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I just saw a video of a soldier on the bonnet of car, hanging on to the wiper of the vehicle while the car is in motion. Watching the video reminded me an ugly incident that occurred about 9yrs ago.

In 2016, i was hustling at a wood factory owned by some Chinese guys. It was a friend that took me from Ibadan to that place to work. The place is called C & G wood in Ogobia, Benue state. Some of you may know there. While using those machines to cut and saw woods, I was sustaining injuries everyday. I almost lost my sight one day when a piece of wood flew from a colleague's machine to pierce into my eyes. But thank God, it didn't do much damage.
On one fateful day, I had gone out of the yard(we call the factory yard). Myself and the Chinese men(about 6 men and 3 policemen) lived inside the yard. Of all my colleagues(Over 50 colleagues), I was the only one that had a room inside the yard. So on this day, I went out to get some food at Ogobia market which isn't far from the yard. After getting the food & trying to return back at 10pm, I couldn't get a bike. I had to jump on a tipper filled to the brim with sharp sand. The driver didn't even know that someone was hanging on his tipper. When we got to where I was supposed to drop, I began to call, driver! driver!! driver!!!, but he couldn't hear me. He was on speed since the road was a newly constructed one, no potholes and no hold up of any kind. I kept shouting, no way. He had drove past the yard already. Now my hands were already weak as I hanged on that tipper. The sand Inside the tipper were entering my eyes. I tried to jump inside, but I couldn't. Since the sand was full, I could couldn't jump in. My hands became totally weak and I began to cry cos I was already seeing death. I looked around to see if any of the road users would call the attention of the tipper driver to my Plight, but nobody was coming cos it was late. The place is a village. I had no other option than to jump off the tipper. Immediately I jump off, I became unconscious, I didn't know where I was, I began to bleed. No help was coming. I managed to roll away from the main road so I don't get crushed. I was bleeding from my nose, mouth, head. Injuries everywhere. The coal tar destroyed my body too. Luckily, someone was riding a bike and saw me, he rushed me to the clinic. There was no hospital in that village. I got treated and left the next morning. Till date, the scars are still on my body but in all of these, I still thank God.

I pray nothing happened to that soldier guy hanging on the bonnet and holding the car's wiper?

Nlfpmod Mynd44
Dominique lalasticlala

Sorry...

illicit:
Sorry...

Thanks bro

During my secondary school days, I lost a colleague to the same incident that happened to @op. two friends coming from a football training, they couldn’t afford transport fare so they hop on a trailer. When they get to their bus stop the driver didn’t slow down because he didn’t know they were there. The one that survived told the other one not to jump but he didn’t listen. He jumped and got crushed. The other one held on to the trailer until it stopped. When he reached the place his friend had jumped he saw his friends lifeless body.

He was on speed since the road was a newly constructed one, no potholes and no hold up of any kind. I kept shouting, no way. He had drove had past the yard already. Now my hands were already weak as I hanged on that tipper. The sand Inside the tipper were entering my eyes. I tried to jump inside, but I couldn't. Since the sand was full, I could couldn't jump in. My hands became totally weak and I began to cry cos I was already seeing death. I looked around to see if any of the road users would call the attention of the tipper driver to my Plight, but nobody was coming cos it was late. The place is a village. I had no other option than to jump off the tipper. Immediately I jump off, I became unconscious, I didn't know where I was, I began to bleed. No help was coming. I managed to roll away from the main road so I don't get crushed. I was bleeding from my nose, mouth, head. Injuries everywhere. The coal tar destroyed my body too.

I felt traumatised reading this too.
So I can only imagine how it was for you.
Glad you are alive to recount the incident. It could have played out differently.

I did this once in secondary school as they were constructing the road to our area and private cars nd buses were not passing. But the driver knew we were all there. Lol!

Arshley:
Till date, the scars are still on my body but in all of these, I still thank God.

I pray nothing happened to that soldier guy hanging on the bonnet and holding the car's wiper?

Nlfpmod Mynd44

Sorry you had a bad experience and thankfully you are alive to tell the tale but it doesn't equivocate it with whatever that boy did to find himself on that car.
You were hitching a ride, was he?

pocohantas:
I felt traumatised reading this too.
So I can only imagine how it was for you.
Glad you are alive to recount the incident. It could have played out differently.

I did this once in secondary school as they were constructing the road to our area and private cars nd buses were not passing. But the driver knew we were all there. Lol!

Each time I remember this ugly encounter, only God knows the shivers it sends down my spine. Kai...
When I see any Tipper with sand in it, I begin to hate the driver and the tipper.

Thanks for your empathy.

Sad occurrence. Falling off a moving vehicle onto asphalt is never a good thing.

A friend tried to disembark from a moving lorry once, the mass transit type with an entrance at the rear and didn't know when he hit the ground unconscious.

An uncle also had the unfortunate incidence of a danfo bumper catching his trousers at a bus park at night as people were hustling for a spot in the bus. The bus dragged him for some distance on the highway before the driver's attention was called. By the time the bus stopped, he wasn't only unconscious, his garments were all blood soaked and in shreds. He had wide injuries all over like he had been in a fire accident and required skin grafts. Many of those injuries still remain on his body over 10 years later.

In similar occurrences, a precaution is to jump directly opposite the direction of the moving vehicle, that can reduce the impact of the fall and enable you gain some stability control. Of course this is after trying every possible means to get the driver's attention.

You can always wait for the driver to slow down as well even if he's not coming to a complete stop. Overtaking cars can also see you if they catch up to the vehicle and warn the driver.

laivwire:
Sad occurrence. Falling off a moving vehicle onto asphalt is never a good thing.

A friend tried to disembark from a moving lorry once, the mass transit type with an entrance at the rear and didn't know when he hit the ground unconscious.

An uncle also had the unfortunate incidence of a danfo bumper catching his trousers at a bus park at night as people were hustling for a spot in the bus. The bus dragged him for some distance on the highway before the driver's attention was called. By the time the bus stopped, he wasn't only unconscious, his garments were all blood soaked and in shreds. He had wide injuries all over like he had been in a fire accident and required skin grafts. Many of those injuries still remain on his body over 10 years later.

In similar occurrences, a precaution is to jump directly opposite the direction of the moving vehicle, that can reduce the impact of the fall and enable you gain some stability control. Of course this is after trying every possible means to get the driver's attention.

You can always wait for the driver to slow down as well even if he's not coming to a complete stop. Overtaking cars can also see you if they catch up to the vehicle and warn the driver.

So sorry about your uncle's tragic experience.
In my case, the road was a newly constructed road. No speed bumps on the road, no checkpoint. You know how these tipper guys can overspeed when driving on a newly built road. The road isn't a busy road cos it's situated in the village and worst was, it happened very late in the night when the road wasn't busy at all, so nobody was Able to assist me draw the tipper driver's attention

What you did was risky, but not out of the ordinary. Kpako kids do it everyday and consider it as an adventure. Before you try something like that next time, learn how to scream from the roof top.

We4all:
What you did was risky, but not out of the ordinary. Kpako kids do it everyday and consider it as an adventure. Before you try something like that next time, learn how to scream from the roof top.

There will never be a "Next time". Never

Hehehe this one na real action film and you're James bond 007 .
At least you will have something to tell your grandkids 😜😜😜

Nice story


Hollywood calling..

Oh you mean this video? Nigerian soldiers wey nor get levels again. People even fear police pass soldiers these days.

KingAzubuike:
Oh you mean this video? Nigerian soldiers wey nor get levels again. People even fear police pass soldiers these days.

Yes. This is the video

Op, sorry for your experience but u don't know the technics, we jump from moving vehicle all the time as kids, coming back from school, football training or just hoping in and out just for the fun of it,

You don't just jump off, you target the vehicle, there is a point he hits the break a little that's when the motor slows down a little and you jump at this point, or you target when it approaches a bump, u must jump just before the bump because after this little brake comes acceleration, I have jumped off moving motor countless time with my goons while growing up, and zero injury was ever recorded that year 😂😂😂😂

Sucre6:
Op, sorry for your experience but u don't know the technics, we jump from moving vehicle all the time as kids, coming back from school, football training or just hoping in and out just for the fun of it,

You don't just jump off, you target the vehicle, there is a point he hits the break a little that's when the motor slows down a little and you jump at this point, or you target when it approaches a bump, u must jump just before the bump because after this little brake comes acceleration, I have jumped off moving motor countless time with my goons while growing up, and zero injury was ever recorded that year 😂😂😂😂

Sincerely u won't understand. I use to do same too when I was a kid.
See, immediately the tipper driver drove past the yard(factory) where I was meant to alight, there were no bumps on the road again. Residential houses aren't even there. Everywhere was Bush and thick forest. I could have waited and hanged on till he got to where he was headed, but my hands were already weak. Very weak. but such would amount to you wanting to travel to Lagos while ending up in Abuja. It was a highway. No bumps at all. A newly constructed road for that matter.

Lol . . . Awoof.

Lie lie serial beggar

Arshley:
Sincerely u won't understand. I use to do same too when I was a kid.
See, immediately the tipper driver drove past the yard(factory) where I was meant to alight, there were no bumps on the road again. Residential houses aren't even there. Everywhere was Bush and thick forest. I could have waited and hanged on till he got to where he was headed, but my hands were already weak. Very weak. but such would amount to you wanting to travel to Lagos while ending up in Abuja. It was a highway. No bumps at all. A newly constructed road for that matter.

Oh, I get it now, omo, God really came through for you big, you are alive to hive the testimony,

dominique:
Lie lie serial beggar

But, i didn't see him beg anyone for something in this thread
You guys should try and show some flexibility in judging people.
Even if one is a known serial beggar in one thread, it shouldn't stop us from complimenting him/her when s/he makes a reasonable contribution to the forum in another thread.

Arshley:
Each time I remember this ugly encounter, only God knows the shivers it sends down my spine. Kai...
When I see any Tipper with sand in it, I begin to hate the driver and the tipper.

Thanks for your empathy.

Why would you hate the innocent driver when your experience was clearly your fault?

Arshley:
I just saw a video of a soldier on the bonnet of car, hanging on to the wiper of the vehicle while the car is in motion. Watching the video reminded me an ugly incident that occurred about 9yrs ago.

In 2016, i was hustling at a wood factory owned by some Chinese guys. It was a friend that took me from Ibadan to that place to work. The place is called C & G wood in Ogobia, Benue state. Some of you may know there. While using those machines to cut and saw woods, I was sustaining injuries everyday. I almost lost my sight one day when a piece of wood flew from a colleague's machine to pierce into my eyes. But thank God, it didn't do much damage.
On one fateful day, I had gone out of the yard(we call the factory yard). Myself and the Chinese men(about 6 men and 3 policemen) lived inside the yard. Of all my colleagues(Over 50 colleagues), I was the only one that had a room inside the yard. So on this day, I went out to get some food at Ogobia market which isn't far from the yard. After getting the food & trying to return back at 10pm, I couldn't get a bike. I had to jump on a tipper filled to the brim with sharp sand. The driver didn't even know that someone was hanging on his tipper. When we got to where I was supposed to drop, I began to call, driver! driver!! driver!!!, but he couldn't hear me. He was on speed since the road was a newly constructed one, no potholes and no hold up of any kind. I kept shouting, no way. He had drove past the yard already. Now my hands were already weak as I hanged on that tipper. The sand Inside the tipper were entering my eyes. I tried to jump inside, but I couldn't. Since the sand was full, I could couldn't jump in. My hands became totally weak and I began to cry cos I was already seeing death. I looked around to see if any of the road users would call the attention of the tipper driver to my Plight, but nobody was coming cos it was late. The place is a village. I had no other option than to jump off the tipper. Immediately I jump off, I became unconscious, I didn't know where I was, I began to bleed. No help was coming. I managed to roll away from the main road so I don't get crushed. I was bleeding from my nose, mouth, head. Injuries everywhere. The coal tar destroyed my body too. Luckily, someone was riding a bike and saw me, he rushed me to the clinic. There was no hospital in that village. I got treated and left the next morning. Till date, the scars are still on my body but in all of these, I still thank God.

I pray nothing happened to that soldier guy hanging on the bonnet and holding the car's wiper?

Nlfpmod Mynd44
Dominique lalasticlala

Haaa, what an experience sorry about that ugly near death experience at times in this life, uouust pass through one nonsense experience to that will remind you of life suffering.

Am glad it's now a story with life experience

hope you don blow now

That was quite a risky experience...

Thank God for life.

I remember a mobile police man once jumped on my bonnet and held on to the wiper while I was speeding on the highway on my way to jos one time because I didn't see him on time(official reason) or I didn't want to stop(unofficial reason) it was a risky move that almost didn't end well for him. (Those days I was young,wild, care free and careless. Maybe 19 at the time) just this close to getting his head crushed.

I wondered how much he was paid to take such a risk with his life. And even his superior officer scolded him in my presence for doing that move!

So sorry

ChybuzzDD:
But, i didn't see him beg anyone for something in this thread
You guys should try and show some flexibility in judging people.
Even if one is a known serial beggar in one thread, it shouldn't stop us from complimenting him/her when s/he makes a reasonable contribution to the forum in another thread.

That is how toxic nairaland is. A moderator for that matter. Tueh..
Some people are actually very heartless honestly. Someone escaped death, narrated his story, u didn't see him beg, yet insulted him. Nawaooooo.