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Improbable Lobster posted:New Action Park seems like it was designed as a Saw-style murder trap from the get-go, instead of just because of negligence. Well, they've got a reputation to live up to!
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How does action park exist? Is it on some weird patch of no-mans land that some how is classified as international waters?
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Jabor posted:Honestly a straight vertical drop on a waterslide seems like an even worse idea than a loop. yeah, no poo poo. that looks like it's at least 60 feet straight down
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Baronjutter posted:How does action park exist? Is it on some weird patch of no-mans land that some how is classified as international waters? It's not in Idaho... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E4OqN9tJnw
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 dudes were drilling holes for explosives when the hill decided it didn't need their help. nobody died but they will probably be changing the way they do things.
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Platystemon posted:In August a water slide decapitated a boy. Not just any kid, but the son of a Republican state politician who had voted against increased safety regulations for amusement parks.
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VKing posted:Looking at the place in google maps, I think you're right. The Street View pictures are taken from the ground, I hope my girlfriend is Legos fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Nov 6, 2016 |
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Johnny Aztec posted:......Where can I buy one of those? Got an Amazon link? The website is http://xm42.com/  should have read the rest of the thread
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Baronjutter posted:How does action park exist? Is it on some weird patch of no-mans land that some how is classified as international waters?
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I keep picturing someone who's too fat and/or he's that one idiot that always slows himself down on the water slide because it's the height of comedy and he gets stuck at the bottom before the loop, water pools at his head as he drowns in cramped quarters in total darkness.
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God Hole posted:I keep picturing someone who's too fat and/or he's that one idiot that always slows himself down on the water slide because it's the height of comedy and he gets stuck at the bottom before the loop, water pools at his head as he drowns in cramped quarters in total darkness. As far as I know nobody drowned in it, but they did have at least one instance where someone got stuck at the bottom of the loop. They added a hatch after this happened. Everyone who actually rode it found the experience unpleasant to terrifying. According to accounts, the seams didn't necessarily match up perfectly so you got your back scraped up as you went down and around. One guy mentioned having just barely enough speed to get over the loop, causing him to fall from the top and hit his mouth on the edge as he came down; he may have lost a tooth in the foam.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Hey dipshit, maybe try reading. In both this thread, and in the links provided in this thread, it says that the road CANNOT be lowered as major pipelines run under the road there. Dude, I'm sure you think you know how road construction works, but asphalt is typically placed on something. Someone who knows this fact can see from the street view that there is at least 2 inches of asphalt placed on the previous pavement without milling that previous pavement. Key point to look for for actual dipshits is that beneath the bridge at the inlets, the curb height is approximately 6 inches , which is a typical standard curb height while under the bridge, the successive layers of asphalt are probably around 2-inches from the top of curb. Think about that and do the math - if you are incapable, the difference is 4-inches. Any dipshit would know you don't lower the clearance below a bridge when resurfacing, especially when that clearance is low to begin with. This is civil engineering 101and is the reason why engineers have to get a degree and licensure to practice and yes, I have both. Roadway modifications, both above-ground and underground are done as a matter of fact to make roadways safe. Roadway safety is needed not only for people that follow the rules but also for dipshits that don't. While you can't engineer for the rare eventuality, you can engineer for the common. It is pretty damned easy to see that in this case, this is a common problem and that Durham has a responsibility to fix it.
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FrozenVent posted:Trains are federally regulated and because of the ridiculous amount of right of ways they needed to first implant themselves, they have a regulatory environment that is ridiculously favourable to the railways. Also if a railroad bridge needs to be replaced, the railroad has to pay for it, and lol railroads ain't paying for poo poo they don't absolutely need. There was an underpass in my old hometown that was losing chunks of concrete onto cars below. Eventually the bridge deteriorated to the point where NS had to put an empty flatcar in between the steel coil cars (about the heaviest load trains carry here) because two steel coil cars together might collapse the bridge. THEN the railroad replaced it.
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Neutrino posted:Dude, I'm sure you think you know how road construction works, but asphalt is typically placed on something. Someone who knows this fact can see from the street view that there is at least 2 inches of asphalt placed on the previous pavement without milling that previous pavement. Key point to look for for actual dipshits is that beneath the bridge at the inlets, the curb height is approximately 6 inches , which is a typical standard curb height while under the bridge, the successive layers of asphalt are probably around 2-inches from the top of curb. Think about that and do the math - if you are incapable, the difference is 4-inches. Any dipshit would know you don't lower the clearance below a bridge when resurfacing, especially when that clearance is low to begin with. This is civil engineering 101and is the reason why engineers have to get a degree and licensure to practice and yes, I have both. Nah you're right, they totally didn't think of that over the last however many years Give em a call, let them know you solved it 
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People are forgetting that the one train runs over the road but there is already an underground railroad running just beneath it also.
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Decrepus posted:People are forgetting that the one train runs over the road but there is already an underground railroad running just beneath it also. Well, the slaves will just need to take another route 
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Skarsnik posted:Nah you're right, they totally didn't think of that over the last however many years Uhh he's an engineer. You better not be questioning him.
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ChesterJT posted:Uhh he's an engineer. You better not be questioning him. Is this a safe space for engineers? I mean god knows the poor buggers need one but
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spog posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpUbVgVsbyQ That guy talks like a dork just for his channel. The was one episode with his wife walking in and he switched to proper talking. He has good stuff but I can't support that guy.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Is this a safe space for engineers? I mean god knows the poor buggers need one but There's no such thing.
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We like to call them safer spaces.
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Well the safest place is one where engineers have never been involved.
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I did it I solved the problem! Move the sewer pipe so the road can be lowered. Sure it's expensive but any solution is going to be expensive. Can we do the osha again now? People at my work are constantly freaking me out, they're really gung-ho when it comes to hands in and around spinning tools. Highlights include: The boss demonstrating that the little electric lathe we have doesn't have enough torque by stopping it with his hands People constantly holding the workpiece down with their hands in our little cnc machine to reduce vibrations, their hands being about an inch away from the moving tool. Nobody wearing safety glasses until I shame them, and/or "but regular glasses are good enough" Nobody has been injured from this sort of thing YET.
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Or you could raise the road so absolutely no truck would ever think of going under it, basically take the average height of a jacked up f-150 with mudders and make it two inches lower than that.
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Splode posted:
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One of my favourite things in the world is the 15 year old British boy who developed hand arm vibration syndrome, which was until then mostly a miner/driller injury, by playing too much Gran Turismo. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=117008&page=1
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Cosmic Charlie posted:Or you could raise the road so absolutely no truck would ever think of going under it, basically take the average height of a jacked up f-150 with mudders and make it two inches lower than that. No matter how low you make the bridge, there will always be some vehicles of just the right height for the driver to go "yeah, I think I can make it" and get stuck. So all you've done now is shifted the damage from one type of truck to another. And while I support ripping off the roofs of jacked up F-150s with mudders, it's not good municipal policy. Also you've pissed off any owners of <11'8" trucks who were already using the underpass without damage.
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Sagebrush posted:No matter how low you make the bridge, there will always be some vehicles of just the right height for the driver to go "yeah, I think I can make it" and get stuck. So all you've done now is shifted the damage from one type of truck to another. And while I support ripping off the roofs of jacked up F-150s with mudders, it's not good municipal policy. Thats why I got out of the bridge business, you gotta take somebody out and nobodys ever happy with who you go with
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EVIL Gibson posted:That guy talks like a dork just for his channel. The was one episode with his wife walking in and he switched to proper talking. He has good stuff but I can't support that guy. WHOA. Next you'll be tellin' me Red Green doesn't actually hobble poo poo together with duct tape and baling twine!
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Wasabi the J posted:WHOA. Next you'll be tellin' me Red Green doesn't actually hobble poo poo together with duct tape and baling twine! That's bullshit!
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Cosmic Charlie posted:Or you could raise the road so absolutely no truck would ever think of going under it, basically take the average height of a jacked up f-150 with mudders and make it two inches lower than that. From this news story linked earlier:  This might be after some bodywork has been removed to assist in the rescue, I guess. Don't worry, no serious injuries. Anyway what I take away from this picture is that lowering the bridge means you just rip more off the top of vehicles that try to go under it.
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Loudspeaker adorned trucks are a paradoxical yet common nuisance in Japan. Great justice was done here. Also that party's logo looks like someone giving/getting a reach-around.
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Jabor posted:Honestly a straight vertical drop on a waterslide seems like an even worse idea than a loop.
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mind the walrus posted:That Kansas politician did lose his son to that kind of slide recently. The bend at the bottom threw the kid up into the start of a pipe enclosure over the second half of the water slide which took the kid's head right off. You must be new to this thread.
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He'll never be the head of a major corporation. https://twitter.com/breezuslives/status/795492365624479744
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