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Optimus Fail.
i lol’d.
oh yay a Failtruck!
Everyone remember where Failtruck Parked! right next to dork in orange jumpsuit!
how did it even do that o.O
Optimus Prime on a drunken bender.
Octabong Prime?
No, just a suicidal fail truck looking for his old friend, FAILTRAIN
*Metal*
Awesome call.
That was great!
Yay! He didn’t say ‘first’!
Ohhh shuddup. You ruined the moment!
Autobots, Roll ou… Hey, can someone give me a push?
How the crap did this even happen!? There are no roads in sight.
That’s what I’m saying >< Why the hell is that truck even there? My mind! It is boggled!
the train told him to do it!
never trust a talking train.
LOL. Finally, a comment that made me laugh! I like your style. “Come over to the Dark Side, we have cookies.”
no, come to the high side, we have special brownies
The truck was hit by a train and pushed down the track.
Was thinking exactly the same thing.
I was in Brandon Manitoba when this happened….the guy “couldn’t see in the fog” and was doing about twice the speed limit, missed the turn and went right up the embankment…I think he was both fired and deported after this.
So much for his CVOR! Lucky Bastard, a freight could’ve been rolling through…they always told us in truck school: NEVER STOP, STALL, OR SHIFT ON THE TRACKS. Whatever.
Ahahahaha…yeah, I was gonna say this happened in Brandon! Well, just outside of Shilo…and if anybody cares…there is a road…look beyond the trailer, you can actually see a vehicle on the road lol But yeah, this was hilarious…we ended up driving by it that day.
This is what happens when you try to use semi trucks in the Philadelphia Experiment.
I’ve just the obvious question – how the hell does that happen???
just wait till the train comes…
Shortcut home . . . bad idea
Offroading semis…not so great, either.
It’s a P E T E R B I L T…..not a POLARIS Sportsman 800 for Chripes Sake! You’d need quite a big lift kit for that badboy. ha, ha.
(Oh, and yes I noticed, it’s a Freightliner Columbia, not a Pete. I’m a KW girl myself.)
Now how the f*** did that happen?!
This is EXACTLY what ran through my mind when I first saw this…!
Me too. This fails so hard it’s a win. I don’t even know how you’d do this if you intended to.
Maybe the truck was on a train and fell off?! However – I lol’d!
I somehow doubt you could fit an articulated lorry on an average train.
It’s perfectly logical.
It was a super train. If you look closely you’ll see, that each of the rails
is just made for one trainwheel. HUGE.
So the truck fell of.
Uhhhh – it’s 2 sets of tracks for 2 trains. Not 1 spanning both sets. Super train = fail.
Sense of humour fail.
Seconded.
Cubed.
Weinered.
Wienered*
I think it’s hilarious that you corrected the spelling of a word that doesn’t exist. Bravo(a?)!
<3 Shadow
I’m just that skilled, Brandon.
*masturbates*
That Guy obviously is fed up with life….he just didn’t have time to take off the trailer, so he just, lets say, made a run for it, and SUCCEEDED! Too bad the cops were there before the train.
No, super train always wins. ALWAYS.
imminent getting-hit-by-a-train FAIL
So does Triangle Man. If they had a fight, Triangle would win.
Poor Anny. Logic has killed your sense of humor.
We’ll buy you a new one at BJ’s.
I love BJ’s, They’re my favorite.
Yeah, it’d probably be hard to fit a tractor-trailer rig too.
they transport these things all the time on trains, they even do it on other semis. It def. could have been on a train, but I don’t think that’s how this happened.
a road facing the tracks off to the left maybe?
I think so. Should be on the right side – isn’t there a road on the right? After bumping up on the left side, the truck should look worse. Maybe it came off the road and turned somehow.
Expressing my thougts in english FAIL
There’d be much more catastrophic damage to the truck if it had fallen off a moving train I think. This’d turn into an epic fail though whenever the next train shows up…
I think the truck was backing up from the right of the frame for some reason and backed its rear wheels over the tracks and off the embankment.
That’s nothing. The next thing to run through the trucker’s mind is likely to be a train.
comment win
interesting question. I see no street or any kind of bridge there o_O
The driver’s is beyond dumb, he fails at being dumb. I think a brine shrimp could’ve figured that one out.
Yeah, but a brine shrimp couldn’t reach the gas pedal. Evolution WIN!
He’s got a cargo trailer full of FAIL & was making a delivery.
…or rather, FAILing to make a delivery.
Oh no… he MADE the delivery!
yeah, in his pants when he found out the company was going to charge him for repairs, right as the next train was coming.
i wonder what the fine for being hit by a train is?
…maybe because there is no sign telling you not to do it!
The obvious explanation is that either a tornado picked the truck up and placed it there OR some Godzilla-sized jokester is having a bit of fun with the driver who was probably saucin it up at the local watering hole! Now look at him. Stumblin around near his truck, scratchin his head.
Or – aliens did it.
This happened near my city. IIRC, the driver was From Away, and for some reason it made perfect sense to him to try and take a shortcut across the bald prairie with a semi truck. He got hung up on the train tracks, and then the Internet came along to take some pictures.
Haha, yeah I remember when this was all over the news. The TV news people actually interviewed the driver, who said “Well, I thought I could make it!” He was taking a “shortcut” (through the field) around some traffic that was blocking the actual rail crossing. There’s a whole series of pics that were floating around for a while. Good stuff!
Good lord, it’s just as bad as I thought when I first looked at it.
Most fails have some sort of explanation when you think about them, like the hotel with doors to the non-existent walkway that was in the process of undergoing renovation. But this one… wow. Just wow.
Actually I got a forward with this one it one time and it had several other pictures from the incident as well. I’m still not sure how the driver accomplished it, but the truck went off a road and through a field and then up a very steep embankment, of which the train tracks were on top of. Had the tracks not been there, there’s still no way in hell the truck would have made it over the hill. And in the other pictures you could see several angles and see the tracks where the truck went through the field.
I read somewhere that the driver had a heart attack
Liar, liar. Stop pretending to have a clue….
did they get the lorry off the railway before a train came? and if not where are the photos of what happened next?
I would guess that the truck ran off the road past the ditch in the left side of the picture and either had so much momentum that it actually made it all the way up the embankment before stopping, or was somewhere in between the ditch and the top so it was easier for whatever crew one calls in to remove a truck in such a condition to haul it up to the tracks than to pull it backward onto a highway.
Still an excellent fail, may this serve as a shining example for future fails to be of this caliber!
Is that a convict standing by the truck? What’s with the blaze orange outfit?
FIFTH!
No
Did that comment hurt? No what?
Railroad maintenance, maybe? I’d for sure want to be easily visible if I worked railroad maintenance.
How much railroad maintenance do you need to do out in the middle of nowhere? “Um, lesse here…rails still nailed to the ground with spikes…check. Rails still made of steel…check. Looks good to me.”
“Tractor trailer still firmly embedded onto tracks… check.”
So you’re saying that the RR company hires people to check if 18-wheelers randomly get stuck on the tracks in the middle of nowhere?
No, I’m suggesting that emergency situations arise all over the world(even in “the middle of nowhere”). If people were not prepared to handle said emergencies, even greater emergencies would arise, now wouldn’t they? Maybe like, say, a train crashing into a tractor trailer stuck on a set of railroad tracks. Those people also need to be able to do their jobs as safely as possible, which would explain the bright orange suits. Dumbass.
Emergency response is not the same as maintenance…most of us wouldn’t call the cops to come fix a leaky pipe. Smugness FAIL.
Oh, and I never questioned the neccessity of the bright orange suits, so you get a reading comprehension FAIL too.
Wow, so you’re the official distributer of “FAIL”, are you? So nice to make your aquaintance. Answer something for me, oh enlightened one… was that me who whipped out the sarcasm at the notion that a set of railroad tracks might need maintenance? I don’t think so. I try to stand up for people who are attacked by mean spirited people… especially idiotic ones. So, in response to your “double fail”, I won’t be doling out any “FAIL”s. And, for the record, there are people who work in railroad maintenance… try looking up the NRC. Dumbass.
Lighten up, Francis.
I was in no way being mean spirited towards Random Person. I wasn’t saying that there wouldn’t be such a thing as railroad maintenance workers, I was saying that because it was out in the middle of nowhere, there might not be a lot of maintenance that would need to be done on this particular section of track. But you would have known that if you had a reading comprehension level higher than that of a fruit fly. (And yes, I am very much being mean spirited towards you now.) Clearly, the “dumbass” at the end of your comments is not an insult to me, it’s simply you signing your comment.
Please, point out where I said that there wouldn’t be emergency response workers. I was questioning the need for maintenance workers.
-thepowerofblue
change stories much?
Random Person
August 27th, 2008 at 4:26 am
Railroad maintenance, maybe? I’d for sure want to be easily visible if I worked railroad maintenance.
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thepowerofblue
August 27th, 2008 at 5:08 am
How much railroad maintenance do you need to do out in the middle of nowhere? “Um, lesse here…rails still nailed to the ground with spikes…check. Rails still made of steel…check. Looks good to me.”
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Brandon
August 27th, 2008 at 5:27 am
“Tractor trailer still firmly embedded onto tracks… check.”
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thepowerofblue
August 27th, 2008 at 5:37 am
So you’re saying that the RR company hires people to check if 18-wheelers randomly get stuck on the tracks in the middle of nowhere?
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These are all the comments from Random Person’s first mention of maintenance workers up to the post where you get your panties in a twist. No mention of emergency response workers.
But by all means, please continue this little crusade. I absolutely do not mind helping you make a complete jackass out of yourself.
Perhaps you’d like to view your response to k8 before making more of a jackass out of YOURself…?
“How much railroad maintenance do you need to do out in the middle of nowhere? “Um, lesse here…rails still nailed to the ground with spikes…check. Rails still made of steel…check. Looks good to me.””
You clearly have no idea of the importance of railroad maintenance. It’s more than just nails.
Yeah, there is gravel and turtles too!
Well, I admit I know next to nothing about railroad maintenance, but I was oversimplifying things a bit for humor’s sake.
Loz had a typo! I don’t know if I should correct… I’m sure she could easily hurt me…. Plus then she’s correct every single typo i ever commit….
Like my “i”…. *quivers*
And your “correct”.
(The second one, not the first)
And the “she’s”? What the heck was THAT?!
I take the train all the time for traveling and let me tell you, there are lots of reasons for maintenece in the middle of nowhere. Take amtrack through Iowa sometime, you’ll see what I mean.
What typo, Brandon? I won’t hurt you… promise
I fail to know proper terminologies here, so I’ll just give an example….
“Brandon said ‘Loz made a typo!’”, instead of, “Brandon said “Loz made a typo!”
Notice the quotation marks… it’s very minimal and I’m sure you copied and pasted, which is why you didn’t notice… I’m just proud of myself for noticing.
Grr… I made a quotation typo in my explanation of the quotation typo…. There should have been two quotation marks after the second “typo”.
Well yeah, but I only copy and pasted thepowerofblue’s comment so it’s not really my responsibility lol.
But you put the whole thing into quotes… so you obviously were making an effort to make it a grammatically accurate as possible… I’m just saying….
I’d call the friggin’ railroad company if my semi were sprawled across the tracks like that. They gotta stop the oncoming traffic–No need to make it two fails.
Please, point out where I said that there wouldn’t be emergency response workers. I was questioning the need for maintenance workers.
do you perhaps believe that large animals, such as deer, cows and bears only cross the tracks in the middle of large cities? or that land slides, snow, flooding, trees that can fall over, and rust only happen in cities? What about loose bolts, ties that need replacing etc? Who do you think cares for these issues? The boogy man? questioning the need for maintenance workers in the middle of nowhere means you are either very special or under the age of 12. or both. So are you special or under age?
as they should
When an accident like that has happened it is very likely that the tracks got misaligned. Therefore it is necessary to have someone from the railroad company to assess the damage and also plan for correction of the tracks before any traffic is allowed on the tracks again.
The precision needed for a railroad track is a lot higher than for an average road. Especially important is this for high speed tracks. Local tracks where the speed is just about walking speed may be twisted and uneven, but they still need the correct spacing.
A railroad accident may make that truck accident look like a holiday.
FAIL! No maintence means derailed trains! thepowerofblue, you FAIL!
that would be stupid since the train couldn’t stop even if it saw the truck. this is just asking for disaster.
What’s the train engineer gonna do if he sees you, swerve?
They have these little things called ‘horns’. They make lots of noise. Very good for alerting
people who haven’t seen the train coming.
not much use if your stuck on the tracks
That’s called a safety suit… prolly a railroad worker checking the damage to the tracks. Come to think of it… Add a cargo train to this picture and the fail goes epic.
I think that’s optimus prime..!!
How creative of you.
How sarcastic of you.
do you reckon robots can get drunk?
Why is it going over a railway? O_O?
Is that a power line under it? I’m really curious what happened here… was it dropped somehow? Who knows the source for this?
GPS: Turn left at next intersection
Billy Bob: Huh… der haint no intertasections here girl in the box… wez in da country
GPS: Turn Left in 20 Meters.
Billy Bob: Is that like a yard?
GPS: Turn left NOW…
Billy Bob: well, mmm… hokay…
(Truck turns down a set of railroad tracks at a crossing)
Billy Bob: This better be some shortcuts because its being murder on my tires.
Train: WHAAAA… WHA-WHAAAAAAAAAAA!
GPS: Turn Right Now…
Billy Bob: No shit sherlock… whoa… WHOOOOOOA!
I lol’d…
You’ve got some typos…
it’s redneck, yo. no typos in sight…
Did the truck fall out of the sky? There’s no crossing or even a road anywhere near.
And now let’s wait the train to have an other tragic fail…
How the f… did he manage to get there with his truck ?
Maybe he used the railroad as a short cut by driving along the tracks and jackknifed. I can’t see why anyone would even think they could clear that embankment by driving over it.
Would like to see what the whole area looks like.. Looks like this guy was going for a Darwin Award.. haha!
It’s winnipeg motor express Inc who own the truck – but not a clue as to how.. and what is the horizontal line?
How in the hell… there isn’t even a road near the truck!
Please – enough of this speculation. It’s quite easy to explain. The fairies did it.
Dude, an unladen fairy can barely keep itself aloft for a minute, let a lone a rig that big. Must be those plastic wings.
*Alone
A-whoops! Easy, agents of spelling and grammar! I’ll come along quietly.
may be fake
This comment may contain FAIL.
But no dairy (supposedly).
May contain: Soy.
soy? *masturbates*
*Dragged away by men while being shoved into a strait jacket*
*Ambulance takes BondFan to a place far, far away*
*Ambulance driver takes shortcut down train tracks.*
I lol’d
.
Secondeded:D
thirded
There seems to be no possible way for the truck to get into that situation… I’d like to believe it’s real though
Definitely a FAKE!!! Look behind the track and see everything but rails. Also if the hill is this steep, that truck wouldn’t even climb it. Posting fake fails on the fail blog is definitely a fail.
no way the truck could climb the bank? your lack of faith in the power of momentum is most disturbing
Have you ever though the truck may have been backing up? o_O
Not as big a fail as crying FAKE when it isn’t. Hear that snickering in the background? It’s all the people who have researched this and seen the original, in which the rails are clearly visible between the cab and the trailer. And all the other views of this scene from other angles.
I got fired cos of that.
Apparently, the trucker missed his turn and decided to hop what he thought was merely a hill to rejoin his rig with the road. He also was apparently unaware that a set of railroad tracks resided at the top of said hill. He estemated that he needed to go at least 55mph in order to clear the grade. If you’ll kindly call your attention to the second set of rear tires you will see that the trailer actually pinched the truck tire to a halt, pinning it in place. Regardless of whether the tracks were there, this truck was not clearing that hill. Upon personal reflection, I have to believe this story because I can’t conceive of a way in which an epic failure of this magnitude could occur without some sort of determined effort.
At least he had the common sense to put out an orange cone. That will surely warn and deter a high-speed, oncoming fail-train…
That’s not an orange cone… It’s the truck driver… eyesight fail anyone??
What orange cone?
Bob, eldest son of the Cone Family Railroad Maintentance & Supply Co. Don’t you see him???
Knowing-what-a-cone-is FAIL
HEY NUMBNUTS! THAT ISN’T THE NASCAR STORE! MOVE YOUR FRIGGIN’ TRUCK YOU FRONTAL LOBE DEFICIENT ASSTARD!
WTF? hows that posible?!
this has been discussed, and the issue is now resolved. please for to stfu.
Reckon he has one of those “how’s my driving” bumper stickers that loads of truckers have?
Nah… more of a “Horn broken, watch for finger” guy.
perhaps he was distacted by the glowing ethereal “23″ hovering above the track. Being a trucker and all it’s not completely out of the question to assume that his momma was abducted by a E.T. (extraterretrial twenty three) when hes was just a boy in the backwoods of west virginia. You know, before he went all hollywood and left us behind to persue the glitzy, glamourous life of taking 18 wheelers and beaching them on railroad tracks.
(sp) on the et.
And “distacted” and “a E.T.” and “hes” and “persue”.
Light him up, Loz!
*strikes match*
*passes Loz a molotav*
Is that a petrol bomb?
Yes, yes it is! All the poor guy did was make some spelling and grammatical errors and now you’re gonna blow him up! Extreme much?
It’s the internet – anything goes.
Careful now… Anything?!
Are you new here or something?
Not that new, just changed my name cos I saw a Shia Labouef movie last night and that made me think of how amazing he was in transformers, so i changed my name to his ebay name, LadiesMan217… Anyway, anything, is a bit much!!
Relevancy fail.
Hmm, well even a quick glance at failblog comments should show you that pretty much anything goes. Not always a good thing… lol.
Anyting? *masturbates*
Typo in “anything”? *masturbates*
license revoked in 3..2..1..
He doesn’t have a license yet…he’s still TRAINing.
wow….
i’m gonna give it to him, though…
HONK
wow, it has been photoshopped. But why did someone even bother erasing most of the date, only to leave the 23? Full date stamp was “23 3 2007″.
If you want to see all the pictures just google “Truck stuck over railroad tracks”, its the top result right now.
Should be “Truck stuck on railroad tracks — Brandon, MB” its over on the snopes forum
I doubt anyone really cares that much…
I care that much…
I think anyone who cares that much probably already did the research on their own… this IS the internet….
THIS IS SPARTA!!!
I sit corrected.
You’ve got an orthopedic chair? WOW!
I lol’ed…
Everyone should go look at the full set of pics! ^^ They cannot be faked and look awesome!
No, no! It’s a screenshot from a 24 knock-off, 23! In this episode, John Bower must foil a terrorist plot involving a stolen 18-wheeler!
They’re so screwed…
Oh, that’s what was happening to cause this fail! Now it’s all clear to me.
Win.
How did that happen win!
I don’t see what the problem is in this picture. Sooner or later a train will come by. To me that spell out a win.
The setup:
There appears to be a road to the right in the photo. (black strip, ditch, telephone poles, and the farm house on the right in the distance)
I think the photo was taken somewhere in the US or Canadian mid-west or plains. (The name of the trucking company, gague of the tracks, the flatness of the surroundings, farms, and the snow).
What likely happened:
The truck slipped off the road on the ice/snow, and fishtailed the trailer over the tracks. If you’ve ever seen one of these things wipe out at highway speeds on ice, this scene in this photo isn’t a stretch at all.
*yawn* Y’know, that would’ve have almost been fascinating if the real story hadn’t already been told over an hour ago. Nice load of bullsh*t you unloaded there, though.
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Oh, it’s “gauge.”
And ‘relief’ rather than ‘flatness’.
This actually made my day… ROFLCOPTERS!
Hahahah
There is damage to the front fairing of the tractor. I’d wager that the road visible to the right has a T intersection directly behind the semi. Trucker falls asleep, wakes up to discover he’s offroad with a large train track embankment in front of him.
Direction fail!
Maybe, just maybe, he was driving, backed up without realizing the land dipped, and fell in.
WHOA. lmaooo.
PENIS!
Ha! Didn’t see that coming, didja?
No, nor did I feel it.
Is that because it was over too fast?
Sounds like something you say to a chick you don’t really care about just before her eye starts to sting.. LOL I hear that stuff is just like salt in your eye…
I hear that too actually… One way to find out!
*begins to masturbate*
you hear… sure
Probably Poland?
Suddenly Susan?
Negative Nancy?
Kinky Karen?
Yes?
You FAIL at understanding the pattern.
I think it was crossing the railroad and was then hit by a train and dragged along for some distance before the train came to full stop.
That’s the only reasonable explanation.
I think it was rolling along in Soviet Russia and then your mother bent over and it was trop trad to avoid the failboat that then delivered the fail truck to the fail train depot where it got hit (and by hit I don’t mean “had sex”) and ended up across the tracks.
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That’s the only possible explanation. Unless you’re a terrorist.
Well, suppose I am. What would be the explanation then?
All aboard the FAILtruck!!. I propose a new FAIL vehicle! FAILtruck! And we should have more pictures of FAILtruck!
It’s been a while since we’ve had a classic fail.
If you go to snopes.com and search for “truck tracks”, click the 1st search result for more pictures of this fail.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/railroad.asp
A “reefer trailer”. Maybe I should move to Canada.
Your delivery of fail has arrived.
It reminds me of the Little Red Engine… “I think I fail, I think I fail”
Truck driving license test fail.
Vision fail.
Possible hallucinogenic fail (Driver thought truck was a train)
Possible suicide attempt fail.
penultimate comment
I’ll bet you anything the jackass driver was just driving on the train tracks and slipped.
How did he even manage that?!
With a key.
nah… with a credit card!
thanks for stating the obvious!
I used to have to work with that trucking company to carry loads – contract set up by someone before me – and I can assure you that every driver I met from there was just about as competent as the one shown here.
No wonder they are now heading quickly into Business Fail.
WAIT, I HAVE GOT IT…. the short cut was down the train tracks, and when he saw the train coming, he decided to advertise the trucking company for the train engineer……I mean, thats a real sport, advertising until the very end.
just like to add that the truck is “Winnipeg Motor Express Inc.” and i am from winnipeg and have experienced the dumb drivers in this city
and the little truck said,
” i think i can, i think i can!”
uhhhh wtf? how would that even work?
how would that even work?
The driver had only been in Canada a few months. This is what you get when Truck Driving Schools are allowed to “sell” drivers licences
to people who have no respect for the equipment they are driving. Keep this in mind next time you see a big rig with a turban behind the
wheel passing all those passenger vehicles.
Seeking a job as an oilfield operator, the driver known to the author of this piece, was new to the country. ‘Mujibar’ paid his money, “trained”, and
abracadabra is given a 16 wheel operator’s licence in a few short weeks. There has to be an instructor out there that should be reprimanded.
If one examines the second photo, one can discern the telephone posts in front of the cab off in the distance. This is the road for traffic in the
opposite direction. ‘Mujibar’ had missed his turn near Brandon, Manitoba and figured he could go over the hill and continue back in the other direction. Apparently, he was not aware of the rail tracks on top of the grade. He figured he had to hit the angle at over 55 miles an hour in order to make
it to the top. Examine some of the pictures and you will see that it is only when the large reefer trailer pinched the rear tires of the trailer, that
the truck stopped. You have to love the third photo that clearly shows how the “professionally” trained ‘Mujibar’ had the forsight to approach the
incline at less than a 90 degree angle.
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