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Old 05-10-2008, 12:03 PM
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He had missed his turn by Brandon Manitoba and figured he could go over the hill and continue on the road. Apparently he didn't know there were rail tracks on top of the grade..... The truck owner figures he had to hit the angle at over 55 miles an hour in order to make the top. If you look close at some of the pictures you will see that it is only when the large reefer trailer pinched the rear tires of the truck that the truck stopped......









I love the third picture that shows the tracks going thru the field to get there. What a genius!!!
 
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Old 05-10-2008, 12:06 PM
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I've seen these pictures before. Not sure when or where but its been a year or two ago. I was also pretty shocked. Laughed my ass off!
 
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Old 05-10-2008, 12:09 PM
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:shock: :shock: WOW :shock: :shock:
 
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This is about the tenth time i've seen this set of pictures and the tenth different story to go along with it.

Everything from a heart attack, diabetic seizure, fell asleep, followed GPS....

I wonder what REALLY happened. :?
 
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Old 05-10-2008, 12:39 PM
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I can pretty much guarantee that he didn't climb that hill with the truck.
 
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Old 05-10-2008, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Malaki86
I can pretty much guarantee that he didn't climb that hill with the truck.
uhh yeap.

Originally Posted by stainless
This is about the tenth time i've seen this set of pictures and the tenth different story to go along with it.

Everything from a heart attack, diabetic seizure, fell asleep, followed GPS....

I wonder what REALLY happened. Confused
And they always seem to place the blame on some Immigrant or other "non-us" type person.

I think we should make up our own story here and wait and see how log till it makes it's way back. My idea follows....

A retired locomotive engineer well past his HOS on his first week solo gets confused trying to make it to his drop yard.....
 
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Old 05-10-2008, 01:23 PM
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Here is SNOPES version of the story :wink:
 
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Old 05-10-2008, 01:39 PM
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Well if you look at the first pic above, between the truck and the hook, there is a road there. Could it be that they came up to the intersection and could not stop and a vehicle coming on the intersecting road caused them to steer right and simply hang on? Or somoene pulled out of that road and caused the driver to take evasive action and they cut left and were along for the ride then?
 
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Yuo I read the same story somewhere else and did not see anything about driver being from Pakistan .Looks pretty bad and it does not matter where this guy comes from.
But i guess it is sooo easy to blame it on immigrants :evil: :evil:
 
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Old 05-10-2008, 02:32 PM
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Just for the record.......The foreigner reference was part of the original sequence that I received. I also thought that it was a rather cheap shot and will remove those references.
 
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