Quote Originally Posted by Tyson L. Sparks
Sinple Jpeg, with a story.

I was on a squad run Saturday night, I was in a chase truck (second support vehicle for the squad) and on the way back my.partner and I came across this truck in the ditch. Motor still warm, keys in the ignition and no one around. It seems a redneck and his buddy decided to do a little druken off roading at 1 am. Beer cans all over the front of the truck and in the bed.

Now if you have never worked in the fire and ems service or came across a situation like this, you have no idea how intimidateing it can be. No lights, just your head lamps and a flash light. You have to search for bodies, blood or anything that could help you find the driver. A hundred thoughts running through your head all at once. All because some punk wanted to get drunk and drive.

This isn't the first time we had to go looking for a body, we have found them pinned under their cars, floating down river, thrown a hundred feet from the car and some times in more than one place. Sometimes you see things you'll never forget.

This time we just found an empty truck, the driver was lucky and walked home after he disabled his truck. Nice truck too.

No photoshop, just resized for web use.
HI TLS, I don't work for any of those, but as a rural route paper carrier, I have recently come upon a car that scared the daylights out of me. I was on a rather deserted gravel road and saw a car in the ditch. Not necessarily unusual as it is combining season and farmers are frequently out and hunters are scouting herds of deer. But something was unusual about this one. As I got closer, I saw the skid marks in the gravel and realized the car had hit a tree at high speed. I jumped out as I was dialing 911, fearing the worse. Realizing with all the dew on the car it had been there for a while, I thought for sure, someone is dead. As I approached the front of the vehicle I saw the windshield had been hit from the inside and I quickly began searching for blood and survivors, but amazingly...no one was in the vehicle. Then I started searching the area for someone laying on the side of the road while waiting for a sheriff to show up. Which could be an hour or more considering the size of this county and the limited number of officers. Anyway, I didn't find anyone, I finally had to let the 911 operator know that I had to continue on my route. People get awful irate if their papers are late.
It's my worst fear that some night I'm going to come upon a car full of high school or college kids all smashed up because of alcohol, or a family whose been run off the road because of a drunk driver. Knock on wood this doesn't happen.
Anyway, I know how you feel and pray it doesn't happen too ofter to you, or anyone!!!