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Maryland woman’s epic parking fail caught in wild photo
NY Post ^ | December 31, 2020 | 2:50pm | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Posted on 12/31/2020 2:41:59 PM PST by conservative98

A Maryland woman was taken for a wild ride Thursday when she stepped on the wrong pedal and sent her SUV onto railroad tracks in Rockville, according to police.

A photo posted on Facebook by the Rockville City Police Department shows the vehicle nearly perpendicular to the ground after crashing through a chain-link fence and landing on top of railroad tracks in the city.

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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Perhaps the two independent hoist drums helped?


41 posted on 12/31/2020 5:50:05 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: Secret Agent Man
Driving while asian...

LOL! I have a friend that swears by that.

I'm bugged by drivers of light colored Asian cars.

42 posted on 12/31/2020 6:00:02 PM PST by lizma2
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To: conservative98

I was about a block away when it happened.

How terrifying for that poor woman.


43 posted on 12/31/2020 6:09:20 PM PST by lizma2
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To: PLMerite

No. It’s generational. In Maryland a kid can take the ten question written test then get his permit. He then gets fifty hours of driving under the tutelage of parents who learned from parents who don’t drive well etc. after the fifty hours then he takes driver ed.

AAA does a survey of accidents every year. Baltimore/Washington wins about every year. Empirical evidence of the worst drivers


44 posted on 12/31/2020 6:46:07 PM PST by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: Chickensoup

I started up power plants for five years at the beginning of my career. Occasionally I’d get to go on a site during erection. Watching those guys building steel and rigging to hoist 1,000 ton components 200 feet in the air was incredible. And that’s nothing compared to the guys who build off-shore oil platforms. I always respect those guys in those jobs.


45 posted on 12/31/2020 8:02:33 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

I would argue that the disco boy wannabes on the crotch rocket rice burners with the fat tires are probably the worst of all.

Can’t remember if it was 95 or the GSP, but I saw a couple of ‘em do that weaving thing at very high speeds while we all were doing 60-70 mph in really crowded traffic.

SMH. Organ donors.


46 posted on 12/31/2020 8:03:31 PM PST by sauropod (Cui bono? I will not comply.)
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To: Ozark Tom

I hadn’t even noticed that. I figured there was a spreader carrying the loads of the two axles. Thanks for pointing that out. I didn’t know you could get cranes like that.


47 posted on 12/31/2020 8:03:49 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: conservative98
Looks like the first time I went for a drive in Cyberpunk 2077.


48 posted on 12/31/2020 10:16:08 PM PST by kanawa ((Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel)))
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To: cyclotic

Come to New Jersey. Here driving is a contact sport.


49 posted on 12/31/2020 10:48:38 PM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: jmacusa

Grew up in Rockville when the population was 20k. Graduated from RMHS we had a 59-0 record in football under coach Roy Lester. Good days.
Back then if you didn’t keep up your liability insurance up the State Troopers would show up in a couple of days and confiscate you license.
Usdd to have a statue of a confederate soldier in front of the courthouse.
Now its just one shithole from Betheda to Dickerson. Monkey County - boy, that’s the truth.


50 posted on 01/01/2021 5:49:16 AM PST by .44 Special (Tiamid Buacach!)
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To: cyclotic

I had Drivers Ed in High School in Prince George’s County, MD, in 1976. I don’t know if they still teach it in public schools any more.

But it’s still the influx of people moving to the DC area for military/gov’t/contractor jobs. I worked with a ton of them.

Same in Northern Virginia, where the drivers are worse. :)


51 posted on 01/01/2021 5:52:26 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: jmacusa

I’m from Detroit. Turn signals are a sign of weakness and it’s not tailgating until your bumpers are touching.


52 posted on 01/01/2021 7:57:06 AM PST by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: cyclotic

That sounds exciting!


53 posted on 01/01/2021 10:23:53 AM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: .44 Special
At one time here in NJ the troopers were a law unto themselves. They more or less functioned as the state attorney general's private army. If you had a run in with them below what is called the Raritan River Basin depending on how you conducted yourself you'd survive and encounter.

If you were a problem they'd never find you. You'd be thrown into a cranberry bog and that was that.

54 posted on 01/01/2021 11:08:11 AM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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