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    Wishing Johnna Dunn a speedy recovery.

    For three days a week, Johnna Dunn works primarily in the emergency room at St. Jude Children’s Research at Temecula, Calif. And she’s a first-responder in “code” situations, often administering CPR astride the patient and whisking them to urgent surgery. At the dragstrip, she’s the assistant clutch specialist for her grandfather Jim Dunn’s Funny Car that her father Jon Dunn
    " You can sleep in your car, But you cant drive your house"

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    Maybe this goes back to the discussion here before and....why do people just mill around at the starting line at drag races? Why are they even allowed to?

    Be danged if I'd stand directly behind one of those fire breathing things, maybe just to get a good photo or video. Nossir, I'm getting way WAY off to the side somewhere.

    Only just sayin.
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    • #3
      Originally posted by pdub View Post
      Maybe this goes back to the discussion here before and....why do people just mill around at the starting line at drag races? Why are they even allowed to?

      Be danged if I'd stand directly behind one of those fire breathing things, maybe just to get a good photo or video. Nossir, I'm getting way WAY off to the side somewhere.

      Only just sayin.
      I cringe every time.
      Given this age of boost , I'd compare launches to jet engines.

      fire/emt people only in the hazard areas, dressed right..stay out of exhaust exit areas.
      I used to be at a fire bottle on military planes on the ground starting or coming in, even by the book, a compression stall in a bad way is game over.

      these dragsters seem more dangerous to me.
      Previously boxer3main
      the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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      • #4
        Hope she recovers soon.

        On the thread hijack topic . . . The "outlaw" influence really has sparked a lot of unnecessary crowds around the burnout box and starting line at many events. Whether or not we'll have a deadly drag racing disaster that wakes up the tracks, the insurers, and the promoters is unknown. But it does seem ridiculous for some "outlaw" doorslammers to need a dozen or more hangers-on to make a sketchy "no prep" pass . . . .

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        • #5
          Looks like she'll be okay, if there's no facial fx it's just soft tissue. Going to hurt like hell for awhile, I'll bet.

          After seeing a bike shed a chain like a rocket and take out a windshield some 3 cars back in staging (Byron's staging area is parallel with the track, rather than canted off like many others), you'd think people spectating would get to the stands where it's lots safer. Also easier to breathe Maybe we need to mandate 10% nitro in the fuel to clear the waterbox of people....

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          • #6
            I see Byron now uses a barrier behind the water box. Even if the cars stayed together something about that water box made a pothole that shed pebbles. You just learned to avoid the middle staging lanes.
            My hobby is needing a hobby.

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            • #7
              It's always the 3rd person. I got tagged by fireworks when I went to college - they had opening celebrations that included fireworks. Fireworks fell over, I got smacked by a rocket.... a bit of burn, no worries, but still.... I was number 3 and didn't see it coming until the joker in front of me moved.
              Doing it all wrong since 1966

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              • #8
                Originally posted by SuperBuickGuy View Post
                It's always the 3rd person. I got tagged by fireworks when I went to college - they had opening celebrations that included fireworks. Fireworks fell over, I got smacked by a rocket.... a bit of burn, no worries, but still.... I was number 3 and didn't see it coming until the joker in front of me moved.
                My daddy had just the right amount of beer on a July 4th and shot me in the face with a Roman candle. Pretty amazing, it just bounced off.

                At a startup plant I was testing out a brand new lift tuck straight off the delivery truck and as soon as I moved one of the levers one of the hydraulic fittings on the mast blew out. I got sprayed in the face with fluid, with great mechanical vigor and enthusiasm. Drenched. Amazing again, hydraulic fluid is not at all an eye irritant as long as it's still cold. I found a piece of the fitting in my coat pocket when I was getting the coat ready to go to the cleaners.
                Last edited by pdub; February 25, 2019, 05:41 PM.
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                • #9
                  Was standing near the line when an Elcamino had a huge nitrous explosion. Seconds later I felt something bounce off my head. It was a booster from the Dominator. It blew all 4 out..
                  " You can sleep in your car, But you cant drive your house"

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                  • #10
                    I just rembered this one.. He got hit with a rod end estimated to be traveling at 100 MPH.

                    " You can sleep in your car, But you cant drive your house"

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by AndyB View Post
                      Looks like she'll be okay, if there's no facial fx it's just a deep tissue massagers. Going to hurt like hell for awhile, I'll bet.

                      After seeing a bike shed a chain like a rocket and take out a windshield some 3 cars back in staging (Byron's staging area is parallel with the track, rather than canted off like many others), you'd think people spectating would get to the stands where it's lots safer. Also easier to breathe Maybe we need to mandate 10% nitro in the fuel to clear the waterbox of people....
                      Could it be that your muscles tend to get too stiff?

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