AI6YR Ben

This is why I don't like window seats at restaurants without bollards.

KTLA: VIDEO: 70-year-old man crashes car into Southern California sushi restaurant

https://ktla.com/news/california/video-70-year-old-man-crashes-car-into-southern-california-sushi-restaurant/

Mar 9 at 11:34pmWeb
Show threadAI6YR BenMar 10
Cars vs. buildings, not uncommon.
Show threadDarth OslerMar 9

@ai6yr https://www.kxnet.com/news/local-news/rollover-crash-burlington-nd/?nxsparam=1&nxstory_autoturn=1

I miss the world bollard society account from hellsite

Show threadAI6YR BenMar 9
@autolycos I mean, it would be so simple for them to put a bot up here...
Show threadColes Street PotholeMar 9
@ai6yr @autolycos They had one but it is now defunct.
@worldbollard
Show threadDarth OslerMar 10
@ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr @worldbollard
Show threadColes Street PotholeMar 9
@ai6yr 😱 Not to mention just standing on the sidewalk.
Show threadFlash Mob Of OneMar 9
@ai6yr TIL what those metal things are called. Thank you.
Show threadZenHeathen 🇨🇦Mar 10
@ai6yr "It just *took off*!!!"
Show threadDave RahardjaMar 10

@ai6yr Team #bollards here. I am acutely aware of where I sit when there’s a parking lot next to us. It’s absolutely bonkers how many stores are designed to put customers and workers entirely at the mercy of the driving skills of literally anyone in the parking lot.

I will strategically sit behind pillars and large planters if there aren’t bollards.

Show threadAaronMar 10
@ai6yr And that's why, despite being a diehard aviation nerd, I don't want flying cars. Can't have bollards for the second, third, so on floors.
Show threadDarth OslerMar 10
@aaron @ai6yr they're called walnut trees
Show threadAaronMar 10
@autolycos I suppose so but the installation time is usually measured in decades.

@ai6yr
Show threadDarth OslerMar 10
@aaron @ai6yr lag/log growth is common in living systems
Show threadFreddyB Aviation PhotographyMar 10

@ai6yr Great working in an criminally underutilized word: Bollards

Used in a sentence with the OTHER word I have vowed to use more:

"AI6YR Ben made it a habit in the 20th and 21st century to only dine in window seats at establishments whose front of house was festooned with bollards"

Show threadMichael K JohnsonMar 10
@cvvhrn @ai6yr A friend of mine who turned a little too tightly in a parking ramp said that he had "joined the bollard appreciation society" 🤣
Show threadswopeMar 10
@ai6yr
No one asked for this Kamikaze Roll!
Show threaddumdumdelishMar 10
@ai6yr dont even talk to me about the tradition of crashing into CVS and other retail pharmacies (which seldom have bollards or anything of the sort)!!!