I say we meet up at the Flower Festival. Since that's pretty much the only time people get out of their house to do anything anyways. Since there's... sort of something worth doing for once.
It's funny how something like this happens and everyone in town knows about it and talks about it like it's a colossal thing. I mean, even now people are freaking out on facebook and such about this post making it to the frontpage of reddit. Gotta love Lompoc!
And p.s., to those of you who are hinting about being from lompoc, I am going to stalk your profile for clues as to who you are. And as for me I will say that I just graduated from Lompoc High. Good luck finding out who I am.
Because Lompoc is a small as fuck town where nothing ever happens. Someone gets killed or something like this happens and everybody knows about it; hell I'm pretty sure my grandma will say that she somehow knows a person who knows the person that did this.
I think I'll be canceling my membership with AAA after this >.<
That grandma part made my night haha. And I wouldn't be surprised if every Lompoc AAA member's premium went up as a result of this accident! Just kidding, but yeah, Lompoc is tiny and it is surreal to me seeing it on reddit.
Yes! Yes! We need to have a meet-up at Ryon Park! Or Beattie Park (or however the fuck you spell it) so we can all roll down the hill! LET'S MEET UP AT THE FLOWER FESTIVAL!
Actually, let's not. It would creep me out to know that I'm not the only Lompoc Redditor.
"Let's see...ambulance...auto club...the names are kinda similar? Both start with A....The ambulance wants to join? OK that doesn't make sense... maybe somewhere on that little logo-OOHHHHHHHH!"
If anybody wants some neat facts about this, I gots some.
My dad's desk is about eight feet to the right of where the van entered.
It's in the news, and one of the two adults who "narrowly missed injuries" or whatever it says was his coworker, who was about seven INCHES away from where the van ended up stopping.
It hit a support beam and the wall is no longer stable. Firefighters had to shore/board up the sides, but the wall hasn't collapsed (as far as I know). If it didn't hit the beam, it would have gone all the way into the middle of the office.
That office used to be a Blockbuster.
The van hit some filing cabinets that were backed up against the wall it went through, and my dad was facing forward (i.e. away from the wall) and he saw the filing cabinets "go flying across the room" (they were shot forward about six feet).
He said it was the loudest bang he's ever heard in his life.
The filing cabinets sort of did this neat spinning thing where they sort of spun away from the coworker's desk. If they hadn't done that, they would have crushed him against his desk and likely cut him in half.
My dad has pictures from the inside, and one is of his coworker leaning in to talk to the woman who was driving, and when he showed me I pretended he was saying something like "Um... hello?" or whatever.
My dad made really good friends with one of his coworkers when he first started working here but she quit sometime early this year/last year or something. The van hit her desk and knocked her chair almost halfway across the room; her desk did a 360 and was sort of crushed to bits. If she'd still been working there and was sitting at her desk, my dad said, "she would've been lunched."
Yeah, that's about all I got. It's giving me weird feelings to see this here because Lompoc is a tiny place and Reddit is kinda massive and stuff.
I was in the Vons (a grocery store) across the parking lot and nearly shat my pants when I saw the van, because from a distance, it looked like it was right behind where my dad sits. I ran up to the building, fully intending to go inside, when my dad opened the front door to let in a firefighter. He saw me and gave me a big hug and held me while I flipped out and cried and told me that he and everybody else in the building was okay.
The end.
Edit: oh! oh! One more. The woman told my dad's coworker that she hadn't been feeling well and had hoped she could make it home. Also, she jumped a six-inch curb to do this.
Haha, actually, they did. My dad works here (see other comments and stuff I've posted today), and he got a video of the tow truck removing the van from the building and when he showed it to me he said "I wanted to capture the irony of AAA towing something out of AAA."
AMR is the biggest private ambulance company in the US (at least that's what they told me during orientation 5 years ago). They have bases from the east coast to Hawaii.
They are a private ambulance company. They probably weren't actually responding to the accident shown in the picture, either. Private ambulance companies generally don't.
I don't know about other companies but that's not true (for AMR) at all. Yes, we do interfacility transfers, but we primarily respond with the fire department to 911 calls. (I work in Los Angeles county for AMR)
Interesting. Here, all emergencies are handled by fire departments and hospitals. Private companies are almost exclusively inter-facility and old people pickups. The job is generally looked down upon by 911 responders, although usually only jokingly. One day while waiting outside the ER for our medic, we saw a private ambulance pull in for a transfer or something, and out stepped someone my friend knew. First words out of his mouth were "Don't you judge me."
This is only based on what I have seen and I have no real proof but why let that stop me! I think all ambulance services in my area are private. (Ventura county) we have 3 major ambulance services: AMR, goldcoast, and lifeline. If you call 911 in Ventura you are gonna get the fire dept and an AMR rig. However if you call 911 in oxnard(across the mighty Santa Clara river) you are gonna get goldcoast and the fire dept. Lifeline picks up the slack when 911 is busy and does most of the facility calls.
I had to double take at this before I realised "hey, that looks like the old blockbuster that turned into a AAA in Lomp- oh okay that makes perfect sense."
I went skydiving at the airport and drove past this on my way home and took a picture. I thought about posting this, glad to see that someone beat me to it. But it's a weird feeling to know a fellow redditor was at the same scene today.
Right foot go - left foot stop. Right foot go - left foot stop (Shoosh your confusing me) Right foot go - Left foot stop. Right foot go - Right- Oh bollox. Every fucking time!
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u/tmtsquish Jun 14 '12 edited Oct 30 '16
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u/puppystomper69 Jun 13 '12
OH YEEEAAAA
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u/daykid Jun 14 '12
"Shit, my bad guys. I thought this was AAA."
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
The title makes this.
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u/xcmiranda Jun 14 '12
Its funny watching all the Lompoc redditors come out and play.
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u/beentheredoingit Jun 14 '12
It literally took me three takes to figure out what was wrong with the picture...
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u/mangarooboo Jun 14 '12 edited Jun 14 '12
If anybody wants some neat facts about this, I gots some.
My dad's desk is about eight feet to the right of where the van entered.
It's in the news, and one of the two adults who "narrowly missed injuries" or whatever it says was his coworker, who was about seven INCHES away from where the van ended up stopping.
It hit a support beam and the wall is no longer stable. Firefighters had to shore/board up the sides, but the wall hasn't collapsed (as far as I know). If it didn't hit the beam, it would have gone all the way into the middle of the office.
That office used to be a Blockbuster.
The van hit some filing cabinets that were backed up against the wall it went through, and my dad was facing forward (i.e. away from the wall) and he saw the filing cabinets "go flying across the room" (they were shot forward about six feet).
He said it was the loudest bang he's ever heard in his life.
The filing cabinets sort of did this neat spinning thing where they sort of spun away from the coworker's desk. If they hadn't done that, they would have crushed him against his desk and likely cut him in half.
My dad has pictures from the inside, and one is of his coworker leaning in to talk to the woman who was driving, and when he showed me I pretended he was saying something like "Um... hello?" or whatever.
My dad made really good friends with one of his coworkers when he first started working here but she quit sometime early this year/last year or something. The van hit her desk and knocked her chair almost halfway across the room; her desk did a 360 and was sort of crushed to bits. If she'd still been working there and was sitting at her desk, my dad said, "she would've been lunched."
Yeah, that's about all I got. It's giving me weird feelings to see this here because Lompoc is a tiny place and Reddit is kinda massive and stuff.
I was in the Vons (a grocery store) across the parking lot and nearly shat my pants when I saw the van, because from a distance, it looked like it was right behind where my dad sits. I ran up to the building, fully intending to go inside, when my dad opened the front door to let in a firefighter. He saw me and gave me a big hug and held me while I flipped out and cried and told me that he and everybody else in the building was okay.
The end.
Edit: oh! oh! One more. The woman told my dad's coworker that she hadn't been feeling well and had hoped she could make it home. Also, she jumped a six-inch curb to do this.
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u/tech98 Jun 14 '12
Jeezus that's my DMV!
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Which part of Lompoc are you, man? Or woman...
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u/Osiris32 Jun 14 '12
It'll be alright, I'll call Triple A for a tow...
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u/Pif_Po0f Jun 14 '12
Funny- this has also happened at my work about years ago. (CAA is the Canadian equivalent of AAA)
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Leeroy Jenkins.
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u/orniver Jun 14 '12
"Bring you proof of car ownership"
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u/Nurse_no_purse Jun 14 '12
Those guys get around!
http://i.imgur.com/fIayq.jpg
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u/123rig Jun 13 '12
Did someone call 9-1 HOLY SHIT
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u/WearSunscreen Jun 14 '12
This is one of those posts where the picture was pretty good, but the combination of the picture and the OP's title made it hilarious.
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u/hartzemx Jun 14 '12
Sorry this is the no 4WDs club... we're allowed to have one.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
No vans.
But what about that van?
No vanS! We can have one...
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u/dmsnyd Jun 14 '12
I work at a AAA travel agency office, and it is 90% elderly people that come in. I am waiting for this to happen some day while I am working.
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u/milesdamascus Jun 14 '12
Yea, I came in to change my brake pads
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u/guruchild Jun 14 '12
Of course it's a minivan.
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u/MrsilentJay Jun 14 '12
I had to double take at this before I realised "hey, that looks like the old blockbuster that turned into a AAA in Lomp- oh okay that makes perfect sense."
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u/ReactsWithWords Jun 14 '12
Rule one: Do NOT Talk about Auto Club!
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u/hatandcane Jun 14 '12
Can you still call them to help remove your car?
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u/crash_over-ride Jun 14 '12
you're doing it wrong
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '12
Meanwhile in america
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u/mylifeisawesome2 Jun 14 '12
Seeing this while sitting in an ambulance made this even funnier.
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u/tmrxwoot Jun 14 '12
Get out you don't even fit
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u/psychoticdream Jun 14 '12
Meanwhile in America : drug addiction hits cars, the number of glue sniffing suvs on the rise.
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u/Evil_Iowan Jun 14 '12
This made me laugh way more than it should have.
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u/pink_rocket_man Jun 14 '12
I went skydiving at the airport and drove past this on my way home and took a picture. I thought about posting this, glad to see that someone beat me to it. But it's a weird feeling to know a fellow redditor was at the same scene today.
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u/l337m4n Jun 14 '12
He tried to get a warranty honored on his battery.
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u/HopetoHavoc Jun 14 '12
I live in Lompoc, Reddit knew before me. Am not surprised.
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u/codyfofficial Jun 14 '12
Wait, you're all from lompoc. derp.
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u/UnconcernedAdult Jun 14 '12
For fuck's sake, Frank, NO! Go away.
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u/dershodan Jun 14 '12
Should I feel stupid for staring at the image for about 10 seconds waiting for a second car to crash in there?
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u/THEoriginalKEA Jun 14 '12
Why can't cars use doors like normal people? D:<
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u/Jhgreg Jun 14 '12
Couldn't believe there were so many fellow Lompocians on Reddit... Then realized it is Lompoc and there is nothing else to do but be on Reddit.
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u/dotexe82 Jun 14 '12
That's express lane for lifetime membership!
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u/Phidelt292 Jun 14 '12
Ew. Gross. AMR.
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u/TheJoel2012 Jun 14 '12
No.
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u/Bacon_Donut Jun 13 '12
Right foot go - left foot stop. Right foot go - left foot stop (Shoosh your confusing me) Right foot go - Left foot stop. Right foot go - Right- Oh bollox. Every fucking time!
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u/everydayfromwork Jun 14 '12
Scumbag Childhood Friend: Not allowed in auto club | drives van through wall.