maximus otter
Recovering policeman
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"I will not accept that it's a highly dangerous road"
How do you suddenly skid off of a straight road?!!? In daylight?!!? At not very high speed?!!?
That's caused by the 'Domino' effect!
maximus otter
A Chinese airline warned passengers not to throw coins into plane engines after an Airbus A350 was delayed for 4 hours
The irony of expecting luck from throwing pieces of metal into a high bypass turbojet engine is delicious indeed.
- In a video, a flight attendant tells confused passengers someone threw "three to five coins" into the engine.
From Business Insider
While wondering where to post this, I thought to myself, there couldn't possibly a thread dedicated to this.There's a thread about this all too common practise!
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/tossing-coins-into-jet-engines-for-good-fortune.66777
I get it. I really do."YOLO" - "You Only Live Once" - a phrase popularized by rapper Drake's song "The Motto."
Tailgating. He brakes pretty hard and as @blessmycottonsocks says Lada steering (and brakes) could be pretty crap. He may also have steered off the road to avoid the collision with the back of the car in front. Same thing happens a bit later but this car does hit the one in front.Looked like a Lada Riva estate.
The steering was always wonky and imprecise on those. Back when I was poor as a church mouse I briefly owned one of those appalling cars. Just to drive in a straight line you had to keep adjusting the steering wheel like some unconvincing old film of someone driving shot in a studio.
Do you still drive a bus? As a truck driver I was amazed what people do behind the wheel. The scariest has been watching people with children in the vehicle!This morning, for some reason, I was thinking about one of the weirdest traffic episodes I ever saw. It would have been about 1993 in Florida. I was driving a tour bus down I-95. There was very little traffic. The road was wide, smooth and straight. The weather was sunny and warm. Florida is much flatter than Kansas, with hardly anything that could be called a hill.
I’ll never forget the first time I drove into Ft Worth going north in I35. I had been driving through the night (back then the speed limit was 55) and about a half an hour out all the truckers were passing me at speeds WELL over 55. I was surprised at how fast they were all going, until I hit Ft Worth at the morning rush hour! It was nuts! That did not happen again as long as I could help it!And the texans...
Ye Gods...... I would think that who ever designed that is now gibbering in a corner somewhere.DFW is a bowl of spaghetti I do not miss! I'm sure it's only gotten worse since I was there last.
Here's a bit of it:
Miss a ramp, and you might end up in Oklahoma before you figure out what happened.Ye Gods...... I would think that who ever designed that is now gibbering in a corner somewhere.
That looks a bit like Birmingham's famous Spaghetti Junction but yours looks way more insane ..DFW is a bowl of spaghetti I do not miss! I'm sure it's only gotten worse since I was there last.
Here's a bit of it:
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That’s actually what happens if you take a ranch exit in Texas.Miss a ramp, and you might end up in Oklahoma before you figure out what happened.
Got to love a frontage road and a Texas Turn though.That’s actually what happens if you take a ranch exit in Texas.