That's one way to open a sardine can. :shock:
Don't Try This at Home
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I couldn't get to the link. It locked up my iPad twice! First with a Facebook wants to make you a millionaire-click ok. Unable to leave page, unless click ok. Powered down and back on. Second time An Apple security page came up-call this number-click ok. Powered off as before.
gramps
gramps
NixieTube
Blackhawk
Looks like something was wrong with the website. It's funny, I've known that website for about a year now and they've only recently had trouble. I hope they get it straightened out because they've done a great job documenting the stuff that goes on at that trestle. They've been featured in media all across the world and apparently recently started to have trouble. Sorry if anyone hit that link and had grief.
Is this what you are speaking about?
http://life.hackaday.com/three-ways-to-open-a-can-without-a-can-opener/
http://life.hackaday.com/three-ways-to-open-a-can-without-a-can-opener/
NixieTube
Blackhawk
Fox Mike said:
No, it's the 11 foot 8 inch tall bridge trestle in Durham, NC.
It's a railroad bridge trestle that overpasses a busy road and because it was built before standards for tall trucks, it is "underheight." The local authorities have done many things to try to stop people from driving their trucks into the trestle, but apparently it would cost a great deal of money to raise the trestle because it would mean re-grading the railroad tracks leading up to and away from it. As a result, despite all the BIG ORANGE WARNINGS, dozens of trucks/RVs/Motorhomes plow into the trestle every year and rip their tops off, tear the AC units off the tops of the motorhomes, and come to a grinding halt beneath the railroad tracks. Usually while getting their front wheels in the air and making a whole lot of noise. The locals have kind of gotten used to it as an "attraction" and go out and help clean up afterward.
The owner of the site, which I won't repost as a URL here, says that in the past few days a "rogue DNS Server" in Europe has been redirecting people to untoward locations on the interwebs. That's probably why the moderators deleted my original post and good for them. I didn't see that warning: I just had the link to the latest video - which was very funny.
If you google it you can probably find the URL, they have been featured by news organizations all around the world and there were several stories done by bonafide media organizations here in the US, including NBC recently. They were featured in Der Spiegel, on BBC Top Gear, the Wall Street Journal, and in many other places. Then someone apparently decided to mess with them.
mhblaw
Blackhawk
I saw it on NBC news a few days ago. I would think that it would be possible to lower the grade of the road underneath the trestle, but I suppose that has been thought of and not possible either. Plenty of warning signs.
NixieTube
Blackhawk
mhblaw said:
Yeah I thought about the same thing but there are probably sewers or something else running underneath the roadbed (as old as the trestle!) and so it's a major money sink to do it either way. Apparently it's a busy road. There are a couple of trestles I've seen like it in other places but the high traffic means that more people miss all the signage, somehow, or just don't know how tall their vehicles are. It seems to be rental trucks and RV/Motorhomes that get the worst of it. Nonpro drivers behind the wheels of the vehicles and the signage doesn't make an impact....but the trestle does.
I have seen several videos of this bridge and always thought the solution was simple. Use the same type of signage that you have at parking garages. Mainly the use of a slap board hung above the roadway a few hundred feet before. If you slap the board you are going to hit the bridge.
Karl
Karl
