Man Leaps From Car to Retrieve Cigarette

[Sequoia]

FOREMAN, Ark. May 23, 2005 — A man was injured when he jumped from a car traveling 55-60 mph in an effort to retrieve a cigarette blown out of a passenger-side window.

Jeff Foran, 38, suffered trauma to his nose, eyes and chin after leaping from the car Saturday night and landing on the eastbound lane Arkanas 234 near the Oklahoma border, state police Trooper Jamie Gravier said.

The driver of the car, Jerry Glenn Nelson, 44, of Haworth, Okla., said Foran had asked him earlier in the evening to be a designated driver after a night of drinking.

"Foran did the right thing and asked his buddy to drive him home. Foran showed up at Nelson's home about 45 minutes earlier saying he (Foran) was too intoxicated to drive home, Gravier said.

"Nelson said Foran was smoking a cigarette when it blew out the window and Foran jumped out the window to retrieve the cigarette. Nelson said he was driving between 55 and 60 mph when Foran jumped out," the trooper said.

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[Momgonepostal]

1. I see Foran rhymes with Moran

It's surprising he wasn't killed.

[tridim]

2. Yet pot is still illegal and alcohol isn't

I could smoke every waking hour and never be that dumb.

[expatriot]

3. There was this couple that was hauling gasoline in a big ice chest

down the main drag in town, they must have needed to haul gasoline for some reason or other and didn't have a gas can. So one of them lights up a cigarette and the whole vehicle is instantaneously engulfed in flames. It is the main drag and it was during the five o clock hour, very busy. Many people saw these flaming bodies fly out of the car, one, the woman, stop drops and rolls but the gasoline is covering her and she cant get herself out. The man tries to run over to a hotel pool nearby but by the time he tries to jump the fence, he falls down in a searing pile of flames. The woman survived a couple of days.

[paula777]

6. That's a lovely story. Now excuse me while I go puke

[paula777]

4. I read the title and knew alcohol was going to be involved in this story

[benburch]

5. I bet this guy posts on CU... nt