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Ohio’s Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission has fired a snowplow operator after the driver directed snow and ice over the highway median and into oncoming traffic in January.
The incident spread across several miles, causing accidents involving about 55 vehicles and injuring 18 people, the local ABC affiliate reported.
Video from truck driver Michael Lemon shows passenger cars traveling down the Ohio Turnpike near Sandusky, Ohio, when an arc of slush suddenly emerges, blanketing everything with a thud and causing one vehicle to spin off of the embankment. More
Video of the slush Sunami
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Around here they kill mail boxes with abandon. It don’t snow much around here… but when it does… be certain to set aside some cash for a new mail box.
If you remember Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, when socialism takes over, society quickly gets to a point where there literally is no one around with skill, common sense, reason or drive.
We are at that point.
Re-read the book friends, and look around at the world in its current state. Everything is broken.
Timothy Rakay 54 proud member of Teamsters local 436.
sometimes you really just want to see the face of stupidity, but i couldn’t find one.
Probably the most notable damage since the beginning of ‘climate change’.
Kcir
I concur,the book is a great read for anyone with a talent
I come from the same areas you haunt.
I’m retired but still get the are you busy today call from my previous employer.
Parents, if you are still wondering what is the best way forward, tell you’re kids to get a trade.
It works and cost is minimal.
Lucky for him he’s losing his job and not brought up on murder charges.
Alexb
I just told an analyst yesterday that the fastest way out of lower income is for kids of immigrants to get into a trade (safely), avoid huge debt, and start earning quickly. For women, nursing & dental hygenist etc.
In Canada, the trick is to get registered as an apprentice to get credit & raises for your work time, otherwise you are just a labourer. And night school, night school, night school.
At one point I was working 5.5 days a week and in night courses 4 days a week. (early 20’s)
roughly where are you located?
He’s just lucky some of those drivers whose cars he wrecked didn’t yank him out of his snowplow and beat the shit out of him.
I’m actually surprised he had any consequences from this, as Ohio apparently has some sort of total liability shield for snowplow drivers.
I found out about this from a woman I used to work with who’s daughter-in-law was brained by one of those highway line reflectors (which are actually on big, heavy, square metal bases) that came flying through her windshield after being kicked up by a snowplow going in the opposite direction that flicked it up through the windshield of the car she was a passenger in. She was all kinds of messed up and it was a very permanent disability from brain damage, so the ambulance chasers all circled for a bit, but apparently to a man said there was nothing they could do since a snowplow was involved and to a man then refused to pursue it further. So there’s evidently no civil or criminal liability where a snowplow is involved, at least in some circumstances.
This may be different since it may be more egregious negligence than that one was, but governments usually do a pretty good job of shielding themselves from the same laws the rest of us are forced to follow, so I wouldn’t be surprised if those drivers got nothing…
…They knocked my mailbox loose during Snowpocaylise ’22 also. I don’t feel too bad though given the ones up the street they demolished entirely. I was just happy I could leave my house again after 2 days in my semi-rural community with a HUGE hill facing a river that I have to travel to leave, so I’ll stick another screw in it and be thankful for everything else…
@Kcir – cause i give a Kcuf
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Throughout world history – especially from the Egyptian times, there’s been lost knowledge and technology. The pyramids and how they were built is still a mystery. I’m sure during the biblical flood, that a tremendous amount of knowledge and technology was lost. The only thing that hasn’t changed since the beginning of time is human nature.
Years ago back in the early 70’s in Cheney, Wash. the home of Eastern Wash. State College (EWU now) a snowplow driver tore up a speed bump coming into Cheney because his plow was set too low. Snowplow drivers are not the smartest of people especially in deep snow.
This asshole should be in prison!
Young males were driving their trucks fast through the flooded streets after a hurricane here causing huge waves of water to be sent into homes. Men standing in the streets with shotguns put an end to that shit. After Hurricane Harvey, our county sheriff encouraged homeowners to shoot looters. We don’t put up with that kind of thing here.