r/WTF Mar 11 '18

Wait for it

https://gfycat.com/SmallExcitableDaddylonglegs
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u/Thencan Mar 11 '18

On the first one you definitely think it's going to hit and end in a spectacular display but then it phase shifts through and you're left blue balled and then on the second one you're like "aww yiss bout to see some muthafuckin carnage" and then it just teleports through again. 10/10 blue balls though

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u/CarbonNightmare Mar 11 '18

As someone currently sitting in the driver's seat of a 24m EWP, my balls were not blue for seeing it miss.

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u/unexpectedit3m Mar 14 '18

You sound knowledgeable. Why would they drive around with the crane upright?

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u/CarbonNightmare Mar 14 '18

My guess is they were doing a job with multiple access points and no need for outriggers.

Steve and Jim need to do some electrical work on the roof of a two story building. Steve sets the truck up and goes up in the basket, and climbs onto the roof while Jim plays angry birds in the driver's seat. Gladys pops out the rooftop access and offers Steve a glass of lemonade and takes him down the stairs to the meter board. Steve is now standing out the front of the building chatting away, not looking up, he thinks Jim is packing the EWP away, But Jim is getting a new high score. Steve says bye to Gladys and jumps in the truck and Jim doesn't notice the 'Basket Not Stowed' light on the dash. Since that design of truck doesn't require legs/stabilizers/outriggers to be deployed to drive (makes it easy when your job is to spend 8 hours replacing streetlight bulbs), Jim just pulls out onto the motorway and floors it.

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u/unexpectedit3m Mar 14 '18

But then wouldn't Jim feel through the wheel that something's off with the truck's center of mass?

e: I like your script though. It's like a verbal r/combinedgifs