Reliever Jon Rauch was unhurt after being involved in a two-car accident following the Mets’ loss Sunday. He took to twitter afterwards:
got sideswiped on the way home.....awesome. guy tried to merge into my jeep. Jeep 1 - Benz S-class 0. took 2.5 hrs for police to show up.
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Jon Rauch (@jrauch60) July 09, 2012Entire side of the benz destroyed by the 37" tires and Ace Eng. sliders. Couple dents in the rear door from his mirror. The Jeep is a tank.
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Jon Rauch (@jrauch60) July 09, 2012no injuries. glancing blow to both cars. He's lucky i didn't drive over the top of his hood!!
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Jon Rauch (@jrauch60) July 09, 2012to be honest, felt like i hit a pothole. heard the accident more than i felt it.
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Jon Rauch (@jrauch60) July 09, 2012It sounds like that other guy’s car never had a chance. It needs to go play women’s sports.
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- DJ MC - Jul 8, 2012 at 10:52 PM
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A friend of mine, getting his first used car, bought a 1984 Ford Bronco. Fifteen years old, solid steel, got about eight miles per gallon. Great car.
One day, a guy driving a sports car didn’t pay attention as he pulled through an intersection and T-boned my friend right in the driver’s door. Fortunately no one was hurt, but the sports car was totaled. The Bronco? A small dent in the door, unnoticeable unless you knew where to look.
They don’t make them like that anymore.
That said, I’m glad everyone is OK.
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- umrguy42 - Jul 9, 2012 at 10:33 AM
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When I was a senior in high school, the guy I was carpooling with had a ’78 Ford Ranchero (Ford’s version of the Chevy El Camino). I used to comment that I felt safe in any collision short of with a semi on the passenger-side door.
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- finswins - Jul 8, 2012 at 11:01 PM
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Rauch needs to play women’s sports.
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- mybrunoblog - Jul 8, 2012 at 11:07 PM
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Am I the only thinking that some NYPD precinct commander is going to get a call tomorrow morning.
Something like this “2.5 hours response time to a motor vehicle accident? Explain!”
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- townballblog - Jul 8, 2012 at 11:23 PM
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Hahaha! I see what you’re doing there at the end, Pouliot
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- jlovenotjlo - Jul 9, 2012 at 1:02 AM
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I dunno ’bout you, but I lol-ed
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- townballblog - Jul 17, 2012 at 7:18 PM
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haha, I just did again.
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- cur68 - Jul 9, 2012 at 2:16 AM
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Can you imagine the guy in the Merc S-Class after the accident? Gets out of his car, full of fire, ready to have a go at the idiot in the jeep and . . . Jon Rauch, listed at 6’11″ and 290lbs on baseballref, more tats than herd of gang members and with those crazy bath-salts eyes, gets out of the jeep. Yep. I can see Mr. Merc S-Class calming down in a hurry.
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- christos99 - Jul 9, 2012 at 4:05 AM
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As a loyal, die hard Mets fan… Selfishly (based on your seasons performance) I almost wish you endured a non career, but Mets season ending injury… That way, you couldn’t blow and lose anymore games…
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- Jonny 5 - Jul 9, 2012 at 12:29 PM
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Growing up a lunatic who enjoyed drinking and crash up derbies on my friend’s farm just about every weekend, I can attest to the fact that a Delta 88 Oldsmobile can indeed drive straight through a Honda Civic. It may not make it through it the first time, but by the second or third try the Oldsmobile went right through that poor little car.
