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So im on the road working today (ice delivery driver) and im sitting at a light when i here a loud screech followed by a bang. i look up as fast as i can and i see what looks like a body fly into the back of the f-150 next to me. Upon closer inspection i notice that it is a body and that it probably came off the motorcycle now wedged under the truck. Having a rudimentary knowledge of first aid i felt inclined to help so i jump out of the truck as fast as i can and hop into the back of the f-150 with the body in it. what i fidn is a 21 year old wearing----you guessed it a t-shirt and jean shorts, complete with flip flops. he is concious and coherent so he tells me his head leg and arm hurt. i quickly find an obviously fractured right forearm (the text book example of a colles/silver fork fracture). amazingly there was a two foot section of 2x4 laying in the bed of the truck so i used his belt and the 2x4 to quickly splint his forearm. moving on i find a nice 6 inch gash on the back of his left leg. i quickly whipped out my trusty dusty pocket knife and cut a nice section out of the bottom of his shirt and bandaged his leg. before all this the guy in the truck had called 911, so soon after in down with his leg the squad shows up. and amazingly enough i knew one of the guys!! after i told the medics my findings and what i had done i looked at the medic i knew and said, " Nick if you push any morhpine on him im gonna be pissed, this guy deserves the pain" nick replies, " ok" and they took over. upon reviewing the situation i have deduced what happened, we were sitting at the light stopped for about 30 seconds or so, there was noone behind the f-150 and the bike was just going too fast. i dont know how he managed to get into the bed, but at least he didnt go under the truck with the bike. luckily for him the truck had a net and the guy went through the net instead of a real tailgate. i figure the net saved his life. so what was he riding? oh right he was on a brand new 'busa 1300 still had thirty day tags on it. before i left i checked the odometer and it only had 47.3 miles on it. shame it had to go under a truck so soon.

One less squid on the road. Maybe he won't be allowed anywhere near a bike again until he's taken the MSF course? If only we were so lucky.

Damn. What a text book example of a squid.

Too bad he wasn't wearing a Corona wife beater. Would've come out of that a lot better.

Yep, everyone knows corona wife beaters provide better protection than plain wife beaters. But, obviously, shirtless is always the best protection.

Haha, I said that as a joke, but it seems to be true. Whenever I watch videos of squids crashing, it seems like they're wearing next to no protection, but they never seem to get seriously injured. Must have something to do with quantam physics....

Damn bro, you sound like a super hero. You get out of your car, render first aid, joke with the paramedics, and check out the guys odometer. Nice work!

I live in Missouri now and 85% of the people on sportbikes that I see are gearless. Its a damn rotten shame. Stupid is gonna hurt...

The other night I saw a squid lane splitting down a heavy traffic road 40+ mph faster than traffic. He passed through a highly congested intersection 50 mph faster than the traffic.

Oh well, I try not to worry about squids too much, I will tend to my own garden.

I just hope the squid doesn't take out me, or someone I care about while showboating.

Did he look like this guy?

I was wondering when the flaming would start on that guy...

Super hero? I think it's great that bystanders are willing to help out, but I'm sure glad you weren't helping me. I mean, are we to believe that you have so much authority with your paramedic friends that they would deny this guy pain medication upon your instruction? Geez... people are so judgmental without even having all the facts (who said he was "showboating"?) Maybe he just made a colossal mistake and now he will have to pay for it. But thinking that you should attempt to deny a fellow human basic relief from pain because you think he's a jerk is a bit far-fetched.

Loonette