Meme Thread... no politics

In reply to NickD :

When I'm feeling down, I like to watch this video from Durham, NC.  The Definitive 11Foot8 Bridge Crash Compilation - YouTube

One day, I actually walked under this bridge and was in awe.  11-foot, 8-inches of pure destruction. 

In reply to Scotty Con Queso :

Any time I drive under the Onondaga Lake Parkway Bridge, I throw it a salute. That thing is a beast of a bridge. I saw an article recently where people were saying "Can't something more be done to prevent vehicles from hitting the bridge?" and the city said there is currently 46 different warnings total, flashing lights, reflective signs, paint on the road, the bridge is painted fluorescent orange, you name it. At this point, there's really nothing more they can do in terms of warning. They can't dig the road down, because it's right on the edge of the lake and the groundwater level is so high, and CSX will raise the bridge but only if the city pays for them to redesign it, raise it, and regrade the road bed for miles in either direction, which the city can't afford. 

That was awesome.   Thanks!

We have a tiny little train overpass in these parts, on a very rural very slow residential type road, it gets hit *all the time*. It's amazing. The road was closed for a year not too long ago, when a mobile freaking CRANE ignored all the warning signs and height markers and everthing else including the STOP SIGN cuz it's only ONE LANE under that bridge, and the driver hit that thing so hard it bent the rails.  And in their infinite wisdom, after rebuilding the bridge and using it for a very few months, they shut that rail line down... 

Our local Casho Mill (aka Crasho Mill or Smasho Mill) Bridge is on a CSX main line and claims victims every week.  Here's the current state of the warning devices:

No word on whether this got the vehicle to stop in time or not - I just saw them this way:

I live in a college town.  Most of the local truck rental places make you show them on a map where you're moving from and where you're moving to, and exactly what route you plan to get there.

Stop now or Kaboom! 

Does anyone see those hanging buoys and think 'Challenge accepted' to see how many you can swing over the top as in pic 3?  But before that I'd want to play Newtons cradle with them.

In reply to Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) :

They didn't originally have the lateral chains tying them together, and yes, more than one person tried playing Newton's Cradle, prompting the modification.

The big challenge with the overdog flip is getting enough speed to do it while still being able to stop before the kaboom.

To Tall WHEN FLASHING (!?!?)

Does the overpass move occasionally?

Ouch...

In reply to Duke :

Edit: apparently I can't post a gif from a phone. I'll fix it in a bit. 

Another edit. It should be fixed now. 

A bridge in Long Grove, Illinois had 44 hits?

Boston has a word for it...This truck got "Storrowed", for the number of times it happens on Storrow drive.

1988RedT2 said:

I hate to admit it but I almost took the top off my camper last year on one of these bridges. Nick D probably knows the bridge, next to the canal, you go under then over. I have a class A CDL and have driven many large vehicles many times. We were going camping, blew a transmission line, swapped to a different truck, moved all my stuff over, hot as heck, rushing now because we are late. I went to take the short way through the city. Fortunately my 12 year old was like "no dad there isn't clearance". I was 100' from making the day much worse. Everyone has their head up their butt sometimes...

In reply to NickD :

If only...