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[Bad News Gone Right]: 2019 - We Are All Filthy Animals, Apparently

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  • knitdanknitdan Registered User regular
    Hydraulic bollards mounted in the roadway that deploy automatically if an oversized vehicle is detected

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  • Gnome-InterruptusGnome-Interruptus Registered User regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    Hydraulic bollards mounted in the roadway that deploy automatically if an oversized vehicle is detected

    Not a bad idea, just have some measured chains hanging overhead one intersection back on any roads feeding towards the bridge. Let the clanging wake up the drivers that aren’t paying attention to the signs.

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  • MvrckMvrck Dwarven MountainhomeRegistered User regular
    knitdan wrote: »
    Hydraulic bollards mounted in the roadway that deploy automatically if an oversized vehicle is detected

    Not a bad idea, just have some measured chains hanging overhead one intersection back on any roads feeding towards the bridge. Let the clanging wake up the drivers that aren’t paying attention to the signs.

    If it's the same bridge, apparently there is a hanging bar dong just that, farther up the road. The people that hit that bridge are either brain dead or destined to.

  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    Let's ask the Faq. Again, which covers a bunch of these questions.
    Could they install a low-clearance bar?
    A low clearance bar is a bar suspended by chains ahead of the bridge. Overheight vehicles hit that bar first and the noise alerts the driver to to the problem. I understand that this approach has been successful in other places, but it’s not practical here. There are many overheight trucks that have to be able to drive right up to the bridge and turn onto Peabody St. in order to deliver supplies to several restaurants. Making Peabody St inaccessible from Gregson St would make the restaurant owners and the delivery drivers very unhappy.

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    so perhaps address the problem before someone eventually gets hurt

    but that's not how shit like this gets fixed unfortunately, usually someone needs to get seriously maimed before local government steps up

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    Still seems like a sweet half pipe jump is the best bet.

    OOO or what about move the clearance bar a bit forward, and if anyone hits it , the spring releases on the giant square just before the bridge and launches the truck over.

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  • SmokeStacksSmokeStacks Registered User regular
    I like how people who don't even live in the area are demanding things because of some potential future injury or property damage.

    It's pretty easy to play armchair city government when it's not your own tax dollars on the line.

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    We have a bridge like that where I live and I make similar demands constantly.

    News story:

    http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/at_least_two_dead_possibly_mor.html

    No one wants to fix it still.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    The only defense where I live is "sometimes this road floods and maybe someone's car will get stuck there" There isn't even anything under that road.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • discriderdiscrider Registered User regular
    edited January 2018
    Just have a train that pulls up every time an overheight vehicle is approaching, that has a giant cartoon hammer attached to it.

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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    Just install a blue portal on one side of the bridge and a red portal on the other side.

    Problem solved.

  • UreshiiAkumaUreshiiAkuma Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    The only defense where I live is "sometimes this road floods and maybe someone's car will get stuck there" There isn't even anything under that road.

    Isn't the issue more that it is next to Onondaga Lake? So they are probably limited in how far they can dig down. But I agree, I'm surprised they didn't do more than just add new signs after that bus crash...

  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    I like how people who don't even live in the area are demanding things because of some potential future injury or property damage.

    It's pretty easy to play armchair city government when it's not your own tax dollars on the line.

    Don't know how big the town is, but sometimes the projects that would be required to fix something like that can consume the entire budget of the town for a year or more.

    I went to college in a town of like 20k, and they had to shut down a bridge on a road that ran down the east side of town past the park and baseball fields, that was also one of the most direct ways to get to the college from my house.

    The bridge had had some subsidence problems, and they thought they'd fixed it, but it came back again, and after an assessment determined that it would be basically impossible to make it safe again for an amount of money the town could afford. That was like 9 years ago, so possibly they've saved enough to manage it now, but man the first couple of times that I found out and then subsequently forgot it was closed were frustrating. It was a mostly dirt road that was a mile long with the bridge about 3/4 of the way down and literally no exit except at the ends.

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    The only defense where I live is "sometimes this road floods and maybe someone's car will get stuck there" There isn't even anything under that road.

    Isn't the issue more that it is next to Onondaga Lake? So they are probably limited in how far they can dig down. But I agree, I'm surprised they didn't do more than just add new signs after that bus crash...

    It's far enough away from the lake that it shouldn't be an issue for most of the season.

    Still, a little flooding is nothing compared to people dying every few years.

    Honestly they'd be better off just lowering the track and building the road over it instead.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • Ark EvensongArk Evensong The NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    I wonder if lowering the clearance further by a couple of feet would work? All trucks get to take the detour.

    Might just shift the problem to tall vans. Not sure if there's a sweet spot.

  • L Ron HowardL Ron Howard The duck MinnesotaRegistered User regular
    Install ED-209s. Problem. Solved.



    Mostly.

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Install a toll booth

    Oh look, all those trucks now have to pay a dollar and incidentally sir, you can’t come through here the bridge is too low, please go the other way, that’s two dollars to turn around

    Then fix everything once you’ve got enough tolls

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  • MvrckMvrck Dwarven MountainhomeRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Honestly they'd be better off just lowering the track and building the road over it instead.

    Trains really, really hate changing elevation.

  • Mr FuzzbuttMr Fuzzbutt Registered User regular
    Mvrck wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Honestly they'd be better off just lowering the track and building the road over it instead.

    Trains really, really hate changing elevation.

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Mvrck wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Honestly they'd be better off just lowering the track and building the road over it instead.

    Trains really, really hate changing elevation.

    In the case of the bridge by me, it's ground level and they elevate it over the parkway.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Central OhioRegistered User regular
    Mvrck wrote: »
    bowen wrote: »
    Honestly they'd be better off just lowering the track and building the road over it instead.

    Trains really, really hate changing elevation.

    Lookit these fuckin high and mighty trains, too important to be asked to go uphill. Eventually you get to come back down, you worthless bums!

    First it was the fucking trains, then it was participation trophies and now we got fuckin millennials all feeling entitled to "make a difference!"

    I gotta go eat a bologna sandwich to calm down now- mustard the only condiment I need! That and an honest days work...

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  • DirtmuncherDirtmuncher Registered User regular
    I wonder if lowering the clearance further by a couple of feet would work? All trucks get to take the detour.

    Might just shift the problem to tall vans. Not sure if there's a sweet spot.

    The road should be posted between Main St. and the bridge. Drop it down to something ridiculous, like a 3 ton limit, and add a local delivery exemption to the sign. Some drivers may not be sure how tall their truck is (especially if it is a rental), and most height restriction signs are just a block of text, so they don't stand out. Red prohibition signs tend to be harder to miss.

    Just drop the height down to 2 meters (I don't know what that is in medieval units), that way only cars can pass.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
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    If so, the perfect job just opened up.

    Janet, a classified airline that runs commuter flights to some of the most secretive and closely guarded government facilities in the U.S., appears to be hiring a flight attendant. The job posting appeared recently on the website for AECOM, which operates a small fleet of aircraft out of a discreet but heavily guarded terminal at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

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  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    edited January 2018
    From the "Can't Make This Shit Up, Not Enough Drugs" desk, Vegas strip clubs bring in robot strippers for CES:
    Pale white robot strippers with CCTV cameras for heads gyrated around poles to Justin Timberlake at a Consumer Electronics Show-related party at a Las Vegas strip club on Monday night.

    The robots were flown in from London for the occasion and will be performing at the club all week in honor of CES, and Sapphire Las Vegas strip club Managing Partner Peter Feinstein said it’s all in a bid to attract more women.

    “We were looking for something creative to do during CES that would sort of match what was happening in town,” he said.

    I...don't know what to say.

    Edit: Other than the article is potentially NSFW. Or brain.

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  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    That picture... It's like the art team from Silent Hill reinvented the Geth.

  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    Hevach wrote: »
    That picture... It's like the art team from Silent Hill reinvented the Geth.

    It...just goes downhill from there.

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  • I ZimbraI Zimbra Worst song, played on ugliest guitar Registered User regular
    From the "Can't Make This Shit Up, Not Enough Drugs" desk, Vegas strip clubs bring in robot strippers for CES:
    Pale white robot strippers with CCTV cameras for heads gyrated around poles to Justin Timberlake at a Consumer Electronics Show-related party at a Las Vegas strip club on Monday night.

    The robots were flown in from London for the occasion and will be performing at the club all week in honor of CES, and Sapphire Las Vegas strip club Managing Partner Peter Feinstein said it’s all in a bid to attract more women.

    “We were looking for something creative to do during CES that would sort of match what was happening in town,” he said.

    I...don't know what to say.

    Edit: Other than the article is potentially NSFW. Or brain.

    They even had a competition between human and robot strippers, which is the most fucked up version of John Henry I've ever heard.

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    I Zimbra wrote: »
    From the "Can't Make This Shit Up, Not Enough Drugs" desk, Vegas strip clubs bring in robot strippers for CES:
    Pale white robot strippers with CCTV cameras for heads gyrated around poles to Justin Timberlake at a Consumer Electronics Show-related party at a Las Vegas strip club on Monday night.

    The robots were flown in from London for the occasion and will be performing at the club all week in honor of CES, and Sapphire Las Vegas strip club Managing Partner Peter Feinstein said it’s all in a bid to attract more women.

    “We were looking for something creative to do during CES that would sort of match what was happening in town,” he said.

    I...don't know what to say.

    Edit: Other than the article is potentially NSFW. Or brain.

    They even had a competition between human and robot strippers, which is the most fucked up version of John Henry I've ever heard.

    I'll die with my tassels on my nips
    (Lord, Lord)
    I'll die with my tassels on my nips

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • Kristmas KthulhuKristmas Kthulhu Currently Kultist Kthulhu Registered User regular
    I Zimbra wrote: »
    From the "Can't Make This Shit Up, Not Enough Drugs" desk, Vegas strip clubs bring in robot strippers for CES:
    Pale white robot strippers with CCTV cameras for heads gyrated around poles to Justin Timberlake at a Consumer Electronics Show-related party at a Las Vegas strip club on Monday night.

    The robots were flown in from London for the occasion and will be performing at the club all week in honor of CES, and Sapphire Las Vegas strip club Managing Partner Peter Feinstein said it’s all in a bid to attract more women.

    “We were looking for something creative to do during CES that would sort of match what was happening in town,” he said.

    I...don't know what to say.

    Edit: Other than the article is potentially NSFW. Or brain.

    They even had a competition between human and robot strippers, which is the most fucked up version of John Henry I've ever heard.

    And the men thought it was funny to throw singles at the robots to spite the women dancers. Which has got to be the most fucked up part of the article.

    To be fair to the designer, the robots were initially created as satire.

  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    I Zimbra wrote: »
    From the "Can't Make This Shit Up, Not Enough Drugs" desk, Vegas strip clubs bring in robot strippers for CES:
    Pale white robot strippers with CCTV cameras for heads gyrated around poles to Justin Timberlake at a Consumer Electronics Show-related party at a Las Vegas strip club on Monday night.

    The robots were flown in from London for the occasion and will be performing at the club all week in honor of CES, and Sapphire Las Vegas strip club Managing Partner Peter Feinstein said it’s all in a bid to attract more women.

    “We were looking for something creative to do during CES that would sort of match what was happening in town,” he said.

    I...don't know what to say.

    Edit: Other than the article is potentially NSFW. Or brain.

    They even had a competition between human and robot strippers, which is the most fucked up version of John Henry I've ever heard.

    And the men thought it was funny to throw singles at the robots to spite the women dancers. Which has got to be the most fucked up part of the article.

    To be fair to the designer, the robots were initially created as satire.

    To be truly fair to the designer, he okayed this. As someone else pointed out, it's not surprising that a man who is concerned about the government's gaze has never once thought about the impact of the male gaze.

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  • ArbitraryDescriptorArbitraryDescriptor Registered User regular
    edited January 2018
    Crossposting from the unrelenting misery of the WI thread:
    I Zimbra wrote: »
    *breaks into the zoo to hug the giraffes*

    Heh, a woman actually did this in Madison a couple of years back and got kicked in the face for her troubles. A story I fondly remember because of the woman's amazing obliviousness:
    “I was not trying to harm the giraffe. I just don’t think it’s fair,” Hall said of the citation. “I got hit in the face by a giraffe. I had to deal with all that. That was a lot of pain to deal with already. I don’t need a fine and this on my record. I don’t ‘harass’ zoo animals. I’m an animal lover.”

    Gone right: Giraffe got a hug?

    "So I had to deal with all that" is a pretty hilarious way to refer to getting kicked in the face by 2,000lbs of giraffe.

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  • NightDragonNightDragon 6th Grade Username Registered User regular
    The robots were flown in from London for the occasion and will be performing at the club all week in honor of CES, and Sapphire Las Vegas strip club Managing Partner Peter Feinstein said it’s all in a bid to attract more women.

    I have no idea what planet you have to be from to think this will do anything to attract more women, are you fucking serious brah

  • Kane Red RobeKane Red Robe Master of Magic ArcanusRegistered User regular
    The robots were flown in from London for the occasion and will be performing at the club all week in honor of CES, and Sapphire Las Vegas strip club Managing Partner Peter Feinstein said it’s all in a bid to attract more women.

    I have no idea what planet you have to be from to think this will do anything to attract more women, are you fucking serious brah

    "It's really a shame there's nothing we can bring in to get women into our club." The club owner said, wearing a Magic Mike XXL promotional t-shirt.

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited January 2018
    Do strip clubs typically have both male and female dancers in the same location?

    Seems like if your goal was to attract more women to your strip club, you might also want to include male dancers in your lineup as well.

    But you know whatever, install some robot strippers, that'll get 'em.

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    You see, women are essentially ducks

    You gotta throw a few decoys out there to attract the flock

    *Doesn't know anything about women

    **Or ducks

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • kaidkaid Registered User regular
    Crossposting from the unrelenting misery of the WI thread:
    I Zimbra wrote: »
    *breaks into the zoo to hug the giraffes*

    Heh, a woman actually did this in Madison a couple of years back and got kicked in the face for her troubles. A story I fondly remember because of the woman's amazing obliviousness:
    “I was not trying to harm the giraffe. I just don’t think it’s fair,” Hall said of the citation. “I got hit in the face by a giraffe. I had to deal with all that. That was a lot of pain to deal with already. I don’t need a fine and this on my record. I don’t ‘harass’ zoo animals. I’m an animal lover.”

    Gone right: Giraffe got a hug?

    "So I had to deal with all that" is a pretty hilarious way to refer to getting kicked in the face by 2,000lbs of giraffe.

    The fact she was able to walk away from it kinda indicates that the giraffe while annoyed did not really try to harm her. Had the giraffe really been striking full power it is unlikely she would have woken up again after a kick to the head.

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