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Originally Posted by transplant99
Good call.
Those things would take an average toboggan run and nearly turn it into a kamikaze mission.
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My first major injury was due to a crazy carpet. I don't know if anyone remembers the toboggan hill at Lake Bonivista, but when I was about 11 I went down that hill kneeling on a CC and lost control and went into the tree line, I decided to bail just in time to use my bent knee to stop myself by ramming it into a tree.
Of course in those days you never admitted to an injury so everyone crowded around this stupid kid clutching his knee and screaming his head off and decided to help me up. So I sucked it up and hopped home which was normally a 30 minute walk using my best friend at the time as a crutch. My mom saw me come in and freaked because my knee had turned black and swollen to the size of a basket ball and it had that rotten tooth throbbing pain.
Anyways she had to call my dad home from work and he was pretty unhappy and they drove me to the Rocky View and it turned out that I had cracked my knee cap and done some other damage.
So I was on crutches with basically a hip to toe cast for 2 months which killed my hockey season, and chicks aren't turned on by the story of an idiot slamming into a tree on a CC unless it was on fire and you were saving the world from communist terrorists (Trust me this was in the early 80's so it makes sense)
Anyways that was the last time I ever went down hill on anything.
Stupid unsafe but fantastically fast Crazy Carpets. If only I had gotten the bag of broken glass at the same time.