Originally Posted by DOKE

It was Feb 23rd 2002. The bullet was a hollow point and opened up in me. Pieces shot out of my arm, chest, neck. Some pieces fractured bones on the way out and some stuck into my lungs. I sat down and thought this is it and then I stopped being a ***** and wrapped a towel from the stove around the entrance wound. I told my friend to grab his keys because I want to go to the hospital now. He ran a red light through a busy intersection doing 70 and we t-boned a minivan. At that point my body was destroyed. I couldn't get my set belt on because of the gunshot wound so I got fucked up bad in the car accident. The guy that chambered the bullet was following us and he pulled up to the wreckage, pulled me out and took me the rest of the way to the hospital. I was loosing so much blood it was nuts. It started feeling like a dream or something at that point. When we got to the hospital he pushed me out and took off. A security guard picked me up, put me in a wheelchair and rushed me in. I was in surgery within minutes. I woke up the next full day later to my mom and dad crying in the ICU next to me.

Originally Posted by DOKE

I had to have a tube installed in my chest to drain out all the garbage. I nurse would scrape out the dead cells once a day. That was painfull like you wouldn't believe b/c at that point I was off the morphine and only on vicoden. When she would drain the tube it smelled like I can't even explain. Like a dead body wrapped in rotting cheese. The nerves in my shoulder were clipped so I had no use of my right arm anymore. An occupational therapist spent time with me to teach me how to do things with my left hand like shave, cook food, write. I had surgery to try to repair the nerves at Hershey Medical Center. I started to get feeling back in my finger tips but by then my muscles were so atrophied it hurt to move and I had weird pain in it when the feeling started coming back. I'm 100% now except for some scars that would make a gang banger look like a *****. My wife admitted to me once that she thinks they are hot so I got that going for me. Hahaha

Originally Posted by Bray

Holy **** dude.... I dont know if you were lucky you survived, or shitty luck for getting shot, and then gettin into a car accident on the way to the hospital

Originally Posted by DOKE

It was Feb 23rd 2002. The bullet was a hollow point and opened up in me. Pieces shot out of my arm, chest, neck. Some pieces fractured bones on the way out and some stuck into my lungs. I sat down and thought this is it and then I stopped being a ***** and wrapped a towel from the stove around the entrance wound. I told my friend to grab his keys because I want to go to the hospital now. He ran a red light through a busy intersection doing 70 and we t-boned a minivan. At that point my body was destroyed. I couldn't get my set belt on because of the gunshot wound so I got fucked up bad in the car accident. The guy that chambered the bullet was following us and he pulled up to the wreckage, pulled me out and took me the rest of the way to the hospital. I was loosing so much blood it was nuts. It started feeling like a dream or something at that point. When we got to the hospital he pushed me out and took off. A security guard picked me up, put me in a wheelchair and rushed me in. I was in surgery within minutes. I woke up the next full day later to my mom and dad crying in the ICU next to me.

Originally Posted by Bray

MikeM, whats your take on Dodge Hemis? like the 06's... they seem dirt cheap compared to other trucks in their class... did they ever fix their tranny problems? im finding Hemi's for like 13,900-15,000 with less than 50k miles on them?

Originally Posted by MikeM

dodge half tons sold like wildfire before the gas prices went up a few years ago. because of that, theyre plentiful and cheap. Around here, dodge outsold ford, chevy, and the japs combined in the half ton category.
The engines are pretty good but suck the gas. There were a few different trannies and most of them were the normal dodge garbage. Their "good" auto tranny is the 545RE which normally comes behind the 4.7 V8 but can occasionally be found behind other engines. The 4.7 isnt a hemi btw, its their small v8.

Originally Posted by MoHawk

Damn. Doke's story just had me all fucked up.

Originally Posted by Bray

ya i was looking at the 4.7's orginally, than saw deals on the Hemi's and i was like for the price difference i might as well look into the Hemis.

Originally Posted by MikeM

youre looking at 2wd trucks, right?

Originally Posted by old man roger

yooooooo

Originally Posted by DOKE

It was Feb 23rd 2002. The bullet was a hollow point and opened up in me. Pieces shot out of my arm, chest, neck. Some pieces fractured bones on the way out and some stuck into my lungs. I sat down and thought this is it and then I stopped being a ***** and wrapped a towel from the stove around the entrance wound. I told my friend to grab his keys because I want to go to the hospital now. He ran a red light through a busy intersection doing 70 and we t-boned a minivan. At that point my body was destroyed. I couldn't get my set belt on because of the gunshot wound so I got fucked up bad in the car accident. The guy that chambered the bullet was following us and he pulled up to the wreckage, pulled me out and took me the rest of the way to the hospital. I was loosing so much blood it was nuts. It started feeling like a dream or something at that point. When we got to the hospital he pushed me out and took off. A security guard picked me up, put me in a wheelchair and rushed me in. I was in surgery within minutes. I woke up the next full day later to my mom and dad crying in the ICU next to me.