Mike_G Posted March 6, 2015 Posted March 6, 2015 "I was just driving along minding my own business when this thing fell on the truck..."
1930fordpickup Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 In your best Maxwell Smart voice , Missed it by that much!
DaveM Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 Did they seize the truck as concrete evidence of who was at fault?
Fabrux Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 That would doubly suck if there was a load of concrete in that drum.
disabled modeler Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 It wasn't my fault officer....the building ran right out in front of me....
Lucas van H Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 The building crossed the road, I had no way to avoid it!
Tom Geiger Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 (edited) The moral of the story is to never take your concrete mixer through the drive through window! Actually that looks like the guard house at a gated community. Look at the columns, those are probably fake brick around a metal pole. I have bought a lot of those made from fiberglass over the years for detail on office construction jobs. Idiots will be idiots. Back in the day my numpty friend worked as the dealer prep guy at an AMC Jeep dealer. When they were very busy and all the prep bays were full, they'd take cars to the local you spray it car wash. This particular one had a high entrance and a low exit if you pulled through. It even had big yellow and black tape warnings on it. Everyone at the dealer had been warned that Jeeps needed to be backed out! So my idiot friend was in a hurry since they needed to deliver that Jeep so he did the quick wash job, jumped in and HIT THE GAS! Took the roof right off a brand new Jeep, essentially totaling it. Somehow, they didn't fire him for that one! Edited March 7, 2015 by Tom Geiger
madhorseman Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 " I'd like a Sriracha Quesarito, and a large Pepsi. ...To go, hurry please!!!
Ace-Garageguy Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 The mixer driver moonlights as an electrician. His last job...
Ace-Garageguy Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 He used to be a lube-tech... and before that, a heavy equipment operator...
Guest Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 Apparently, he didn't see the wide open lane on the right hand side. Hope is isn't allowed to drive on freeways. I saw a similar incident happen on a construction site I was on once. Only that idiot was driving a backhoe. For whatever reason, he wanted to drive under the canopy we were working on and would drive as fast as it was able to go under it. I remember saying, "that idiot is going to hurt someone or destroy something if he don't watch it." One day, the paving company took over the parking lot and put down several inches of gravel and dense grade. Everyone got strict orders to not drive anything on the fresh packed dense grade. The next day, we heard him coming. Someone said, "Somebody better stop him! He's not supposed to be driving on that parking lot!" I said, "Let him go. He'll figure it out in a minute." Naturally, he turned to drive under the canopy. My first thought was, "that hoe is going to be awful close to this canopy ceiling." Well, it hit being about six inches too tall. He ripped through the ceiling a good ten feet before he got stopped. This is where his true idiot kicked in. Instead of dropping the hoe down to where it would clear the ceiling and back out of it. He just took off again forward and ripped across the entire ceiling! After the general contractors and supervisors gave him a good tongue lashing, we watched him get his stuff and head to his truck. He deserved to be fired.
DaveM Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 Back in the day when sprint cars still traveled in caravans behind ratty old pickups, I watched a competitor crunch up his wing going through a McDonald's drive thru. No damage to the building, and , after having a pretty good laugh at the pickup driver's expense, we were able to pound the wing back into shape and they made the "A" main with it that night. For the rest of the season, we couldn't walk by them in the pits without somebody saying, "You want fries with that?" The only reason I never did that was because I had the world's cheapest single axle trailer with lousy shocks. I had to strap my wing to the bed of the truck, or the trailer would start steering the truck in a crosswind!
DaveM Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 It looks, to me, like he backed up after he got stuck. The columns are tipping back. Unless he hit the bases of both columns with something, it looks like he has pulled the whole building roof backwards a few inches. The fascia and soffit on the far side of the roof look straight, so he didn't back through.
Ace-Garageguy Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 It looks, to me, like he backed up after he got stuck... it looks like he has pulled the whole building roof backwards a few inches. The fascia and soffit on the far side of the roof look straight, so he didn't back through. Good observation. It also looks like he's pulled the entire building off its foundations, not just getting the roof skewed. If you look at the lower LH corner of the structure, it's no longer square on the little lot, and the whole thing appears to be twisted back on the RH side.
High octane Posted March 7, 2015 Posted March 7, 2015 What kind of IDIOT would pull a trailer through the drive thru lane at a fast food restaurant? Probably a lazy one.
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