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Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin


That's a whole stack of people's days that just got ruined.

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shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

:wow:

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

as a person who never leaves my house i've done pretty well for myself.

New epic handshake meme just dropped.

Scholtz
Aug 24, 2007

Zorchin' some Flemoids

https://twitter.com/jaynooch/status/1388965733019918336?s=20

Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?
Someone posted aftermath images from that armoured car attack in the Discord:

https://twitter.com/Abramjee/status/1388195293565489156

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

Enos Shenk posted:

poo poo, the store I work at has cash pickup through Garda. There's been at least a couple times where they're so understaffed they pull up and one dude gets out. And it turns out he's the only guy and just leaves the armored car sitting at the curb while he picks up the deposits. There's no way in ever-living gently caress that's proper procedure for them.

Garda is pretty drat OSHA itself, there's been tons of accidents involving their trucks. And a lot of whistleblowers reporting almost absolute lack of maintenance. There's one report in here about a truck with no drivers seat, just a bucket to sit on. https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/garda-world/armored-trucks/

I've heard most American "armored" trucks are basically stripped of armor, that true?

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

Enos Shenk posted:

poo poo, the store I work at has cash pickup through Garda. There's been at least a couple times where they're so understaffed they pull up and one dude gets out. And it turns out he's the only guy and just leaves the armored car sitting at the curb while he picks up the deposits. There's no way in ever-living gently caress that's proper procedure for them.

Garda is pretty drat OSHA itself, there's been tons of accidents involving their trucks. And a lot of whistleblowers reporting almost absolute lack of maintenance. There's one report in here about a truck with no drivers seat, just a bucket to sit on. https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/garda-world/armored-trucks/

I worked in the industry for a few years, the bigger companies (Garda, Brinks) are unionized so they have a very hard time getting away with things like that but occasionally still do it

Smaller companies will cut every corner possible to under-bid the big companies and win a contract. They will literally send 1 person out with a truck full of cash, and expect them to both drive and do the other duties that normally would require a 3 person crew.

They get away with anonymity for the most part (unmarked trucks), but something will give eventually from a combination of lack business practices and someone seizing the moment, and it will be a bad scene

The insurance companies are the ones requiring the armor so if they strip it and get hit, all that means is the insurance company will give them a big fat $0

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Lazyhound posted:

Someone posted aftermath images from that armoured car attack in the Discord:

https://twitter.com/Abramjee/status/1388195293565489156

"Comedians in Cars getting Coffee" with Sean Lock took a different turn that I expected.

Zero One
Dec 30, 2004

HAIL TO THE VICTORS!

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/mw2LKEw.gifv

I thought this was neat, thunderstorms over Atlanta airport, busiest in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj140mskB98

CleverHans
Apr 25, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

I feel like this is missing the flamethrower guitar guy.

Armacham
Mar 3, 2007

Then brothers in war, to the skirmish must we hence! Shall we hence?
The doof warrior

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

Lazyhound posted:

Someone posted aftermath images from that armoured car attack in the Discord:

https://twitter.com/Abramjee/status/1388195293565489156

Dude sounds just like Sharlto Copley

Radio Paranoia
Jun 27, 2010

It is now safe to turn off your computer.

Lazyhound posted:

Someone posted aftermath images from that armoured car attack in the Discord:

https://twitter.com/Abramjee/status/1388195293565489156

That's weird, it doesn't look like the usual cash transit vehicles we have here.





Way stockier and more armoured, but obviously less manouverable. Due to the rise in cash in transit robberies the argument was made to make the vehicles more incognito, but that truck looks way under prepared for what was being thrown at it, they're lucky as hell!

This is usually the aftermath of a successful robbery:

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

as a person who never leaves my house i've done pretty well for myself.
I think the Toyota was an escort and not itself carrying the payload.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

I figure we can disrupt the cash transport business by using the gig economy. People can use their own car or bicycle. If any of our contractors get robbed we'll just hold them accountable for the amount lost.

Radio Paranoia
Jun 27, 2010

It is now safe to turn off your computer.

The Lone Badger posted:

I figure we can disrupt the cash transport business by using the gig economy. People can use their own car or bicycle. If any of our contractors get robbed we'll just hold them accountable for the amount lost.

Please don't give ol' Musky ideas.

Vlaphor
Dec 18, 2005

Lipstick Apathy
Just gotta get that extra bounce.


https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qsak758wUq1w5pr9j.mp4

LimaBiker
Dec 9, 2020






Love how they all are just standing there with a 'yep, poo poo's hosed' attitude :D

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




Ohhhh, the wheelie things go on the bottom!

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
should be easy enough to fix, just do the opposite of whatever got it over in the first place

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Radio Paranoia posted:

Please don't give ol' Musky ideas.

And there we going, going full circle back to South Africa stealing again!

ncumbered_by_idgits
Sep 20, 2008

LimaBiker posted:



Love how they all are just standing there with a 'yep, poo poo's hosed' attitude :D

I like that it looks like the thing might be easier to get into and out of while upside down.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Humphreys posted:

"Comedians in Cars getting Coffee" with Sean Lock took a different turn that I expected.

I would watch the poo poo out of that.

The american comedy scene has much to learn from 8 out of 10 cats and QI.

Z the IVth
Jan 28, 2009

The trouble with your "expendable machines"
Fun Shoe

Blue On Blue posted:

They get away with anonymity for the most part (unmarked trucks), but something will give eventually from a combination of lack business practices and someone seizing the moment, and it will be a bad scene

Given how underpaid the average American wageslave is won't it be incredibly easy for lone drivers to get "held up" all the time?

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Cameras, man. Can't steal from your own van if the boss is going to watch the footage. Or the cops, and they're the worst, they'll go pull video from the walgreens down the street or the gas station next door.

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

Z the IVth posted:

Given how underpaid the average American wageslave is won't it be incredibly easy for lone drivers to get "held up" all the time?

well i'm talking canada, and you would think more people would get brazen and try to do a hold up on a lone driver

typically imho the things helping to prevent that are;

- a fast worker can be in out and before people will really notice you're even there

- random stops at random times, the big crews can afford to schedule it the same time everyday

- people don't like the idea of getting shot / shot at

as an early 20 something and needing to keep my job, we did all sorts of things that management told us to do because it saved time

i remember once the insurance company adjuster / inspector did a 'surprise' visit (which we were told about like 3 days in advance)

so for that 1 day, everyone on the road suddenly had a partner, and we had to lie on our run sheets from the past week to show we had a partner that whole time as well


:edit: oh poo poo I just realized you are talking about internal.. lol

yeah it wasn't uncommon, but nothing big enough to justify the cops getting involved. they would just get fired and the company would eat the loss for a couple $100

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

LimaBiker posted:



Love how they all are just standing there with a 'yep, poo poo's hosed' attitude :D

The truck lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, rolling its wheels trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


https://i.imgur.com/9Co1baz.gifv

https://i.imgur.com/5wZ9D08.gifv

Source: https://imgur.com/gallery/leamD

glynnenstein
Feb 18, 2014


CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Cameras, man. Can't steal from your own van if the boss is going to watch the footage. Or the cops, and they're the worst, they'll go pull video from the walgreens down the street or the gas station next door.

Years ago there was a whole scene on the block out front of my work. Probably 20 police cars blocking off each end of the street and surrounding an armored car that was stopped at the bank to exchange cash. Turns out the two guys in the armored car got into an argument that got pretty heated - supposedly they drew their guns on each other inside the van. The company monitors microphones in the vehicles so they can detect people plotting to steal money or whatever. I watched the aftermath as the supervisor had to count every dollar on the truck before they cleared the scene. It was crazy.

schmug
May 20, 2007



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ8ls5oN3ps

nope nope nope

Necrosaro
Dec 31, 2008

A Necrosaro Appears!
Fun Shoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWSckm8zTc8

madeintaipei
Jul 13, 2012

glynnenstein posted:

Years ago there was a whole scene on the block out front of my work. Probably 20 police cars blocking off each end of the street and surrounding an armored car that was stopped at the bank to exchange cash. Turns out the two guys in the armored car got into an argument that got pretty heated - supposedly they drew their guns on each other inside the van. The company monitors microphones in the vehicles so they can detect people plotting to steal money or whatever. I watched the aftermath as the supervisor had to count every dollar on the truck before they cleared the scene. It was crazy.

My favorite armored car story comes from SA. The company a goon worked for withdrew all of the shotguns they had previously issued. They found out a co worker had negligently discharged a scattergun straight up into the ceiling of the van after the lumper exited the vehicle. Lumper hears a thump, goes about his business, comes back to two deafened colleagues, a scorch mark on the ceiling and lead spall all over the interior.

"What happened?"
"WHAT?! NOTHING! WHAT!?"

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Memento posted:



That's a whole stack of people's days that just got ruined.

Wilson Airlines off to a rough start

Samuel L. Hacksaw
Mar 26, 2007

Never Stop Posting

Memento posted:



That's a whole stack of people's days that just got ruined.

Those tips are actually line replaceable. They could just remove it and trim out the difference.

They shape the vortex behind the plane to increase lift and fuel efficiency by a few percentage points. Not critical to the design.

E: Lmao, southwest can at least. The pitot tubes in the other planes winglet make me think it might need to be taken out of service for repair.

Samuel L. Hacksaw fucked around with this message at 18:47 on May 3, 2021

Empty Sandwich
Apr 22, 2008

goatse mugs

wow

schmug
May 20, 2007

Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:

Those tips are actually line replaceable. They could just remove it and trim out the difference.

They shape the vortex behind the plane to increase lift and fuel efficiency by a few percentage points. Not critical to the design.

E: Lmao, southwest can at least. The pitot tubes in the other planes winglet make me think it might need to be taken out of service for repair.

There has to have been strain on the fuselage(s) as well

schmug
May 20, 2007

speaking of strained fuselages. this is from quite a few years ago but lol



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUGGd4tPdP4
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/07/three-boeing-737-fuselages-slide-montana-river-train-derails-pictures_n_5563326.html?1404738741

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

What's the procedure for when planes bump into each other on the ground like that?

Does the NTSB or whoever have to do a full investigation as they would on a crash? And do the planes need to go through a specified level of inspection before they fly or do the airlines just exchange insurance info and figure it out for themselves?

Edit: I mean for the winglet collision, not the planes swimming upstream to spawn.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
https://twitter.com/OfficialJoelF/status/1389030768933019651

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CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Ah. The Mar-A-Lago order.

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