Today a buddy of mine called me on my way home from class and said "i went through a big puddle now my car sounds like a diesel truck, i think my car is messed up". His house is on my way home so i stopped by to take a look. Quickly figured out that his exhaust was separated (its an older toyota camry with no flanges to connect the piping? just a smaller pipe that fits into the bigger pipe idk). So i grabbed the emergency jack from the back of the car and jacked it up. We both crawled under the car to attempt to push the piping into the downpipe. He was under the engine, and I was under the side. We began pushing the exhaust in all different directions to fit the pipe into the other pipe when suddenly the car does exactly what I'm sure most of you reading this already know did. The jack tipped over and the car fell on top of us. The car fell right on my back and pinned me underneath the car, luckily my buddy was able to slide out from underneath the car. He ran over to the side of the car where I was with the jack. Problem 1.) he didnt know how to use the jack. Problem 2.) there was nobody around to help and problem 3.) I could only take short breaths and was being crushed by the car... Somehow i managed to calm myself down and talk him through the process of compressing the jack and jacking the car back up while he was hyperventilating. Eventually he got the car up just enough and I slid out. It hurt a lot, but i'm OK from what I can tell.... I remember seeing things on the news all the time about people working under cars getting crushed by them and dying and thinking "how could you be so stupid?"
Moral of the story: ALWAYS use jack-stands and any other device to support the car properly. And dont RUSH.
. First of all, glad you're ok. Second of all, glad you're ok. People always called me paranoid from how much I tend to support a car before I go scurrying under it - now I feel validated. It's not paranoia if it *actually* happens 
Lastly, glad you're ok 
