Yes, Ron...I had unbuckled my seat belt and if the train started coming, I was gonna try to lunge forward and try to get outa the way...luckily I never had to, But the train did come thru shortly after I got free. ;-) Dan**
On Thursday, July 10, 2014 5:26 PM, RONALD L PRACHT <[email protected]> wrote: that's quite a story that will sober you up to life real quick. I guess if you heard the train horn you could have thrown yourself out and shuffled to safety. I hope you carry a cell now. Keep the stories coming!@ The good , bad, ugly or whatever............this quad life is challenging to say the least, the average Joe doesn't have a clue. You cant be stupid and live long as a quad!!! Ron On Thursday, July 10, 2014 4:49 PM, Danny Hearn <[email protected]> wrote: Some years ago I was out driving in my power wheelchair and feeling sorry for my mizerable quad life-style, well I went down by the railroad tracks not far from my home, I said I hope I just get stuck in the middle of the train tracks and the next train ends my suffering ! Well I cross those tracks almost daily, but a bad storm had loosened up all the gravel in the tracks and low and behold my chair sunk in and spun deeper and deeper into the middle of the tracks...after a while I began to panic because a train was due in about 10 minutes or so....I began to think--why oh why did I say I wanted to die on the tracks?? How stupid of me, I'm not ready to die just yet ! I began to pray...lord help me get out of here and i'll not talk foolish again. Then I began yelling help ! help me ! as loud as I could because the area was pretty deserted back then, To my good fortune a man over a quarter mile away was out working on his truck...He thought he heard someone yelling help -but could see no-one in sight, so he went inside and got his binoculars...he then told his wife..honey am I seeing things on the railroad tracks? she looked thru the binoculars and said, heck no- there is a man in a wheelchair yelling and waving his arms!! Well to sum it up he jumped in his truck and hurried to me and pulled me out.I was very thankful and he said if I had not been out working on my truck, we would never have heard you. I was relieved and thankful and have lived many years since that incident. Dan H***
