt (I was sitting on it, because I certainly can't be put out...)...She never even fucking hit her breaks. I know this because some dude who she almost hit 30 seconds earlier while running a light was tailing her and calling the cops right before she hit us.

Unfuckingbelievable.

She was driving a "new" VW Beetle and never hit the breaks. The car did pretty damn good, but I'm sure the frame is hammered from that kind of impact. My buddy never took his foot of the breaks, being stopped at  a light, but after she hit us, we were pushed about ten feet into some little H. Accord.

Thus why I mentioned the kind of heavy ass car we we were in.

The crack person's impact bags blew and she was unhurt albeit passed out after it all happened. She was unhurt today according to my best friend who talked to her.

My damn head bounced around like a pinball hitting the dash, head rest and side window among other things....shins, my broken ribs/collapsed lung from healing from last Oct. re-thrashed, but ok......etc etc. 

I have a concussion, not a huge deal. Had more than a few playing Hockey, an occasional altercation whatnot in later years, but it's a little aggravating to say the least.

Back to the car again.......

....had me and my friend not been in that big ass heavy Chrysler 300, the chick that we got pushed into would probably be really really messed up, possibly dead.

I got out of the hospital this morning at around 5 am. No real serious  cuts, just a really beat up noggin and once again tweaked ribs........

Another reason to not drink and drive  is that the cops of course, see me a little rattled after getting slammed by "little missy do too many drugs"

...and he was more interested in having me prove that I wasn't the one driving my friend's car. Of course I had a bloody mary in Seattle, a couple beers on the plane, and one in the Vegas airport.  I showed him my plane ticket, and of course my buddy's ins. followed the car.

Slightly irritating, but once again, if you drink a few pops and some stupid bitch hits your car, you'll go down also.  I wasn't remotely buzzed, but got my bell rung six ways to Sunday and the barney fife prick tried to jam us up.


  This whole scene is going to be interesting, and it's  certainly not over..................

jesus, i didnt knwo it was like that

quite an eventful trip you had, mr dennis hopson

i did not mean to pester you while you were gone....you had way bigger things to tend to

so youre going to file a law suit, i take it

you may be entitled to a shitload of money, sir

-Taco

HOPS,

I WOULD HAVE BROUGHT YOU SOME TACO BELL IN THE ER
                     

Fucking bitch mate. Drugged driving is getting just as bad as drink driving. Most places don't test for shit like amphetimines when driving. Lucky you were in the Chrysler 300. Those things are like tank.

I've had cracked ribs, very painful indeed.You can't move. Guess that would teach you to wear a seatbelt.

All the best mate

Hey Taco, no biggie.

I'll have my shit together by tomorrow and fire you off a note. Trying to drink enough wine so that I get tired. Headaches from something like this, never seem to make you want to go to sleep or lay horizontal. Hope I don't have to do a shot of Goldschlager.

How're things?

Welcome to LA Baby !!

$$$$$$$$$

Payday for Mister Hopson.

Glad to hear you are ok.

Did you get the chicks number at least?

Goldschlager is the worst alcohol ever made.

I got so sick of it as a youth.

I drank so much of that shit I was throwing up Valentines day gifts for days.

Thanks Second.

As twisted as this is going to sound, the chick was pretty hot.

Not hollywood-ish, but approachable and still hot.

She did rock my world to say the least, so we'll see what happens.  She's called our house in Venice about 8 times today, but lord knows she sure as shit doesn't remember anything.

Odom, I'm going to I think.

If you are still in LA and wanna makeout or something let me know.

Or just get a meal or something and catch a game.

Meal, game or make out.......... 

lol Odom.


Thanks for the well wishes Angelo.

Yup. You're right AB. The ribs are a bitch. I had one of my big ones go through my left lung in Oct. another one "merely" cracked. This didn't help, but xrays negative, Just hurt. You teased me about being fat once  . If I would have been, I might have fared better...hehehe lol dude.

Angelo and packers

AB is correct about getting the sched 2, but I'll get both and see how it goes.

luckily, I'm in a cool little time in my schedule and year that I don't have to do much for a month. No Seattle till March thank goodness. That weather is bullshit.

TheMugg told me about a kick butt venue to see some serious music as the weather gets better for late Spring/Summer up there.

Don't heel too quickly, she sounds like a rich bitch.  Big pay day in store and don't get a conscious on me    You know her spoiled ass doesn't need the money, it will just go all up her nose.

Another thing, don't think because you don't have any broken bones and just bruises or cuts that you won't have some long term detrimental effects.  Take it from somebody who has been involved in several high impact incidences, the aches and pains may last a life time.  Getting hit at that speed the whiplash alone must have been tremendous, you will probably start to have back problems (or worse problems if you already have back problems) for the rest of your life. 

Giddy-up

Thanks guys.