Electric car post

I think the song from the movie Dumbo goes something like "but I be done seen about everything when I see an elephant fly".  This is after they say they saw things like house flies, horse flies, vegetable trucks and a needle that winked its eye.  I don't think they mentioned a car fly but I don't know how else this would have happened.  Perhaps the person driving this car should never go sailing.  They may be particularly prone to an accidental jibe.  Although an accidental jibe would be better than this.  I find it amazing that these power lines held up the car.  I wonder if this driver has a ham radio in his car, needed an antenna and thought the power lines would suffice.  On the other hand perhaps this was their way of having an excuse not to go to the endodontist for a root canal.  Most likely this happened when gas prices were really high and the owner was trying to convert to an electric powered car.  Whatever the circumstance I am glad I had nothing to do with it.  I would not like this to happen to my car even if I did need access to a long wire or an excuse to avoid a root canal.  

Hanging truck post

This is most impressive.  I am surprised that the trailer hitch could support the truck like this.  I wonder if this driver called for help on the ham radio he had in his truck.  It would be bad if he kept the ham radio in the boat.  This is much worse than an accidental jibe especially if the ham radio is in the boat.  I wonder if I could use this picture to help convince my wife that I should buy a boat.  I already own a ham radio so I don't need to convince her of that.   I only need to convince her I should keep the ham radio.  I hope this never happens to my truck and my boat never needs to save me.  I would rather have an accidental jibe than have anything to do with a problem like this.

Squashed truck post

It is a good thing trucks can't have accidental jibes.  This truck would have been much better of to have an accidental jibe than this problem though.  I don't know how this happened.  I assume that this man did not know how to make the tree fall the way he wanted it to fall so it fell on his truck.  That would make me much more grumpy than an accidental jibe.  It is possible however that this tree fell on the truck as a result of a hurricane.  If that is the case it would be less grumpy than letting the tree fall on your truck when you cut it down but still much more grumpy than an accidental jibe.  The worst thing about this accident is that there may have been a ham radio in the truck that got squashed with the truck.  Squashing your ham radio with a tree is also worse than an accidental jibe especially if the radio is in your truck at the time.  I hope this man has truck insurance.  I wonder if collision coverage includes collisions with trees when the truck is parked and the tree is the one that is moving.

Half Sunken Barge post

Wow, This is definitely worse than an accidental jibe.  Fortunately for me I have never had an accidental jibe (even when I was recently involved in a minor boating accident).  I am sure the captain of this boat wishes he had an accidental jibe instead of this kind of accident.  Although I have no knowledge of what kind of accident this was it did result in lots of water inside the hull of this boat where it does not belong.  This boat is also not capable of an accidental jibe.  Again, wrong kind of boat.  I hope I never have this kind of accident.  I hope I never have an accidental jibe either but better that than this.  

boat crash post

This boat was posted for sale a while back on Craigs list with the title of way too fast.  This must have been a very bad day for this boater.  This was much worse than an accidental jibe and I am glad I was not present.  The channel marker appears to have had no damage which I find impressive.  If this were my boat I would be very embarrassed.  I think the embarrassment alone would be much worse than an accidental jibe although an accidental jibe could be embarrassing as well.  I am certain most accidental jibes do not cause as much damage as this encounter with the channel marker caused.  Fortunately for this boater an accidental jibe would have been impossible given the type of boat he was driving.  Imagine how embarrassing  it would have been to have an accidental jibe and this sort of encounter with a channel marker at the same time.  

Sailboat post

 

A jibe has nothing to do with an insult.  At least not in the context I am familiar with and definitely not within the context of this blog.  However, an accidental jibe could cause insult in certain circumstances or contexts.  By the way this sailboat could be in danger of an accidental jibe.  I would enjoy being on this sailboat much more than I would enjoy an accidental jibe even if I were not insulted by it.  I like sailing but I do not enjoy accidental jibes.  Actually I have never been involved or associated with an accidental jibe but I think it is safe to assume I would not like an accidental jibe.  Accidental jibes are like being presented with piece of delicious chocolate cake but just before you take the first bite someone smashes it in your face.  Fortunately cake washes off and causes no damage unlike an accidental jibe which could cause significant damage even if the damage is only to your ego.  I would like to believe that I am too good for an accidental jibe but that would be an unwise and arrogant thing to believe.  Just when you think you are so great thats when you get humbled.  Being humbled can be worse than an accidental jibe unless you are humbled by an accidental jibe then they are equally bad.  On the other hand an accidental jibe could be worse than being humbled if you are not humbled a great deal.  The water in this picture looks very nice.  I would like to go fishing in it.  That would be unquestionably better than an accidental jibe.  

River fishing post

This is the San Miguel river in Colorado where we went fishing this last summer.  Over the period of 2 fishing trips we caught about 30 or so trout.  Eating trout is better than an accidental jibe although choking on the bones is worse.  Falling in the river may or may not be better than an accidental jibe it just depends on the temperature of the water, the size of the river, the strength of the current and how well you can swim.  I am a good swimmer but this river was very cold being in the mountains of Colorado therefore I don't know if I would have preferred the accidental jibe or not.  I definitely preferred fishing in this river to an accidental jibe and would go back anytime.  The mountains are beautiful and it was a very relaxing place to be.  Accidental jibes are not relaxing or beautiful.