The Mickey D’s Can Opener song –
Call me Mickey D’s, call me Chuck E. Cheese
Call me Magic Johnson, bitch, you don’t wanna fuck with me!
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Truck driver: Think anybody saw us?
Passenger: It probably just left a mark – nobody will notice.
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Anybody giving odds on whether the truck driver was hired from the Home Depot parking lot?
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Imagine the horror felt by all the illegals in the back…
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that’ll buff out.
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I’m impressed by the strength of the structure. I would have bet on that outcome.
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^^^ I would NOT have bet on that outcome
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..!…!!..!!!….?..Huh???……..OH, MY GO…..!!!
Now THAT’s gonna leave mark!!!
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Flex Seal.
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That’s one driver who’s gonna have a hell of a time explaining that to his boss. What a maroon and a major league dumbass as well. Why didn’t he just go inside the McBozo’s and get his junk food to go.
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Whenever I had to drive an over height truck, I always made sure of the clearance under bridges, railroad underpasses and other lower height obstacles. There are a few low clearance rr underpasses in downtown Spokane under 12 ft. that I am very well aware of, and I always take an alternate route with our truck that had a 13-foot 2-inch clearance. But that still doesn’t stop morons from trying to go under those underpasses and get the tops of their trucks stuck and torn off and damaging the railroad abutments. It happens quite often even with warnings of low clearance ahead. And it’s just as bad in parking garages with low ceilings and people driving P/U trucks and large SUV’S.
Parked it on the street, came back Ana someone had tried to break in
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One overheight consideration that sadly doesn’t attain any more is decapitated firemen.
One of the biggest considerations in fireground operations is getting your manpower rapidly on scene. You could only get so many vehicles to a cul-de-sac, and only so many seats per vehicle, which limited your options on initial attack and SAR. The more guys you had, the more expansive your options, so it was better to not have to wait for auxiliary equipment to arrive.
In a bolder age, there were two answers for this. One was “riding the tail”, which is where guys stood on an elongated tailboard at the back of a pumper (which was surprisingly comfortable due to all the weight in the back) that gave you 4 or more immediate extra guys who were also beautifully positioned to pull hose from the bed; another was “riding the ladder”. This was the practice of putting some of your manpower in the bed of the large hydraulic ladder in the bed of your Quint or ladder truck. This was a pretty good ride too, and you got a good view as you sat on the currently horoiztal rungs with your head above the rails like a privieged St. Bernard, but it did have a minor consideration.
We had one jurisdiction that had all their surrounding bridges scouted, and found that the ladder could fit under all of them BUT some had only a foot of clearance above the ladder rails, which could create something of a hazard for the guy head and shoulders above them. To combat this, they were trained that whoever was in front would yell “BRIDGE!” as they approached one, and everyone on the ladder would then quickly duck until they had completed passing under the shadow of death, then the game would begin anew on the other side.
Somewhat anticlimacticlly, but happily, I have no story of blood and gore to tell of this. This system worked as you would expect from people who were keenly aware they would be abruptly ripped apart if they were inattentive, and being the pre-cellphone age no one was. Sadly, some soyful OSHA turd or insurance underwriting hyena took umbrage at these examples of efficiency, with “no seat belts” this and “What if someone straightens up under a bridge” that, and next thing you know, everyone has to sit inside like THAT somehow makes crawling around on broken glass in a firelit hallway or vaulting around on a flaming roof over a fire weakened structure somehow intrinsically safer…
…while I’m sure bad things sometimes happened, hey, life is risk. Accept it or stay home, and if you rip the side out of the occasional truck getting McRibbed, so be it.
Learn from it, or quit doing it, but at least man up to your mistakes. That’s how what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.
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In the Service, a Pilot did the same thing at the ‘O’ Club. Yes, alcohol, lots and lots of alcohol, was involved. Tore his camper right off. He didn’t know until the next day when the Security troops called, asked if he noticed anything missing from his pickup.
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Truck unmarked, illegals, could not stop so pressed on before cops came..
Let’s go to Outback. Classic response.
The Mickey D’s Can Opener song –
Call me Mickey D’s, call me Chuck E. Cheese
Call me Magic Johnson, bitch, you don’t wanna fuck with me!
Truck driver: Think anybody saw us?
Passenger: It probably just left a mark – nobody will notice.
Anybody giving odds on whether the truck driver was hired from the Home Depot parking lot?
Imagine the horror felt by all the illegals in the back…
that’ll buff out.
I’m impressed by the strength of the structure. I would have bet on that outcome.
^^^ I would NOT have bet on that outcome
..!…!!..!!!….?..Huh???……..OH, MY GO…..!!!
Now THAT’s gonna leave mark!!!
Flex Seal.
That’s one driver who’s gonna have a hell of a time explaining that to his boss. What a maroon and a major league dumbass as well. Why didn’t he just go inside the McBozo’s and get his junk food to go.
Whenever I had to drive an over height truck, I always made sure of the clearance under bridges, railroad underpasses and other lower height obstacles. There are a few low clearance rr underpasses in downtown Spokane under 12 ft. that I am very well aware of, and I always take an alternate route with our truck that had a 13-foot 2-inch clearance. But that still doesn’t stop morons from trying to go under those underpasses and get the tops of their trucks stuck and torn off and damaging the railroad abutments. It happens quite often even with warnings of low clearance ahead. And it’s just as bad in parking garages with low ceilings and people driving P/U trucks and large SUV’S.
Corn pop, “I drove a big rig”.
“They fuck you at the drive-thru”
Leo Getz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWfaiTLPUKQ
SWIFT???
Parked it on the street, came back Ana someone had tried to break in
One overheight consideration that sadly doesn’t attain any more is decapitated firemen.
One of the biggest considerations in fireground operations is getting your manpower rapidly on scene. You could only get so many vehicles to a cul-de-sac, and only so many seats per vehicle, which limited your options on initial attack and SAR. The more guys you had, the more expansive your options, so it was better to not have to wait for auxiliary equipment to arrive.
In a bolder age, there were two answers for this. One was “riding the tail”, which is where guys stood on an elongated tailboard at the back of a pumper (which was surprisingly comfortable due to all the weight in the back) that gave you 4 or more immediate extra guys who were also beautifully positioned to pull hose from the bed; another was “riding the ladder”. This was the practice of putting some of your manpower in the bed of the large hydraulic ladder in the bed of your Quint or ladder truck. This was a pretty good ride too, and you got a good view as you sat on the currently horoiztal rungs with your head above the rails like a privieged St. Bernard, but it did have a minor consideration.
We had one jurisdiction that had all their surrounding bridges scouted, and found that the ladder could fit under all of them BUT some had only a foot of clearance above the ladder rails, which could create something of a hazard for the guy head and shoulders above them. To combat this, they were trained that whoever was in front would yell “BRIDGE!” as they approached one, and everyone on the ladder would then quickly duck until they had completed passing under the shadow of death, then the game would begin anew on the other side.
Somewhat anticlimacticlly, but happily, I have no story of blood and gore to tell of this. This system worked as you would expect from people who were keenly aware they would be abruptly ripped apart if they were inattentive, and being the pre-cellphone age no one was. Sadly, some soyful OSHA turd or insurance underwriting hyena took umbrage at these examples of efficiency, with “no seat belts” this and “What if someone straightens up under a bridge” that, and next thing you know, everyone has to sit inside like THAT somehow makes crawling around on broken glass in a firelit hallway or vaulting around on a flaming roof over a fire weakened structure somehow intrinsically safer…
…while I’m sure bad things sometimes happened, hey, life is risk. Accept it or stay home, and if you rip the side out of the occasional truck getting McRibbed, so be it.
Learn from it, or quit doing it, but at least man up to your mistakes. That’s how what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.
In the Service, a Pilot did the same thing at the ‘O’ Club. Yes, alcohol, lots and lots of alcohol, was involved. Tore his camper right off. He didn’t know until the next day when the Security troops called, asked if he noticed anything missing from his pickup.
Truck unmarked, illegals, could not stop so pressed on before cops came..
This kind of idiocy has it own Youtube channel, because it happens so frequently in one location. Nicknamed “The Can Opener”;
https://youtu.be/u_9rWH0p43A?feature=shared .