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General Discussion => The Pit Stop => Topic started by: fabr on June 04, 2015, 01:41:20 PM
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Copied and pasted this from GD.com. I hope they don't mind. Please send the ecard.
Fellow Duners,
On Saturday May 30, 2015 I was hosting my daughter, her fiance Zach Stander and two of their close friends at my property in Waynoka, Oklahoma. During our mid-day dune run Zach Stander had a terrible accident while riding his quad. the rear end of Zach's quad kicked up on him at the top of a dune and caused him to flip forward into the sand with quad closely following him. We are not totally sure what happened on impact as no one saw it, but the result was two crushed thoracic vertebrae, several broken ribs, a cracked cervical vertebrae, a damaged spinal cord and various internal injuries.
Zach had surgery on Tuesday June 2 at Oklahoma University Medical Center in Oklahoma City and the Doctors did what they could to stabilize his back injury. Zach remains paralized from the chest down and it appears that this will be a permanent condition for him.
Our family would appreciate if you fellow duners would participate in a (FREE) e-card campaign in support of Zach while he is recovering in ICU at OU Med center. The hospital will deliver free cards to his bed at the website address below.
https://www.oumedicine.com/oumedicalcenter/patients-visitors/patient-e-cards/ou-medical-center-patient-e-card (https://www.oumedicine.com/oumedicalcenter/patients-visitors/patient-e-cards/ou-medical-center-patient-e-card)
Please use room number 2025 to ensure the cards will make it to him. Also, feel free to forward to anyone you think would be interested.
Thanks in advance for your support.
Doug Durham
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I must say that I am quite disappointed in DTS membership today. Can it be that DTS members don't have even the 1 minute it takes to send the ecard the link provides? Very disappointed if this is the case..
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I did it from the other site Sir. When I click your link, I get a 404 error.
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Same here faber. 404 error.
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Try this one.
https://www.oumedicine.com/oumedicalcenter/patients-visitors/patient-e-cards/ou-medical-center-patient-e-card (https://www.oumedicine.com/oumedicalcenter/patients-visitors/patient-e-cards/ou-medical-center-patient-e-card)
Sad for sure.
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Thanks for sending the card guys. I have zero idea who the people are but they are from the duner community . Thanks for the link correction.
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I must say that I am quite disappointed in DTS membership today. Can it be that DTS members don't have even the 1 minute it takes to send the ecard the link provides? Very disappointed if this is the case..
Getting all grumpy? Had to work. I filled it out with some words of encouragement.
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Ya,I guess I am a bit grumpy today ,as usual. ;D ;D . WHat really pisses me off though is that out of the supposed 40,000+ members of GD.com very few even responded to the post yet a zillion replies were made to the BJ ,oops CaitlinJ topic. WTF are our priorities in America today??? Rant,rant,rant.................I was impressed this guy only asked for e cards instead of posting the gofundme moneysite and asking for like most have done the last couple years.
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Reality TV is #1. The more unreal the more we like it. Same with news.
I sent my ecard. Still learning this new phone.
I caught your Caitlyn bj reference.
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card sent and there is a young man that had surgery yesterday for a broken collar bone. his was/is broke in 4 spots from a freak accident at LS last weekend. my friend allen with a blue rail that has 6 exhaust pipes, took both his boys and taylors friend. now taylors friend has gone before and they both ride dirt bikes. he is pretty good on the dirt bike on the sand but not as good or experienced of a rider as taylor. when they began jumping off a rolling dune top, the last jump, his rear swung out and he landed flat and flew off the bike and landed on his shoulder. the sand was wet and he did not hit the handle bars nor did the bike land on him just landed flat on his shoulder. this was sat morning and they had planned on leaving that afternoon. wound up spending the night in alva and made the tip home sun morning after they told allen if he has shortness of breathe or starts to puke blood the bone most likely shifted into his lung. allen said uh uh we're staying. the young man is fine as of this point and in some pain but will recover.
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it is sad to hear he had an accident and even worse that he is now paralyzed from the chest down. i can't imagine that personally but i did know a guy that was and still dunned. he had a cvt rail with a honda pilot steering wheel with all the controls in it.
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card sent and there is a young man that had surgery yesterday for a broken collar bone. his was/is broke in 4 spots from a freak accident at LS last weekend. my friend allen with a blue rail that has 6 exhaust pipes, took both his boys and taylors friend. now taylors friend has gone before and they both ride dirt bikes. he is pretty good on the dirt bike on the sand but not as good or experienced of a rider as taylor. when they began jumping off a rolling dune top, the last jump, his rear swung out and he landed flat and flew off the bike and landed on his shoulder. the sand was wet and he did not hit the handle bars nor did the bike land on him just landed flat on his shoulder. this was sat morning and they had planned on leaving that afternoon. wound up spending the night in alva and made the tip home sun morning after they told allen if he has shortness of breathe or starts to puke blood the bone most likely shifted into his lung. allen said uh uh we're staying. the young man is fine as of this point and in some pain but will recover.
ALWAY sad to read such stuff. Hope he heals up soon.
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The world has real problems and we collectively are captivated by a 65 year old man playing dress up.
We are fxxked.
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fabbr he's 18 and they went down the weekend school was out. had a trip planned with his father to go ride there bikes across a few states on a father son trip but that's done. he's young enough to heal luckily.
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The world has real problems and we collectively are captivated by a 65 year old man playing dress up.
We are fxxked.
LMAO soooooooo true but sooooooooo wrong at the same time.
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Done. I asked him to come here and say hi when he gets a chance.
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I think that this tiny forum has sent more ecards than all of GD.com. That is truly sad IMO.
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well i don't think gd is what it used to be and dunebuggy.com used to be a real good forum too but it declined before it died
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I think that this tiny forum has sent more ecards than all of GD.com. That is truly sad IMO.
That is why we hang here
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Ya,I guess I am a bit grumpy today ,as usual. ;D ;D . WHat really pisses me off though is that out of the supposed 40,000+ members of GD.com very few even responded to the post .
My guess is they have not cleaned out the member database in years? Every now and again I will do that here, remove accounts older than two years inactive, etc. Last time I checked their traffic it was falling, but most buggy / off road sites have done so after the recession. Well, except RZR sites - that shit is like gold...... until the class action, consent decree, next big thing.
And you thought I was just the resident smart ass?
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My guess is they have not cleaned out the member database in years? Every now and again I will do that here, remove accounts older than two years inactive, etc. Last time I checked their traffic it was falling, but most buggy / off road sites have done so after the recession. Well, except RZR sites - that shit is like gold...... until the class action, consent decree, next big thing.
And you thought I was just the resident smart ass?
came across a video on youtube advertising a long travel kit for rzr's for $5k. i had to view it and it basically got you everything to needed to gain 3" wheel travel!!!!!!!!!1 3" for $5k and people were ewing and awing this in there replies so i couldn't resist and had to add a comment, i got an immediate response LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO 3" come on
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now i am not saying that utv's don't have there place like for running grease guns to tractors or running a small bag of feed and such cause you know utv! lol but they do look like fun and after watching doug roll over those dunes at LS that rzr 1000 was capable but when i drove it.... just not as stable as i am used to and i can see how they get rolled and flipped. just not for me i guess
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I not really bagging on GD but if a person pays attention they will see a core of posters not much bigger than we have here. I really have to laugh at the mods there though. I have,over the last few years ,had them say they visited this site. They all said this site is over moderated. LMAO LMAO LMAO rofl rofl rofl rofl Has anyone noticed the heavy handed moderating going on over there now? LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO Hypocrits!
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My guess is they have not cleaned out the member database in years? Every now and again I will do that here, remove accounts older than two years inactive, etc. Last time I checked their traffic it was falling, but most buggy / off road sites have done so after the recession. Well, except RZR sites - that shit is like gold...... until the class action, consent decree, next big thing.
And you thought I was just the resident smart ass?
I'd bet the active membership @GD is under 50 people.
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Done. I asked him to come here and say hi when he gets a chance.
Cool ,Pat!
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They all said this site is over moderated.
i honestly don't know where or how anyone could get that impression! not even in the slightest bit
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really can't say i have frequented gd like i did dunebuggy.com and have been on the samba and shop talk for buggies but they are more vw based
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Gd is the freak show of buggy sites in many ways. About 25% of the members are level headed people I woud like around my camp fire,the other 75% are a bit out there to say the least. Most there would not be in my circle of friends. Remember LS this year when I was a bit not interested in talking buggy talk with the guy that pulled in next to your slot ds? Snap judgement made. Maybe I was wrong but he fit in that 75% of those I don't really have any desire to rub elbows with. Full of shit and glad to show it.
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Overmoderated????
As far as I know there is only one rule.
"Dont be an ass"
That seems to work pretty good.
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It seems like here we do not look down on others just because we have a differing opinion.
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Gd is the freak show of buggy sites in many ways. About 25% of the members are level headed people I woud like around my camp fire,the other 75% are a bit out there to say the least. Most there would not be in my circle of friends. Remember LS this year when I was a bit not interested in talking buggy talk with the guy that pulled in next to your slot ds? Snap judgement made. Maybe I was wrong but he fit in that 75% of those I don't really have any desire to rub elbows with. Full of shit and glad to show it.
i WAS doing a good job at forgetting him till you brought him back up lol lol ya he was full of shit and the reason i had to walk away and leave everyone else there to talk to him lol i was about to tell him what i thought. his opening remark about how he built the first motor cycle powered rail before it was even an idea of anyone's then called that rail a short sand car was too much then carl asked him if his name was larry and he didn't have an answer so i had to walk away rofl rofl rofl rofl
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Overmoderated????
As far as I know there is only one rule.
"Dont be an ass"
That seems to work pretty good.
fxxk you!
Self imposed time out now .......... eyes
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i WAS doing a good job at forgetting him till you brought him back up lol lol ya he was full of shit and the reason i had to walk away and leave everyone else there to talk to him lol i was about to tell him what i thought. his opening remark about how he built the first motor cycle powered rail before it was even an idea of anyone's then called that rail a short sand car was too much then carl asked him if his name was larry and he didn't have an answer so i had to walk away rofl rofl rofl rofl
I was informed I was not very nice to him. I just am at a stage of life I don't have the desire to waste time on morons with more money than brains. That dude was the epitome of that,IMO. I guess it really bothers me now when a person tries to impress me with all they know and in the first sentence make it perfectly clear they know nothing and just bought everything they have. Arrogant,egotistical? Perhaps, but, welllllllll,too bad.
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fxxk you!
Self imposed time out now .......... eyes
Your 1 second ban has expired. Please feel free to return to posting.......................
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rofl rofl
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Some people look smart and could remain that way if they kept there mouth shut.
He didn't even know Larry.
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fxxk you!
Ugh thanks but no thanks.
Self imposed time out now .......... eyes
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Some people look smart and could remain that way if they kept there mouth shut.
He didn't even know Larry.
A lot of people are like me.
I know enough to sound smart to dumb people.
But little enough to sound dumb to smart people.
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Card sent.
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Thanks for sending cards all!