crazy trip to pickup my battlezone!

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so i made the deal to get the battlezone that was in so cal about 400ish miles from my house. caddysrule made the offer of ROADTRIP! so we left at 8 am saturday morning. after a quick breakfast at mcdonalds we were back on the road . on the way there we got caught up in some SNOW!!!! :)
we got there the game looks awesome! we left there stopped among some old abandoned town ruins (this place was really out in the desert middle of NO WHERE) got to stop in the desert and get some pics wish we had more time for that really is beautiful around the mohave/tahachape area.
then a couple hours later we were driving down the freeway and a truck pulling a travel trailer came to an abrupt stop. apparently the car in front of them spun out and flipped over onto its side. thank god jeff had a quick eye and pointed it out.
we quickly pulled over and ran to the car. the driver was mexican and couldnt answer a single damn question. as the trucker question the guy i ran to the back luckily there were no passengers. the driver got pretty anxious and tried to climb out the passenger side door. the car could have easily tipped but there was no talking to the driver. jeff held the door open, i held the car from tipping over on us and the truckdriver helped the guy out of the car.
so glad everyone was ok, and pics of my battlezone to follow.

15.5 hours 40$ and some parts and i got a beautiful working battlezone!
And a big thanks to dan (p1899m) for pointing out this deal to me,jeff for riding shotgun and jason(fabanacci or something sorry im bad at usernames lol) for the awesome game.
 

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Where are the pics of the cab? You know...pics or it didn't happen :)
 
I was watching the for sale thread on the bz. Super jealous, especially for what he wanted to trade for. I woulda traded my 360 in a split second without even thinking. Congrats!
 
Nice pics Taylor! You look cold!! :D But yeah... we want pics of the accident!! We don't need pics of the game... we all know what that looks like... lol!!!:D
 
Nice pics Taylor! You look cold!! :D But yeah... we want pics of the accident!! We don't need pics of the game... we all know what that looks like... lol!!!:D

I took pics of the crash on my cell phone but they came out to dark..I cant find the crash in the paper..I did a search for crash on Hwy 58 Bakersfield and I cant find anything..

So sorry guys no pics but that was a nasty roll over :(
 
Oh well Jeff, at least you tried!! :) Glad nobody was hurt anyway! I guess we will have to settle for pictures of the game...:rolleyes:
 
I lived in ridgecrest for a few years. It's an ok place. I like it.
Get's real HOT.

I remember it being over 120 degrees and on several occasions
it was 100 at midnight!
 
yeah.. sounds like a day at work for me.. but the mexican would have wanted to fight too.. and then try to run.. and then you would find his meth lab in the trunk


that ghost town is cool.. I REALLY want to pick up a Whites metal detector for Xmas and think hitting places like that would be super cool..

can you imagine stuff that people must have dropped at one time or another??


Good story.. good pics...
 
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