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New Phantasm lookin good
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Mar 8, 2021 05:32
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FuturePastNow posted:I 2005 I rented a house with some college friends and it had a mostly unfinished basement... except for a windowless room with a couple dozen 20A outlets. Gee I wonder Growverhaus
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Mar 8, 2021 05:51
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:In my college town a bus driver ran over a kid hiding in a pile of leaves to surprise his dad when he got off the bus. Uthor posted:I've heard a story like that, but the dad hitting the kid. Could be an urban legend, though. Plausible though. Many drivers at least look at a big pile of leaves and think "man, that would explode so good if I drove into it" but kids also have similar thoughts and go play in them. My driver's-ed teacher said when he was a teenager he went to drive through a pile of leaves once and a kid popped his head out like a prairie-dog with just enough time for the teacher to fling his car back onto the road. Again, it could just be something to scare us, but could just as easily be true. (Not sure I buy someone doing that with a bus though.)
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Mar 8, 2021 06:58
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Whereas I look at it and think either "there's probably something solid inside for all those leaves to have collected in one spot", or "someone put a lot of effort into raking up those leaves, I'm not going to be the rear end in a top hat that scatters them all around again".
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Mar 8, 2021 07:00
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the urban legend where i grew up was that people put cinder blocks in their leaf piles so people wouldn't drive through them
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Mar 8, 2021 07:04
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boar guy posted:the urban legend where i grew up was that people put cinder blocks in their leaf piles so people wouldn't drive through them twice
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Mar 8, 2021 07:12
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boar guy posted:the urban legend where i grew up was that people put cinder blocks in their leaf piles so people wouldn't drive through them Snowman built around a fire hydrant was the one I heard.
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Mar 8, 2021 07:13
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Driving through a normal snowman would gently caress your car up anyway.
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Mar 8, 2021 07:16
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Where exactly are all these piles of leaves with easy access for cars? Or are buses just driving out to the suburbs and up onto people lawns to get at the leaf piles?
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Mar 8, 2021 07:26
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We were taught in Driver's Ed to never drive through a pile of leaves, or a box in the road; pretty much: anything in the road, especially if it's large enough to hold a kid or a dog.
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Mar 8, 2021 07:32
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boar guy posted:the urban legend where i grew up was that people put cinder blocks in their leaf piles so people wouldn't drive through them I heard that one, too.
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Mar 8, 2021 07:32
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I avoided anything, even Coke cans on the road for a few years after I got back from Iraq (and I had a largely uneventful tour). I've talked to other people that had it much worse. IED awareness is a bitch. Nathaniel Fick (the real-life lieutenant from Generation Kill) talked about how much he freaked his wife out because when he got back, he would always change lanes suddenly while he was under an overpass before coming out the other side.
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Mar 8, 2021 08:00
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GD_American posted:Nathaniel Fick (the real-life lieutenant from Generation Kill) talked about how much he freaked his wife out because when he got back, he would always change lanes suddenly while he was under an overpass before coming out the other side. What's that one about? People dropping grenades onto the vehicle from the bridge?
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Mar 8, 2021 08:03
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Sagebrush posted:What's that one about? People dropping grenades onto the vehicle from the bridge? Yeah. I can't find the specific quote I read, but this is from another place: quote:In Iraq, he figures the low-grade headaches are a result of too little sleep, too many hours of forced hyperawareness, too many packets of instant coffee crystals dumped straight and bitter onto his tongue. The part of him that always knows where Brad is, like the needle of a compass or a divining rod, he passes off as being a good CO, always knowing where his men are. He'll sleep it all off when the war is over. Whenever that is. Right now, what he wants most is to get everyone through this alive.
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Mar 8, 2021 08:23
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Blue On Blue posted:spotter wasn't spotting anything when he was backing up, he only comes into view to stop traffic once he's moving forward again. so kind of defeats the purpose I think Not to defend them, but at such a busy spot management should have taken more precautions to prevent this. A second spotter or hell, someone controlling pedestrian traffic would have saved a human life.
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Mar 8, 2021 09:39
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GD_American posted:Snowman built around a fire hydrant was the one I heard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QHCs3tRSuY
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Mar 8, 2021 09:47
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
There is, but why not both? 
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Mar 8, 2021 10:08
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Drive on the roads you assholes
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Mar 8, 2021 10:10
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a sexual elk posted:Drive on the roads you assholes https://twitter.com/dril/status/922321981
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Mar 8, 2021 10:33
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boar guy posted:the urban legend where i grew up was that people put cinder blocks in their leaf piles so people wouldn't drive through them I did this except with glass bottles and piles of cut grass.
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Mar 8, 2021 12:53
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Where exactly are all these piles of leaves with easy access for cars? Some people rake their leaves onto the road for municipal sucker-truck pickup.
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Mar 8, 2021 13:12
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:Some people rake their leaves onto the road for municipal sucker-truck pickup. or to slow down traffic.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:07
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Some Guy From NY posted:holy poo poo. I'm not watching a video of someone dying, but was the backhoe making the traditional "Beep beep, I'm backing up" warning? I just remember a video - I think it was a Tom Scott one - about how the monotonal beep is notoriously difficult to figure out what direction it's coming from and places have been switching to white noise that much easier to pinpoint for this exact reason.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:08
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We used to just burn them when I was a kid. No one hits a flaming pile of leaves with their car on purpose. Well, no one smart.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:10
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Raking your precious grass free of leaves and piling into street is an essential part of LawN Order
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Mar 8, 2021 14:17
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Cthulu Carl posted:I'm not watching a video of someone dying, but was the backhoe making the traditional "Beep beep, I'm backing up" warning? The video had no sound. But even if it didn't beep, construction equipment is usually pretty loud and she just walks into it at about the same speed as it was reversing. Not to victim blame, but I wonder if she had hearing or vision problems, or was just staring at her phone.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:20
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mobby_6kl posted:The video had no sound. But even if it didn't beep, construction equipment is usually pretty loud and she just walks into it at about the same speed as it was reversing. Not to victim blame, but I wonder if she had hearing or vision problems, or was just staring at her phone. Back in philly, I heard a story of someone who had a hoodie on (so no peripheral vision) and headphones in (so no auditory clues) who walked right out into the road and was hit by a trolley. If I recall, they survived but were badly hurt. Despite screeching like loving mad around curves due to the lack of a differential, I kept my head on a swivel for those fuckers. Low engine noise since they were electric-powered.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:26
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mobby_6kl posted:The video had no sound. But even if it didn't beep, construction equipment is usually pretty loud and she just walks into it at about the same speed as it was reversing. Not to victim blame, but I wonder if she had hearing or vision problems, or was just staring at her phone. I only watched it once but it looks like the victim was staring at her phone as I didn't notice a single movement of the'oh poo poo' variety what so ever.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:28
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mobby_6kl posted:The video had no sound. But even if it didn't beep, construction equipment is usually pretty loud and she just walks into it at about the same speed as it was reversing. Not to victim blame, but I wonder if she had hearing or vision problems, or was just staring at her phone. If the thing about the typical beep being hard to locate is correct, it's also possible she heard it and misidentified the source's location and didn't realize it was right on next to her.
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Mar 8, 2021 14:34
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DelphiAegis posted:Back in philly, I heard a story of someone who had a hoodie on (so no peripheral vision) and headphones in (so no auditory clues) who walked right out into the road and was hit by a trolley. If I recall, they survived but were badly hurt. Despite screeching like loving mad around curves due to the lack of a differential, I kept my head on a swivel for those fuckers. Low engine noise since they were electric-powered. I've nearly been knocked off my bicycle twice by Prius' sneaking up on me on me in milk float mode
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Mar 8, 2021 14:41
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plus if you're in a city that's constantly full of the sounds of construction and jackhammers echoing off the buildings I can imagine you'd get some sort of 'alarm fatigue' and just learn to ignore it
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Mar 8, 2021 14:44
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azurite posted:New Phantasm lookin good Just watched it all the way through recently, pretty awesome movie.
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Mar 8, 2021 15:01
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I have seen a video of a horse carcase being disposed in one of those, it might have even been a legit pr release.
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Mar 8, 2021 15:07
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*sigh* "It looks like we're walking to Mordor, boys."
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Mar 8, 2021 16:06
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I was half expecting someone to try and reach in to fish it out
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Mar 8, 2021 16:15
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Now someone post the looping gif of the truck that never hits the cement pylon or whatever.
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Mar 8, 2021 16:52
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DelphiAegis posted:Back in philly, I heard a story of someone who had a hoodie on (so no peripheral vision) and headphones in (so no auditory clues) who walked right out into the road and was hit by a trolley. Was young, dumb, and full of luck apparently with my new iPod.
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Mar 8, 2021 17:01
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This has been posted before, right? https://i.imgur.com/1e0KTuW.mp4
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Batterypowered7 posted:This has been posted before, right? Did Action Park reopen somewhere?
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