Woops! (Page 5)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Originally Posted by
Doc HM
This roundabout is about (sorry) 50 yards from my house. It may look batshit crazy and no-one actually drives it in the way the signs say but it's SO confusing that the traffic speeds are so low its actually quite safe. Always entertaining to see new drivers panic when they come across it.
People have been calling me “****ed up” my whole life, and all this time the truth is I’m “magic”.
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Status:
Offline
Whoops AND roundabout!
VIDEO
45/47
Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
Status:
Offline
Congo, that’s quite a collection of “poor life choices.” Along with “when raccoons attack”. I don’t feel at all bad for laughing at all of it.
Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
Ham Sandwich
(
Last edited by Ham Sandwich; Apr 23, 2020 at 10:10 AM .
)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
Status:
Online
Holy cow, that last frame...
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Banned
Join Date: Nov 2018
Status:
Offline
Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Nobletucky
Status:
Offline
Holy crap! An entire planet populated by sentient furniture?!?! The mind boggles!
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
Status:
Offline
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: inside 128, north of 90
Status:
Offline
At least it wasn't the teacher who committed suicide mid flight.
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Status:
Offline
Originally Posted by
subego
Someone’s getting a new car.
45/47
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Best guess is moisture on the ground caused a steam explosion.
Similarly, best guess is they’re wearing enough gear there weren’t any major injuries.
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Status:
Offline
Originally Posted by
subego
They must have the "new fangled brake assist"
45/47
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Two minutes. Worth every second. Has swears.
VIDEO
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Raccoon versus cotton candy.
Administrator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: California
Status:
Offline
I didn't know cotton candy dissolves on contact with water. Nice.
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: inside 128, north of 90
Status:
Offline
aw, he looks bereft that his tasty treat is gone.
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Status:
Offline
Originally Posted by
subego
Best guess is moisture on the ground caused a steam explosion.
Similarly, best guess is they’re wearing enough gear there weren’t any major injuries.
This belongs on those “roundabout/to be continued“ reels.
45/47
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
The last week has been brought to you by Woops!
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
From Bogota.
Not many details yet. Looks like that’s the parking garage next to the escalator.
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Got it!
Administrator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: California
Status:
Offline
He probably got terrible mileage with that V12 anyway.
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
Status:
Offline
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Originally Posted by
Spheric Harlot
That’ll buff right out.
The thing is, that engine was clearly due for a rebuild anyway, so this just saved them a few steps.
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
Status:
Offline
Originally Posted by
subego
Part of me thinks "cheating in traffic earns you problems", but part of me thinks "did the truck driver really
intentionally try to block the right shoulder?" Either way that's awesome and frightening at the same time.
Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
Administrator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: California
Status:
Offline
The truck driver saw oncoming traffic, so he/she moved over. So the car passing on left would be able to merge ahead of the oncoming traffic.
Two possibilities:
1) Trucker was watching to the left, and didn't see the fool passing on the right.
2) Trucker saw the fool on right, but had to decide between a head-on collision (if left passer blocked), or a roll (if right passer blocked).
I suspect it was #2, the truck only moved partway to the right. Both passers were fools.
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
Status:
Offline
The guy in the red car is (hopefully) a LOT better off than the guy on the left would have been.
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
I admit I wasn’t able to get a confirmation on the injury situation with this one, but it looks pretty survivable, so I went with it because it was just too stupid not to.
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Status:
Offline
Sorry folks, won't happen again.
(
Last edited by Chongo; Feb 9, 2019 at 04:02 PM .
Reason: not "whoops")
45/47
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
Status:
Offline
Originally Posted by
Chongo
Not watching for power lines above?
You asshole.
I did NOT need to see people burned to death without warning.
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Yeah... there is an important distinction between “woops” and “watch people die”.
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Status:
Offline
Originally Posted by
Spheric Harlot
You asshole.
I did NOT need to see people burned to death without warning.
Originally Posted by
subego
Yeah... there is an important distinction between “woops” and “watch people die”.
Sorry, deleted.
45/47
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Originally Posted by
Chongo
Sorry, deleted.
You know, my previous commentary wasn’t constructive.
I didn’t see the videos, but excessively disturbing things can most certainly be woops.
The distinction I was trying to draw was between what requires a warning and what doesn’t, which in my head I’ve been drawing at (more or less) death or visible injury.
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status:
Offline
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: inside 128, north of 90
Status:
Offline
that first guy who got out his car and had to dodge other cars, eeep!
kudos to the ones who 4wheeled it down the embankment.
Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Nobletucky
Status:
Offline
Originally Posted by
andi*pandi
...kudos to the ones who 4wheeled it down the embankment.
And straight into the bears' carefully-laid trap.
Forum Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off