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subego · Sep 24, 2019, 03:21 PM

AFAIK, they do.

I’m sure it wasn’t running, but it still has to leave a mark.

reader50 · Sep 24, 2019, 05:19 PM

Yes, gas chain saws have a clutch. If you let go of the throttle, the engine falls to idle. Clutch disengages, and the chain stops. This usually happens in seconds.

P · Sep 25, 2019, 05:01 PM

In addition to that feature, there is a chain break - effectively a handbrake for the chain. If you set that, the chain will not move no matter what else you do.

But I don’t get the situation here. He is likely a professional given the gear, but he hasn’t strapped the helmet on, and he is standing on a simple ladder and not in a lift. He is at the top of his ladder, but there is a taller ladder by his side that is falling when hit by the branch. The chainsaw appears to be resting in a cut on a branch. I suppose it caught there? But why is the woman handing him something? I’d love to know what is going on here.

andi*pandi · Sep 25, 2019, 07:54 PM

To me it looked like she was holding the ladder steady? but she could be handing him something.

either way i hope she has all her limbs.

subego · Sep 26, 2019, 10:19 AM

It’s a little hard to tell in the GIF, but they’re grinding their rims on the curb.

subego · Sep 26, 2019, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by P

In addition to that feature, there is a chain break - effectively a handbrake for the chain. If you set that, the chain will not move no matter what else you do.

But I don’t get the situation here. He is likely a professional given the gear, but he hasn’t strapped the helmet on, and he is standing on a simple ladder and not in a lift. He is at the top of his ladder, but there is a taller ladder by his side that is falling when hit by the branch. The chainsaw appears to be resting in a cut on a branch. I suppose it caught there? But why is the woman handing him something? I’d love to know what is going on here.

My guess is he dropped something important.

The ladder isn’t really keeping him up there, it’s the rope attached to his safety harness. Coming back down to get it would be a pain, so she brought it up to him.

Judging by how she gets off the ladder, they’re not super-high off the ground. Interestingly, the bottom of the ladder is swinging, but the top stays still. Maybe it’s hanging off the tree?

subego · Sep 29, 2019, 11:01 PM

No injuries.

Link if you read Vietnamese.

http://m.kenh14.vn/quang-ninh-tranh-...0142850798.chn

subego · Sep 29, 2019, 11:12 PM

I guess this is what happens if you don’t properly vent gasoline vapors out of the hull.

Thorzdad · Sep 30, 2019, 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by subego

No injuries.

Link if you read Vietnamese.

http://m.kenh14.vn/quang-ninh-tranh-...0142850798.chn

That person running with what looks like a baby in their arms was very, very lucky.

subego · Oct 1, 2019, 08:16 AM

reader50 · Oct 1, 2019, 01:57 PM

Guy on the red cart appears to have saved the plane. Looks like that was his intent too. Hope he got a fat bonus.

subego · Oct 1, 2019, 01:59 PM

I’m slightly irritated everybody didn’t start clapping.

subego · Oct 1, 2019, 02:03 PM

No picture/GIF, but yesterday I see a school bus surrounded by cop cars. No ambulance, so that’s a good sign.

As I get closer, it sure looks like the driver has her head in her hands.

As I pass... ooooooh... totaled three parked cars. Time for a new career, I guess.

andi*pandi · Oct 1, 2019, 02:19 PM

That baggage cart video is making the rounds, even Trump retweeted it. Must not be a very busy day for him!

Demonhood · Oct 2, 2019, 01:27 AM

Originally Posted by andi*pandi

That baggage cart video is making the rounds, even Trump retweeted it. Must not be a very busy day for him!

I'm guessing it wasn't this version then:

source: https://twitter.com/ZaraRahim/status...22049327910912

Spheric Harlot · Oct 2, 2019, 02:57 AM

Beautiful

Thorzdad · Oct 2, 2019, 08:17 AM

Even better with the sound on. Viewer at the end declares "That's how you do it!"

Laminar · Oct 2, 2019, 08:40 AM

Later down in the thread they added Benny Hill music.

subego · Oct 12, 2019, 07:23 PM

Spheric Harlot · Oct 12, 2019, 08:29 PM

Shame about the Merc.

subego · Oct 14, 2019, 05:09 AM

ghporter · Oct 14, 2019, 08:43 PM

That looks like the act of "the CDL student who graduated at the bottom of his class."

Thorzdad · Oct 15, 2019, 07:49 AM

I dunno. Out here in Hoosierland, when the weather gets icy, there are a couple of Interstates (65 north of Indy, and 70 east of Indy) that become pinball tables for semis. It's a given that either (or both) of them will be closed for awhile on any given winter day because some 18-wheeler got sideways and/or upside down. 65 is especially prone to trouble because it runs through flatland and gets a lot of heavy cross-winds. It's the corridor where most of Indiana's windfarms are located.

subego · Oct 15, 2019, 07:59 AM

This is why they thought playing fast and loose with truck licenses was enough to throw the governor of Illinois in the slam.

Not Blago. Before him. About half our governors end up in prison.

ghporter · Oct 15, 2019, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by subego

This is why they thought playing fast and loose with truck licenses was enough to throw the governor of Illinois in the slam.

Not Blago. Before him. About half our governors end up in prison.

Nowadays I see dump truck drivers here in San Antonio - not just the traditional trucks, but extra long semi trailer dump trucks, bottom dump trailers, etc. - careening along the road/highway/freeway/sidestreet as if they were driving their super-riced Eclipse... Terrifying to say the least. It's almost all dumpers, too. Somebody is clearly not being too careful with issuing those CDLs.

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subego · Nov 16, 2019, 04:48 AM

Thread says it’s “intentional” in that the pilot was trying to avoid severing the hose from the tanker plane.

subego · Nov 18, 2019, 11:53 AM

reader50 · Nov 18, 2019, 01:14 PM

Good thing that bush ultimately held them all back. Could have gotten ugly.

andi*pandi · Nov 18, 2019, 01:37 PM

Even in russia, the first snowstorm of the year, someone is caught without good snow tires.

Tan van started it all. The worse damage seems to be for the height-imbalanced impacts.

subego · Nov 19, 2019, 01:12 PM

Doc HM · Nov 24, 2019, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by subego

fekker didn't even have the decency to stick around. Hopefully camera footage nailed him.

subego · Nov 24, 2019, 12:47 PM

subego · Nov 26, 2019, 03:48 PM

At least the front stayed on.

10:33 AM

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subego · Nov 26, 2019, 08:53 PM

Now I’m curious about this game’s business model. What is a $1.4MM character even like compared to some pleb $50K character?

Laminar · Nov 27, 2019, 08:56 AM

And I judge people who paid $1.99 to unlock the Delorean in Rock League.

subego · Nov 28, 2019, 11:14 PM

ghporter · 07:24 PM

Here’s a minor oops...

This was from my hotel room in July. There was some sort of conference going on - that I wasn’t part of - and there was a lot of part-day parking.

The small car in the middle had been “parked” on the other side of the parking level (this was level 3 of the garage), but it looks like the parking brake wasn’t used. It rolled - slowly - backward into the Nissan on the right. Public Spirited Dude went to his car (the one on the left), noticed the oops, and called hotel management.

Sadly, I didn’t get to see “the rest of the story” where Small Car Dude came up to claim his car. That would have been something I’d have recorded and shared.

subego · Nov 29, 2019, 04:50 PM

For a second I thought it popped the Nissan’s airbags.

Thorzdad · Nov 29, 2019, 06:12 PM

Looks like a Honda Fit got loose.

ghporter · Nov 29, 2019, 07:25 PM

Obviously it wasn't supposed to be upside down...and I don't see why it showed up that way.

subego · Nov 29, 2019, 08:05 PM

It wasn’t for me.

reader50 · Nov 29, 2019, 11:04 PM

Apple likes to rotate images by just editing the orientation parameter. This way there isn't any data loss from re-encoding the picture. Apps aware of that parameter will rotate the image display as needed.

Not all apps are aware of this. Preview is, along with FireFox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera.

Want to guess which "app" is not aware of it? Our image resizer script.

subego · Nov 30, 2019, 01:17 AM

It’s odd, though. I looked at it before it was edited (I think) and it was fine.

Totally would have made some asshole comment if it wasn’t.

andi*pandi · Nov 30, 2019, 10:08 AM

upsidedown for me.
since I got my last car, with a button instead of the satisfying ratchet noise of a proper emergency brake, I worry about the car rolling. I hit that emergency brake button 3 times to be sure it took.

subego · Dec 2, 2019, 02:53 PM

Maybe I’m an idiot, but that doesn’t look like a place I’d use my e-brake.

ghporter · Dec 2, 2019, 09:12 PM

The parking surface is most definitely sloped, and it’s extremely obvious when you’re on it.

I use my parking brake (lever or button-operated) as a matter of course, but I am particularly attentive to using a parking brake on any uneven surface. This is one of those places that I would (and have) set the brake before even putting the transmission in Park. Because of this kind of potential problem.