Watch this... This is Cool... 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
Northern Florida has its share of colorful characters but few as colorful as Colt Ebberson. A good friend and long-time drinking companion, Colt is nothing if not unique. In the few years that I have lived in the area I have heard an oft repeated story concerning my buddy Colt that I am surprised did not long ago make it into the Honorable Mention pile. Therefore, for your consideration and everone else's enjoyment I recount the story as told to me.
In the early morning hours of a Sunday in 1992 or '93 Colt was driving home from a night of revelry aka barhopping in Valdosta, Ga. Crammed into his (ironically enough) Dodge Colt were fellow revelers Bob, Jeff, and Judd who were no doubt in various states of unconciousness. As Colt guided the car along the roadway he came upon a raised embankment traversed by the road in the midst of a low lying field. On either side of the roadway were fiberglass markers that stuck a couple of feet out of the ground and were crowned by reflectors in order to frame the road in such a way that no one could possibly miss the fact that there was a 15 to 20 foot drop on either side of the roadway. The temptation proved too much for Colt to bare.
With the annoncement of "Hey, watch this... this is cool..." Colt guided his car off the road and onto the shoulder with the intention of driving over the top of the markers for the interesting sound effect as they slid under the front bumper and popped up again behind the vehicle. pedictably, things did not goe as planned. A heavy dew had fallen that evening so that after Colt guided his car onto the shoulder it lost traction and slid off and onto the side of the embankment. The sudden slide ofthe vehicle coupled with its forward motion set it airborne. It flipped over twice in the air and came to settle on its roof some distance from the road.
The four occupants of the vehicle hung in silence for what seemed and eternity from their seatbelts. Bob was the first to speak, saying the only thing that could possibly be said... "Yeah Colt... That was really cool."
Colt is presently studying to obtain his commercial pilot's license and plans to fly crop-dusters. Submitted on 01/26/02
Submitted by:
Jack Flowers
Reference:
Personal account.
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