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Anonymous
God damn.
>> Anonymous
He survived
>> Anonymous
>>1271139

Spoilsport!
>> Anonymous
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Morlike the macro fails
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIPjongO8Fs
>> sage
stupid americans fail
>> Anonymous
Holy fucking shit, how did he live through that?
>> Anonymous
no way that fuck survived
>> Anonymous
i fapped to this twice
>> Anonymous
>>1271372
You can see them bailing out the passenger door right as the roof falls.

Also looks like the roof doesn't crush the truck, as much as rip the doors off, if they had been a yard closer to the camera, they would have died.
>> Anonymous
>>1271383
Yeah, it looks like he is just hitting the corner of the roof there.
>> Anonymous
more like those support columns fail. look how easy they broke.
>> Anonymous
>>1271376
He did survive.
>> Anonymous
Are you fucking retahded? Look under the truck, do you see feet or anything hitting the ground before the truck is crushed? And seeing as how the roof of a truck is a single piece, that much weight hitting any part would collapse the whole thing. A week ago everyone was "lol they died" now everyone is being all optimistic?
>> Anonymous
>>1271478

Its not realy the optimism. Its the facts.

http://forums.subdriven.com/zerothread?id=3928352
>> Anonymous
HOLY SHIT
>> Anonymous
>>1271478
he survived.
>> Anonymous
This furthers my opinion that people from Texas cannon fucking drive.
>> Anonymous
>>1271635
Sounds like a street fighter move:
Cannon Fucking Drive!
>> Anonymous
What's surprising is that someone who clearly doesn't put much thought into where they're driving has the reflexes to get their seatbelt off, open the passenger side door, and get out before they're crushed.
>> Anonymous
Luckily he was driving a dodge, lawl
>> Anonymous
yes, he survived. I am from the town in which this happened. I actually reported on it. The architect is actually being sued by the bank, for faulty construction.
A bank employee leaked the vid and is has been fired.
>> Anonymous
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>>1271478

Quote »
Truck/Travel Trailer Crashes Texas State Bank- July 2, 2008

At approximately 3 PM, Tuesday, July 2, a 2008 Dodge Ram 2500, pulling a new travel trailer, hit the corner of the Texas State Bank Drive-In on Tenaha Street, causing the complete awning to come to the ground. Luckily, the driver of the Dodge, Mickey Miller, of Garrison and his 10 year old son were able to exit their vehicle uninjured.

According to Miller he was circling the bank to park on the other side when the corner of his travel trailer caught the corner of the bank awning. Next thing he heard was a rumble as the awning started falling against his driver's side door. Somehow he was able to unbuckle the seat beat and exit the other side of his truck as it was falling.

Source: ShelbyCountyToday.com
>> Anonymous
>>1271731

how is it faulty construction? the engineers are going to LOL at that lawsuit. It is designed for vertical load not horizontal, thats why when a huge truck hits it from the top, it falls sideways.

learn wtf you are talking about nigger.
>> Anonymous
>>1271731
I'd leak the shit too if it meant the architect got his ass sued and publicly humiliated!! I'm currently trying to get a new job because my boss insists workmanship like this is ok, and he treats me like a whiny bitch because I try to advise him against it.

That employee that got fired is an hero as far as I'm concerned. I'd hire his ass in a heartbeat if I had that option.
>> Anonymous
>>1271990

look how frail the pillars are. they break so easily.
>> Anonymous
>>1271990
Going at the speed it was going, the roof shouldn't have fallen like that. Considering the weight of the roof, those pillars don't look like they could have handled a mildly windy day, let alone a trailer.
>> Anonymous
Are you guys fucking stupid? The roof never and should NEVER be meant for anything like that, how in the hell is that the engineers fault? It is his fault some moron "was circling" around the building and "caught" the edge of it, when obviously he basically rammed right into it. It was the drivers fault, there is plenty of room next to the roof, as you can plainly see, driver is a fucking moron.
>> Anonymous
>>1271478
way to fail dipshit
>> Anonymous
Ford.
Built Tough.
>> Anonymous
Drivers stupidity was established.

The camper should have shredded. There's no way that was built properly.
>> Anonymous
>>1271731
The person that should fucking be getting sued is the person that fucking rammed into it.
>> Anonymous
Do you guys fail to see he was going a good 20 mph? That's fast enough to knock almost anything like that over. Hell, it's probably enough to rip an atm machine out from the ground.

I think he planned to hit it. There's no way a fat texan would have THAT fast of a reaction time to know "oh shit, the roof is falling" and crawl out the OTHER side AND tell his son to get out at the same time.
>> Anonymous
>>1272044
I concur! What if someone with a 3 digit IQ was stopping under the roof/awning to use the ATM and a moron with an ATV and no sense of scale hits the structure with the same velocity and force as our brilliant truck driver. That's not Darwin at work now is it? When you build things, you MUST take into consideration the what-if's, and that includes user stupidity. That roof was WAAAAY too heavy and those supports were WAAAY too flimsy. The fact that it stayed in tact for so long is nearly as lucky as the retard with the truck escaping with his life.
>> Anonymous
Spoiler: Architects don't take morons of this degree into consideration. EVERY drafter EVERYWHERE is already overworked and underpaid as they are.

1. Codes do not require to take horizontal stability into account for things other then the elements and general wear and tear.
2. I'm sure that awning has been standing perfectly fine for at least 10 years before this dumb fuck came by.
3. 2 ton truck plus 1.5 ton trailer going even 15 mph would plow threw half your fucking HOUSE.
>> Anonymous
>>1272080
Spoiler: Yes they fucking do.

You build support pillars on and around an area that vehicles are going to routinely drive through, you design your support pillars around the idea that they might be hit.

These don't even look like they were bolted into the ground, they were just standing there. A pillar like that, properly secured would have stopped a fully loaded semi-truck traveling at 60mph. They have hundreds of pop-up road blocks like this in Europe.
>> Anonymous
>>1272232

well then had this happened in europe the truck wouldve been stopped and all wouldve been fine and dandy...this is america bitch...we like seeing shit get crushed and exploded and it would be better if both happened at the same time...
>> Anonymous
>>1272232
LOL. I don't think you know how fast 60 MPH is.
A pillar like that 'properly supported' to the ground WOULD NOT stop a fully loaded semi trailer. I don't think you understand how much those weight, how much force it would require to stop that, and again, 60MPH is fucking fast. A collision at 60mph to a complete stop is basically instant kill. Airbags or not, seatbelt or not. The stress it puts on the brain and internal organs is tremendous.

Those popup pillars in europe; people usually hit them at around 10MPH. Because they are in the city. City roads are not 60 MPH you nitwit.
>> Anonymous
He didn't hit it as fast as the .gif shows. Look at the first .gif and the timestamp. It looks about 2x speed which would also explain how he managed to see the thing tilting and get out in time.
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in this thread, people arguing about shit no one cares about...

in other words: buisiness as usual in /gif/
>> Anonymous
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kuRssKY7NNc
>> Anonymous
>>1272276
lol eurofag has no trucks. only bitch volvos and Volkswagon nazi mobiles
>> Anonymous
You know, it's funny... I saw an incident much like this not too recently from a restaraunt across the street...

A pickup, much like this one. With trailer hitched to it, in the same manner but not shaped at all like this one, hitting a similar awning as it was accelerating out of the bank parking lot or something...

I didn't see the impact itself, but I'm sure he was going pretty fast becasue when the trailer got caught, the axle or whatever that pole with the back tires on it was ripped clear off.

That's how you're supposed to design this shit.
>> Beam !sK.NtkIuiA
I remember when some trucker accidentally did this some time ago at a gas station I worked at.

The corner just crumpled, though, rather than bringing down the whole fucking thing.

Driver was a moron, no doubt. But the guy who built it as is was pretty stupid as well.