The "You can't make this sh*t up" thread

[MasterBlaster]

Bastardos!

 

[gf beranek]

There you go. No government accountability.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

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[gf beranek]

Ha! Just walk one direction through it all and you will get out of it. No secret about it. It's sad that anybody can get lost in such a maze.

 

[Tree Reb]

But he had a GPS how could he get lost?

 

[woodworkingboy]

I dunno, some of the fields around Castroville can get pretty large. Picking celery all day following a conveyor, and never got to the end of the row. I'd hate to be lost in there when the fog came in at night.

 

[Tree Reb]

Fog can get scary.

Where we cut logs and firewood once, if the fog came in you couldn't see 10 feet. Turn around and you were lost.

When I was driving interstate overnight I used to drive through it pretty fast, I knew the roads well but sometimes I'd come out of it and be miles from where I thought I was.

 

[woodworkingboy]

In England they have it where the fog freezes in the air, or something like that. Driving with your head out the window you can see a few feet. At night it's terrible.

 

[stig]

On the island where I lived as a kid, it got like that at night sometimes.
I remember my mom getting out and walking in front of the car , so my dad could follow her silhouette.
On a narrow country road with no painted lines, it was the only way to avoid going off the road.

 

[gf beranek]

FOG If you can't see don't step on the throttle.

 

[NeTree]

Reminds me of driving in Low/First/Low with nothing but the cat-eyes on, Ger.

 

[gf beranek]

The massive wrecks and loss of life that have happened in the fog can not be equaled by any other DOT events.

 

[NeTree]

DOT events?

 

[woodworkingboy]

They have that Tule fog, as it is called, in the central valley in California. A thick ground fog. I remember hearing of incredible pile ups on Hwy 5 during the season for it....no joke. A famous one involved 25 cars and twelve big rigs, and there were five fatalities, but the biggest was on Hwy 99 near Fresno. 108 passenger cars and 18 big rigs. The visibility can be zero. Sometimes combine that with freezing drizzle and black ice. You don't want to be there looking for a place to turn around..

 

[Tree Reb]

Back in the 80's some bureaucrats decided we needed an extra airport, so they reclaimed some land, put a lot of people of their properties for less than they were worth. There were a lot of protests, but they went ahead.

Then after a few years someone finaly either went and had a look or took some notice. It fogs in there that thick it doesn't lift sometimes till mid afternoon. Great place for an airport.

 

[gf beranek]

Dot department of highways. Misused the term there, Erik. SBT.... sorry bout that.

I get a little out there sometimes.

 

[NeTree]

No sweat, Ger. I don't know what you meant about "DOT events", though; I was referring to my experiences as an 88M.

 

[gf beranek]

Just highway events in general. Wrecks is what I meant. The fog is a mofo on the highways. Almost need radar at times.

 

[NeTree]

Ok, gotcha.

 

[Tree Reb]

No water for ten years and she wondered why she was always thirsty.:roll:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...oke-habit-Diet-Cola-7-pint-DAY-addiction.html

 

[woodworkingboy]

It would be easier to understand if she had put a little rum in the coke.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Whutta maroon!

 

[NeTree]

You really can't make this sh@t up...

Massachusetts Principal Takes Aim at Fall Holidays, Says They're Insensitive

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/15/massachusetts-principal-bans-fall-holidays-says-theyre-insensitive/?test=latestnews#ixzz1axBGl45t

 

[Rborist1]

Next thing you know she will get rid of Festivus.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Old Order Swartzentruber seems pretty cool!

http://content.usatoday.com/communi...g-to-put-reflective-orange-signs-on-buggies/1