I was confused about the title because the first page of search said it meant being a crypto bro.
Only Wiktionary had the appropriate meaning derived from the not just bikes channel
This thread is wild. People wanting to change this guy and happy that this guy died (clearly non readers). Weird
Yeah, I want the guy to be ok (apparently he was) and hopefully some learning will happen.
My second reaction is… from the photo it looks like he opened a portal into another dimension.
Fuckcars is a very toxic community. Not just this one on lemmy. Online bicycle activists are like vegans, actively turning people away from an objectively good lifestyle because they’re just such giant sanctimonious dicks about it.
Many communities have some number of jerks. I actually find that people constantly stereotype based on outliers they hear about online. I’ve met very few vegans who were normal, reasonable prople, yet I’ve met very many people who steteotype and hate on vegans despite knowing none.
I’m pretty sure that bridge is a portal to another world.
Source: the documentary Nos4atu
Haha I know that one. NOS4A2. I quite liked it, much in the vein of stranger things. Also contains a car that should get properly fucked.
Are we fat-shaming cars now?
Aren’t we always?
Yes, we are.
[The signs] are placed along Hurricane Road at the last major intersection before arriving at the bridge crossing. Basically, there’s no way to miss them.
The reporter overestimates most truck drivers’ situational awareness.
That reporter has never heard of http://11foot8.com/
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Every time i see these vids im just sat there thinking “HOW DO YOU MISS ALL THE SIGNS???” its not even just normal signs, it has lights, led text, a big fat orange steel bar, standard high vis signs on both sides.
Just makes it all the more entertaining.
Wait until it happens to you. It almost did to me and I was entirely oblivious, so I can no longer blame them for being idiots.
I was moving to a new city, but I had been there many times. One of the more useful roads was along the River, curving in and out, and under a bunch of low bridges: great fun to drive, plus I was really familiar with it. So, guess what route I naturally took with the moving van. Yup. Did I notice all the “Cars Only” signs? Nope, they had all faded into background noise. Did I notice all the height limits? Nope, not used to looking for those, plus I was busy trying to find my way around an unfamiliar area pre-GPS. I was saved by a buddy whose car I was following, who realized it and got off the road at the last minute. I still didn’t have a clue, but eventually matched up the height of the truck with the height of the bridges, and realized how close I had come to being on the News
The most fun are when the driver approaches slowly, like you can sneak up on it…
Most people are just oblivious. It’s not that they didn’t see the signs most of the time. It’s that they don’t know the height/weight of their vehicle and just assuming, eh it’ll be fine. I’m shocked how many people can’t tell me what year their car is…some can’t even tell me the model. It’s a Toyota something…it’s blue.
I was at a tire shop the other day and somebody gave them the keys and said “it’s a blue Honda Accord”
The tech came back confused and eventually they realized it was a grayish (maybe a tinge of blue) Hyundai Accent.
At least they got the first letters correct, I guess.
My car was assigned minivan at birth, but now identifies as a VW beetle with a Porsche engine swap.
My car’s initials as H.A. and the colour is between #00f and #eef.
“I paid the most money to get the best truck and it can do anything. Ain’t no fuckin’ sign gonna tell me my truck can’t do it!”
I’m not seeing any cops around here
So when is the driver getting charged for vandalism and littering?
You can’t charge a corpse
There’s some nifty trick here to avoid parking tickets
Was it a NiffTea sponsored bridge, though?
The driver suffered minor injuries but was able to exit the vehicle on his own. Luckily, no one else was hurt, considering the area is popular with swimmers and kayakers.
“The driver suffered minor injuries but was able to exit the vehicle on his own”
The driver suffered minor injuries but was able to exit the vehicle on his own. Luckily, no one else was hurt, considering the area is popular with swimmers and kayakers
That is in no way related to the question asked. Are you a career politician by chance?
Sorry, I was quoting the article in attempted response to another commenter saying the driver was dead :0
Nice save.
but getting into a car accident while kayaking is an interesting bragging right lol
The driver deserves criminal punishment in addition to the punishment of ignoring physics.
Would this be a criminal offense? As much as it’s annoying that his car is so massive, he drove a street legal vehicle in the wrong place. Paying for the damages seems like a sufficient consequence.
Perhaps the cost of the damage would add up to something they could try to make felonious
He failed to observe a traffic control device. There’s at least a ticket in there somewhere for him.
If it’s overweight, it’s not street legal.
Street legal*
*not legal on all streets
It was overweight for the bridge, not the road. It was from a commercial trucking company, so likely a dump truck. The first clue should be that it was a F-750. There are pickup beds for them, but they’re almost always a flatbed or dump bed.
Street-legal, bridge-legal, who gives a shit. The point is, they drove it illegally and should be able to be punished accordingly. The make and model are irrelevant.
Do you think they wont be if not for this internet rage?
Not a lawyer, but I would assume that reckless driving would apply here. If nothing else, he should be liable for the damages financially due to negligence
If the bridge had been just a bit sturdier, it could have been damaged jut to the point where the truck could have passed, but the next person driving over would have fell in and risked their lives.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/overweight-ford-f-750-plunges-through-historic-wooden-bridge-in-maine
Repair estimates have not been released, but the owner of the truck company has offered to help pay for the rebuild. The incident itself remains under investigation by local authorities.
The trucking company has already offered to help pay for it. It’s likely covered under their insurance and the driver is almost certainly been fired.
What about the environmental damage of a car filled with gasoline, oil and other toxic materials falling into the river below? I doubt anyone will have to pay for the full cleanup
Law enforcement fines the trucking company, trucking company files insurance claim, trucking company pays.
Hazmat was probably the third for fourth on the scene after police, fire and ambulance and would have put those floating oil absorbers in the river.
Yeah something like this isn’t some wild out of the blue occurance that nobody is prepared for. Any department of transportation of any acceptable competence level has a procedure for catastrophic bridge failure, especially by vehicular overload.
Need to pay the cost to repair the bridge too
School is hard sometimes
Is this the plot to beetlejuice 2?
I thought the same, this looks a lot like the place they had the accident in the first movie
Natural selection
Read the actual article. This was a commercial vehicle that was hauling gravel. I think most folks are assuming it was some dumbass in a lifted truck with a few MAGA stickers on the back. That’s not the case.
The driver is still at fault for ignoring the posted weight limits, but it’s not like he was driving a personal vehicle, as much as we’d all love to see a some of these massive trucks and SUVs go through a bridge.
Even worse, professional driver should have known better.
Can we just have a bridge that detects MAGA trucks and ditches them instead then?
To be far, I know a lot of CDL people who are MAGA, so this would track.
To be fair, the stock Ford 750 looks like the douchiest pickup vehicle imaginable. It’s like if you had asked an AI to design a truck specifically for dudes with fragile masculinity and court-mandated anger management classes. All it needs is twin flagpoles mounted to the back, with the American and confederate flags flying side by side.
Okay, but the truck is more commonly paired with a dump truck-style bed when used for commercial purposes like this: https://www.chicagomotorcars.com/imagetag/8228/3/l/Used-2007-Ford-F750-Super-Duty-Dump-Truck---CAT-DIESEL---Automatic---SUPER-CLEAN.jpg
Does a photo exist of the specific model this driver was using? If he was hauling gravel, I would guess he was using a dump truck model.
That is NOT a stock F-750. Try again. Be Better.
And that is the douchiest response you could have to that comment
Sure. Anywhere near as douchey as discrediting this community by spreading that garbage non-sense about what an F-750 actually is.
Ahh I see you don’t understand, I’ll explain. See an actual considerate human would just say “that’s actually not the base model” or whatever you were complaining about, instead you chose to be rude and top it off with a cringe ass “be better”, the go to response for someone who thinks they’ve got the moral high ground but don’t wanna put any sort of discussion into it.
You’re like the 2024 version of man-bun yoga hipsters, be better
Yeah, no. You see, your suggestion is actually what I replied to every other person who commented that claptrap on this post. Its like, right there in my comment history. That specific commenter went so far as to outright claim those pics were THE stock configuration though, and theirs was the last such comment I replied to. They, and you, can actually, on second thought, fuck right off.
I opted to be even slightly civil with them. Maybe because like their username or I just had an off moment.
You? You made the mistake of assuming I was being, idk, sincere or some shit. No, I don’t even actually hope or care that someone named “pm-your-nudes” even bothers to break character to make more truthful comments, so long as they’re kinda-sorta called on it when they don’t.
Stop being such an insincere-dumbfuck-persona-apologist. Getting people to realize “wow, I was almost fooled by this insincere shit-post-teir bullshit that failed to trip-up this man-bun-yoga-hipster dude” is exactly the shocked reader response I was going for. Welcome to peak internet. 2024 is the new 1994.
Aww buddy, that’s too much, I’m not reading that. hey, I’m going to block you now because we have disagreements, but have a good day though!
lol sounds about right
This is the opening plot to Beetlejuice
For once, an article reporting an “overweight Ford” causing a mess isn’t referring to a politician in Ontario.
Oh nooo, they desperately needed an emergency 10cc of ego transplant but the fell though a bridge on the way to the boostegoification facility.
Rip.
I hope they build a new wider 4 lane bridge to accommodate the most basic traffic needs.
750s are work trucks
Oh, my bad, I though they were pleasure trucks.
No. Too pricey for the douchebags to drive around. I’m not saying there isn’t anyone cruising like they do the 250s but far and few in between.
I see & understand.
But would object to douchebags being price restricted :).
Probably thought the weight limit was a suggestion and not a hard constraint. Yikes
The average truck driver doesn’t think rules apply to him.
The careful text-books measure
(Let all who build beware!)
The load, the shock, the pressure
Material can bear.
So, when the buckled girder
Lets down the grinding span,
The blame of loss, or murder,
Is laid upon the man.
Not on the Stuff — the Man!- Rudyard Kipling
To be “fair”, with how material exhaustion works, it could have totally been fine, as the bridge only would have bent and creaked beneath the guy, and then the next, under-weight-limit car would have fallen in.
Yeah you can destructively overload a structure a number of times before catastrophic failure unless you go way over. It may be internal stress but it can be as far as shearing a bolt or two. But each time you lower the load bearing capacity of the structure, and once that’s begun the structure is on borrowed time and you won’t notice until it’s too late unless you have regular inspections
