{"id":1999,"date":"2016-03-22T14:03:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T18:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djversion666.com\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2016-03-22T14:03:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T18:03:42","slug":"a-psa-dont-drink-or-do-drugs-and-drive-otherwise-what-you-do-is-your-own-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thexfactory.com\/djversion666\/2016\/03\/22\/a-psa-dont-drink-or-do-drugs-and-drive-otherwise-what-you-do-is-your-own-business\/","title":{"rendered":"A PSA:  Don&#8217;t Drink Or Do Drugs And Drive (Otherwise, What You Do Is Your Own Business)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was posted to Facebook, March 12th at 5:07am EST:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Drunk drivers&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tonight, I was hit by a drunk driver. It was on a major highway in New Jersey. I&#8217;m still shaken up. It&#8217;s only apparent to me, as I&#8217;m struggling to type this, at the moment. I&#8217;m very lucky.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I&#8217;m typing this out, right now, sort of as my own therapy, to remind myself that it really happened.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p><strong><em>The drunk driver was driving on the wrong side of the highway.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>But wait, it&#8217;s more fun from my perspective.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I&#8217;m in the center lane, doing approximately 65 mph. A semi was in the right lane, in front of me. The semi puts its left turn signal and starts moving into the center lane. That&#8217;s too close to me, so I move into the left lane. Suddenly, headlights are coming around the truck and I have two options; turn right, into the semi (that&#8217;s a strong &#8220;fuck no&#8221;) or turn left, into the grassy median, risking guard rail and cement barrier. Grassy median, it was. I start to turn left when the impact occurred. If I wouldn&#8217;t have done so, I wouldn&#8217;t be typing this, right now.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I was hit on the passenger side. My vehicle rolled at least once. I don&#8217;t know. It was about 2:00 am. It was dark. I know, the vehicle ended up on its side. No airbags deployed, that I am aware of.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>During this time, I leaned in toward the passenger seat. When the vehicle came to a stop, The driver&#8217;s side was on the ground. The passenger side was smashed. The windows were all shattered on that side. The doors were smashed shut. Once I realized that this really happened, I unbuckled my seatbelt and surfaced through the passenger side window. I hopped down and looked around, trying to figure out what the fuck just happened. I saw a couple of cars pulled over. One was definitely the car that hit me. Someone rushed over to see if I was okay and told me how they had called the police. They had been following this person, on the correct side of the highway. They gave witness statements.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The ambulance came and made sure I was okay. To be perfectly honest, I&#8217;m extremely shaken, but not a scratch. I have a bump on my right shin. I have a bruise on my left thigh. My lower right ribs are tender. I was shaking glass out of my hair and pulling it out of the crack of my ass. I don&#8217;t even want to think about that, ever again. EVer.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>They asked if I wanted to go to the hospital. I&#8217;d told them no. I probably shouldn&#8217;t have. I will be going there in the morning after I wake up. I probably should have the ribs checked.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>One thing I will say- I have some pretty bad-ass survival instincts.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Anyway- fucking drunk drivers. Just. Don&#8217;t.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Fuck.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve since been recovering, having been prescribed pain killers, muscle relaxers, and high doses of ibuprofen. I haven&#8217;t yet picked up any instruments. My wrist is not ready for the bass, nor do I think I&#8217;d be comfortable spreading my fingers to play keyboards.<\/p>\n<p>I can sing, though. I can fucking scream- at the top of my motherfucking lungs. I want to- I really do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You get one chance at life. Take that chance. Tomorrow doesn&#8217;t come for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>DJversion666<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was posted to Facebook, March 12th at 5:07am EST: &#8220;Drunk drivers&#8230; Tonight, I was hit by a drunk driver. It was on a major highway in New Jersey. I&#8217;m still shaken up. It&#8217;s only apparent to me, as I&#8217;m struggling to type this, at the moment. I&#8217;m very lucky. I&#8217;m typing this out, right &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thexfactory.com\/djversion666\/2016\/03\/22\/a-psa-dont-drink-or-do-drugs-and-drive-otherwise-what-you-do-is-your-own-business\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A PSA:  Don&#8217;t Drink Or Do Drugs And Drive (Otherwise, What You Do Is Your Own Business)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[695,721,835,862],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-collision","tag-drunk-driving","tag-recovering","tag-survival"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thexfactory.com\/djversion666\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thexfactory.com\/djversion666\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thexfactory.com\/djversion666\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thexfactory.com\/djversion666\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thexfactory.com\/djversion666\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thexfactory.com\/djversion666\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thexfactory.com\/djversion666\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thexfactory.com\/djversion666\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thexfactory.com\/djversion666\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}