Jeremy Renner shares first update since accident
Renner says he's "too messed up now to type" but wanted to thank everyone for their kind words
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This evening, Jeremy Renner shared his first update since getting injured this week in what was initially described as a “weather related accident”—i.e., something involving snow. We heard earlier today that Renner had gone through multiple surgeries to deal with the “extensive” injuries from the accident, but this morning he was in “critical but stable condition.”
Now, the Avengers and Hawkeye star is at least well enough to post on Instagram, even if his post is just a photo of him in a hospital bed and a caption that says he’s “too messed up now to type.” He also thanks everyone for their kind words and sends love to you all. (Ironically, one of Renner’s other recent posts is an ad for his Paramount+ series Mayor Of Kingstown featuring him looking cut up and bloodied, which looks pretty weird now alongside the actual photo.)
Along with Renner’s update, the local sheriff’s office in Nevada where he had his accident also explained what happened today in a press conference (via Variety):
Based on our investigation, Mr. Renner’s personal vehicle, which was being driven by a family member, had become stuck in the snow near his home. Mr. Renner went to retrieve his PistenBully, or Snowcat, an extremely large piece of snow removal equipment weighing at least 14,330 pounds in an effort to get his vehicle moving. After successfully towing his vehicle from its stuck location, Mr. Renner got out of his PistenBully to speak to his family member. At this point, it was observed that the PistenBully started to roll. In an effort to stop the rolling PistenBully, Mr. Renner attempts to get in the driver’s seat of the PistenBully. Based on our investigation, it is at this point that Mr. Renner is run over by the PistenBully.
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I recommend everyone click that link and see what a PistenBully looks like. Those treads look like they could chop you up.
That does not look like a machine a regular person should use. That looks like a construction vehicle that requires at least a month of training.Although maybe Renner did have actual training on it.
Well, apparently he lives way out in the middle of nowhere in Lake Tahoe, so unless he wants to go all “Overlook Hotel” every winter having a big goddamn snow-plow kinda comes with the territory.
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The SnowCats that they use at the ski resort near me look almost identical to that, aside from having a bigger cab (they are usually transporting material and about 3-6 folk midway up the mountain on a daily basis). One of the few operators I know says that it’s essentially like driving a tank from the 1980’s…and he would know, as he’s ex-Army from that period.
That’s definitely overkill. Unless he’s personally plowing the whole damn town, a good tractor with a blade attachment would do just fine.
Sounds like that’s basically what he does according to this quote via the BBC…
“Renner is a “great neighbour” and always uses his snow plough to clear local roads, the sheriff added”
Renner owns a lot of real estate around where he lives so a lot of those neighbors may also be his tenants. A good land lord owns a snow blower to keep his apartment building safe. When you own multimillion dollar properties on a mountaintop you own something a bit bigger.
I’m aware. But how much area is he covering though? It really could be a lot because rural areas out west do cover large amounts of land. But I also grew up in a rural area where my father and grandfather would plow the local area (road and the few houses in the area) with just a tractor because it would be days before the municipal would ever get to them similar to the scenario its sounds like in Renner’s neighborhood. If he is doing very large areas, I can see the need for a PistonBully type machine. But I can also see a scenario where some salesmen upsold him on a piece of equipment that he doesn’t really need knowing he’s rich and will pay for it
Just saw a post over on Jalopnik where it says Renner had it mostly because he was doing his own slopes for his kids. That makes way more sense to have a PistenBully if you’re maintaining slopes as opposed to just plowing you’re way out.
Renner lives in Tahoe in an area where the roads are not municipal and don’t get plowed. If you want to be there in the winter you need a PistenBully or some type of other snowcat otherwise you’re going to get trapped by a storm. Tracked vehicles are able to go over any amount of snow where tire driven vehicles would never be able to go.
I’ve clicked several stories over the past few days because as someone who has used and may sometime again be around heavy equipment, I was very interested to know what and how it happened. My guess had been that he hadn’t set the brake and slipped under while trying to get back into the vehicle, but I was expecting a truck. Maybe something small with tracks, but those look like monster vehicles and over seven tons of fun.
Sounds like he’s lucky he didn’t get fully Yelchined.Also, I know they’re just being matter-of-fact about it, but the sheriff’s statement does sound a bit like it was sponsored by PistenBully with how it’s mentioned in almost every sentence. A bit like the weird and inappropriate product-placement that might be suggested by Dudley Moore’s character in a hypothetical Crazy People sequel. “PistenBully…it won’t just tow your car out of a snow embankment… it’ll fuck you up for life.”
I don’t know, but my reading was that the Sheriff from Lake Tahoe was speaking to his constituents, many of whom probably have the same or similar equipment, or they know of someone who does.It’d be sort of like Bobcat or Kubota, even a knock-off would be a specific thing.
Thanks for my semi-annual reminder about Crazy People, a movie that I will completely forget about and then, usually out of the blue, start saying to myself, “Sony….Bony” and “You can’t go, we love you. And if you attempt to leave we will try to kill you.”
At least this time there is this post to blame. Usually I just sing a reasonably complete version of the “Hello” song in my car, then say, “Wait, where did that come from?”
“Sony…Bony” is no “Rkle Frzt Sony Grm”
Volvo: They’re boxy, but they’re good.
Did he put product in his hair for the hospital photo?
Nah, that’s what you look like after a day of shock sweats and attempting to sleep in a hospital. They don’t even get you dry shampoo until day 3.
The whole photo looks off – I think he’s got some kind of filter on it that’s making it all look a little plastic.
Hospital bedhead or artfully tousled?
I want to make a “This looks bad.” -Matt Fraction run on Hawkeye joke, but I wish the guy a safe and speedy recovery.
I did a full 5 hour binge of Hawkeye over Christmas. (It gets better on repeated viewings and I found myself more forgiving of some of the side plot goofiness.) The first time around I didn’t pick up on the in-joke where Clint and Kate are constantly using bags of freezer food on their bruises. The toy store/warehouse fight was great leading right into that excellent car chase. Like it’s probably the best half hour action sequence out of any of the D+ Marvel Shows. Paired with the scenes where Hawkeye is without his hearing aid – which were also strong.No more action sequences for awhile now, dude. But I’m hopeful the surgeries were mostly pins-in-broken bones – and not what some were theorizing – loss of limbs and such. Get better JR. Mayor can write a sequence where your character gets hit by a car or tossed out a window, and they can work your recovery into the plot.Be well. Heal. Picturing you with a giant bag of frozen peas duct-taped to the side of your head.
It’s definitely near the top as far as Marvel content goes. So many good actors. Even if the plot isn’t all that much better than other Marvel TV series, the performances are outstanding.
The first time around I didn’t pick up on the in-joke where Clint and Kate are constantly using bags of freezer food on their bruises.That is right out of Kelly Thompson’s Hawkeye run (focused on Kate Bishop), immediately after the Matt Fraction series which inspired much of the Disney+ season. Either one is a solid recommendation for fans of this series.
I’m sure there was no alcohol involved in that.
Not all poor judgment stems from alcohol use, surprisingly. Jumping in to a moving vehicle to try to stop it when no one’s really in any danger anyway sounds like a macho-but-understandable impulse decision that a lot of people would make while stone sober.
“Ironically, one of Renner’s other recent posts is an ad for his Paramount+ series Mayor Of Kingstown featuring him looking cut up and bloodied, which looks pretty weird now alongside the actual photo.”By what what possible definition of the term is this ironic?
Ironic that there’s a photo of him ‘pretend’ beat up, and now there’s a photo of him *actually* beat up? Like, if Gary Sinese had lost his legs in a shark attack the week after he finished shooting “Forrest Gump”, where they… pretended he lost his legs?
I guess that’s a very mild form of situational irony—“we expect actors to pretend to be injured in the movies, but not to get injured in real life!”—but even in the case of an actor getting the same highly specific and gruesome injury as he did in a film it’s still more of a tragic coincidence than true irony.
The ship “Ironic Now Means Coincidental” set sail a long time ago.
Don’t you think?
Isn’t it coincidental? Don’t you think?
I get that there are millions of little Alanises out there using “ironic” wrong all over the internet, but this is close enough in the “contrary to what you might expect” definition that it doesn’t require pedantry.
Situations like this are the reason ‘literally’ now means ‘figuratively’ and I hate it.
“Incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.” More or less. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony
Less. Like I said elsewhere “we expect actors to pretend to be injured in the movies, but not to get injured in real life” is a pretty weak basis for irony, given that people are aware that actors are mortal and thus just as capable of being injured as anyone else. The fact that Renner posted a promotional image of him pretending to be injured only for him to subsequently get injured for real might be unsettling, but it doesn’t subvert expectations in any meaningful way—beyond generally not expecting people to get run over by snowplows, I guess.
It’s nonsensical to argue that a specific injury can’t be surprising or unexpected because people are capable of being injured. Anyway, the injury alone isn’t ironic – the irony is the unintentional juxtaposition of the expected (an actor pretending to be injured) and the unexpected (the same actor actually injured) on social media. As “irony” goes, it’s about as apt as someone asking for a specific definition of irony and then providing a purely idiosyncratic one about “subverting expectations in a meaningful way.”
I wasn’t providing an idiosyncratic definition, I was rephrasing (or attempting to rephrase) the one you provided: “incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result.” If you take issue with my use of the word “subverted,” I apologize, but that’s all I was going for. Besides, it seems like you’re the one stretching the definition here, introducing concepts like intentionality and juxtaposition. Here, I’ll juxtapose two incongruous statements:“I AM HUMAN” – “I AM NOT HUMAN”“Whoa, I totally expected them to say the first thing, but not the second thing! How ironic!” you must assuredly think.
So, what is an example of irony?
“(Ironically, one of Renner’s other recent posts is an ad for his Paramount+ series Mayor Of Kingstown featuring him looking cut up and bloodied, which looks pretty weird now alongside the actual photo.)”That’s not irony, Alanis.
I mean, I tend to agree that there are WAY too many Marvel movies/shows, but this PistenBully took things too far.
Hawkeye says, “Don’t be a bully!”
I got a Renner alert on his app for this?
And to think we once made fun of the Jeremy Renner App, only to now realize we desperately need it.