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And without knocking it over or breaking it too! Maybe this is a Semi-trucker joke. Get a fork lift, lift someone’s payload and put it in an odd place?
Or, , get a FAKE FIRE HYDRANT! You guys aren’t too bright, are you. oldest joke in the book. The thing is crooked FFS.
The only fail is by those that fell for it. LOSERS!
A fake fire hydrant is the oldest joke in the book?
that must be the book of very old jokes that no-one else bought except ghouck.
win
Yes, a win for stfu’s ignorance. It definitely got the best of him/her/it.
I am ignorant to your purchasing history, forgive me. Perhaps i’ll come with you to the really rare bookshop where they sell individual books on subjects no-one else would read. Is that what the shop is called? ‘Except ghouck’?
♬ “Be cool, smell a flower
Make love, not war, and shower
Kiss the world and be groovy
Go ahead and make a ghouckie!” ♬
Is that a euphemism for making a dookie?
I googled “ghouckie” and all that it turned up was a link to Dragon’s comment/song. A neologism is born!
Considering that THAT is the word I changed to fit the current situation, maybe you should think about googling the rest of the song.
I know my Animaniacs. Used to be able to recite “Wakko’s 50 states song”. *puts balooney in his slacks*
Tiny, tooney and looney… two out of three ain’t bad.
He needs to stop spending his allowance in the joke catalogue.
Shure, who never did that with a fake fire hydrant?
Yes, , , my grandfather talked about pulling that joke and he retired 40 years ago. Yes, , it’s a old joke, sorry you all live such sheltered lives you’ve never heard of it. Some day you’ll all move out of your parent’s basement.
Your comma key is a little sticky…I don’t want to know why.
ok wait… the only comeback you had for “some day you’ll all move out of your parent’s basement(s)” was “your comma key is a little sticky” ? FAIL
You’ve never been rendered speechless by utter retardation?
dilettante is full of dilecttable win, both with what she uttered here and with her uncommaly astute observation regarding ghouck’s little sticky
wordplay will get you everywhere.
Wordplay has gotten winged-bird-men like myself trapped in the rafters, fluttering about. *Squawk*
I’m on a path to all over the place.
*blushwinks*
then get a map
No worries, I know exactly where I’m going. I could get there with one eye closed.
> You’ve never been rendered speechless by utter retardation?
Only when listening to politicians.
And this one economics teacher I had, who didn’t know a capital gain from a dividend.
And YOUR only comeback was “FAIL”?
Yes, I am sorry aswell… sorry that my grandfather is not a Red-Neck truck driver with no friends because he plays shitty jokes on them. Indeed, I am sorry.
The more I look at this comment, the weirder it gets.
That’s because you’ve lived such a sheltered life. I mean, really! How can you call yourself a well-educated woman of the world when you haven’t heard of fire hydrant/semi truck pranks?
shh, the sound carries from the basement and my parents are asleep upstairs…
What’s not to understand? –
Hydrant by truck tire.
Grandpa by retire.
Fedor by retard.
Oh! They used an armbar to get the fake fire hydrant wedged in there.
After the prank, the armbar was fubar.
That’s the kind of talons post worth recognition.
I’m also sorry that none of us here are old enough to have retired 40 years ago too when this, now legendary, really old joke book was still funny.
Actually, I did have a dog that had a rubber fire hydrant, and he retired 40 years ago in dog years.
Maybe it was your dog who created this fail?!? Is that your dog’s fire hydrant?
:O
No, but it is his truck.
Correction, it’s his series of tubes.
Oh yeah, and he surfs them on the Alaskan bridge to nowhere.
Speaking of Alaskan bitches, this whole Sarah Palin business has left me gobsmacked.
You are not alone.
Near former Soviet Russia, Palin’s foreign policy experience is a joke.
You’re not wrong… she only got a passport last year…
You mean fuzz’s dog is actually ghouck’s grandfather???
Ohmigosh, isn’t this a small world!!
Why do you bother making false assumptions just to try to “prove” that you are right?
It’s just a joke.
Hmmm, my family had a pretty wide range of humor sense over the years – from plastic puke to whoopie cushions. Fake fire hydrants? Not so much.
How is it in your reality? Does Elvis still live there? Or is that you are so enraptured by the attempt to be condescending that you’re out of touch with the rest of the world?
not everyone’s grandparent’s are tuckers…really. maybe you’re the sheltered one
But the parents basement is the best place ever
So? Not every person is religious
And not every religious is a person.
In Soviet Russia religion worships YOU!
orthodox soviet win
A Russian goes to the dentist and…
Oh sorry, thats ‘orthodontics’.
What do you call a Russian with a cold?
Ivanoffil Chestikoff.
Its going to take a lot of I can’t believe its not better to squeeze that one out
I for one, favour “squozen” as the past participle for “squeeze”.
LOL!!
Are you from Arizona? I thought we were the only place that had the corner of “squozen”
I want to be in Arizona really badly right now.
no you don’t, tons of box elder bugs and grass hoppers all over the place, it’s really annoying…
HA, my state just got hit with 3 (YES THREE) Hurricanes in the past few weeks. I Fail, actually Florida Fails. That’s what the F is for. That and fun. This comment went on for way to long. ….. *Awkward silence* bye.
If u get a ticket by parking near the hydrant, what will he get with this???
whos and american with a cold fran drasher
he power parked
i luv burnout^^
ffs they are ATHEIST.
The official party line of the Soviet Socialists was of course atheistic, but there was, and very much still is, a continuing Russian Orthodox church, along with other religious groups, including many U.S.S.R. Muslim communities.
Ugh… talk of religion makes me Sikh.
Say wat? You make me wanna throw a Tantram, left-handed.
Hang in there Sara J, don’t lose it.
Left handed? Why, that’s a crappy way to look at things.
*fans her holy book piously after tucking it into bed*
It ain’t sinister when it’s right.
*consults his many-handed consort piously outstanding in her bed*
I’ll bar your sinister actions, and your father’s too. If you will kindly point me in his direction, I’ll be on my way…
Oh wait…
you don’t know either.
*giggle giggle*
The barrister’s creed kills but the good news is I’m spiritually ambidextrous.
“It ain’t sinister when it’s right”. I believe mega-pop-star ‘Beyonce’ was right when she sand “To the left, to the left”. Prende la sinestra, Beyonce!
But she’s untouchable
I’d hope she backs up her leftist ideology with some real political activism, or it’s just more hot air going to the right, to the right.
Could be a fake, but the two uprights are common on the yard hydrants.. and just because the things is crooked doesn’t mean it’s a fake.
I see no sign of it being fake.
Anyone who lives in the city has surely seen crooked fire hydrants.
Not to mention the weathered paint on the hydrant matches the weathered paint on the bollards (“two uprights”) very well.
I’m going with the forklift theory.
As for “fake firehydrant”? WTF. Fake bollards too?
No, the bollards are photoshopped. Definitely.
LOL!!! ROFL!
LMAO! OMFG!
STFU! GTFO!
Bad attitude win
haha awesome!!
You deserve a hug
crooked, because it was bumped by the tires perhaps?
Bendover and I’ll show you a fake fire hydrant.
eww
That looks like grass…. most hydrants are placed on paved areas. I don’t think it’s against code to put a fire hydrant in a grassy area, but it sure isn’t standard practice.
I see them on grass all the time
i see them there all the time
LOL! You must live in an urban area.
‘They took all the trees…’ What is that verse from, Admiral?
it’s from Joni Mitchell’s song, “Big Yellow Taxi” –
.
“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot…”
Where’s this grass by the hydrant everyone keeps refering to? Do you mean the discolorization at the bottom of the inset? Funny how you don’t see any green near the hydrant in the main photo. If it was grass, you’d see it in both locations. Most likely, when he pasted the inset back on to the image, a couple of rows of pixels on the bottom got discolored.
that green stuff might be the grass, but i’m not sure i’ve only live on this planet for a week….
crooked perhaps due to a 40 ton semi rolling over it? who knows…..
It’s not the hydrant that’s fake it’s 2 spare tyres placed either side of the hydrant the trucks not over the tyres and they are on an angle
tires?
do you know how semi trucks work? they have double sets of tires on either side of the axle, those do look to be in the correct position.
(British English uses ‘tyre’.)
ya mean real english; ya stupid yankee
maybe it’s crooked because there’s an 8 ton semi on top of it?
Um, why is there untrimmed grass right up next to the bottom of the fire hydrant if it’s fake?
Ever seen a flatbed train car with two truck trailers on it? Some places they drive a semi up to each trailer, and tow it off. This requires ramps and drivers and takes a while. Other places, they use a crane or a forklift.
My guess is that the truck trailer was taken off of a flatbed railcar, and placed in the wrong spot.
or maybe he was going so fast that when braked and tried to turn to avoid hitting what was in front of him it skidded sideways and the wheels slipt past the fire hydrant
Simple, he just drifted the trailer into position.
Somebody’s been taking parking lessons from Angelina Jolie.
(WANTed!)
Angelina Jolie’s been taking parking lessons from the Blues Brothers.
*masturbates*
Angelina Jolie, parking lessons and the Blues Brothers? That’s the strangest fethish I’ve ever heard!
*fetish
Hetfish is my favorite type of seafood.
I thought herring was the common favourite amongst the list.
I had to Google ‘hetfish’ — they’re impressive. Also impressive was sponsored ‘relevant’ ad that popped up on the webpage with it: “Get Tips On How To Talk About Sex With Your Partner”.
Those must really be some hotfish.
They’re so hot that they bake themselves.
Tiny, magical, beasty, and delicious.
Sounds kinda like my favorite — pisces peaches.
Mine is decidedly unimaginative. Cancer crab.
I lucked out… I got the Virgin Oyster.
Oh, that oyster’s no virgin.
Ok, so it was to Billy Bob in 1997 in the back of a chevy… point?
the fail really needs some explanation… hmph!
How?
Theres a space between the wheels so the fire hydrant can pass through. There are EIGHT total wheels on the back, so it can go through w/o touching. The reel phail is in .,.. pun
Um? And what is between the outer wheels and inner wheels? Unless there’s magic involved I’m pretty sure there’s a nice solid axle there to get in the way.
This happened in the Scotia-Glenville Industrial Park in Scotia, NY. Anyone wishing to see the hydrant first hand, just pull behind building 405 near the naval yard fence and there it is. It cost the truck driver several hundred dollars to have someone jack the trailer up and get it free from the hydrant. How the hell he did it in the first place, I’m not sure. I was in the office at the time.
what how does that happen that just WHAT?!?!
this is too baffling to be a fail.
Во первых!
Engrish pease?
Peas go well with Fish and Chips. When mushy, of course.
Peas are the spawn of Satan. Real men eat spaghetti hoops.
With fish and chips?! In London, that’s blasphemy!
Blasphemy? This is the UK!
Lol yeah, blasphemy no longer exists here because religion has been stamped out of every possible aspect of public life.
An airport worker went to court because she was banned from wearing a cross round her neck at work. She lost.
Similar cases with muslim kids wearing headscarves to school. It’s all gone a bit crazy really. Can’t say I disagree with it, though.
Does blasphemy still earn a smiting? Does God make house calls to smit or do you have to attend the local Department of Smiting Office to be smote?
I’m smitten, blasphemer. We’ll go to the Ministry of Smiting together.
*sings* We’re off to see the Smiter, the big Smiter that is God!
I hope you’ll be taking Jimmy Smits with you.
Can’t… he’s booked until next Tuesday.
Come on!
Give peas a chance!
*makes whirled peas*
nom nom nom… mmm, you can taste the justice
Well, if Sara J nommed them, now I have to visualize them!
*shows Lolcattus the partially-nommed peas in her mouth*
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWW!
Please just let me visualize whirled peas, k thx bai!
dammit … failblog ‘parently has parental screen controls that delays posts containing the word for that opening between our nose and chin … ‘cuz I just submitted a much more peasful and cool image for Lolcattus’ and it ain’t here yet
“Visualize whirled peas” is a distracting bumper sticker and potentially dangerous. One time while I was hallucinating on mushrooms and driving an RV down a 5 lane highway, I saw the sticker. It was not good advice. Consensus reality as we know it broke down into this amorphous mass of polygonal pea shapes and startled whirling about into a tornado. I breathed and focused on the road, but the peas kept on taking over my vision, and I was forced to take evasive action and pull off to the side of the road. Then I saw the bats.
Edit: tripping on mushrooms and driving RVs is also potentially dangerous. ;(
Amyl nitrate will clear that up, fyi for next time.
Shouldn’t have stopped there, Talons… that was bat country.
*offers Lolcattus the appeasing image of the just ice in his mouth*
It was worth the wait!
not really
That’s not what she said.
got to be cheap baked beans
Nice. Disguising the “first” in Russian is less lame than just writing “first”.
no no…he didnt say “first” to present that he is the first one (although he would fail at this) he said more something like “at first”…like some sort of itemization or something
Ohhh.. so “at first” there was fire hydrant, and then there was truck. And God said “Let there be Photochop!”
Photochop? Do lumberjacks use that?
Only when they’re cutting down pictures of trees.
They can destroy entire forests with the click of a button.
lol
Actually, it’s more something like “Woo! First!”
uhhhh…. say what??
Okay, what??
Yeah, what??
lol, what??
O que, so … oh queso!
Muy sabroso.
huh??
^ less flavor, less clue
wot!
So
hella dudes
Fourth-ish!
You fail-ish.
u would know
did something just crawl across your keyboard?
Oh, crap! Get it off! GET IT OFF!!!
You’re the boss.
*masturbates*
its on your face
and eggs on yours
(sic)
I meant the thing from the the keyboard not the other thing >:-(
I meant apostrophic succession.
That’s one hell of a job side-ways parking
How did those wheels get there?
Never mind that! how did the grass?!
Thats all unimportant!
What about that blue stuff at the top there?
What about that building in the background? How’d it get there?
pffft i see that all the time when i look outside
Where i’m from only rich people can afford that
What? Looking outside?
yes, we live in windowless domiciles walk blindfolded to the windowless train, are escorted into windowless work stations and home again. groceries are delivered, we get a 1lb sugar ration each month. It’s not so bad…
… so I’m assuming your work station is a Mac.
Acer.
Mounted in the factory (usual way), changed in the garage (less usual way).
PHOTOSHOP!!!!!@!!!!!!!!!!111111!!!!!!!!!!onehundredeleven
what’s with @
not much, yourself?
Play-on-words joke win
Me thinks, parking WIN! I mean, once that truck is parked, it will not be moved from that spot.
how the mother f.u.c.k. did that thing get parked liek that???
Proof that aliens exist!!11!1111!
*Phones home*
Not proof of aliens, but proof of a lack of care for fire safety
Nah… if the truck is on fire now, all the driver has to do is back up. Problem solved. Not a lack of care for fire safety, just thinking ahead.
Yes, but if u havent noticed, the truck has no head.
A headless truck is like a bicycleless fish.
I need one.
A headless truck or a bicycleless fish? The latter would be easier to get. I know a guy.
um, you mean cab
Just a guess here, but I’d figure that the forklift operator might have had himself a little bit of fun on his last day at work… Take the container off, and the frame should shift fairly easily.
Either the trailer was pushed sideways over it… or the fire hydrant isn’t connected to anything and someone merely placed it between the tires as a joke.
maybe it’s one of those underground fire hydrants which pop-up when you undo the catch in the ground
theres no such thing.
no such thing as hydrant or no such thing as ground?
what thehell…? ground?
IT’S FAKE RETARDS. LOOK AT WHERE THE THING IS FFS. IT’S IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LAWN, IT’S STUPID TO BELIEVE IT IS A REAL HYDRANT. PLEASE START USING SOME GREY MATTER IF YOU HAVE ANY. Thank You.
I think your caps-lock was accidentally turned on. At least you managed to turn it off for the last two words!
By the way, the hydrant is obviously real, it’s the truck that is fake!
Obviously real? Explain. . .
Sounds like you have some sand in your vagina there, ghouk. Let me get that out for you. *masturbates*
How do you know ghouck is even female? Looks like a tabloid story brewing here, folks.
sand up vagina, sand up anus… they both explain such internet rage =/
It’s just like when Nancy Drew went to the beach, and got sand in her vagina.
?
(Cartman)
Seek mental help
Oh, and if you don’t have any gray matter, please insult everyone else here. And do it in caps.
Apparently, ghouky is not a fake retard.
No, I’m not a retard at all, I didn’t fall for the bullsh!t picture like you sheep.
awww poor little ghouky’s getting all upsett.
can’t you two be nice and leave him alone.
are fuzz and fluffy being nasty to you? there’s no need to worry about that.
And what kind of idiot are you — an idiot who can’t effectively engage with others and never will, or a someday hope to be able to deal with it idiot?
(Please be so kind as to provide us an answer at 12:02 pm.)
Wow. Someone has anger management and social behavioral issues.
And that someone is not fuzz.
(shh, Dragon — fuzz is playing at giving ghouk a chance to name what kind of idiot he’s going to try to be from now … look V V )
ghouck, quick question, ‘Does anyone care?’. The answer to your
surprise is actually ‘NO, EMO’.
Oooooh….*snork*
I missed that one.
*smacks self with herring*
Assumption is the mother off all truck ups DrDr!
‘Get back on your boat, NIG*ER!’
Racist and a masturbator? I don’t think that’s the best of all combinations.
At least he’s not breeding.
*steals Dragon’s herring and dilettante’s breading and fries up some delicious*
Deal with it idiot.
good choice!
and we’ll try to support you in reaching your goal, ghouk
Nicely done!!
Retrospective burn
Have you ever considered anti-psychotic medication. It would be advisable considering that you can’t seem to grasp that basic logic that, yes, this is a joke. We point, we laugh and now we move on. Discussion of the photo is going to result whether it be fake or real. It creates conversation and some humor amongst people. I would assume that you do have a sense of humor and aren’t a complete charisma blackhole so wake up Sunshine. Laugh and move on.
win
Please calm down. It’s just a fail-joke.
guess we know where this guy keeps his fake fire hydrant…
in your pants?
you are rude, and a jerk off
Looks like the traffic warden ran out of wheel boots.
I call no way. It’s against the laws of physics! And science and stuff!
what kind of stuff
The hydrant doesn’t looked aligned right. It looks exactly like someone had a disconnected one and shoved between the tires.
Whatever the case is (forklift, faked hydrant), it’s clear the pic was staged and just like the “Chuck Storm” video shouldn’t be considered a true FAIL. Fails are only funny when they are real, otherwise who cares?
okay, thats a bs fail… and the fact that someone had to fake a fail just means that they are an epic fail….
check out the picture on this page:
renmenbi.com/tire-hydrant
That’s clearly fake. How did that get there?
That’s impossible… even for a computer.
It’s not impossible. I used to Photoshop womp rats into landscapes with my Dell T-16 laptop back home.
They’re not much bigger than three megabytes?
yeah, I lol’d.
I dub thee… awesome. A really good Star Wars reference.
You fail
I don’t think the hydrant’s fake. For one thing, it’s weathered looking, and painted the same color as the posts nearby. And the posts are put there to keep you from hitting…the fire hydrant. So unless someone put up a really well-done faux hydrant and fake posts along with it, I’d say they’re all real.
I’d guess the hydrant got knocked off and they put it between the tires, for the picture.
no.. I’m pretty sure that actually could happen with out the use of fork lifts, fake hydrants, or computers.. if the driver was making a turn past there (on grass? ftl i know..) and began the turn too early the back tired would get caught at maybe… a 30 degree angle? from the white wall. it pushes back on the back tire.. truck driver wonders why hes not moving and keeps going forward, straightening out the truck cab.. puts in in reverse and thus begins a wedging process of going back in forth until he finally gets out to see whats caught on his truck… then the other truckers lawl at him and take pics. its fathomable… if you’ve felt the way those things drive you would understand difficult it would be to drive in a space as small as between that white wall and the hydrant.. what ever the case… its just not entirely impossible that this is infact a parking fail..
tl;dr
haha ditto
“
tl;dr
<=3
Folks are missing the obvious simple solution: someone removed one of the wheels, pulled the rig up against the hydrant and put the wheel back on.
Of course…of course
*smacks forehead*
Of course….
So how does one remove an axle temporarily?
With the rim and tire removed I’d think there’d be plenty of room to maneuver the trailer into position.
Could be. I’d nominate you for a common sense Win, but then I wondered how the guy could miss seeing the hydrant when he put the wheel back on. It’s possible that he set this up, anyway.
Ah, what the heck! Here’s a cookie for you!
COOKIE!!! NOM NOM NOM NOM!!! THANK YOU!
Yes, it would have to be deliberate. Probably some kind of initiation prank at the depot. “Hey Ed, go hook up that rig and bring it around to the front gate!” Then they all laugh their asses off while Ed scratches his head for an hour and then catches hell.
there is no cab
where’s the taxi?
Dude, it’s a parking WIN.
Here’s my theory: Truck is going incredibly fast. Trucker expertly turns the wheel and uses the brakes and gas just right such that the truck does a 180-degree turn, using the cab as the vertex. The tires actually slide across the grass (which may be slippery from rain) and stop just in place on either side of the fire hydrant. Like I said, EPIC PARKING WIN, driving-out-of-a-parking-spot fail.
Or: The hydrant isn’t between the tires at all, it’s behind or in front of them, and the picture was taken at such an angle that it looks like it’s between them.
I’m gonna go with “the tyres were REALLY elastic” =.=
How the truck did that happen?
winner
dinner
simmer
thinner … not
Himmler
himmler
shimmer
dimmer?
sinner
simmer
Paragraph Structure WIN!
which one? there are several paragraphs
Recognizing a win WIN!
Well if that truck catch on fire, it won’t be too hard to stop it.
unless it’s hauling magnesium… or gunpowder… or tnt… or… you get the idea
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
BTW: I want more failboat.
the fact that there still making these things should amaze anyone!
Yeah! There must be crazy!
^future funny farm resident^
I don’t see the problem: The fire hydrant is completely usable like this: The screw on the top is accessible, and so is the hose connector.
your mom is a hose connector.
That was dumb. Get off the Internet, or we will execute/smite you.
get a life
Seriously, how the hell did he manage that?
truck drivers are amazing I bet he/she do it on purpose
That’s how we do.
???
wow
who?
I don’t know. Can’t I just say wow?
I would hate to be the driver that parked there.
the fire hydrant in front of my house is in the middle of a grassy spot….i hope my jack@$$ neighbor doesn’t park his semi on it
lol … be sure to send us a failpost card if he does!
the small bit of grass around the hydrant looks photo-shopped.
the hydrant looks phony too, and the blown up bit is at a different angle
That’s not a fire hydrant.
Its a chicken!
Wha? Sorry, I’m not seeing what you’re seeing with the grass (insert joke) and the hydrant. And the fact that the detail picture is from a different angle only give this more credence as actual – a photoshopper would’ve simply used a section of the original photo whereas this is clearly two different photos of the same scene.
I’m pissing myself laughing over you Yanks getting so worked up about the picture. Come to the UK – we don’t have headless cabs let alone fire hydrants.
We tend to have better bladder control here in the States. Enjoy your next house fire!
There’s a wet spot on your pants 8-D
I think this is more of a parking WIN, if it’s not a prank.
Parking WIN, if it is not fake.
Check the tire that had to get past the hydrant, its newer than the other. He took it off backed up and then put a new one on.
Or it’s newer because it’s newer. That wheel removal treatise though, sounds so familiar…
More of a win, seeing as they even got it there…
Does look like the back tire is not fully in place (wheels not aligned and perspective not right for point of view, especially in the close up), and might just be propped against the hydrant. This of course could be explained by danage done a la USArules!’s explanation
I’ve seen truckers use unconventional material as wheel stops. Perhaps the trucker was improvising the stabilizer
what is danage? is it Dan’s age?
Okay, I can’t tell you if this is real or fake, but I’m a truck driver and I can tell you that it *is*, technically, possible to park a truck in this manner…in theory anyway. When a truck’s tractor (the front part where the driver sits) is at approximately a 90 degree angle from the trailer and the truck is put into reverse, the tandems (those are the back wheels on the trailer that are, in this case, parked around the fire hydrant) act as a pivot point, meaning that even though the truck is in reverse, those back wheels are not actually rolling, merely pivoting the angle of the trailer. So if the driver had backed those very back wheels just behind the hydrant, but at a slight angle to it, and had the tractor and trailer at a 90 degree angle (tractor pointing to the right), he or she could have pivoted the other 2 wheels around in front of the hydrant, thus giving us this result. I would be monstrously difficult (or terribly accidental but I’ve seen some drivers get themselves into some odd binds before), and this could still be a faked photo, but it *is*, technically (theoretically), possible.
…I’m just sayin’.
HOW?
Hmmm…
Someone’s very good at parallel parking.
why not work fecker
fake hydrant…………………………………
How did that even happen in the first place?
I’m beginning to think this is fake.
My guess is that hey were moving the trailer and the truck was turned sharp enough to slide the front wheels of the trailer and it was pulled sideways into the hydrant got stuck and left it there. or they could have took off one of the duel tires parked the truck and put it back on, don’t know why anyone would do that though.
Mark
For unknown reasons, this set me off.
My observations:
1) This is either a really good or a really bad driver. Having lived near a driver school, I can tell you beyond any doubt that hitting something with the trailer’s axle happens often. This time it happened to be a fire hydrant. The alternative is that it was intentional, as Keebi mentioned, but that wouldn’t bend the hydrant.
2) The picture is real. Either it’s a real photograph, or this is simply the best photoshop artist in the world, and I know a few professional retouching business that would like to contact him/her. The shadows are consistent, the wear is consistent, but the angles are not. That’s all easy to do for a photographer, but quite hard for a painter.
3) This is a semi-rural, probably commercial area. The lawn has been cut short, but near the hydrant and posts it’s longer, because the trimmer isn’t brought out as often. This is standard practice for a commercial/industrial area.
4) Fire hydrants are pretty strong. It takes a lot to knock them over, and a possibly-empty trailer (weighing 10000-15000 pounds) could avoid breaking the cast iron hydrant, which (by my probably-flawed calculations) can support a minimum of 25000 pounds. Accounting for being hit from the side, I’d guess it can still take 15000 pounds of force minimum. If the truck were moving slowly (which it likely would be, given that it’s on grass, so it’s probably maneuvering), it could hit the hydrant, run up and down, and not crack the hydrant.
5) The statement from Phil fits. 60 seconds with Google Street View shows that Scotia-Glenville Industrial Park looks a lot like this picture, including terrain, pavement, lawns, and building style.
6) Given that the stated industrial park is in New York, it’s likely a dry barrel hydrant, meaning that the actual valve is a fair distance below ground. Even if the hydrant were damaged, it would not be spilling water. Because of this, it is possible that the hydrant, if broken, could have been put back into place for the purpose of humor.
In summary, it looks like a fire hydrant was hit and run over by a truck driver that wasn’t paying attention.
this is sooo a win!