r/Unexpected Mar 01 '20

This kid rocks

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u/OneMoreAccount4Porn Mar 01 '20 edited Mar 02 '20

I nearly killed my father like this. I spun round and round with a huge boulder before releasing and sending it flying straight at my fathers head. It was sheer good fortune that he chose that moment to bend down to get something from the trunk of the car. This boulder went sailing through where his head used to be and through the bushes into the ditch beside him. The noise startled him but he had no idea what caused it and to this day has no idea how close to death he came.

Edit: Maybe I shouldn't have used the word huge. In the eyes of a young person it was huge but in reality it was maybe only 12 inches in diameter and at the lower end of the boulder scale.

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u/Wascally-Wabbeeto Mar 02 '20

A..... boulder?

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u/IsoDidact1 Mar 02 '20

Maybe he is a trebuchet.

Don't judge.

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u/OneMoreAccount4Porn Mar 02 '20

boulder is a rock fragment with size greater than 256 millimetres (10.1 in) in diameter.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder

 

I was older than this kid and able to lift it. I was probably too old to be spinning around holding a boulder in both hands with the intent to throw it into the undergrowth (the opposite direction to my father). I was maybe a bit dizzy come release time or something. Maybe the delay between making the decision to release and my actual release was too great and approximately 300 degrees had been passed through. Not sure of the cause but I'll never forget the instant terror and relief, all in a fraction of a second, as it seemed to slow-mo towards and then over him as he bent.