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Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

Bad Munki posted:

In this case, four hundred 1-pound blocks of cement.

I appreciate that :buddy:

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Runa
Feb 13, 2011


a vehicle you can sit in? it'll never catch on

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

So this is what, the fourth in a week?

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof
There was help from a truck:

"The factors that led to the crash remained under investigation as of late Monday morning. Teller said there are no railroad crossing arms at the intersection where the collision occurred, just a railway crossing yield sign.
“The 18-wheeler was attempting to cross that section when he made contact with the train,” Teller said. “It’s undetermined whether the horn was blown or not.” "

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/...plus-rail-cars/

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/qIjSun3.mp4

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rpo3i3S4Ga1yzbs45.mp4

:stonk:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rpm1ufgeud1s1ddrj_720.mp4

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Azhais posted:

So this is what, the fourth in a week?

Isn't it cheating to count Texas?

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Azhais posted:

So this is what, the fourth in a week?

there are actually a fuckload of derailments per year in the US (which makes sense, big place), some of them are just worse than others

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


what does "unpublished" mean in this context?

it is published on the internet, is it not?

how are we, the public, seeing it if it is not published?

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle





The trees are right to take revenge. We have it coming.

Regular Wario
Mar 27, 2010

Slippery Tilde

Sagebrush posted:

what does "unpublished" mean in this context?

it is published on the internet, is it not?

how are we, the public, seeing it if it is not published?

Never before seen?

Messadiah
Jan 12, 2001

Google Jeb Bush posted:

there are actually a fuckload of derailments per year in the US (which makes sense, big place), some of them are just worse than others

It's also likely related to why railroads have come up with so many very specific pieces of machinery to redo all of the various parts of track extremely efficiently.

ILL Machina
Mar 25, 2004

:italy: Glory to Italia! :italy:

Ayy!! This text is-a the color of marinara! Ohhhh!! Dat's amore!!
https://i.imgur.com/IVhRh1b.mp4

Computer viking
May 30, 2011
Now with less breakage.

Sagebrush posted:

what does "unpublished" mean in this context?

it is published on the internet, is it not?

how are we, the public, seeing it if it is not published?

None of the mainstream media wants to publish this controversial evidence of the electrician life cycle, so this brave private individual is presenting it themselves.

ilmucche
Mar 16, 2016

What did you say the strategy was?

I first saw this as the birth of a new edf employee which cracked me up

AzureSkys
Apr 27, 2003

Shark teeth banners apparently are an alternative to lowering the road.


https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/eastside/kirkland-keeps-truck-eating-bridge-banners-despite-policy-change/

quote:

The city of Kirkland says it will allow the “I eat trucks” banners to remain on its infamous Kirkland Way bridge — welcome news for enthusiasts of the guerrilla art and for the tall trucks potentially saved from the bridge’s low clearance...
...Angela Beegle, who has managed the “I eat trucks” banners and a smaller A-frame painting she dubbed “baby shark,” was initially told earlier this month that the banners would need to be removed...
...By Beegle’s count, crashes have decreased considerably since the shark banners were installed. She thinks drivers respond differently to an image, especially one of a predator’s teeth, than words on a traffic sign.

She even has an image file for the banners that’s free to anyone in any community who wants to put similar signage on their “local problem bridge,” though no one has yet taken her up on that offer.
“Even small improvements mean fewer people have a very bad day,” she said.
Her own minivan is well within the height limit, but it bears a bumper sticker nodding to the overpass and its signage: “Kirkland’s famous truck-eating bridge: Eating locally since 1908.”

Bertha the Toaster
Jan 11, 2009

Sagebrush posted:

what does "unpublished" mean in this context?

it is published on the internet, is it not?

how are we, the public, seeing it if it is not published?

The way the text is formatted makes me think its a Google Lens translated image.

Tobermory
Mar 31, 2011


I'm not sure about the logistics of hitting beehives with an ice axe, but cutting with a knife towards the palm at 0:16 is definitely a terrible idea.

ReelBigLizard
Feb 27, 2003

Fallen Rib

My retirement goal is to be this guy.

MisterOblivious
Mar 17, 2010

by sebmojo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clgl63CWOkM

An artist decides to fix interstate signage. He publishes the documentary about making and installing his fake interstate sign 9 months after installing it and the story breaks. Caltrans eventually decides to keep it even though it's not certified or anything. 8 years later when they installed a replacement sign it included his modification.

MisterOblivious
Mar 17, 2010

by sebmojo

ReelBigLizard posted:

My retirement goal is to be this guy.

You could be that guy, or you could be this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT3RX02f3Is

"This is the Ecuadorian tradition of “Carrera de Coches de madera” aka the (Wooden Cars Race) that takes place in the celebrations of any city in the highlands of Ecuador (where there are a lot of hills and mountains you can go down)."


This is what a guy down the street was testing this summer, at 84:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuSj4l3SL_U

I've gotta say, that's pretty slow for him. He's got a couple of hundred land speed rocket vehicle records and was the first civilian to put a rocket into space.

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
https://v.redd.it/yy8g5ohwn8ia1/DASH_720.mp4
not a good color cloud to drive through

LifeSunDeath fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Feb 15, 2023

hazardousmouse
Dec 17, 2010
hm "alexa? google 'dark brown red vapor'"
"Bromine is a corrosive, etc etc"

oh, fun

zharmad
Feb 9, 2010

hazardousmouse posted:

hm "alexa? google 'dark brown red vapor'"
"Bromine is a corrosive, etc etc"

oh, fun

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fuming_nitric_acid

Probably a bit more corrosive than anyone driving through is expecting.

Computer viking
May 30, 2011
Now with less breakage.

hazardousmouse posted:

hm "alexa? google 'dark brown red vapor'"
"Bromine is a corrosive, etc etc"

oh, fun

That's red fuming nitric acid, but honestly neither would be good.

E: f,b

Borscht
Jun 4, 2011
Jesus Christ the cops are right there doing nothing.

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


Borscht posted:

Jesus Christ the cops are right there doing nothing.

That's their default position

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.

Borscht posted:

Jesus Christ the cops are right there doing nothing.

Police are under no obligation to aid anyone that is not presently in their custody, and even then their obligations are de minimis.

Reminder that the source of this precedent is a case where police officers literally watched a man drown and could have easily prevented it. The court found they were under no obligation to help the drowning man even if they easily and readily could have done so.

Uthor
Jul 9, 2006

Gummy Bear Heaven ... It's where I go when the world is too mean.

Mr. Nice! posted:

Police are under no obligation to aid anyone that is not presently in their custody, and even then their obligations are de minimis.

Reminder that the source of this precedent is a case where police officers literally watched a man drown and could have easily prevented it. The court found they were under no obligation to help the drowning man even if they easily and readily could have done so.

Here's a case something similar happened in. Police hiding on a train where a civilian got stabbed while stopping the criminal. Court threw the case out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Gelman_stabbing_spree#Lozito_v._New_York_City

sephiRoth IRA
Jun 13, 2007

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan

hazardousmouse
Dec 17, 2010

murder bumper

hazardousmouse
Dec 17, 2010

zharmad posted:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fuming_nitric_acid

Probably a bit more corrosive than anyone driving through is expecting.

I know it's nowhere near comparable but it reminds me when I noticed I was passing a truck with big red "Asbestos" labelling on the side and I silently and slowly roll my window up and switch to internally circulated air

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

Uthor posted:

Here's a case something similar happened in. Police hiding on a train where a civilian got stabbed while stopping the criminal. Court threw the case out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Gelman_stabbing_spree#Lozito_v._New_York_City

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

sephiRoth IRA
Jun 13, 2007

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan

MrYenko
Jun 18, 2012

#2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

Sharpen the edges and call it “The Stairwell of Consequences.”

Dumb Sex-Parrot
Dec 25, 2020

 
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hazardousmouse posted:

I know it's nowhere near comparable but it reminds me when I noticed I was passing a truck with big red "Asbestos" labelling on the side and I silently and slowly roll my window up and switch to internally circulated air

Wouldn't want to startle the asbestos, eh? Good choice.

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


https://i.imgur.com/xDR8zQa.mp4

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...




It may look odd, but it's a common behavior to help protect their skin from sunburn and biting insects

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ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Uthor posted:

Here's a case something similar happened in. Police hiding on a train where a civilian got stabbed while stopping the criminal. Court threw the case out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Gelman_stabbing_spree#Lozito_v._New_York_City

In the Netherlands the same thing happened. Two cops arrived to a home where they could hear someone being tortured, they waited for more than half an hour outside of the door until the man was dead and the torturers left via the back door. It was determined they did nothing wrong and a case against them was not necessary. The first A in ACAB isn't there by accident.

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