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(injured)
Opted to not fly today (which I think was the right call, based on what I hear -- probably not enough wind for hang gliders at the beach), and in the afternoon I did some yard work, starting with raking, also cleaned out a gutter, then I went over to address the stone wall. Closer examination revealed that there were stones too large for me to lift that were 30 feet from the wall, and I found tire tracks about that far out, indicating that the car must have gone up the banking and crashed clear through the wall. So I set about moving stones back into position. Most I could lift, but maybe 1/3 of them I had to flip end-over-end. In the process, I found that some were embedded fairly deeply in the dirt; they had clearly been there for quite a while. Since I live at a T-intersection, it wouldn't surprise me if blowing through the intersection and hitting the wall is something that happens every so often.
As I was putting the wall back together, a car stopped, and the driver introduced himself as the "father of the stuntman". He said he had been urging his son to come over and apologize, but that doesn't seem to have happened. I was pleased with how I conducted myself, shrugging off the wall damage and focusing my concern on whether his son was okay. Turned out it happened last Sunday morning (while I was down at Ratlum), he was driving a Camry, and he didn't actually go through the wall; he got hung up on it, and the tow truck had to go around onto the lawn to pull him through (that process might also have moved some of the rocks further away). The car was still driveable (the father drove it home). The son lost his glasses, so I said I'd look around for them, and got the father's business card.
I'm no stonemason, but I think the wall looks okay. I took some "before" pictures, but it was getting kind of dim when I finished, so I may take some "after" shots later and post them. I don't know if I have any "before-before" pictures anywhere.