Non-football related stuff that really makes your day

[Panoptes]

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2istf1w&s=4

Good stuff Don.

How far do you have to travel to get to your local drag strip?

OC had one many years ago, Orange County International Raceway and I grew up attending events all the time.

Since its demise many years ago, I don't travel up to Pomona as much as I would like to.

One question, in the video of your race, I can't see the tree, did you both get the same green timing? You had that race at the line.

Again, good stuff.

[Newbomb Turk]

that was a 180 mile pull, but it is a huge event, over 125 cars came even though the forecast was crap.

we run heads up, both cars get the green at the same time

[Panoptes]

Thats a run alright. Shows ur into it.

Pomona might be an hour from me (less than 50 miles one way)

Good reaction time for you

What were the final numbers for both of you in that race?

[Newbomb Turk]

we both spun hard and did not run anywhere close to our best....... 14.14 to 14.14

the Impala has seen 13.60 and I have gone 13.47 before

[Newbomb Turk]

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=s5z1hj&s=4

here is better video of both cars

[Panoptes]

a tie?

lol

Happy face stickers all around for your troubles

[Timmy]

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2istf1w&s=4

You smoked him at the start...what was your 60' time?

[-Deborah-]

Nice.

[Newbomb Turk]

my reaction time is what got him...

I cut 3 lights of .019 .007 and -.025 (oops)

he actually out 60' me with that tank.... lots of overhang = traction

[Panoptes]

I'm hoping you have a nice big cage in that vette of yours (protection and weight).

[Newbomb Turk]

nope... but I do wear a helmet

[FVD]

He means while you're driving the car.

[Newbomb Turk]

racing, Lions games on TV, and during really rough sex with the wife......

[Panoptes]

nope... but I do wear a helmet

Who are you really, Lauren Wallace from the Geico commercials?

[-Deborah-]

Dogs are just amazing.


Rover, call me an ambulance ? dog calls 911

The German shepherd remembered his training and saved his owner's life




updated 4:44 p.m. ET, Sun., Sept. 14, 2008

PHOENIX - "Man's best friend" doesn't go far enough for Buddy ? a German shepherd who remembered his training and saved his owner's life by calling 911 when the man had a seizure.

And it's not the first time Buddy has been there for owner Joe Stalnaker, a police officer said Sunday.

On a recording of the 911 call Wednesday, Buddy is heard whimpering and barking after the dispatcher answers and repeatedly asks if the caller needs help.

"Hello, this is 911. Hello ... Can you hear me? Is there somebody there you can give the phone to," says the dispatcher, Chris Scott.

Police were sent to Stalnaker's home, and after about three minutes Buddy is heard barking loudly when the officers arrived.

Scottsdale police Sgt. Mark Clark said Stalnaker spent two days in a hospital and recovered from the seizure.

"It's pretty incredible," Clark said. "Even the veteran dispatchers ? they haven't heard of anything like this."

Clark said police are dispatched whenever 911 is called, but that Stalnaker's address was flagged in Scottsdale's system with a notification that a trained assistance dog could call 911 when the owner was incapacitated.

Clark said Stalnaker adopted Buddy at the age of 8 weeks from Michigan-based Paws with a Cause, which trains assistance dogs, and trained him to get the phone if he began to have seizure symptoms. Buddy, now 18 months old, is able to press programmed buttons until a 911 operator is on the line, Clark said.

Clark said Buddy has made two other 911 calls when Stalnaker was having seizures.

He said Stalnaker's seizures are the result of a head injury he suffered about 10 years ago during a military training exercise.

Stalnaker was not listed in the phone book, and he did not immediately respond to a request through police for an interview.