A bit of humour

[SYD]

The ‘90s rang and they want their cassette deck back! But this is an actual photo from my current hotel room in NZ!



Now where did I put that mix tape I made in 1987?

On a not so funny note, the room safe isn’t actually bolted down - just sitting on a shelf!

 

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Or “who’d a thunk”

 

[RooFlyer]

Sometimes I put the yellow bin out when it is not yellow bin night just to see how many people copy me.

That would be me.

 

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Not sure to think funny analogy or wow informative. Winglets

 

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[prozac]

Anyone familiar with the rail underpass south of Woy Woy? This is it this morning after a refrigerated truck attempted to drive through. The truck and driver are no-where to be seen.

 

[anat0l]

Anyone familiar with the rail underpass south of Woy Woy? This is it this morning after a refrigerated truck attempted to drive through. The truck and driver are no-where to be seen.
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Ground beef, anyone?

 

[prozac]

Ground beef, anyone?

Maybe mostly pork. Company supplies mainly Asian businesses.

 

[DejaBrew]

The truck and driver are no-where to be seen.
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How on earth are the authorities ever going to identify the truck and driver…..?

 

[RooFlyer]

Anyone familiar with the rail underpass south of Woy Woy? This is it this morning after a refrigerated truck attempted to drive through. The truck and driver are no-where to be seen.
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I don’t get the geometry here. Either way the truck was travelling, the container should’ve been right at one end or the other of the overpass, not underneath it.

no apparent damage to the top of the container so it doesn’t look as though it was travelling towards the camera, but no damage at the top of the overpass either so it doesn’t look as it was going that way either.

Possibly it was the correct delivery address?

 

[DejaBrew]

I don’t get the geometry here. Either way the truck was travelling, the container should’ve been right at one end or the other of the overpass, not underneath it.

no apparent damage to the top of the container so it doesn’t look as though it was travelling towards the camera, but no damage at the top of the overpass either so it doesn’t look as it was going that way either.

Possibly it was the correct delivery address?

Courtesy of Google Lens image search, located a few other images/angles -:

 

[prozac]

I don’t get the geometry here. Either way the truck was travelling, the container should’ve been right at one end or the other of the overpass, not underneath it.

no apparent damage to the top of the container so it doesn’t look as though it was travelling towards the camera, but no damage at the top of the overpass either so it doesn’t look as it was going that way either.

Possibly it was the correct delivery address?

Not a container but the back of a refrigerated truck that was driven under the railway, away from the camera. It was too high and the refrigerated box hit the rail bridge and was pushed off the back of the truck. Must have been moving.

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Courtesy of Google Lens image search, located a few other images/angles -:

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Look, there are even dangley things to warn your vehicle is too high.

 

[DejaBrew]

Not a container but the back of a refrigerated truck that was driven under the railway, away from the camera. It was too high and the refrigerated box hit the rail bridge and was pushed off the back of the truck. Must have been moving.

Same place I located those extra images claimed...

Reports he nearly lost it on the. devils elbow on woy woy road as well.

Trains had to slow to 20 km/h until the underpass was inspected.

 

[Dmac59]

Courtesy of Google Lens image search, located a few other images/angles -:

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Possibly unemployed truck driver this afternoon

 

[RooFlyer]

Not a container but the back of a refrigerated truck that was driven under the railway, away from the camera. It was too high and the refrigerated box hit the rail bridge and was pushed off the back of the truck. Must have been moving.

Yes, but being too big/tall and pushed off the truck, the thing should have been at one end of the overpass, not under it.

Actually, I see this end isn't completely under the overpass, so it looks like he got maybe 2/3 of the way through, with the back gradually being dragged off, before the motor unit broke free.

 

[DejaBrew]

Yes, but being too big/tall and pushed off the truck, the thing should have been at one end of the overpass, not under it.

Actually, I see this end isn't completely under the overpass, so it looks like he got maybe 2/3 of the way through, with the back gradually being dragged off, before the motor unit broke free.

I think it's more a trick of the photo angle, but if you look at the other pics, it's a light truck and the refrigerated section was likely to come off a distant second best vs the bridge and given it's likely plyboard with some thin metal reinforcement, it's unlikely to have caused much damage to the steel girder on that bridge.

Possibly unemployed truck driver this afternoon

And pending the mandatory drug/alcohol testing, potentially also a soon-to-be charged truck driver.

 

[equus]

unlikely to have caused much damage to the steel girder on that bridge.

I remember (from a long time ago) being in a Civil Engineering lecture at Uni when the professor was talking about investigations done into some of the railway bridges in Victoria (he was somewhat of a bridge investigation expert, having been involved in the West Gate bridge collapse investigation).

Apparently in the way back days (can't remember when) a lot of the bridges (over railways, not under) were not actually engineered. They simply took old railways track, laid it side by side over the spam to create a solid floor - and then poured concrete on top, then surfaced - instant bridge.

There were concerns as to what weight these structures would support, and whether or not there was any danger of collapse. There was a bridge scheduled for demolition for whatever other reason (road widening or re-routing or the like), so a destruction test was organised. They fitted the bridge out with strain gauges, and then proceed to use cranes to load it up with concrete blocks, intending to find they load at which it failed.

They didn't succeed. By the time they has placed as many blocks on it as they could stack without them being in danger of falling off, the strain gauges were not showing anything, and the bridge was fine. The total weight was far in excess of what the heaviest road legal vehicles (as many as could fit on the bridge at once - these were not wide bridges) could impose.

They stopped worrying about those bridges - they were solid.

 

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