Another Angry WomanAbsolute scenes on my road today as a lorry fucked up a turn and has got itself wedged across the road like that ship in the suez canal
A very bossy lady has appeared and taken it on herself to redirect traffic. Standing in the road waving cars up side streets.
The lorry appears to have hurt itself in wedging itself along the full width of the road. Bossy lady is simultaneously directing traffic and trying to guide it into some sort of less silly position.
A man has now turned up to gesticulate at the lorry in some sort of attempt to signal that it should maybe try to move from out of the middle of the road.
A tiny success of sorts! The lorry has crawled into a position where it is only blocking one lane. However, it is very, very sick and will need to be rescued. I am excited to see what sort of lorry turns up to rescue a poorly lorry.
Update: no movement. Poor lil dude is still sitting there, hazards forlornly blinking
Bad news: I have to leave the house for a few hours. Good news: meant I got to take a closer look at the stricken lorry on the way out. Bad news: I don't know how vehicles work so I couldn't possibly tell you what's wrong with it.
What I can say is that sickly lorry has signs on it warning of flammable stuff inside, so that's fun
I will let you know if the lil guy is still there when I get back
Sorry for everyone who was emotionally invested in this story, I went to the pub after work. Anyway, as an update, the lorry is still there, still blinking its hazards, and it feels like it's with increasing desperation.
Rachel
Greem (Graeme. Not Graham!)@stavvers somewhere, someone is forlornly waiting for a delivery that will never arrive.
This is a real tear jerker of a thread.
Tim Ward βπͺπΊπΆ #FBPE@stavvers We saw a juggernaut parked half way up a series of hairpins approaching a pass in Slovenia. There was no way it was getting back down, and there was no way it was getting up to the top ... and even if it were at the top the hairpins were much tighter on the way down the other side.
I've no idea how they got it out, if indeed it's not still there. A Chinook perhaps??
In both cases this is called "being too cheap to pay for a proper professional satnav that knows about routing trucks, whilst also being too ignorant to read a paper map".
JΓ³n Fairbairn@TimWardCam
Coming back from a parental visit in Scotland after Christmas, there was a replacement bus from Cambridge North to Cambridge. Bus turned from East Road onto Mill Road and then turned left from Mill Road into Gwydir Street, drove up as far as the barrier, then into Gwydir enterprise centre.
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Coming back from a parental visit in Scotland after Christmas, there was a replacement bus from Cambridge North to Cambridge. Bus turned from East Road onto Mill Road and then turned left from Mill Road into Gwydir Street, drove up as far as the barrier, then into Gwydir enterprise centre.
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@jonfairbairn @stavvers Well, I wouldn't know the best bus route from Cambridge North to Cambridge, but I would expect a bus driver to do so!
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Now, for people unfamiliar with Cambridge, Gwydir street is very narrow with parked cars half on the pavement making it narrower still, and Gwydir Enterprise Centre is in no sense designed for buses.
So it necessitated an umpteen point turn, including a horrible crunching noise while reversing. Then failed to turn off Mill Road again and went all the way to Coleridge Road, so when it got near to home we asked and were allowed to get off. Never found out what crunched.
Angela Glansbury π½@stavvers
hoping to be informed the lorry contains a shipment of sex arses π«°
hoping to be informed the lorry contains a shipment of sex arses π«°
for a day, while . . . π½
Wurzelmann
cpoffers@stavvers If there aren't at least two more lorries wedged in there when you get back I shall be disappointed.
internetsdairy
Robee? Na! π@stavvers Are the hazard lights its attempt to communicate? Maybe itβs just very sad
Richard Ash@stavvers I want to know if an out of actor turns up to loudly narrate what is happening
John Maxwell@stavvers Well clearly, it's broken.
Andrew Deacon@stavvers The Technical, engineering term for this lorry is "It is fucked".
Agnieszka R. TurczyΕska@stavvers Make pictures, put on fedi, brace for impact π
@stavvers One on't cross beams gone owt askew on't treddle.
Gypsum Fantastic@stavvers thanks for the frequent live reports. I am on tenterhooks.
dr2chase
Elvis Prestwick@stavvers Maybe it's dad will come to help it.
Medea Vanamonde π³οΈββ§οΈ
scmbradley@stavvers I am very invested in this story now. Come on little guy! You can do it!
@Scmbradley I'm rooting for him, but the poor lil dude is currently sitting sadly blinking its hazards while cars honk furiously at hin
Hugo Mills@stavvers A cousin of mine once had one of those. It was ginormous.
You know when they're doing works on motorways, there's signs that say "broken down? wait for recovery". He had the contract to do that for a large swathe of southern England, because he owned about the only thing in the region capable of towing an 18-wheeler at the time.
Coles Street Pothole
Will Deakin
Rob van Kanπ»@stavvers One of the local kids must have a toy digger - please get a photo of it "helping" π
Russell Garner@stavvers thank god for bossy lady, who also arrived to get me through a traffic jam to a wedding on Sheppey in 2024
π π π@floppyplopper absolutely love when a big vehicle gets trapped by its own ungainliness
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perhaps after it gets released it might like to get trapped under a low bridge ππβΊοΈ
perhaps after it gets released it might like to get trapped under a low bridge ππβΊοΈ
@floppyplopper btw please tell me you've seen the videos of the low bridge in the US which scalps lorries
Ben π³οΈββ§οΈπ@stavvers @floppyplopper I don't think I have but I've seen one about a lorry scalping bridge in Australia, possibly Melbourne
@stavvers @floppyplopper there's a local news clip where they're talking about the bridge with a reporter on the scene and a lorry gets scalped in real time in the background. Classic
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Sorry, it wasn't news, I remembered it wrong. It's a little documentary a guy made about it. Worth watching though, and includes this amazing quote from the roads minister:
You've really got to be a dickhead in ignoring every sign to hit a bridge
Why Do Trucks Keep Smashing Into This Bridge? | Montague St Bridge
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i love ALL the low bridges that scalp lorries
i love ALL the low bridges that scalp lorries
Trantion@stavvers @floppyplopper my favourite time for that bridge is when they added sensors to detect a high vehicle approaching and turn the lights red with a warning sign. Because so many drivers saw the lights begin to change and accelerated to get through π
evilstevie@stavvers truly an Evergreen tweet