Could I Have Some Decapitation To Go With My Memorial Day, Please

[JJW SpyderRider]

So glad you are OK! That had to be scary at best and possibly deadly.

[MrLooney]

I echo what all the others have said!!

Glad to hear you're OK

I know first hand what all went through your mind and the actions... maybe took all of 5 seconds !!

I too had a similar experience in China where a heavier twisted multi strand string was dangling from a tree and across a road. In my case I picked it up off the road at a sharp angle from lower right side to high left side as it came across my body up past my neck and my helmet. In just seconds (2 or 3) it's sawing action left a 4" long groove in my helmet face shield before I had time to panic stop from 60 ~ 70 KMph. I felt it touch my neck but no marks left like you have.

[kawakii]

Glad your okay ! Please report it. We have had issues similar to this on snow mobile trailers in NH as a prank, also with owners doing this to prevent ATV/snowmobiles from coming through their property. Plus we have seen people put them across the end of their driveways in NH to prevent people from turning around in their driveway. Most business except a few in our area have stopped using cables due to severe accident where a young boy died after pulling into a cabled parking lot to turn around on his bike not realizing the cable was there, not easily seen Been a lot of Injuries because of things like this I'm just glad you were able to avoid a serious injury and are ok.

[SpyderAnn01]

Wow, I'm glad you are okay.

[warp10]

That could have been so much worse, glad you are OK. Might be time for a taller windshield, give you enough time to duck.

[pro10is]

Yikes! You take the prize for scariest story of the year! So glad you're ok.

[Bob Ledford]

While it could have been fatal. Thank God it wasn't! It brought back memories living in Jacksonville FL in the early 90's. We had some juvenile DA's throwing concrete blocks off the I-295 overpass at cars and semi's. Took months to catch the creeps.

You cannot enjoy anything today without looking over your shoulder it seems like!

[MidLifeCrisis]

Yikes! Glad nothing worse happened. That's pretty scary and any number of things could have made things much worse.


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[Flanker]

As Joe Pesci's Lethal Weapon 2 character would have said, "OK, OK, OK"................................I called the County Sheriff this AM, and ran it by the dispatcher, who sent an officer over to get my belated tale of highway hijinks and mayhem. Besides everyone's comments about filing a report "just in case" something else happens to someone else.....................I mentally reviewed the whole thing again. Was the string really suspended from the telephone/power lines and trees on either side of the highway, or did I subconsciously put it there with my supposition it was "kite string". Can't say for sure the string was dangling down; all I saw was a 100th of a second flash of string in front of me at impact. Something else, I didn't put in my original post was after I ran my errands, I'd stopped by my daughter and son in law's, and had him take one of the pics I posted, then I came back into town stopping at "the scene" to look for a kite and the string. That was probably a couple hours after the incident.................I parked the Spyder, walked about 150 yards of the highway shoulder where the string should have been laying in the long grass I'd tossed it in. No sign of any string and no kite (I never saw a kite at any time). After the walk along, I drove the Spyder W along the highway shoulder for about a 1/4 mi and saw no sign of the string either. Anyway.........who knows where or what the string came from.........................it's on report now. One other thing I thought of.......................I'm glad I was riding the Spyder and not either of my motorcycles; I'm fairly sure I'd have "crashed and burned" if I'd been on two wheels, and engaged in the panicky twisting, grabbing, flopping, and twitching I had on the Spyder. Oh yea, one other thing......................I know "a guy" in the National Guard; he's going to "requisition" some line cutters (see picture) for me off an AH64 Apache; to attach to my Spyder and helmet top and chin, as a defense against future across the road hazards.

[Rayelljay]

What I find reprehensible is the fact that no-one stopped, even to enquire as to your state of health.

[CyncySpyder]

Kudos to you and your ryding ability along with all the safety features of the
Like you said, could've been a real "Crash & Burn" story none of us would want to read about in the papers

I like your ideal about the line cutters & think that may just be a worth while mod to look into for Teds Red Sled

[pro10is]

When I was a kid in CT angry landowners used to string up all sorts of traps to snag snowmobilers riding on their property. This was in the very early days of snowmobiling when official trials had yet to be established so as kids we used to ride on natural gas and electric service lines cut into the forest. They were in the middle of nowhere but some did pass through private lands. String was often used but one actually used a single string of barbed wire, strung neck high. My friend hit it and came extremely close to decapitation. He saw it at the last second and slammed on the brakes. He had a welt across his neck much like yours only you could see the individual points where the barbs dug in.

So you never know what people are capable of.

[Jeriatric]

Could have been sooo much worse. Glad it wasn't

[SpyderWolf]

I like the idea of the line cutters, but would be really happy if I could mount that minigun to my Spyder.