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belpre122
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Location: Back home again. In Indiana!
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:03 am Post subject: I'm speechless |
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If this has been previously posted, my apologies. Enjoy!
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He had missed his turn by Brandon Manitoba and figured he could go over the hill and continue on the road. Apparently he didn't know there were rail tracks on top of the grade..... The truck owner figures he had to hit the angle at over 55 miles an hour in order to make the top. If you look close at some of the pictures you will see that it is only when the large reefer trailer pinched the rear tires of the truck that the truck stopped......
I love the third picture that shows the tracks going thru the field to get there. What a genius!!! |
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Snowman7
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:06 am Post subject: |
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| I've seen these pictures before. Not sure when or where but its been a year or two ago. I was also pretty shocked. Laughed my ass off! |
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Colts Fan
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:09 am Post subject: |
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| :shock: :shock: WOW :shock: :shock: |
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Stainless
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:34 am Post subject: |
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This is about the tenth time i've seen this set of pictures and the tenth different story to go along with it.
Everything from a heart attack, diabetic seizure, fell asleep, followed GPS....
I wonder what REALLY happened. :? |
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Malaki86
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:39 am Post subject: |
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| I can pretty much guarantee that he didn't climb that hill with the truck. |
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marylandkw
Joined: 06 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:08 am Post subject: |
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Malaki86 wrote: I can pretty much guarantee that he didn't climb that hill with the truck. uhh yeap.
stainless wrote: This is about the tenth time i've seen this set of pictures and the tenth different story to go along with it.
Everything from a heart attack, diabetic seizure, fell asleep, followed GPS....
I wonder what REALLY happened. Confused And they always seem to place the blame on some Immigrant or other "non-us" type person.
I think we should make up our own story here and wait and see how log till it makes it's way back. My idea follows....
A retired locomotive engineer well past his HOS on his first week solo gets confused trying to make it to his drop yard..... |
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Double R
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:23 am Post subject: |
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| Here is SNOPES version of the story :wink: |
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Mr. Ford95
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Location: Orange, VA
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:39 am Post subject: |
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| Well if you look at the first pic above, between the truck and the hook, there is a road there. Could it be that they came up to the intersection and could not stop and a vehicle coming on the intersecting road caused them to steer right and simply hang on? Or somoene pulled out of that road and caused the driver to take evasive action and they cut left and were along for the ride then? |
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Nexus
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
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Location: Cincinnati,OH-Sarajevo,Bosnia
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Yuo I read the same story somewhere else and did not see anything about driver being from Pakistan .Looks pretty bad and it does not matter where this guy comes from.
But i guess it is sooo easy to blame it on immigrants :evil: :evil: |
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belpre122
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| Just for the record.......The foreigner reference was part of the original sequence that I received. I also thought that it was a rather cheap shot and will remove those references. |
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Whammo
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:46 am Post subject: |
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belpre122 wrote: Just for the record.......The foreigner reference was part of the original sequence that I received. I also thought that it was a rather cheap shot and will remove those references.
Spoken like a true liberal journalist ;) |
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marylandkw
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:56 am Post subject: |
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belpre122 wrote: Just for the record.......The foreigner reference was part of the original sequence that I received. I also thought that it was a rather cheap shot and will remove those references. I did not even think for a second it was anything you added, I have also seen it as a Mexican National. I am just a boring old white guy who gets mad every time I see a stereotype played out for any reason. He/She was a truck driver who messed up. Nuff said.
whammo wrote: Spoken like a true liberal journalist
Now why the newspaper never tells you the race of criminals anymore is beyond me. We had 3 robbery suspects on the loose the other day in my neighborhood and the News would not say what they looked like beyond 5'11" dark hair dark eyes blue jeans and white shirts.....half the population!
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dle
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 9:08 am Post subject: |
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How did the tow truck get there?
Did he just back up on the rails or something to the site? |
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Rev.Vassago
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 9:57 am Post subject: Re: I'm speechless |
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belpre122 wrote: If you look close at some of the pictures you will see that it is only when the large reefer trailer pinched the rear tires of the truck that the truck stopped......
If you look even closer, you'll notice that the landing gear was dug into the ground long before the tires hit the trailer. |
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belpre122
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 9:58 am Post subject: |
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marylandkw wrote: I did not even think for a second it was anything you added, I have also seen it as a Mexican National. I am just a boring old white guy who gets mad every time I see a stereotype played out for any reason. He/She was a truck driver who messed up. Nuff said.
Maryland........In no way did I think that you were suggesting that. :) I do feel that you make an excellent point, and thus my edit. :wink: |
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