Stopped to remove this bad boy from the middle of the road.

"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem) 05/03/2018 at 09:48 • Filed to: None

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Hitting that’d ruin your morning.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 05/03/2018 at 10:10

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Looks like it wound up the exact right brick-like heft to exert an almost supernatural need to chuck it at something.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/03/2018 at 10:25

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Yeah it was difficult to resist but I placed it gently into the trash when I stopped again to get coffee. 

bob and john > CalzoneGolem 05/03/2018 at 10:33

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jesus fuck the HELL is that?!

Wheelerguy > CalzoneGolem 05/03/2018 at 10:39

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Morbid reminder for me of that traffic accident involving a brick.

CalzoneGolem > bob and john 05/03/2018 at 10:50

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It’s a large metal rectangular bracket with a spike on it

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > bob and john 05/03/2018 at 10:53

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My operating guess is that it’s a piece of a utility trailer. It’s very similar to how channel usually gets cut and drilled for a taillight bracket, though why the upper end has both a rotted bolt *and* signs of welding is a puzzler. At least, I think it’s signs of welding and not just many layers of paint.

It’s a really generic lump. There are also dump beds that have a piece like that serving bracket duty one way or another, and sometimes stake beds use channel as a half-sided stake pocket.

Still, my operating guess of “taillight bracket” is probably it, since whatever was bolted to it was fragile enough for the bolt to rip through or disintegrate around the bolt, and to be held on with an ungraded bolt in the first place. The rust on the bolt toward the top of the picture is consistent with being mounted *down*, particularly through wood, so the end toward the bottom of the picture would have been up, to raise the light above the bed.

Chariotoflove > bob and john 05/03/2018 at 10:53

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Urambo Tauro > CalzoneGolem 05/03/2018 at 10:57

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Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need right now .

CalzoneGolem > Urambo Tauro 05/03/2018 at 11:01

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You’re welcome fellow road user!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 05/03/2018 at 11:08

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Talking of things that would ruin a morning, a couple that we knew through somebody was once stopping by at my grandmother’s, and on the cusp of their departure, they asked my dad if he could look at their car - because something had come up off the road and hit them, and now their lights weren’t working.

Well, there was more than that - one of their front lights had been smashed, and there was a little damage to the fender, but oddly enough the fender liner wasn’t hanging right. So, my dad starts poking around, and what does he find?

Still in the fender, one of these. A shipping container lock - a fifteen pound lump of ductile iron used to lock shipping containers together. Apparently one was left on top of a container, fell off in transit, and cannonballed off the asphalt straight into the signal on the car, somehow buttonholing itself through what seemed to be a smaller hole and wedging in the fender liner. It hit so hard that there was nothing left of the signal, and the distortion to the fender was almost zero.

Now imagine what would’ve happened if it were six or eight inches higher.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > CalzoneGolem 05/03/2018 at 11:09

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I saw a hammer laying on the highway the other day, on a lane marker between to lanes, I saw it too late to stop and pick it up. I still feel bad.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/03/2018 at 11:11

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Yikes!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 05/03/2018 at 11:14

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They had been, up until that point, unaware that they’d nearly died. “Just a broken light, right? No big deal.” I had a near miss myself a while back with an airborne road gator that clipped the a-pillar of what I was driving lightly, breaking the (plastic) gutter trim.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/03/2018 at 11:15

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Road gators are nasty!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 05/03/2018 at 11:18

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This one was probably two feet long, and pretty heavy.

CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/03/2018 at 11:19

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And it was hangry!

Censored > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/03/2018 at 11:28

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My wife had a 3/4" Shackle come through her grill and kiss the lower lip of her hood, it stopped about 1mm short of smashing the radiator. I had the exact same thought that had it been 1" higher, it would have smashed the windshield right in line with her face. I’m not sure a windshield would stop a 3-4lb shackle.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Censored 05/03/2018 at 11:34

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Probably would have stopped it, but only because of the plastic safety layer, and it would have dented in and been almost instantly impossible to see through. The container lock, I think, would have smashed the windshield enough in a best case that questions of penetration or not would have been academic. If a 4"x5"x5" iron cannonball *only* turns your windshield into a catcher’s mitt a couple of inches from your face and throws glass shards at you, “stopped” is a matter of opinion.

Censored > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/03/2018 at 11:38

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Yep, I can’t imagine what that container lock sounded like. I was mad at my wife, because she had no clue it happened. I noticed her grill had a hole in it and had to ask her about it. I’m guessing there was no mistaking that that container lock came through the car.

deekster_caddy > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/03/2018 at 12:26

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I want to hear more about “airborne road gators”!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > deekster_caddy 05/03/2018 at 12:30

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I think the colloquial term “road gator” is self-explanatory given a little reflection on the appearance thereof. One of these, with a little belt attached, flipped up by a vehicle ahead into the air.

deekster_caddy > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/03/2018 at 12:34

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Oh yeah. Not so many of those around here, but I recall seeing them everywhere in the south. Never heard their name before, but now that I see them together it makes sense.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > CalzoneGolem 05/03/2018 at 12:41

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CalzoneGolem > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/03/2018 at 12:46

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Yeah exactly!

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > CalzoneGolem 05/03/2018 at 12:56

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Toto Wolff is funny, it’s like something started eating his brain.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > deekster_caddy 05/03/2018 at 13:10

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but I recall seeing them everywhere in the south

Long stretches of road, high temps, cheap retreads, and a lot of truck-miles; a recipe for summertime fun.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/04/2018 at 00:44

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I had never heard that expression before. It totally makes sense, though!