I'm Stumped

[Qapla]

A few years back, I stopped to help with an accident. I was directing traffic. The road was blocked in one lane on our side of the median.

A State Trooper showed up and pulled a little in front of where I was. He left his blue light flashing and proceeded to get his reflective vest out of his car.

I tried to get an impatient man to stop while the officer came to relieve me. Instead, the man squeezed by me and hopped on tire into the median so he could also get past the police car (the police car had the door open at this time). He came real close to hitting the Trooper.

The Trooper saw him coming and closed his door (rather quickly) and stepped right in front of the mans car. The man moved further into the median and tried to get past the Trooper.

Well, the long and short of it is, the man got one ticket for failure to follow the direction of a duly appointed traffic person (me), another for failure to yield right-of-way to a police car/officer and another one for careless driving. When the man got loud about the tickets, he asked if he wanted to be arrested for attempted homicide of a police officer (after all, he almost ran the trooper over).

During this same accident, a rather large fire truck was parked in the middle of the crossover in the median (the accident was at a entrance to a hospital). When some of the people came out of the road, they insisted that the fire truck needed to move so they could turn left instead of following the direction of the officers.

Sometimes there is just no accounting for what some people do.

 

[arrow]

Hmm, I guess that movie "Idiocracy" might foretell the future at that.

 

[Ken]

In the year 1958 or 59 in Victoria Texas a crew of men were installing new cable t.v. and the steel cable had been attached to the power poles and we were attaching the coax cable to the steel cable.Several men trucks and road crossing barrier was in place a lady in newer caddy drove past men with red warning flags. around the barrier and caught the coax across the front of her car and continued down the street. The men on the poles only had enough time to lift the cable over there heads and drop or would of been yanked off the poles.
I have often wondered what this lady's husband said and the answer when she finally stopped. She took a roll of at least 500' with her.
Doesn't take old people to do dumb things.
ken

 

[ak9]

Wow a 66yo doing this tupid ... I've been injured by cable/wire strung across off road trails dirt bike riding.. fortunatly not real serious. I've had close friends really injured tho... and two killed by by decapitation, one on a motorcycle , one on snowmobile , They are so lucky that cable did not snap ...Picture Giant Weed Wacker
ak9

 

[horse7]

Wonder what they thought might happen when they attached what amounts to a giant rubber band to a stump and stretched the cable... they could probably see it stretching as tension was added... and the woman was standing near the rubber band too.

The vehicle that ran into the cable could have popped the stump and had it fly right into the driver side window, with unpleasant results for the innocent driver.

Once they get the medical bill, suddenly it will be the driver's fault if no one is cited (and found guilty), this is after all America where it is always someone else's fault!

 

[Ridgewalker]

Darwin at work?

 

[F1520]

Hmm, I guess that movie "Idiocracy" might foretell the future at that.

That's no joke, brother! If you are intelligent, have kids!

 

[CBW1999]

Methinks they would have done better with a pound of Pyrodex and a short fuse- at least they would have been standing next to each other:thumbsup:

In my many years as a medic, I saw many unbelievable things...not just the reason we were called. One day, when I was assigned to the rescue truck, we went to a car crash- into the guard rails.

These were the cable type, and the car was hung up on the real good (into the grill, front end and wheel well). The car displaced the cables several feet, but the end posts did not fail.

When the tow truck driver got there, he actually wanted to use a cutting torch on the cables to free up the car BEFORE moving it

Talk about "rubber band' situation. Although he protested, we prevented him from doing it (with the help of law enforcement). In the end, the car came off the cables rather easily, but the tow truck operator still didn't understand why we wouldn't let him do it his way. The captains reply-"Because you're a F***ing idiot- that's why" That finally shut him up.

Admittedly, we all have done something at one time or another (or frequently:confused2 that was not too bright. Unfortunately, with this stump pulling exercise, people got hurt. I thank God for all the times I was spared injury

 

[The Haymaker]

I wonder if somebody couldn't make a light, portable, speed bump to throw out across the road in these situations, just to encourage folks to slow down?
Maybe it wouldn't work, though...this guy's cable didn't even do the trick!!

BOB

It'd do no good. Anyone who has had to protect a 2" or 4" hose across the road at a fire scene knows that people have a narrow field of vision in The World of Them.