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To: nickcarraway

Somehow that looks far more elegant than driving into a drainage ditch.


3 posted on 04/21/2014 4:14:49 PM PDT by BRL
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To: BRL

Speaking of which, yesterday a guy driving a flatbed loaded to the top of the cab with tons of long steel pipes cut a corner too close, ended up with the trailer tires on the passenger side in a really deep drainage ditch. Straps holding pipes had broken and the pipes were everywhere. Police were there, had shut the street down but were just standing there scratching their heads trying to figure out what to do.

Listened to the driver trying to explain something to one of the policeman. Problem was that driver apparently could only speak Spanish and policeman only spoke English. Went by same intersection this morning and nothing had been moved but there was enough space for one lane of traffic to get through.

If this had happened in Houston instead of in the suburbs, someone would have figured out a way to haul all that steel away and sell it for scrap.


22 posted on 04/21/2014 6:13:06 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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