Good driving

[TimoS]

How on earth can anyone manage this ? Or is this picture manipulated ?

 

[Tgace]

Not manipulated...car drove up over the curb at a high rate of speed, struck a guide wire that secured the pole to the ground, traveled up the guide wire and onto the lines.

 

[OUMoose]

I vote fake. IMO, I don't think those 3 wires could hold that much weight, since they get taken out by tree branches a fraction the size of a car. TGace's explanation seems valid enough, but the end result is a little far fetched.

 

[Tgace]

I saw the photo and story on my local news so Im inclined to believe it.

Its here too....with more photos.

http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?sectionId=45&id=32289http://www.freeaccidentinfo.com/category,Accident-Articles,0,0.html

 

[dubljay]

And this person was licensed to drive?!

 

[Deuce]

That's just crazy!:erg:

 

[TimoS]

The driver must have been in a hurry, because

Witnesses also reported that the driver jumped down from the vehicle and ran to catch a bus

 

[Tgace]

Suprised it wasnt stolen...

 

[TimoS]

Suprised it wasnt stolen...

I can just imagine the conversation between a car thief and his friend:

- Hey, nice car, where'd you find it
- Well, it was just hanging there on telephone wires
- Yeah, right!
- It's true

 

[Tgace]

I mean Im surprised that the car wasnt stolen BEFORE it wound up on the wires....silly.

 

[dubljay]

How excatly would you explain such a thing to an insurance company?

 

[Rich Parsons]

I vote fake. IMO, I don't think those 3 wires could hold that much weight, since they get taken out by tree branches a fraction the size of a car. TGace's explanation seems valid enough, but the end result is a little far fetched.

Actually those wires and the lower guide wire in particular as designed to have one of the crane trucks with the person box on it to lean against and still hold its' weight. Now this is theory, and could be true when installed. Yet as my friend who works int eh cable business told me this, he also told me, a guideline fell from a person's weight and a ladder. So, like I said in theory it should hold the wieght.

 

[Tgace]

Trust me...its real...

 

[dubljay]

Trust me...its real...

I guess this would definately not be the average day at the "office" for the fire crew and power company repair crew.

I can just imagine the police report for that one as well.

 

[Rick Wade]

And this is way I don't want to teach my daughter how to drive.


V/R

Rick