Daily Chuckle

[DaOtherOne]

 

[WanderOn]

 

[mikester]

 

[mikester]

 

[dirtydeed]

 

[DaOtherOne]

 

[Daylight]

 

[Old_Paint]

I wasn't talking about suicide. I'm talking darwinism at it's finest.

I'll use a child hood experience as an example.

There was a platform on a railroad trestle that was about 35ft off the water. And the perfect spot for us young thrill seekers to go jump in the river and cool off with an adrenaline rush

We had a couple kayaking by, and saw us kids jumping from the train trestle. So the guy came up to check it out.

Well.... we heard the afternoon train coming, and we told the guy that the train was coming and if he wasn't planning on jumping, then he needed to get off the bridge.

Train kept coming and the guy kept goofing off up there.

Well us kids bailed off the trestle leaving the dude to fend for himself.

It finally dawned on him that we were dead serious that the train was coming when he saw it come out of the trees 100ft away. He did a triple take, and then finally made the wise decision to exit the train trestle as quick as possible (jumped like the rest of us).

We asked why he didn't believe us. He said the way the sound was echoing, he would have bet money that the train was on the other side of the river

Apparently standing on a train trestle, and hearing a train coming wasn't enough proof

Kinda reminds me of something that happened to me about 6 years ago.

I got to watch a lowboy trailer (fortunately not loaded with a D10 or something similar) get hit by a loaded train running 50 Mph. It got tossed aside like a child's toy, and it took the train nearly 2.5 miles to stop. I had a front-row seat from about 15 seconds before impact and was looking at the headlight of the approaching train when I saw the wigwags go down. I gave up the best seats for some a few rows back so I could watch. Glad I did. There was rubble the size of footballs where I'd been sitting not more than 5 seconds earlier, and I was still close enough to cop some of the smaller gravel. The stump of the wigwag basically exploded when the lowboy hit it and took all the rip-rap with it, straight toward where I had been sitting. All I wanted was out of the direct path of a derailed train if that happened, so I cut across oncoming traffic to get into a parking lot to my left. Fortunately, the train stayed on the tracks and no one was hurt. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when that trucker called his boss about the lowboy, and had to answer why he was on that road with it. It isn't a truck route where he was, at least not for anything other than local delivery (grocery trucks, etc). Heavy equipment haulers have a much different route over much flatter crossings.

Bottom line, I was smart enough to get out of the way as best possible, just in case the train derailed. If it had, I probably wouldn't be typing this now, because I was in a direct line with the locomotive and couldn't even see any of the railcars behind it until it screamed past. Things in motion tend to stay in motion and travel in a straight line unless acted upon by outside forces. I did not want to be an outside force for a locomotive. I managed to get into the parking lot with about 6 cars between me and the train as it approached and just before impact. I knew I probably wasn't nearly safe but was hoping that 6 cars would soften the impact on me just a little. I already had utmost respect for trains and crossings. That day took it to a whole new level. If someone blows their horn at me at a RR crossing now, I show them reverse lights. Go around if you think you can, but if it's going ding ding ding winky winky blinky, I ain't crossing those tracks. If you've never witnessed a train impact, count yourself lucky. Even with no injuries, it's a scary thing.

 

[Daren Todd]

Kinda reminds me of something that happened to me about 6 years ago.

I got to watch a lowboy trailer (fortunately not loaded with a D10 or something similar) get hit by a loaded train running 50 Mph. It got tossed aside like a child's toy, and it took the train nearly 2.5 miles to stop. I had a front-row seat from about 15 seconds before impact and was looking at the headlight of the approaching train when I saw the wigwags go down. I gave up the best seats for some a few rows back so I could watch. Glad I did. There was rubble the size of footballs where I'd been sitting not more than 5 seconds earlier, and I was still close enough to cop some of the smaller gravel. The stump of the wigwag basically exploded when the lowboy hit it and took all the rip-rap with it, straight toward where I had been sitting. All I wanted was out of the direct path of a derailed train if that happened, so I cut across oncoming traffic to get into a parking lot to my left. Fortunately, the train stayed on the tracks and no one was hurt. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when that trucker called his boss about the lowboy, and had to answer why he was on that road with it. It isn't a truck route where he was, at least not for anything other than local delivery (grocery trucks, etc). Heavy equipment haulers have a much different route over much flatter crossings.

Bottom line, I was smart enough to get out of the way as best possible, just in case the train derailed. If it had, I probably wouldn't be typing this now, because I was in a direct line with the locomotive and couldn't even see any of the railcars behind it until it screamed past. Things in motion tend to stay in motion and travel in a straight line unless acted upon by outside forces. I did not want to be an outside force for a locomotive. I managed to get into the parking lot with about 6 cars between me and the train as it approached and just before impact. I knew I probably wasn't nearly safe but was hoping that 6 cars would soften the impact on me just a little. I already had utmost respect for trains and crossings. That day took it to a whole new level. If someone blows their horn at me at a RR crossing now, I show them reverse lights. Go around if you think you can, but if it's going ding ding ding winky winky blinky, I ain't crossing those tracks. If you've never witnessed a train impact, count yourself lucky. Even with no injuries, it's a scary thing.

The rail road crossing lights malfunction and fail to go out quite often at the rail road crossing in the industrial park I work out of.

The saving grace is it's for a feeder line servicing a pipe manufacturer so if a train is approaching on the feeder line, it traveling at about 5mph. The parts the sucks, is it's always going through right on my lunch break. And it doesn't matter what time i take lunch

Some mornings a train is crossing when i'm getting off the interstate. If that happens, I jump back on the interstate and run down to the next exit so i'm not stuck waiting for the next 15 minutes.

 

[Daren Todd]

 

[dirtydeed]

 

[DaOtherOne]

 

[dirtydeed]

hope you all remembered the golden rule for thanksgiving...

 

[aaluck]

I saw that there are 482 ratings with a 4.6 average on Amazon. That many people cannot be wrong!

That's what I figured and for $15.00 worth the risk.

 

[airbiscuit]

I'm fixin' to save a lot of money on colonoscopies with mine...

It's like the kid that swallowed a bunch of tiny toy.horses. Dr.s were able to remove them with the help of a borescope. The patient is reported to be in stable condition.

 

[D2Cat]

Trying to get home from the weekend.

 

[#40Fan]

^^ That is when air suspension can literally fail you.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Owning several borescopes I'm guessing the ad picture is fake. Generally the sensor image is digitally up-scaled internally so the manufacturer can use outdated low-resolution sensors (320 x 200 is common) yet claim higher resolution. Software is cheap, quality hardware is not.

Lens focus distance is often very tight due to using a very simple lens configuration, no anti-refraction coatings, and inexpensive lens(es). The fish-eye effect is also common due to using tiny CCDs and small lenses, maybe that's corrected for in software (at the expense of edge resolution).

Anyway, the price is back up to $40, maybe it'll drop again on Black Friday. Try it on your sink drain or heat vent and see how it goes.

Well this is a cell phone picture of the scope taking a picture of the computer monitor displaying the ad.
So I would say I'm impressed!