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Air bag incident

I had a Honda Element that was in an accident. Before I sold it to a tow company I had the brilliant idea of taking the steering wheel off. Why you might ask? I often put money in between the cracks in my steering wheel. example for fast-food gas I could quickly access my money.

So one day I asked my friend to come help me detach the steering wheel. And right before we did it he warned me I might not want to do that because the airbags will deploy.

To this day I'm pretty sure he saved my life. Note to self don't ever touch a steering wheel on a vehicle the air bag will probably deploy and kill you on impact.

So I live on to create another Darwin Award.

Submitted on 04/25/2020

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James said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Funny you didn't know your vehicle was air-bag equipped!


Tracy said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
You may want to keep that friend close :-) Thanks