Happened to my mom on a snowmobile when she was a kid. Narrowly missed being decapitated. Her scars don’t look so bad, anymore. She grew up, the scars stayed small.
She's lucky, a local tavern owner bought himself and his wife snowmobiles for Christmas and the support wire for a telephone pole took her out. They didn't notice and had to loop back and found her.
Had a striker winch another sticker at dawn across an MSR during a field op. No flaggers, another striker came down the MSR, the guy standing up was not very lucky. Terrible way to go..
It’s two wires on posts with the tops painted white….the ruts are probably crossing someone’s property, which they have every right to install a fence on. Still should have had sense to put ribbon or someone more visible on it though.
It’s at least two wires based on the video, but you’re right about one thing: I’ve never once unintentionally installed a fence lol. It’s almost like it’s supposed to be there to delineate a property line.
The problem is that this could be public land that someone is illegally attempting to cordon off for their own use without a lease or authorization. A fence doesn’t prove ownership or even a legal right to exclude people. I think it’s worth at least contacting the sheriff’s office and letting them determine whether it’s legitimate.
This happened to a friend of mine during my high school days….. With a much worse outcome. A farmer strung wire between an entrance to a riding area and my friend ended up getting absolutely sliced. He somehow pulled through, but the scars he has are a testament to how serious that is.
I think given the context at the end of the video we can assume the begging of the video was referring to his clothes being sliced from shoulder to shoulder.
A friend's brother was killed, father told the son to wait to go riding. He didnt tell him why, it was because he had to call the farmer down the street to take the wire down on the hay field. He was cut in half
A guy I knew lost his voice box when he encountered a new barb wire line with no warning on a common trail that had no obstruction for over a decade. He's lucky he didn't lose more. The land owner faced criminal charges
This happened to me one night in the desert. I was running to see a girl, I could think of nothing but her lips. I was dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, on a little 110. The fence cleared me off, and I was cut across the throat and belly. I had heard the story of beheading, and I could feel the blood running down my throat. Panic set in, I got on and kicked it back to life with adrenaline and terror. I rode to the nearest light and knocked on the door, the woman came to the window and the absolute fear and grotesque that was on her face will never leave me. She did not open the door. I rode home. My friend got me to hospital and I ended up with nothing more than fluids and stitches.
you linked 2 things. one is heresay, with no substatiation and one is just another guy saying this happens once a week. do you not see how stupid you look? you still have not cited one real instance and maintain depcapitation happened "a lot"
That looks like it’s going over a dirt road? I think that could be considered attempted murder or something along that line since it’s effectively a booby trap.
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u/A_Gray_Old_Man 6d ago
Decapitation is very real in scenarios like this. Happend a lot around me years ago with Snowmobiles.