Don't know about that, but I was seated at a booth in a restaurant once when the very same thing happened, a car overshot the 4 way intersection where the restaurant was located, and drove right into the wall. Point of impact was one booth forward of where I was sitting. I saw it coming, and yelled for everyone in my booth and the one in front of us to get out of the way. To this day, there are giant concrete filled steel bollards along the front of that restaurant, installed after that incident.
#8 Never let a woman do anything like that. Wife who has no idea about tools or using them wants a little chainsaw for her birthday to prune trees. I laughed and said "No".
#5 ... Anyone else notice that nearly every parking lot is sloped to some degree? Is that deliberate? Pushing a heavy cartload up an incline to my car outside the local HEB is the toughest workout I get these days. And it takes two of us to unload. One to put the loot in the trunk and the other to keep the cart from rolling away.
That makes sense, but the slope at the HEB is from the parking lot down to the front of the store. If it ever managed to rain here in deep South Tejas, the storefront would flood. I'm thinking they just want to make us old farts sweat.
5: He's a bright one. 8: I can see someone dying from that. 9: This made the rounds in the media recently. Food bloggers got crashed into. I haven't seen any of their stuff but I can guarantee this is the most compelling video they ever posted.
#1 - it is absolutely amazing how much flex there is in the frame of the tractor. Watch it as it rolls on its side from back to front. The left rear wheels are already 2 feet off the ground before the left front tire starts to lift. There’s probably 20-30 degrees of torsional twist from the back of the frame where the axles are to the front bumper. I cannot understand how a truck that size can be so incredibly flimsy.
Engineering trade off. If the truck and trailer were too rigid situations would happen where the drive axles would lift off the ground and it would be stuck.
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I’ll take door number 2, Monty
ReplyDelete#1 - He shouldn't have let go of the truck.
ReplyDeleteyeah, riiiiiight !!! ......LOL LOL
Delete9: Jealous wife or husband retaliating?
ReplyDeleteDon't know about that, but I was seated at a booth in a restaurant once when the very same thing happened, a car overshot the 4 way intersection where the restaurant was located, and drove right into the wall. Point of impact was one booth forward of where I was sitting. I saw it coming, and yelled for everyone in my booth and the one in front of us to get out of the way. To this day, there are giant concrete filled steel bollards along the front of that restaurant, installed after that incident.
DeleteFor as stupid as he is, #6 waa pretty lucky.
ReplyDeleteYup, doesn't even have to call a tow truck.
DeleteYeah, that was about the best possible outcome, other than not hitting the truck.
DeleteDumbass motorcyclist in #6 hit his front brake instead of his back brake.
DeleteAnd the crowd went wild...
ReplyDelete#5 Covidiucy mask, or should have passed on the lunch break dooby, or both.
ReplyDelete#8 Never let a woman do anything like that. Wife who has no idea about tools or using them wants a little chainsaw for her birthday to prune trees. I laughed and said "No".
ReplyDelete#5 ... Anyone else notice that nearly every parking lot is sloped to some degree? Is that deliberate? Pushing a heavy cartload up an incline to my car outside the local HEB is the toughest workout I get these days. And it takes two of us to unload. One to put the loot in the trunk and the other to keep the cart from rolling away.
ReplyDeleteSloped parking lots make for better drainage.
DeleteThat makes sense, but the slope at the HEB is from the parking lot down to the front of the store. If it ever managed to rain here in deep South Tejas, the storefront would flood. I'm thinking they just want to make us old farts sweat.
DeleteDon't US shopping trolleys/carts whatever, have a foot-operated wheel-lock on one of the wheels closest to the handle?
DeleteKinda like this?
https://www.ylcaster.com/uploadfile/201707/07/e157c847f7fb8035fdd4160606e9d769_medium.jpg
I don't recall ever seeing a trolley/cart without one here in Oz.
Nope, not around here. We rely on 4 wheels that all go different directions to keep our buggies/carts from crashing into shit.
DeleteThat's why they use truck tie downs on the carts at Costco.
Delete4. Cue the fish slapping dance.
ReplyDelete-lg
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XeDvKqI4E
#5 historic footage of the one and only dent ever caused in a mall car park
ReplyDelete5: He's a bright one.
ReplyDelete8: I can see someone dying from that.
9: This made the rounds in the media recently. Food bloggers got crashed into. I haven't seen any of their stuff but I can guarantee this is the most compelling video they ever posted.
#1 - it is absolutely amazing how much flex there is in the frame of the tractor. Watch it as it rolls on its side from back to front. The left rear wheels are already 2 feet off the ground before the left front tire starts to lift. There’s probably 20-30 degrees of torsional twist from the back of the frame where the axles are to the front bumper. I cannot understand how a truck that size can be so incredibly flimsy.
ReplyDeleteEngineering trade off. If the truck and trailer were too rigid situations would happen where the drive axles would lift off the ground and it would be stuck.
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