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Watch: Moment wood board smashes car's windscreen

Dashcam footage shows the moment a wood board flies out of a pickup and smashes into a car's windscreen.

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Bruce

 

[WinterDeere]

Watch: Moment wood board smashes car's windscreen

Dashcam footage shows the moment a wood board flies out of a pickup and smashes into a car's windscreen.

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Bruce

If the person who edited that video hadn't pointed out that the man standing next to the truck was trying to "stop the flying board", I'd have assumed he threw it across the median at the oncoming car. Must have been a windy day!

 

[QRTRHRS]

I used to work part of every year in Germany, back in the 1990's, when their high speed rail system was still the latest and greatest thing going. Trouble was, being a country of old villages and older roads, they just had these 350 km/hr (220 mph) trains running right thru villages and through back yards.

I remember being in the parking lot of a friend's apartment building, and the high speed rail tracks ran right along the back edge of the parking lot. By the time you even heard anything coming, half the train had passed. Like a giant 500 ton supersonic jet skidding along the ground, it was downright terrifying to be within 40 feet of the thing, as it whizzed past.

Parents used to always scold kids to stay off the tracks when I was a kid, but our trains move so slow through towns that you could probably out jog them. These Euro trains were so fast, and so silent in their arrival, that I suspect they must need to take much more care in crossing the tracks there.

I was in Germany while in the Army in 70-72. When we went to the field, we loaded up our guns and other tracked support vehicles onto flat cars with just a few passenger cars for the drivers and a few support personnel. (The majority came via 2 1/2) We went so far with overhead electric then switched to steam locomotive. The engine's whistle sounded like you were in WWII. Having around 30 tracked vehicles made it seem more so.

Our guns were wider than the flatcars. The German engineers were serious about loading. The wanted us within like 1/4" of center.

 

[bigtiller]

I was in Germany while in the Army in 70-72. When we went to the field, we loaded up our guns and other tracked support vehicles onto flat cars with just a few passenger cars for the drivers and a few support personnel. (The majority came via 2 1/2) We went so far with overhead electric then switched to steam locomotive. The engine's whistle sounded like you were in WWII. Having around 30 tracked vehicles made it seem more so.

Our guns were wider than the flatcars. The German engineers were serious about loading. The wanted us within like 1/4" of center.

I was working in the shipping department during a time when the Iowa national guard was shipping several big tanks overseas to one of the sandpits.

Something you don't see everyday, is a dozen tanks driving down the warehouse isle to get tied down onto railroad cars....The flatbed train cars were level with the warehouse floor. The company loaded cotton pickers and sprayers onto rail cars several months of the year.

 

[goeduck]

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I was following something similar except they were 1x6 fence boards. They were flying every which direction.

 

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Driver not tied down properly.

Bruce

so fake

 

[steve tym]

so fake

Yeah, there are a lot of stupid video's about that TRX.

 

[Code54]

Computer generated

 

[bmaverick]

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Yep, this is somewhat common in my area. So many people now have SUVs and tie the thin plywood sheets to the roof racks. Bad enough we have a windy part of the country too.