And how. Deep Dish, a member of Tucson's bike hash, took a serious spill on trail today. She went down so hard she knocked herself out and very likely separated her right shoulder (see the updates, below). We called 911 and stayed with her until the paramedics took her away in an ambulance.
Following up on an earlier entry, here's the current scorecard: thirteen total bike hashes, four seriously injured hashers. How seriously? All four - Plush Toy, Kiwi Herman, Dirty Sanchez, and now Deep Dish - went directly to the hospital. Kiwi and Deep went by ambulance. That's a dismal record.
In my 19+ years of hashing - plunging off cliffs, wading through raw sewage, running from attack dogs and outraged citizens with shotguns, nearly getting hit by cars and trains, ripping shorts (and flesh) going over barbed wire fences - I've never been afraid of anything the hares could throw at me. But when it comes to hashing on bicycles, may G forgive me, I've got the willies.
Deep Dish's chain came off and wedged itself between the gears and the frame, locking the rear wheel and throwing her. It could have happened any time. But it happened on a hash trail, and, as we...
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