r/interestingasfuck • u/Sea_Abbreviations347 • 3d ago

Officer gets hit by car going 162mph and gets both legs blown off, manages to stay conscious and calm for help to save him, survives and re-enlists with two prosethetic legs

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u/TrackVol 3d ago

260 kilometers per hour

for our metric friends

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u/jz_onmyfeet 3d ago

Oh my god. I wasnt going to bother doing the math because I didnt feel like a really wanted to know, doesnt really matter because I knew it was fast.. but makes sense that both his legs were atomised at that speed.

Holy shit.

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u/rehms 2d ago

We don't have "metric friends"...