This Person Had a Bad Day

Didn’t mean to offend you. Yes you were pushed up to it. Glad you’re ok.

Now, before everybody gets into a tiff, think about that grappling, momentous decision that driver had to make: 1) move under that lowering arm for some slight damage to the upper truck or, 2) get blasted and destroyed by a how-many-ton train barreling along at speed. So... he chose #2.

A Darwin Award should've been awarded.

Just needs to learn how to parallel park.

Alongside the traffic gate arm that is.

TorRed said:

I'm guessing that's Mary in the passenger seat!

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"Ask dingleberry if she's gonna spend the rest of the trip in the backseat"

Coelacanth said:

A Darwin Award should've been awarded.

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You can't fix stupid!

Hey-O said:

We had many at work that I replaced several times a year. They were in parking lots and a few at the tracks around the plant. These were all made out of 3/4 inch cedar, painted and striped. In our case, they were made out of cedar to be light and break away rather than screw up the mechanism.

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I worked for a couple of companies here and I mainly did car-parking buildings and yards.....installing barrier gates. I replaced all the parking equipment at Auckland Int Airport back in 2002.....with one guy helping me. The last night of programming and setup before the big opening the next day tipped me over the edge. I was sick for a week after that last 25-hour shift. Doctor called it stress.......I didn't realise stress was brown and runny.

Anyway, most of our barrier gates - the Australian styled ones had 3-inch round aluminium tubing arm with a wooden dowel about 18-inches long on the clamp end. They mostly either snapped off clean after the dowel or bent so that they needed shortening up. The Austrian Ski-Data machines like we started installing around town from around 2002 had oval-shaped aluminium arms with a particular form to them to slide the rubber buffer strip underneath along their length. These arms were held in an external mounted clamp arrangement that had purpose-built sheer bolts on the caps. If you drove into the arm they would simply break away from the barrier gate, and not cause damage. Refitting the arm was a matter of replacing sheer bolts - made of fibre-plastic.

The articulated arms for low-roof buildings were a challenge to build - the arm itself would be an all-morning assembly affair.....internal chain and cutting precise angles on the arm sections then bolting it all together. These Ski-Data units are all over Europe and Australia as well as in New Zealand. Melbourne Australia was our nearest Service Agents - they have thousands of them in carparks.

The Login for the computer system back them was keyed to the employee - and consisted of the first two letters of your surname, then the first two of your first name, then 4-digits. Mine was LARO**** (can't remember the numbers now) - I always wanted to create a fake Staff ID for a guy called Itzak Sheldon......

chargervert said:

"Ask dingleberry if she's gonna spend the rest of the trip in the backseat"

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Deke needed the back seat so he could resume his previous hobby of ripping the scab of a tray of beers.

WileE said:

Now, before everybody gets into a tiff, think about that grappling, momentous decision that driver had to make: 1) move under that lowering arm for some slight damage to the upper truck or, 2) get blasted and destroyed by a how-many-ton train barreling along at speed. So... he chose #2.

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A rough estimate for the weight of the train - figure around 200-220 tons per locomotive and around 100 tons for each passenger car.