Posted on 10/28/2022 6:24:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ashley Richardson of Biddeford was driving on Route 111 when she suddenly noticed something odd sitting in the middle lane at the traffic light near Walmart. There, almost smack dab in the middle of that lane like it was waiting for a green light, was a big boulder.
Ashley of course did what anyone else would do seeing such an odd sight while sitting at a red light. She grabbed her phone and took a picture of it and posted it to her Facebook page.
Let's analyze this situation, shall we? How did a big ass boulder end up in the middle lane of Route 111?
The logical assumption is it fell off a truck that was hauling it somewhere because boulders don't just magically appear in the middle of Route 111. If that's the case, the driver is lucky it didn't land on someone's hood while at the light.
My guess is if it fell out, it did so when the truck started to move again and didn't fall very far because of its weight. I wasn't there so this is all assumption on my part that just seems to fit the situation.
Ashley told me that about five minutes after she took the picture, she saw a tractor and a dump truck working to get the boulder out of the way of traffic. Likely it's the same dump truck that lost the boulder in the first place.
Now here comes the ironic part about this. I always get irony and coincidence confused, so I Googled which is appropriate for this situation, and it seems irony is correct.
Take a look at this Google Map and notice the name of the road that leads up to the Walmart that the boulder was sitting in the road in front of.
That's right. A boulder landed in the middle lane at a traffic light at the intersection of Route 111 and Boulder Way. You can't make this stuff up!
Why did the airhead need to look at Google maps on her phone to read the street sign?
Well, if it’s full of irony then maybe you can sell it at the scrap metal yard.
And they came back and fixed the problem. Men with trucks are like that.
Years ago a pumper tipped on my long long drive on a murky night. Everyone else got through and fire was quenched.
Equipment was brought in and truck was righted. Next morning I walked the 1/8 mile down around the bend to survey the damage so I could call my road guy.
A man with a backhoe grader was already there. He introduced himself as the driver of the truck. He came to clean up his “little mess.”
The most amazing thing of it all is that...
I just wasted 2 minutes of my life on this post.
(Somebody should come up with a warning message for things like this.)
Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
Invasive pet rocks can represent a threat to their owners as well as any new environment where they have no natural enemies.
It shouldn’t have taken you that long to read this article. Remember the Maine.
The Yellen Boulder
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I actually struck a boulder slightly larger than that on I-5 in the middle of the night and it tore the front of my car off. I had a bruised knee and cracked ribs from the seatbelt and airbag.
That pebble would make a nice addition to my front yard.
Yep, trucked on many constr/demo jobs. If your box gate doesn’t have sludge locks in addition to the usual latches, then you are asking for trouble when hauling the big stuff.
Are you suggesting that boulders migrate?
What should a girl do if she is driving down the road and sees a big boulder in front of her?
“Landed”???
I say planted.
Damn glaciers are at it again!
I heard they are harder to catch in the wild than Bigfoot.
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