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God bless Texas-----------------------
Old 300
I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
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That would qualify for a Darwin Award, but somebody able to afford a rig like that has probably already passed the stupid gene along at least a few times!
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Yes he did live but he will never live it down. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/truck-bank-drive-through/At approximately 3 PM, Tuesday, July 2, a 2008 Dodge Ram 2500 pulling a new travel trailer, hit the corner of the Texas State Bank Drive-In on Tenaha Street, causing the complete awning to come to the ground. Luckily, the driver of the Dodge, Mickey Miller of Garrison, and his 10-year-old son were able to exit their vehicle uninjured. According to Miller he was circling the bank to park on the other side when the corner of his travel trailer caught the corner of the bank awning. Next thing he heard was a rumble as the awning started falling against his driver’s side door. Somehow he was able to unbuckle the seat beat and exit the other side of his truck as it was falling. Mark Ivy of Texas State Bank stated that the main lobby would be open for business while the drive-in is being repaired. [video:youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=lVIDddPQdEs[/video]
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Lotta people drive or haul big stuff tend to forget about overhead clearance. You Tubes full of idiots in rental trucks and some professionals who have momentary lapses. If you're driving, you should be paying attention to everything.
Just the same though, you think that a fuel station canopy would have pealed that camper open like it was nothing. Wonder if there wasn't something messed up that should have been checked.
7mm
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Yeah.....tough old camper.....or flimsy old canopy?
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Extra style points for the RV being branded EVEREST.
$$$ TRUMP AT THE PUMP 2024 $$$
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Definitely no rebar in that support pillar.
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They're very lucky. Looks like that awning crushed the truck all the way to the ground
if a man speaks, and there isn't a woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
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Definitely no rebar in that support pillar. No kidding ! Pillar shattered like it was made of glass !
if a man speaks, and there isn't a woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
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Guy was lucky he was just driving a Dodge Ram.
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Definitely no rebar in that support pillar. No kidding ! Pillar shattered like it was made of glass ! RV owner prob'ly did them a favor, that pillar came down so easily it might have happened if someone in a regular car had merely bumped the pillar.
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must be a bank drive thru thing, we had that happen here about 4 yrs ago. car hit it.
God bless Texas-----------------------
Old 300
I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
Roger V Hunter
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Yeah.....tough old camper.....or flimsy old canopy?
One of my guys had to take a crap and the renovation we were on didn't have a porta john. Jumped in my box truck which was parked parallel to an old cinder block garage. Cut too sharp, the box caught the eave and ripped the garage in half. Horizontally along a mortar joint.
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We have a historical covered bridge on our county that idiots like this were constantly damaging by driving over hight veichles through it. The county cemented huge columns on the sides and a beam across the top of each entrance with the beams 6" higher than posted height. Now the idiots plow into the beams and the covered bridge is spared.
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RV owner prob'ly did them a favor,
I don't know if he did them a favor, but he bought them a new canopy.
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I REALLY hate to admit it, but several years ago I bumped a canopy pretty hard with a piece of equipment I had on a gooseneck. The only thing that prevented the collapse was the canopy’s construction and the fact I might have been going 5 mph.
It did a number on the piece I was hauling. I still get a little ribbing about it from time to time to this day. The dents are still in the concrete.
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Definitely no rebar in that support pillar. that pillar was most likely steel not concrete but I can go look again. I"ve not seen a concrete one in years.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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That should end up in a Farmer's Insurance commercial.
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