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people would stop driving their car when the brake failed, but not this
Fred Flintstone-wanna be: he tried to use his feet instead.
Roseville Police arrested a 24-year-old man Wednesday who tried to use his feet to brake his moving car and failed, hitting four cars along the way.
The Fred Flintstone wannabe, a roofer from Warren, was driving on a suspended license and was cited for Reckless Driving in the incident, in which police said he was completely sober, just “overly tired.”
He “will face a judge in September, to explain his moronic decision making,” said Deputy Chief James Berlin in a statement.
The next time you feel the urge to imitate a Stone Age cartoon, here's an advice: Yabba dabba don't. Link - via The Obscure Store
Previously on Neatorama: 10 Neat Facts About The Flintstones (on their 50th anniversary)
Usually, car crashes are bad for one’s health – but as you can see in this peculiar case, the crash itself was a lifesaver for a Pennsylvania trucker:
Richard M. Paylor, 55, Fairless Hills, Bucks County, told city police he was driving the rig west about 9 when he started to choke on a piece of apple and blacked out, investigators said. The next thing he knew, his truck had smashed through the concrete barrier near Lancaster Avenue, he told police.
"This accident saved his life," police Lt. Madison Winchester said. "Witnesses said that he was slumped over the wheel before the truck crashed. It appears that the apple chunk was dislodged when he hit the concrete barrier and his body hit the steering wheel."
Jason A. Kahl of Reading Eagle has the full story: Link
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There’s a railroad trestle over Gregson Street in Durham, North Carolina that has a clearance of only 11 feet, 8 inches. Truck drivers have been crashing into it since as early as 1956. The above video shows 13 crashes taking place there over a 13 month period, but the link is to a site chronicling even more crashes at the site over more than 50 years.
Link via The Presurfer
A man who wanted to renew his driver’s license crashed into the Department of Licensing office in Spokane Valley, Washington on July 1:
The crash happened around 1:00 p.m. Authorities say the driver was arriving at the DOL to renew his license. While pulling into a parking spot his foot slipped off the brake and onto the gas. Authorities say that’s when the driver jumped the curb and went about 3/4 of the way through the building.
Link via Lowering the Bar | Photo: KREM
According
to a survey of accident claims by Churchill Car Insurance, computers aren't
the only thing computer programmers engineers like to crash - they are also likely
to crash their cars ...
Here are the 10 "most likely to crash" occupations:
1. Computer engineer
2. Sales manager
3. Chef
4. Student
5. Doctor
6. Estate agent
7. Surveyor
8. Customer adviser
9. Hairdresser
10. Social workerIn contrast, farmers had the best road safety records based on claims made, followed by aircraft fitters, stores personnel and ambulance drivers.
That reminded me of the classic programmer joke ... from Stack Overflow:
A physicist, an engineer and a programmer were in a car driving over a steep alpine pass when the brakes failed. The car was getting faster and faster, they were struggling to get round the corners and once or twice only the feeble crash barrier saved them from crashing down the side of the mountain. They were sure they were all going to die, when suddenly they spotted an escape lane. They pulled into the escape lane, and came safely to a halt.
The physicist said "We need to model the friction in the brake pads and the resultant temperature rise, see if we can work out why they failed".
The engineer said "I think I've got a few spanners in the back. I'll take a look and see if I can work out what's wrong".
The programmer said "Why don't we get going again and see if it's reproducible?"
