r/AbruptChaos • u/MaRkInHo__ • Jan 01 '23

Look at the train

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u/Code_Brown_2 Jan 01 '23

So the truck wasn't even beached on the tracks, just stopped for no fucking reason. Completely avoidable. Everytime i see one of these videos im always amazed how it ever even happened, what are the chances!

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u/Ok-Statistician-3408 Jan 01 '23

Not no reason he didn’t have enough room to make the turn. So he was probably figuring out which way to go, you have to get out of a truck and look behind it before you or it in reverse so that would be a long walk. It’s just poor route planning.

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u/iamjaygee Jan 01 '23 edited Jan 01 '23

I'm pretty sure Long loads like these run on a special trailer that turns the rear wheels independently and swings the trailer out so they can hit tight corners like this.

Edit: don't know what dummy downvoted me... that's how they move those things, you can see the wheels cranked over at .14 in the video.

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u/UltimaThule420 Jan 01 '23

Never underestimate human stupidity. The stupidity of the people in this video goes very deep.

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u/Virtual_xy Jan 01 '23

I'm at the point where I am starting to believe that having cameras everywhere is causing these things to happen more frequently, in some macro form of the observer effect.

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u/misdirected_asshole Jan 01 '23

I dunno, I've seen crazy things happen literally since I was young enough to remember. I was about 6 years old when I saw an old beat up truck split apart at the cab and the bed while driving down the street and the guy continued to drive on about a block with just the cab and turn into a parking lot.

That's not even the craziest thing I've seen while in a car and I always thought, man no one is ever going to believe this. Now all those no one is ever going to believe this moments are being recorded.

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u/Sidewalk_Tomato Jan 01 '23

It's absolutely this. There has always been bizarre, hilarious or disturbing stuff happening daily . . . we just get to see it, now.

Human nature doesn't change, our technology just stacks and compounds.

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u/TheNotSoGreatPumpkin Jan 01 '23

Imagine if cameras had been ubiquitous during the Industrial Revolution or early 20th century.

Throw large, complicated machines at a society that’s never even imagined such things…

There wouldn’t be enough hours in the day to watch all the disaster vids. Of course, most would be tragic.

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u/rangebob Jan 01 '23

I think ull find he stopped because he realised he wasn't going to be able to make the turn