Reply #12: A local boy was killed on one not a mile from where I sit - let me tell you what happened [View All]

I live out in the country and every nice weekend we see hundreds of the damned things running around here.

Two years ago a boy was killed about a mile from here after what could only be described as a minor accident on one of the things. Two boys were riding the things on the back roads in this area and while coming down the road the lead vehicle hit a bump and was tossed off the roadway. The driver went into a barbed wire fence that ran parallel to the road that enclosed a small pen where a neighbor had kept some livestock. The boy's throat was slit by the wire even though he was not hurt badly otherwise. The lady who owned the house (a retired couple in their 60s) was on her porch when the accident happened. She later told us that the boy jumped right up after it happened and started running toward her house. He collapsed before finishing the 100 feet from the accident site to the house - he had already bled out that much. He died on the spot, 13 years old.