In the spirit of HammerheadFistpunch's 11'8" share...

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
07/12/2016 at 12:30 • Filed to: None

Don’t drive full size U-Hauls into decorative gates, kids. (Happened near where I live).

Oh yeah, and this was in February:

Gate is supposed to be all dressy and such:

DISCUSSION (29)

HammerheadFistpunch > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/12/2016 at 12:37

But its not a truck, its a moving van....yeah I’m sure its fine *crunch*

Urambo Tauro > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/12/2016 at 12:37

When clearance is posted for an archway, the measurement is taken from the lowest “corners” of the arch, right? I would hope so...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Urambo Tauro
07/12/2016 at 12:39

Probably. The Montreat Gate has never, to my knowledge, actually posted a height limit. Maybe they thought it was obviously not very high.

bltoe > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/12/2016 at 12:39

Is it an historic gate?

atrombs > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/12/2016 at 12:42

So is it just as simple as, Driver gets the bill to pay to rebuild? Or does it go through some insurance or something?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > HammerheadFistpunch
07/12/2016 at 12:43

Trufax: old-school mid-capacity schoolbuses with a rounded roof - think an old Bluebird - could fit through the gate if aimed exactly right. A friend of my dad used to drive one through the gate regularly and claimed to have never gone beyond clipped mirrors.

The bashing-things-into-the-gate has been going on longer than I’ve been alive. Many years ago when my dad was in construction, he was working in that town in a set of foundations when he heard a resounding *BOOM*. My dad: “What was that?” Smartass in other foundation: “It was the rapture - and you’re still here!”

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > bltoe
07/12/2016 at 12:43

Yes - but like the ship of Theseus it has been rebuilt many times. Mostly because of dumbasses doing exactly the above.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/12/2016 at 12:44

How stupid are some people. How do you not know how big your vehicle is?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > atrombs
07/12/2016 at 12:45

Well, this one was U-Haul-covers-everything-no-questions insurance, I think. Regardless, there are limits on negligence, so it’s probably U-Haul’s insurance paying, then going after the Dumb Guy.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/12/2016 at 12:46

The best part can be deduced from the pictures I supplied: the truck was on the way *out*. So, they remembered to go around the gate the first time - going in - and then forgot on the way out. With a truck full of their move. :X

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/12/2016 at 12:51

I just noticed the “no trucks” sign. But..... but.... How can someone be that dumb?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/12/2016 at 12:54

I see people in Civics and Fits and things slowing down to under 15 to go through because the openings are a little narrow and the gate looks scary. That’s a reaction I can sympathize with, if not endorse. I’M IN A TRUCK YOLO is a completely different thing.

Takuro Spirit > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/12/2016 at 12:55

Me thinks they can barely drive a car, and U-Haul doesn’t issue IQ tests when they rent out their “as big as the dumb American laws will allow without needing special training” trucks.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Takuro Spirit
07/12/2016 at 13:03

I used to work summers at the place that serves U-Haul to this immediate area - I’m good friends with my old boss, but I haven’t yet asked him what the guy or gal was like. I’m positive he had to yard the truck until Asheville sent it for repairs, and nearly certain he had to rent it in the first place.

Berang > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/12/2016 at 13:04

There wasn’t even the slightest chance a human with at least a somewhat functioning brain thought that truck was going to fit through there. Like even babies can figure stuff like this out.

Kinja'd!!!

The driver was even too stupid to be a baby?

xyzabc > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/12/2016 at 13:07

Kinja'd!!!

facw > Takuro Spirit
07/12/2016 at 13:08

Come on they could rent bigger. They just need to start renting class A RVs with an (easily ignored) reminder not to load more 1000lbs so you stay under the weight limit.

Meatcoma > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/12/2016 at 13:15

You see. The sign said ‘No Trucks’ and that there is a ‘UHaul’ so therefore... I’m sure that is exactly what went through the idiot drivers head...

and 100 more > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
07/12/2016 at 13:25

Drive a car thru the same gate twice a day, five days a week, then some on weekends, for 20-odd years, and one day switch to a box truck and try not to follow the same habits.

It’s not “stupid”, so much as inattentive and conditioned by routine.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Berang
07/12/2016 at 13:46

11'8" is a “requires inattention” thing. Extreme inattention. Any actual attempts to take a U-Haul through the Montreat Gate, otoh, is “requires total moron”.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Meatcoma
07/12/2016 at 13:47

Quite right, perfectly sensible. It’s like a business sign that says “deliveries at back”. It has nothing to do with anything like that being a small opening and WHAT THE HELL, MAN.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > xyzabc
07/12/2016 at 14:19

I will admit to, as an adult, trying to figure out which shapes *can* mismatch. The perfect design would, in theory, not allow any mismatches, but lots of those do.

Camshaft Chris: Skyline/McLaren/Porsche Fanboy > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/12/2016 at 17:16

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I’m gonna be there in three weeks! HOW COULD SOMEONE SO STUPID DRIVE A UHAUL THROUGH THE BELOVED MONTREAT GATE?!?!?!?!?!?! So much for that wondrous welcome to vacation of driving through the gate with the windows down getting that fresh mountain air all up in the car. :’( This is depressing....

Also, you’re one of the very few people I’ve ever met that knows about Montreat! That’s awesome! Do you live there or something?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Camshaft Chris: Skyline/McLaren/Porsche Fanboy
07/12/2016 at 17:19

I’m in Black Mountain, and connections to Montreat go back a long way. My grandmother’s old 1912 house on West Virginia Terrace is still in my mom’s family. I actually drove my Land Rover in the parade on the 4th. Look me up when you roll through - I promise I’m only mostly crazy.

ranwhenparked > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/12/2016 at 21:51

My experience with shit like that happening is that it might never be fixed, what with the modern cost of masonry.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ranwhenparked
07/13/2016 at 08:59

Oh, this is getting fixed. I saw a number thrown out for repair within days of it happening, and this particular gate has been hit and damaged many times. This is just one of the worst in many years. The town has the money for it even if insurance doesn’t cover it all.

Also, the local cost of masonry isn’t too terrible. The inflated local construction cost here is gravel and concrete, but there’s a lot of stonelaying expertise at reasonable rates.

Camshaft Chris: Skyline/McLaren/Porsche Fanboy > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/13/2016 at 14:11

That’s awesome! Nice to meet an Oppo from my favorite place, lol! And my connections to Montreat go back a long way as well. My family has been going there for vacation every summer since my mom was a kid. Montreat is my happy place. I remember seeing the video of the parade posted on Facebook. I’ll have to go back and watch and check out the LR. And I’ll definitely hit you up if we have some free time. Chances are the kids are gonna keep me pretty busy though. My daughter (who’s 3) has already announced she’s going to climb Lookout with me this year...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Camshaft Chris: Skyline/McLaren/Porsche Fanboy
07/13/2016 at 14:50

I was driving the blue one - my cousin was driving a green one, which I guided him to restore. Even if you just want to have coffee or something - there’s Dynamite Roasting Co. and The Dripolator in town, so possibilities...

derf > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/13/2016 at 15:25

There was a truck that got hung up in a bridge tollgate near me a couple weeks back. Drove straight into one of the car-sized gates which are right next to the taller ones expressly for trucks, busses and the like.