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Felonious_Monk: Oct 26, 2008

Slanderer posted:

It seems dumb not to route the roads around it, but there is absolutely nothing unusual about that rail crossover as far as I know.

I'm imagining a big figure-8 of track, like an old hot wheels kit

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JB50: Feb 13, 2008

Slanderer posted:

It seems dumb not to route the roads around it, but there is absolutely nothing unusual about that rail crossover as far as I know.

Looks like the track running towards the top of the pic is rarely used anyway.

# ? Apr 9, 2015 04:30

Carbon dioxide: Oct 9, 2012

Yeah, it might be one of those industrial tracks going to a single factory plant, bringing supplies/getting stuff once a week or once a month. Train drivers know to go at walking speed in places like that.

# ? Apr 9, 2015 09:12

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

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

# ? Apr 9, 2015 11:10

KoRMaK: Jul 31, 2012

Say Nothing posted:

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

I thought you cared if the poo poo you posted had deaths in it?

# ? Apr 9, 2015 14:57

BlancoNino: Apr 26, 2010

KoRMaK posted:

I thought you cared if the poo poo you posted had deaths in it?

The pilot walks away?

# ? Apr 9, 2015 15:35

Some of the Sheep: May 25, 2005; POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?

KoRMaK posted:

I thought you cared if the poo poo you posted had deaths in it?

Look at this moron.

# ? Apr 9, 2015 15:35

KoRMaK: Jul 31, 2012

Some of the Sheep posted:

Look at this moron.

I'm a big dumb dumb. Faith Restored, Say Nothing.

# ? Apr 9, 2015 15:44

Slanderer: May 6, 2007

BlancoNino posted:

The pilot walks away?

But the helicopter didn't

# ? Apr 9, 2015 17:19

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Sometimes, violent death would be a good thing.

# ? Apr 10, 2015 01:14

Some of the Sheep: May 25, 2005; POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?

Say Nothing posted:

Sometimes, violent death would be a good thing.

If I was watching Beiber walking towards a plate glass window, I wouldn't call out a warning either.

# ? Apr 10, 2015 02:19

mostlygray: Nov 1, 2012; BURY ME AS I LIVED, A FREE MAN ON THE CLUTCH

PT6A posted:

Why the gently caress would you build a blind crossing with no lights? That's just asking for trouble.

Welcome to rural northern Minnesota. There are tons of them.

# ? Apr 10, 2015 03:23

itskage: Aug 26, 2003

Say Nothing posted:

I do this all of the time. :smith:

# ? Apr 10, 2015 07:08

Leperflesh: May 17, 2007

wh...

why do you put the bottle cap in your mouth?

How does that even work. Do you open it with your teeth and then suck the cap into your mouth and then drink around the cap?

WHY

# ? Apr 10, 2015 07:11

Bondematt: Jan 26, 2007; Not too stupid

Leperflesh posted:

wh...

why do you put the bottle cap in your mouth?

How does that even work. Do you open it with your teeth and then suck the cap into your mouth and then drink around the cap?

WHY

How else are you going to shoot them at your friends?

PS: I am that guy who would choke on a bottlecap.

# ? Apr 10, 2015 07:18

jetz0r: May 10, 2003; Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.

Leperflesh posted:

wh...

why do you put the bottle cap in your mouth?

How does that even work. Do you open it with your teeth and then suck the cap into your mouth and then drink around the cap?

WHY

Water bottle caps are like free gum with every water bottle!

# ? Apr 10, 2015 07:18

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

These are the people those stupid safety warnings are aimed at.

# ? Apr 10, 2015 08:02

PathAsc: Nov 15, 2011; Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

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Say Nothing posted:

These are the people those stupid safety warnings are aimed at.

I'll assume this is real, and go on to hope that this person is sterile. Burn this earth, salt the ashes.

# ? Apr 10, 2015 21:35

MutantBlue: Jun 8, 2001

It's okay, he's wearing hearing protection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osv7HUW7Dic

# ? Apr 10, 2015 22:32

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

# ? Apr 11, 2015 00:44

UltimoDragonQuest: Oct 5, 2011

Was there a Watch For Falling Rocks sign?

# ? Apr 11, 2015 00:52

Powerful Two-Hander: Mar 10, 2004; Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

Was there a Watch For Falling Rocks sign?

This is maybe my second favourite sign acter the "frogs!" sign or whatever it is because what the gently caress am I supposed to do if a rock falls on me or so close to me i can't brake and how has the sign helped? There might as well be signs every 500m saying "Warning: possible hazards".

# ? Apr 11, 2015 01:01

Leperflesh: May 17, 2007

Actually, when a debris flow begins, often it's just a few rocks or a slumping at the bottom of the flow, followed seconds later by a much larger flow. If you're alert for it you might see the beginnings of a flow ahead of you on the road, and come to a stop before you drive right into a major rockslide.

Also it's a useful alert that there may be random rocks in the road, although that really should be "watch for rocks" instead of "watch for falling rocks".

# ? Apr 11, 2015 01:26

Tunicate: May 15, 2012

The sign usually says 'Watch for falling rock' around where I am.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 01:48

Reztes: Jun 20, 2003

So wait those signs aren't just code for "speed the gently caress up and get out of this death zone as fast as possible"?

# ? Apr 11, 2015 02:11

Peanut President: Nov 5, 2008; by Athanatos

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

This is maybe my second favourite sign acter the "frogs!" sign or whatever it is because what the gently caress am I supposed to do if a rock falls on me or so close to me i can't brake and how has the sign helped? There might as well be signs every 500m saying "Warning: possible hazards".

It's so when you get killed by the aggro crag your family can't sue because it's your own drat fault.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 02:18

enziarro: Sep 4, 2004; I'm not an angel - I'm a Galactic Pioneer.

chitoryu12 posted:

In train talk, the Orlando metropolitan area opened SunRail (its first commuter rail smaller than Amtrak) last May. They've forced freight to travel on the tracks in the very late night and early morning when SunRail isn't operating to keep the system unclogged, but it means that there's now a ton of rail traffic that didn't used to exist.

Being Florida, this inevitably means a flurry of accidents. Virtually every accident has been attributed to the driver getting impatient and trying to go around the gates, getting stuck or moving too slow, and getting struck by a train. Our drivers literally cannot handle regular train traffic.

That said, there is apparently one crossing down south where the gate has opened up early and drivers are too dumb to look to see if a train is coming before roaring across. While most people would find the idea of looking before you cross every time a bit laughable, I should point out that this crossing is literally next to the train station. You can see the big white and yellow train parked there before you even cross.

How do you mention this in the OSHA thread and not mention that the same people who cannot avoid being hit by trains have decided that the horns are too loud and should not be used at grade crossings?

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-sidebar-orlando-sunrail-train-noise-20150405-story.html

# ? Apr 11, 2015 03:18

Philthy: Jan 28, 2003; Pillbug

Say Nothing posted:

Sometimes, violent death would be a good thing.

There are like 10 different clips of this guy walking into window/doors because he was messing with his hair.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 05:54

KoRMaK: Jul 31, 2012

Falling rocks means look around you. It's not like the rock is going to noclip into you in real life.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 06:00

Zeno-25: Dec 5, 2009; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Bondematt posted:

How else are you going to shoot them at your friends?

PS: I am that guy who would choke on a bottlecap.

A friend of mine from high school managed to swallow a bottle cap by accident after loving around with it in his mouth for no reason, he immediately went to the cafeteria bathroom and barfed it up because he knew things would get pretty serious pretty fast if he didn't/couldn't.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 06:07

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Philthy posted:

There are like 10 different clips of this guy walking into window/doors because he was messing with his hair.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 06:25

WarpedNaba: Feb 8, 2012; Being social makes me swell!

Imagine how much they must be paying his bodyguards to resist plugging that little poo poo.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 06:43

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

'Helicopter Ground Resonance'.

# ? Apr 12, 2015 02:11

jetz0r: May 10, 2003; Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.

Those helicopters know how to loving party.

# ? Apr 12, 2015 06:20

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Go to 2:44 for a great way to shift earth movers quickly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rf0Eo09ETU

# ? Apr 12, 2015 17:00

CzarChasm: Mar 14, 2009; I don't like it when you're watching me eat.

Say Nothing posted:

'Helicopter Ground Resonance'.

See, this is what happens when you throw a helicopter into reverse.

# ? Apr 13, 2015 14:28

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