So I was in Oklahoma for the past week seeing some of my dads side of the family. Being as I live in Oregon and we haven't hit 80 yet this year I was sweating really bad when I had to stand around in temps over 100. So I got into the Chrysler 300 we rented and was driving around with the AC on to try and cool down a little. I drove back into a neighborhood that had some really nice big brick houses as well as a mailbox made of brick.

So I'm driving around a corner and I see a guy standing in the road waving his hands at me. As I start to get out of the car I see that there is a man laying on the ground right next to his Harley. I was the second person to arrive on scene. My first thought was to grab my phone and call the police so they could get some paramedics there. But then as I look back I can see another person already on the phone. So I decided to try and help the man on the ground. I can see the his left ankle is trapped in between his bike and part of the mailbox. So the other guy and I lift the bike off of him and start asking him if he knows what happened. It was at this point I saw a bottle of alcohol laying beside him. The man started to try and get up so we had to try and keep him down so he doesn't injure himself anymore. He started yelling that his back was burning because he was laying on the street so I had my sister run to the car and grab some towels to lay under him. After rolling him a little to put the towels under him he starts to try and get up again. I told him that I could see blood on his neck and I didn't know where it was coming from. When I started to look around I found that it was coming out of his right ear. I told him that he may have a concussion so he needed to remain on the ground. He took his helmet off and started saying he wanted to move to the shade so we found an umbrella and held it over him so the sun wasn't directly on him. Soon after, the first cops and rescue people start to show up. They cut off his shirt and saw a big red circle on the right side of his chest. It was swollen up a couple inches. My guess would be a broken rib or something. I saw that they were starting to trip over all the bricks laying on the side of him so I moved all of them out of the way and let them do there job. They put him in the ambulance and had him airlifted out to a nearby hospital. This happened in Durant, Oklahoma on Saturday. My sister took the only picture and its not that good but here is the bike after it crashed.


Cliff: a guy was riding and drinking and hit a brick mailbox. I was trying to help him out until the paramedics arrived.

 

pretty tricky of you to get a before picture.

 

This was right after the paramedics picked him up. I didn't feel right about taking a picture while he was still laying there

 

*their

 

i think he meant of the mailbox.

 

looks like a different but similar mailbox, compare location of driveway

 

can't really tell :hsdunno:

 

Sorry, the mailbox was one of the neighbors. They were all the same type.

 

glad we got that cleared up :chuckles:

 

Had I built that mailbox, the bike would be in two pieces.