I think what he's missing is that it wasn't the Millenial kids who asked for an overly insulated upbringing. It was their Boomer parents who put up all the guardrails and made all the rules to protect them from getting their bodies or feelings hurt.

Let's be clear, there were 2 versions of Boomers (early and late):
Boomer 1.0 raised the GenXers and they didn't give a fuck what tree we fell out of or who made fun of us in school.
Boomer 2.0 raised the Millenials and I'll never hate on Millenials because their parents were fuuuuuuuucked up protective.

"A motorcyclist is seen traveling too fast while passing the truck"

doesn't look like speed was a factor, appears like nervousness in the new rider that made them panic and target fixate toward the guardrail.. if they had just relaxed and counter steered left they would have been fine. needs more training!

If im reading this right you guys are talking about two different things. You about hitting the guardrail and him about actually plunging over the edge.

edit: I'm an idiot. See @eric3579's comment.

How so? First up, a passenger car wouldn't be travelling nearly as fast (or at least, you'd hope not).

Second, many modern passenger cars have side impact beams and curtain airbags.

You'd probably get injured, but I think you'd have to be pretty unlucky to be "maimed or killed".

And that guardrail is functioning exactly as designed. The connections to the ground are designed to break, but the rail itself acts like a giant rubber band. *engineering

That looks horrific

No guardrails or any type of barrier around the poll

Completely agree.

CONVICTED PAEDOPHILE PLUNGES TO DEATH IN FAULTY GUARDRAIL SCANDAL

Interesting parallel above

Howdy... the rear triple axel unit is often referred to as a "jeep". It is steerable (have a look at the two opposed hydraulic cylinders above the jeep frame and below the load... you can see the sun glint off the left cylinder at 0:07). The control lines for the jeep are running forward to the cab through the lines which are bundled just ahead of the 3 boomers that are holding down the load, and riding up on top of the beam. In the final 3 or 4 seconds of the video, you can see the black sheathed control lines bouncing up and down, still attached back to the jeep which is out of frame on the RHS. The mistake here is that the jeep wasn't controlled properly during the turn (it's one or sometimes two buttons in the cab, often attached to or near the gear shift for single finger operation); during the turn the jeep is turned to make a wide turn and stay in lane, and once the turn is made, the jeep should be brought back to a 0° (straight running) position, but it looks like it was left a few degrees right and thus hit the concrete guardrail. 10-4.

>> ^Morganth:

Didn't look like a part of the car (unless it was a trailer hitch) - a piece of the guardrail binding?


Definitely part of the guard rail. You can see it whip around, flinging the pieces off it. That particular piece sits between the seated post in the ground and the rail itself. The ones I used to work with weighed a good 10-15lbs, not to mention the carriage bolts, nuts, etc.

Didn't look like a part of the car (unless it was a trailer hitch) - a piece of the guardrail binding?

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>> ^quantumushroom:

"I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down.'"
-- Homer Simpson


"It's like Speed 2, only with a bus instead of a boat!"

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>> ^WaterDweller:
Strange how they call a rider that crashes over the guardrail lucky just because it went well. If he'd been lucky, he wouldn't have crashed in the first place.


It's a MIRACLE!

Strange how they call a rider that crashes over the guardrail lucky just because it went well. If he'd been lucky, he wouldn't have crashed in the first place.