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Powershift posted:Rally raid trucks, the big ones. hop curbs, medians, miatas, whatever. Ambulances are already having to be reinforced for super fatties, might as well go whole hog and give more clearance too
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At least Italy isn't shameful about it
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:At least Italy isn't shameful about it I love this.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:At least Italy isn't shameful about it Your driver is: CAPT AHAB
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Can you imagine if an American ambulance company did that? Their drivers would get shot.
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FuturePastNow posted:Can you imagine if an American ambulance company did that? Their drivers would get shot. An italian bariatric patient is probably the size of the average american male, I think it would be more noteworthy for our ambulances to specify "SKINNY PERSON ONBOARD".
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Craptacular posted:I imagine it would be easier to put in traffic lights, but a traffic circle would probably make more sense (and take a lot longer to construct). Paint a big white circle in the middle with ONE WAY-> signage around the premier facing outward, plop cement triangles in the centerlines of the entrances pointing outward, with YIELD signs standing there. The rest would be pavement striping. Seems like it would be enough.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Ambulances are already having to be reinforced for super fatties, might as well go whole hog and give more clearance too 
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InitialDave posted:As if by magic, this turned up on Imgur today: This strikes me as a good way to get a flipped ambulance.
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I'm imagining an Acme stretcher with two or three times as much accordion legs to lift that high
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Elsa posted:I'm imagining an Acme stretcher with two or three times as much accordion legs to lift that high It's probably just a scissor lift at that point.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG6oWXmPW6g
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:AmBROlance WE NEED A TRIBAL BARBED WIRE TATTOO, STAT!
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:AmBROlance Rolls coal as the blast through an intersection.
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Yesterday, I saw a brodozer in heavy rain. My thoughts were "Wow, this is probably the harshest conditions that truck has ever seen!"
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iospace posted:Yesterday, I saw a brodozer in heavy rain. My thoughts were "Wow, this is probably the harshest conditions that truck has ever seen!" This one survived the test of giant man children quite well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpI8CIKRk00&t=24s
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iospace posted:Yesterday, I saw a brodozer in heavy rain. My thoughts were "Wow, this is probably the harshest conditions that truck has ever seen!" same, but a good ol' boy in a huge Denali, throwing elbows listening to urban music. Truck was obviously used to pulling horses or something big. Was pretty amusing. He had pretty good chair dancing moves.
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When I was picking up a bunch of crap at the hardware store I saw a Caddy that was parked so badly it took up 3 spaces. No one can be that bad at parking, right? It had to be some paranoid octogenarian who doesn't want a dent on his baby.
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sleepy.eyes posted:When I was picking up a bunch of crap at the hardware store I saw a Caddy that was parked so badly it took up 3 spaces. No one can be that bad at parking, right? It had to be some paranoid octogenarian who doesn't want a dent on his baby. A friend of mine once managed to block five spaces with a Mk3 VW Golf. That was so bad it became kind of impressive.
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I have (intentionally) parked a vehicle across four spaces before - perpendicular to the spaces. But it was about 1am at a nearly-deserted 24h fast food place, and I was driving an XLWB 3.5T truck that wouldn't fit anywhere else, including through the drive-through. There may have been two other cars there total, which I think were both staff. Somehow I don't think anyone cared that time of night.
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I've seen 4 spaces wasted at work - jacked-up but not oversize pickup, parked with each tire sitting in a different spot, square on both the "stall" and the "side" lines. If it's that precious then you should be leaving it safely in a
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I got an instant justice type of video for a bad driver that we share the roads with yesterday morning. Speeding in a school zone in Texas? Not a good idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYdMTBlselA No sound on my dash cam because nobody needs to hear my crappy radio choices, or me yelling at my fellow motorists. But I was cheering when the lights turned on. Flint Ironstag fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Apr 14, 2017 |
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I was in the far left lane of the highway tonight taking a left side exit when a BMW in the middle lane decided to change lanes from right next to me to right where I was. He only noticed me because I gunned it to get in front of him before he hit me. Then he rode my rear end with his high beams on for the next mile and a half until I decided to double my speed and get far away from him. I wasn't even on my bike, I was in my Jeep. How do you miss a Jeep?
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Flint Ironstag posted:I got an instant justice type of video for a bad driver that we share the roads with yesterday morning. Speeding in a school zone in Texas? Not a good idea. where was that shot? It looks really drat familiar... specifically that big building with the green roof near the end aha! its my old rush hour route to bypass i-35 -- hebron down to PGBT/frankford Watermelon Daiquiri fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Apr 14, 2017 |
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:where was that shot? It looks really drat familiar... specifically that big building with the green roof near the end Northbound Old Denton just north of Frankford. "Sup DFW buddy?
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Flint Ironstag posted:I got an instant justice type of video for a bad driver that we share the roads with yesterday morning. Speeding in a school zone in Texas? Not a good idea. Holy crap that dude was flying. That's going to be one hell of a ticket!
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I've commuted daily through a school zone for 12 years now and not seen instant justice like that, nice to know it actually happens once in a while because I've seen dozens of people that deserve tickets.
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xzzy posted:I've commuted daily through a school zone for 12 years now and not seen instant justice like that, nice to know it actually happens once in a while because I've seen dozens of people that deserve tickets. School zones are a pet peeve of mine, and I wish there were cops at them full time. In Arizona not only are they a speed limit zone, but also a no-passing zone. It's amazing how many people ignore both parts of that. Many years ago when I was still in my teens, I saw a guy in a Caddy that was just too impatient to slow down for a school zone, so he passed all of us slow-pokes... in the oncoming lane of traffic, since it was a two lane road. I wanted so badly for a cop to see that, but nope.
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I saw some rear end in an Explorer try and speed to pass a dude on a bike in a school zone. I was behind bike dude earlier and the guy was doing about 25 consistently (the limit before the zone) so obviously the Explorer had to get a decent amount over 20 to pass before he rammed someone head on. There just so happened to be a cop and Explorer was promptly pulled over, while bike guy just kept on going. It warmed my heart. Hell, unless a cyclist is lazy as gently caress it really isn't worth trying to pass them in a school zone, even it it is legal.
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xzzy posted:I've commuted daily through a school zone for 12 years now and not seen instant justice like that, nice to know it actually happens once in a while because I've seen dozens of people that deserve tickets. The cops in the school zone near me routinely set up radar checkpoints. It's an easy kill so sometimes there are three or four cops there handing out tickets so that the backed-up speeders don't clog the road.
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People always turn left in front of me here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_qR6LTvAPc Fuuuuck. edit: i swear this camera had better night vision once.
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Having done a lot of driving around Europe over the last few weeks, I have to say the French are the most comically impatient drivers I've ever encountered. On their motorways generally the standard is quite high with excellent lane discipline, but on normal roads it's a free for all. You can be on a twisty bendy road with a 50kph limit because it's a huge incline with steep turns and a cliff edge, and some lunatic with a Peugeot will be right up your arse until he reaches a point he can blast past you. Also in France it seems everyone either drives a Peugeot, a Renault or a Mercedes. The Swiss on the other hand? Superb. Drove into Lucerne the other day and aside from Bruges it's the easiest city I've ever driven in. It was interesting last week though when two ancient ladies in a red VW Polo on the autobahn apparently decided I was their arch nemesis.
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Ludicro posted:Having done a lot of driving around Europe over the last few weeks, I have to say the French are the most comically impatient drivers I've ever encountered. On their motorways generally the standard is quite high with excellent lane discipline, but on normal roads it's a free for all. Agree completely about the French. Had guys throw their hands in the air at roundabouts while I wait to make a safe entry, had guys riding my bumper on twisty roads with blind corners in foggy conditions. They're nuts.
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Ludicro posted:It was interesting last week though when two ancient ladies in a red VW Polo on the autobahn apparently decided I was their arch nemesis. Wait, old people hooning it up? Why can't they all drive fast when they're that old here in the states?
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iospace posted:Wait, old people hooning it up? Why can't they all drive fast when they're that old here in the states? They can, but only when they try to hit the brake, and it usually winds up with the car parked in a store of some sort.
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Powershift posted:They can, but only when they try to hit the brake, and it usually winds up with the car parked in a store of some sort. 
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Ludicro posted:Having done a lot of driving around Europe over the last few weeks, I have to say the French are the most comically impatient drivers I've ever encountered. On their motorways generally the standard is quite high with excellent lane discipline, but on normal roads it's a free for all. I dunno man the French autoroutes can have some interesting ideas about following distances. Last year I was travelling in the far left lane, all 1.2litres of my 2007-era Suzuki steel screaming at 140kph overtaking some trucks playing snails when a silver BMW swings in behind me less than a car length off my bumper, I'm unable to speed up or pull back into the lane because of the trucks, and just as I pass them the BMW flicks on blue lights, comes along side me on the right, turns off the lights and then zooms off ahead. Momentary brown trousers time because I thought I was going to get nailed for speeding by the PN but nope I just wasn't speeding enough for them 
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