This and That

[konakathy]

Absolutely beautiful photography of a Mongolian tribe ... that doesn't seem to be lost at all. They seem to living life in all its splendor.

Make sure you click on all the pages and watch the videos.

A Photographer Visited A Lost Mongolian Tribe. These Photos Are Stunning

 

[James48843]

Video of a Limo getting stuck on a train track in Indiana this week, and the train not stopping in time-

Luckily all the people got out before the train got there.

But ouch- that much have hurt.

[video=youtube;Ss8RdZLPCvs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=73&v=Ss8RdZLPCvs[/video]

 

[FogSailing]

Doesn't appear to be a crossing...I'm guessing double dare you gone wrong..

FS

 

[James48843]

Doesn't appear to be a crossing...I'm guessing double dare you gone wrong..

FS

Ah, yes, it is at a crossing. Look at the crossing gate at 0:27-:29 seconds.


The still photo above isn't where the crash started- it's at where the crash ended.


Here is where the crash started:

 

[FogSailing]

Hi James. I think I need new glasses...That is an OUCH!! How in the world did that car get stuck?

FS

 

[userque]

Hi James. I think I need new glasses...That is an OUCH!! How in the world did that car get stuck?

FS

Only thing I can think of is that the tracks are at an elevation higher than road ahead causing the chassis (or some part below the chassis) to contact the elevated road/tracks--stopping the possibly slow moving vehicle.

But what impressed me was how well the limo took the hit!

 

[burrocrat]

Only thing I can think of is that the tracks are at an elevation higher than road ahead causing the chassis (or some part below the chassis) to contact the elevated road/tracks--stopping the possibly slow moving vehicle.

But what impressed me was how well the limo took the hit!

two things are wrong with this scenario.

1st, why didn't everybody get out and sit on the hood and bounce to put more weight and traction to the drive wheels? (c'mon don't laugh, like you've never sat on the hood of a limo and got bounced).

and 2nd, everybody knows it is never going to work out well when you cross the tracks to get married.

 

[alevin]

High-centering is never a pleasant experience, been there, done that, lived to tell about it. experience never repeated, lesson learned. It could have turned out differently for me too. there's a reason early-adult drivers have higher insurance rates-lack of enough experience to know when to stop when you're ahead and don't try to make it those last several feet that put you in the danger zone. I could have totaled my work rig and me in my little one-person episode out in the middle of nowhere a long way off a gravel road.

it was a tense half hour backing down a deadend hilltop dirt road with the inside wheels in the outside wheeltracks, scootching on the oil pan cover plate on soft dirt under snow on the outside birm (ended up there when I didn't cut my wheels hard enough trying to make the y-turn to turn back downhill, steep inside bank limited my turning radius). There was a small tree down the hill about 15 feet that might have caught the rig if it had gone over the side. prolly not. Yeah, those were the young adventure-filled years early career. Now I'm deskbound most of the time, I grin ear to ear these days when I get to spend a day out with several other people in the rig, no more solo work adventures, not really. the young years make the best stories if a person lives to remember and tell about them later. some you had to have been there to really understand the rush of adrenaline of finding oneself in a predicament with no one else around to bail you out but your own self and a little luck or an angel somewhere out of sight, maybe both.

 

[alevin]

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