A lot of states are NO FAULT, doesn’t matter, it still goes under YOUR insurance even if someone, or something, hits you, even if you’re walking down the street. Sucks huh?
So, this happened in Meadville, PA in 2008. The library at Allegheny College was being renovated, and the wrecking ball somehow broke free of its chain. It rolled down the hill into town, hitting some dozen cars (kinda like a pinball game down the street), finally slamming into the back of a students car. He only survived because his back seat had a bag of soccer balls he was taking to a game. Luckily this occurred during the summer, or the situation would have been much much worse!
Are you really so naive to believe a bag of soccer balls saved the drivers life? Looks to me like the wrecking ball never made it as far as the back seat. If the ball had more kinetic energy, it would have been able travel further into the car, soccer balls or not, and pinned the driver between the seat and the steering wheel.
This happened at my college, summer of 2007. They were remodeling the library and were working with a wrecking ball that was too heavy for the crane. It fell off the crane, bounced down the hill (our college is on a hill) and landed in the back of a student’s car. In honor of the occasion, they named the little coffee stand in the library the “Wrecking Ball Cafe.”
This is my town.
Sweetest fail ever.
So fantastic, we wrote a song about it.
We named the Wrecking ball and everything.
It was Failtastic.
Broke a workers arms, rolled into several cars, down the hill, into curbs, hit one car, which hit another, which was stopped not far from a cop car.
Haha.
My mom and I made a yield sign out of construction paper that said, “Wrecking Ball X-ing.”
this incident happened in my hometown (Meadville, Pa) like three years ago, i was shocked to see this on my favorite website, lolz. they were doing some demolition at Allegheny College and the wrecking ball fell off and rolled like 2 miles or something like that. you can still see where the wrecking ball hit and bounced off the sides of the road. definite fail.
Location: Meadville, PA
More Specifically: Allegheny College
Context: My girlfriend’s dad’s construction management company hired a shitty wrecking crew with bad equipment. Ball broke off crane and rolled like 6 blocks through town damaging 10 cars.
Okay these other people are definitely right. It is in Meadville, PA and I was at camp across the street from the library on the day this happened. Its called Bill the wrecking ball because of the song i helped write at camp by the same name….
“Imagine if you will, a wrecking ball named bill
He ran away from the library and he rolled right down that hill”
etc etc etc
owner of the car : ” what the hell?!, what was this person thinking?! ”
police man : ” well im thinking ‘ two points! ‘. Aha! you hear that bill?! i made it in! ”
owner of car : ” YOU DID THIS?! WHY?! ”
police man : ” i needed 20 bucks, and officer bill over there said he would give me 20 bucks if i made it in to this here car ” * smiles *
This is from my hometown! the ball got lose and just went down the big hill and landed in this guys trunk!
The car owner didn’t get into trouble but the crane guy (don’t know the correct name) lost his job over the whole thing.
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WHAT is the context for this one.
QUEST FOR MEANING FAIL.
Sometimes you have to accept that the world is a random place.
Like Reploids turning into Mavericks. Ya never know which ones gone go nuts…
Those cars suck anyways. Hope they had insurance!
Them having no insurance = Construction company not having to pay to fix their car!
Dont believe me? Look it up. Its the law in all 50 states.
I don’t believe you. The owner of the car is obviously not at fault. Whether or not they have insurance is irrelevant.
Had the person been driving and hit the wrecking ball, it might be a different story.
A lot of states are NO FAULT, doesn’t matter, it still goes under YOUR insurance even if someone, or something, hits you, even if you’re walking down the street. Sucks huh?
Blade Runner reference WIN
im pretty sure it was a mega man ref.
So, this happened in Meadville, PA in 2008. The library at Allegheny College was being renovated, and the wrecking ball somehow broke free of its chain. It rolled down the hill into town, hitting some dozen cars (kinda like a pinball game down the street), finally slamming into the back of a students car. He only survived because his back seat had a bag of soccer balls he was taking to a game. Luckily this occurred during the summer, or the situation would have been much much worse!
only hit one car…
Add another fail….this Wendy Bell thinks 1,500 pounds is 1 1/2 tons.
Are you really so naive to believe a bag of soccer balls saved the drivers life? Looks to me like the wrecking ball never made it as far as the back seat. If the ball had more kinetic energy, it would have been able travel further into the car, soccer balls or not, and pinned the driver between the seat and the steering wheel.
Over-dramatization fail…
it’s like an Atlas stone from the world’s strongest man competition.
Right. What is this ball and where did it come from?
Who is your daddy and what does he do?
Im a cop you idiot!
Redundancy fail.
It’s not a toomah!
its actually a fail meteor which has come from planet fail.
planet WIN
This happened at my college, summer of 2007. They were remodeling the library and were working with a wrecking ball that was too heavy for the crane. It fell off the crane, bounced down the hill (our college is on a hill) and landed in the back of a student’s car. In honor of the occasion, they named the little coffee stand in the library the “Wrecking Ball Cafe.”
Full story here: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07191/800583-85.stm
Tiffany, were you in choir?
ha ha so his balls saved him
haha I go there, this kinda looks like the street that goes into town.t
A wrecking ball too heavy for the crane??? Please tell me just WTF is supposed to pick up a wrecking ball?
I think i saw this in the years a couple years ago… a wrecking ball fell off its crane and rolled down the street into the back of a car.
*correction* …saw this in the news a couple years ago… I just FAILed on my first comment.
win for correction
I remember this too.. here is the link to the news story with video
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19689640/
I can imagine the owner thinking:
“The insurance company is never going to buy this”
Sa-weeeeeeet!
Uh, as long as no one got hurt, that is.
3 people sent to the hospital
Even better!
Lol! This happened at my college. We’re very proud of this. We named our cafe “The Wrecking Ball Cafe”
Too bad it wasn’t a MINI Clubman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix_nmibp3Ik
The wrecking ball of fail.
Scott, 3 people were hurt by the failball.
how bad were they hurt?
Yeah I heard some of them lost a ball.
Nice link BMW, appropriate to the story and a car that truly FAILS too. LOL
This is what happens when you taunt happy failball
I just saw that ball in the subway flatbread ads!
Does this count as a strike or a spare?
I think the spare is underneath the ball, if I remember my old Ford Taurus right.
You certainly do!
Your Ford came with a fat guy?
gives a whole new meaning to “spare tire”
Really? Thought of that all by yourself?
wow your so cool!
I love how bemused the police officer is. He has a totally “I love this job” look on his face.
Toor toor toor, i werd narrisch!
hahaha i remember this on the news.
Okay, now I just want to let a wreaking ball loose down a big hill and watch what it does….and not get caught of course :p
this looks shopped. the ball looks like a lo-res texture stretched over a sphere in Gimp.
Your mom looks like a lo-res texture stretched over a sphere in Gimp.
Rudolf do you know how outdated the ‘your mom’ jokes are? If not then you’ve probably been living under a rock for quite some time.
And as for you anonymous, get a life. If you can explicitly tell us how to make this with photoshop you’re probably still a virgin
Unlike your mother.
I don’t care how outdated those jokes are, it got a laugh out of me.
You’re an idiot. Click the link and watch the news video over it.
The cop looks like he also was thinking of fail …
He looked so amused,I love it.
Indeed, it’s his expression that really makes the pic work for me.
This is right around the corner from where I work.
This is my town.
Sweetest fail ever.
So fantastic, we wrote a song about it.
We named the Wrecking ball and everything.
It was Failtastic.
Broke a workers arms, rolled into several cars, down the hill, into curbs, hit one car, which hit another, which was stopped not far from a cop car.
Haha.
My mom and I made a yield sign out of construction paper that said, “Wrecking Ball X-ing.”
Anyone else got the “Indiana Jones” music stuck in their head?
Damn…
Beat me to it.
ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone ever see the “Gomer Pyle” TV show episode where this almost same thing happened?
uhhh…furball smuggling fail? wtf?
this incident happened in my hometown (Meadville, Pa) like three years ago, i was shocked to see this on my favorite website, lolz. they were doing some demolition at Allegheny College and the wrecking ball fell off and rolled like 2 miles or something like that. you can still see where the wrecking ball hit and bounced off the sides of the road. definite fail.
ok…
dude it looks like a ginormous tennis ball.
I laugh at the ford cause fords SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!
hmm….more like the epicfailball…..really though who has a ball that big any where!?
Location: Meadville, PA
More Specifically: Allegheny College
Context: My girlfriend’s dad’s construction management company hired a shitty wrecking crew with bad equipment. Ball broke off crane and rolled like 6 blocks through town damaging 10 cars.
Gotta love western PA
FAIL!
On nice I live in Erie I think that was on the news here
The name of the man operating the crane at the time: Robby Boring. The article linked above refers to him as Mr. Boring, too. Wow.
Name FAIL.
umm… that’s actually my step dad… no joke.
this is in my hometown…. i was in houston at the time and it made national news… i heard that shit was wild. we refer to it as bill the wrecking ball…
It’s Bill!! Bill the Wrecking Ball made it on FailBlog. Congrats, Bill, we knew you would make it to stardom that day you ran away from the library!
Okay these other people are definitely right. It is in Meadville, PA and I was at camp across the street from the library on the day this happened. Its called Bill the wrecking ball because of the song i helped write at camp by the same name….
“Imagine if you will, a wrecking ball named bill
He ran away from the library and he rolled right down that hill”
etc etc etc
roll your ball, gently down the road…
owner of the car : ” what the hell?!, what was this person thinking?! ”
police man : ” well im thinking ‘ two points! ‘. Aha! you hear that bill?! i made it in! ”
owner of car : ” YOU DID THIS?! WHY?! ”
police man : ” i needed 20 bucks, and officer bill over there said he would give me 20 bucks if i made it in to this here car ” * smiles *
a, thats retarded, b before i cared to look at the comments i thought it was a giant rubber band ball.
dats sum BIIIG drug… O.o
This is from my hometown! the ball got lose and just went down the big hill and landed in this guys trunk!
The car owner didn’t get into trouble but the crane guy (don’t know the correct name) lost his job over the whole thing.
And now for that great new game show. . . . . Bowling For Fords!
vere niceeeee
Oh there it is…