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S truck!
Cant stop the Fail train
I think the train Won.
The never ending fail train…
Rail Faint!
F’uck Trail!
I know, I know, and bad ones at it – just trying to present something other than ‘first!’ before something butts in that isn’t prepared to make that effort. Nail it far! Fair latin: fat liar in frail Tina. I’ll shut up now. No, don’t thank me.
I see what you did there…
second!
Don’t you have anything better to say?
Some people say “I don’t care if people’s icons are white, black, purple or green”. Ah hold on now… purple or green? You gotta draw the line somewhere. To hell with purple icon people! Unless they’re suffocatin’… then, help ‘em!
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~ Mitch Hedberg, sort of
WHY EVERYONE GOT TO HATE ON THE PURPLE RACE? WE ARE JUST LIKE
EVERYONE ELSE ON THIS PLANET…..WAS IT MY FAILT I WAS BORN LIKE
THIS. NOOOOOOOO.
Just joking. hehehehehehe
Isnt that from Remember the Titans?
Third!
ouch
First!
What’s another name for a Court buffoon?
uummm Lemmie guess… I know this one….
Moron?
No how about Troll?
okay how about Jester…
I believe the answer here is “FAILURE”.
I was kinda goin’ for “foolure” … but that’s close enough.
wow..
Hmm… driver was an idiot, but also seems to me that those gates should have come down a bit sooner… not a lot of time between them coming down and the train passing.
That is exactly why the accident happened, morons are used to driving around the gates as soon as they drop.
I say anyone stupid enough to drive around the gates DESERVES to be hit by a train. Sucks if there are innocent passengers though.
Well… considering the lights and bells go off a decent amount of time before the gates fall, I would say he had plenty of warning.
All the crossings I’ve ever seen the lights and bells go off at the same time the gates begin to drop.
And there’s two tracks there. The gate on his side came down behind his cab. He made the right choice in trying to clear the tracks at that point. It’s hard to tell which track a train is on with two parallel tracks. Unfortunately, those gates did drop quite late.
I think he got stuck on the gate in the back so he couldn’t go forward.
Wot, no sad b*****ds putting in stupid first messages?
There was one but her failed… and someone claiming second…
If your not first, you’re last
There’s at least one fool getting mocked in fail court.
wow
omg….owie
Im sorry, did I poke you too hard with my penis?
Ahh, look, Jurgen’s trying to apologize for being such an obvious moron and childish dick.
I wouldn’t have thought a childish dick would have hurt that bad…
RETORT WIN
It’s the pain of the disappointment he is.
Yeah, damn thing stings like a needle! Careful with that!
Pretty scary & VERY stupid! Semi drivers are sometimes sleep deprived & sometimes make very poor decisions.
Sometimes? More like often, considering how many make it on to failblog.
Hey the failboat makes it on here more than the failtruck.
yeah, but failtruck drivers are typically sober.
How many failtrains make it onto the site?
They arrive on every post.
That my friend is what keeps me up late at night imagining what the world might become if all of this misspent energy was actually put to more than simply bytes of nothing.
Good luck to all
So you’re saying failboat captains are drunk, and therefore failboat?
Funny how all the semi drivers who fail tend to do so near train tracks.
The train should really have stopped to let him pass. Makes you wonder though – if a penny or a piece of tin foil can derail a train, why did that one just carry on as though nothing happened?
I really hope you’re trolling and not just incredibly stupid.
He posted under Arrian, a clear allusion to his Nazi-supported supremacy…
He’s just incredibly stupid.
…because every arian is a nazi?
becase he takes great pride in it…i don’t know. just playing devil’s avocate.
advocate
Who takes pride in what?
If you’re trying to say he’s a nazi because his name is ‘arrian’, that’s like assuming ‘Pretentious White Girl’ is a member of the KKK.
But you do tend to wonder about people who brag about it.
I worry about devil avocados.
…but Arrian is a name. Aryan is the race. Even if s/he was bragging about it (by having it as their name?) you’d think they’d spell it right.
Maybe not if you think about it.
So rather than assuming the simplest answer, that his name is Arrian, you’d rather assume he is a racist?
Occam on now.
Morning Loz, I’m back… miss me?
Oh hey! Of course, you’re up very early though?
We’re having a discussion about vegemite which you might like to contribute to
Just before 6 am here. Ok, let me grab my coffee and I’ll try to locate vegemite discussion.
*waves at Dan and blows him a smooch*
(Hee hee…I said “blows him”!)
I dated a guy named Arion once. It made me slightly uncomfortable, especially since he was tall, blond, and GAWJISS!! But he was hardly a nazi.
But if he posted on failblog, people would assume he was a dyslexic nazi. *sigh*
And good evening to you, dragon!
Finally, the whole gang is here…
Lordy, you guys filled up the thread already! It’s not even four o’clock here!
Damn — a whole kitchen’s worth of cast iron deficients.
You lose, sir!
I suspect he’s the truck driver in the video…
Nice solid Irish name
If Arrian is supposed to mean Aryan Supremacist, then yes. If not, then maybe.
Double-WOOOOOSHHH!
That went right over your both’s fail-heads.
Fail, dear.
Aryan = word associated with Nazis
Arrian = a Greek historian
Yes, I have already mentioned that above.
Super-WOOOOOSH!
When is that last time you heard about a train being derailed due to a penny or piece of tin foil??? cause I missed that one
Were you just born from fail slide caboose yesterday?
*facepalm*
Make that a double!
»lol«
facepalm is better than napalm, I always say. Ok, well, I don’t always say that, but it works.
I like your new avatar, Avis!
She’s had that for ages? Has it changed?
Speaking of new, can you imagine anyone clicking on the link at the top for ‘G-rated fails only’?
I was confused at first, but then I cleared my browsers cache
and her new image appeared.
Why thank you, it was taken at a party. I was holding a party sized snifter full of shot tubes, I cropped that part out for size.
Dangit…I can’t see it.
*goes to clean out the cache closets*
*does the same*
ooooh! purdy
THERE you are!
Oooh, you’re lovely.
Why, thank you! BOTH of you!
You….are an idiot. One, a penny will definitely not derail a train. I’ve tested it myself. And if that truck won’t a penny won’t. All it does it squish the penny. Also, train tracks are steel. Train wheels are steel. Steel on steel creates very little friction. It can often take up to 2 miles to stop a moving train.
Exactly – and what about looking both ways before crossing? Makes sense for more than just pedestrians crossing streets. The driver must have been able to see the train and judge speed – and remember he had most of the 18 wheels still behind him!
the fact that the warning bars were down might have been a hint not to go at all..
Um…am I the only one who is slightly disturbed the the fact that
heydabop tried to derail a train with a penny?
I’m disturbed that he actually thought he could do it.
highfive for your undetected sarcasm
when i was young, i made it a point to frequently challenge the belief of a penny derailing a train, i collected many a flat penny… sometimes i would put a book of matches on the track, always a pyro
Something can only derail the train, if it gets in between the train’s wheels and the rail track, thereby lifting the wheel(s) out of the track. Then the wheels still have to move to the side to prevent them from dropping into the track again. This is no must on a straight track.
In this case, it’s likely that the truck parts were in front instead of below, and/or too big, to become a wedge.
Besides, your source that told you that tinfoil could derail the train is likely
to exaggerate it a bit by using the worst case, and then acting like this would *always* derail the train, when in reality, it’s not the case.
I hope I could help.
actually, a penny can’t, it is so small that the train just squishes it
the same with pieces of gold, some people used to do that to flatten them for various reasons and got killed doing it :/
iq test FAIL
That train would probably have taken a mile or two to stop at that speed.
Also a penny or tin foil CANNOT derail a train.
Haven’t you ever put coins on the tracks? Come on, its a classic.
actually that just isnt true i have put pennies on train rails many times and come back the next day and it’s all flat so that really cant happen
got that right. idiots staying up all night long so you can eat and wipe your dumb ass. get off the roads jerks! let me starve!
I understand your sarcasm. and sympathize. It’s not the truckers fault but the companies that hire them and then create unrealistic deadlines for delivery. The end result is the driver either having to stay up for way too long periods of time to meet those deadlines, or not getting any jobs.
then they should drive faster on the freeway instead of slowing everyone else down. Im from California, Im allowed to bitch about that
So am I, where the freeway speed limit for trucks is 55 instead of 65 or 70 for cars. Or did you not notice those speed limit signs along the freeway?
Im usually going too fast to notice them. lol. Trucks still have to go 55. In some parts of SoCal the speed limit is 75!
From my recent experience in SoCal driving I would think it impossible to even come close to that speed. My speedometer reading on the freeways was sitting on 0 a lot longer then it got past 65.
I agree, very tiring.
Thats why you just have to drive on the freeway at 2 AM. Sure you get to work early, but think of the time you save not sitting in traffic!
So you’re American. You do not bitch about anything, understood?
Why don’t the bitch about anything? I thought it was their national passtime?
pastime*
*Is not American*
I use early morning, lack of coffee and bleary eyes for the typo.
That, I believe, is more a human condition.
americans bitch about anything and everything… look at hurricane gustav, people in nawlins are bitching because they think the evacuation was unnecessary, only 3 years after bitching about not being adequately protected from katrina…
Really? :s How ungrateful.
How about when we open our city to the evacuees and THEY bitch because they had free lodging, free hot meals, free water, free movies, free activities for their children, free everything? They didn’t like staying in the new convention center because they had “nothing to do.” Ridiculous. I’d say it was better than being blown off the map by another hurricane!
and yes, I am happy to be an American.
as you bitch…. about bitching… and bitchy americans bitching…
well Malfeasant is American…
They also live below sea level, on the coast, and then complain when they get flooded…
Trucks aren’t easy to drive, though, either. You can see, after the back gate trapped him in, he tried to power across the tracks to get out of the way, but a semi just doesn’t have that much “get up ‘n go.”
I love that he initially backs up after the gates go down THEN decides to go through.
If you notice, it looks like he hit something (another truck maybe) when he backs up – right as he stops, the trailer rocks. And then he goes for broke and tries to make it across.
I’m not certain, but it appears he may have been stuck. Looks like he stopped when the guardrail began to lower, but the rail on his side of the tracks caught him behind the cab. So he may have felt himself pinned there, with his truck bed hanging out in the street, and tried to make it through.
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I suspect david would point out that then a train came.
You haven’t taken your Dissociative Identity Disorder meds today, have you fuzz?
A little while ago I was posting an informational observation comment on failblog, and then … um … no, wait, that wasn’t me.
He tries to backup, HITS THE GATE, and then decides to go forward, as he is now sitting on the tracks. It is quite clear he was in a bad situation, and tried to get out of it as best he could with short time to react.
Look on TMI’s words at 10:34 am, ye mighty, and despair!
There were better options… Like NOT pulling out onto the track maybe
if you notice, there were 2 sets of tracks… we don’t know what the rest of the terrain is like from the camera angle, it’s possible he couldn’t see a train on either track, and figured he didn’t want to bet is life on it- i can’t really fault the driver, i’d agree that the gate didn’t come down soon enough.
afer careful review, i agree. looks like he wasn’t sure which track the train was on and got nervous. I probably would too.
and haphazard spelling…after
Most flat bed trucks are pulling two trailers. You cant just back them up. We call the Rocky Mountian Trains up here in Washinton. I still cant figure out why he pulled forward. Must have thought the nose was in the line of fire. Trully a rookie.
maybe they do up there, but here we see them only towing 1 at a time.
Exactly. It was a fail, but not of the truck driver.
He tried to cross the tracks but stopped when he saw the gates going down. But he realized that he was PAST the gates when he stopped (and would be hit by the train) so he tried to back up. He was stuck, so he decided to go forward, grossly underestimating the speed of the train and the amount of time it would take him to cross.
His better choices would have been: A). Continue reversing, breaking the gate clean off or B). Jump out of the cab and get out of the path of imminent destruction. I can’t imagine many people really think clearly when they are in that kind of situation. He knew if he stayed where he was he was going to be hit by a train, so he at least tried to get across.
How was that not a fail of the truck driver? At the beginning when he’s
turning onto the tracks, obviously he could see the flashing lights on the
crossing gate right next to him (though you can’t see it in the video). He
should have stopped. And after he stops backing up, he should have just
stayed put, because he was far behind the second track. Now, if there was another train on the far track, he’d be screwed anyway. I do agree there
wasn’t much time to react however.
There are three possibilities:
a) There were no lights to warn that the barriers were about to come down. I can’t see any in the video, but they could be out of frame or concealed by obstructions. If this is the case, the driver is not to blame.
b) The lights were there but had malfunctioned. Again, if this is the case, the driver is not to blame.
c) The driver ignored the lights and tried to get through before the barriers fell. In this case, the driver is very much to blame because those lights mean STOP.
Whichever is the case, the time between the barriers dropping and the train arriving was not a cause of the collision.
All of these long analysis comments are getting repetitive.
hear, hear
*yawn*
Well, it should placate those who say no one ever talks about the fails, anyway.
wow…. that truck driver… just… wow…
wow. you know the driver was thinking “oh shit ohshitohshitohshit!
I think he was thinking “I can make it… I’ll just put my truck into warp speed”
That’s why he stopped and backed up first.
Meanwhile, the Little Train Engine that Could achieves ramming speed, thinking, “I KNOW I CAN I KNOW I CAN!!”
Casey Jr.’s coming down the track.
I find this comment so hilarious. ^^
»giggles«
I lol’d
First
What an idiot.
what’s worse, an Idiot driving a semi truck.
First!!!!
Holy Sh*t Type any slower there, talk about a fail.
Anyone die in this?
No but we wish you could have been there…
Did you forget to take your prozac today?
Just not a morning person I guess…
The driver must have been EXTREMELY killed surely???
Why, the train didn’t even hit the cab!
The jack knifed trailer is what his the cab. I don’t think he could be too hurt… if at all.
Wait, what? I’m having a little problem following this.
Not good. The driver could be seriously hurt, with a broken back or a hangman’s fracture (invariably fatal, but not likely.) If he wasn’t wearing a seat belt, he’d get to test the padding inside his cab up close.
But it was a death cab.
thats for you, cutie
Sry I have to ask, but who was the death cab for?
ghehorg already said ^^
a really shitty band.
And don’t call me surley!
Ok… how about… Butch.
That’s going to cause some confusion around here, mind if we just call you Bruce?
Most I know are forced by thier employer to keep 2 sets of books, the ones they would show authorities, and the one that keeps REAL time track of thier drive time.
Just Hope no one got killed.
Would that make you Grateful for the Undead?
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“Come round the bend, you know it’s the end,
The failman’s reamed to the ‘bloggers great glee….”
background music fail
No, Motley Crue WIN by default
Yeah, Loz, it happens alot.
phirst!
Congrats you know your name!
Not funny. Why is this here?
Because its a fail… get with the program…
Somebody just got Sm0k3d.
If being funny was the singular requirement for being on FAIL Blog, then your post wouldn’t have shown up either.
This is, I suspect, a burn.
*inspects the situation* Yes, I agree- burn indeed.
first
i wouldn’t have done that.
Do you want a medal?
is this a threat?!
no, it was a question. my bad for forgetting the question mark.
and “is this a threat?!” was a typo on my part — i was trying to spell “lol”.
lol, see i help you….but really, lmfao!
You’re not sure you wouldn’t have done that?
remember the part where she slipped and fell on her butt.
i’m not going to tell you again.
*remembers*
lol?
One wonders if that idiot is living, or if that decision cost him his all.
I hear he became the CEO of Lehman Bros
No but he did refi his double wide at the peak of the market…
No, but he didn’t even save a ton of money on car insurance. Because he’s a terrible driver and does not merit a low rate. Even from a duck.
Or a Lizard….
Doesn’t the duck just help with bills in the event of injury? I didn’t know that he offered car/tuck insurance too.
Oh Avis, you quack me up.
No, no, I call shenanigans!
uh oh – gecko
Someone stabbed an oar through your dingie
Let’s give the bird related puns a rest, but feel free to start a different type of pun run.
Sorry, I didnt mean to ruffle your feathers.
*smirks*
*smokes*
Inertia WIN!
xxsagdgea
Los stupidos of the day.
Good thing his load wasn’t combustible.
yeah, it would be scary having him blow his load everywhere.
Yeah. Too bad he couldn’t pull out in time.
So in 9 months we are going to have a little LGB Train Set???
check the caboose slide for kids
LGBTrain? My favourite way to travel!
lol…
One second later and the driver would have been toast! Criminy!
I think ‘earlier’ might be more appropriate, and toast is only good with butter…
I dunno, I always like a little criminy with my toast.
I like mine with Vegemite.
*vomit* So does my girlfriend. She made me try it once and I could barely swallow it.
Ive never actually had it
Im a big fat phoney. I just wanted to fit in *cries* I do have vegemite at my apartment though, I have friends in Australia and they sent it to me as a joke. I dont dare to try it. Its just the yeast they scrape out of beer barrels when they brew it. Dosent sound too appetizing.
Yeah, I don’t actually know any non-Aussies who like it.
They sell it in shops here actually, but only the travelling Aussies buy it lol.
I can assure you it’s not from beer barrels though :p
Vegemite is Australia’s gift to the world. Anger us and we can also use it to contamintate your water ways and clog up your sewers. Not to mention if you use a large quantity, set it alight and fling it… makes very good starts to Aussie Fire. Much like Greek Fire only Aussie Fire decides that it’s owed several public holidays and RDOs all at once and promptly extinguishes itself.
Haha. Or a teenager has a wild crazy house party and makes national headlines.
Well, he will post the add on myspace for people to come and bring friends. He got sent into the big brother house this year… didn’t last very long. He got out and tried to get into a club on the Gold Coast with a fake ID… the club called the cops. So be warned world… this is the type of person we have here as secret weapons to protect my mastermind scheme to conquer the world and it all begins with a gold fish and Bill Gates’ left sock.
Yeah, I heard he was offered a job as a party organiser lol.
How does vegemite come into your world domination plan?
It shall distract everyone from what they are doing trying to work out if they should eat it, attack it or throw it back up. It’s also a healthy dietary need for the goldfish.
*barf*
I prefer “eggy bread” !!
Cinnamon, Vanilla and Heavy cream…. »nom, nom, nom…«
I have beans with my eggy bread. Cream just sounds wrong!
Creamy eggs though, with cheddah. YMMMMz
MMmmmmmm…yum! My favorite cheddah comes from your own fair Eire, Loz!
I like toast^^
I really wasnt expecting that – i didnt realise it was a train track until the train smashed the truck to smitherines! Good heavens…
You mean you thought it was just two parallel metal pipes with crossing gates that were arbitrarily placed?
Yeah they put those all over around here…
Feel free to drive up to them, stop, back up, and drive through at any point.
Haha. Gotta love how often the commenters are bigger fails than the fails themselves.
I usually laugh a lot more at the comments than at the fails themselves.
Yeah but there’s a difference between laughing with, and laughing at someone, lol.
True, the comments and commenter’s are the best part of this site…
True that, Hoser
I like my Beer as much as the next guy, but I feel that was inappropriate.
Then again, we are not here to make each other fell better so f’uck you too. Lol
Agreed too
The Engineer could have had a heart attack, with him pulling out in front like that. Scary!
That engineer probably has seen that before. I was on a train that hit a pick-up truck. One of the attendants said that every train employee has seen at least one instance of that. Most more than 5 instances.
Were you in America at the time? Cause that sounds like something the American population would do often.
Yeah, I was on Amtrack. For some reason people seem to think they can beat the train. I don’t know why. The driver of the truck was drunk, he was barely even scratched. His truck though……it was curled into a ball of metal, the engine block was 50 feet on the other side of the train.
Hey, lay off Americans, we have to beat the train so we can get our fat asses to the McDonalds/Gun store in time and still make it home to watch the game.
You’re absolutely right, because America is the only country with idiots; scratch that, the American population consists only of idiots, and we all shoot guns and are inbred and drive fast cars, and we all act exactly how we are personified, and we all love our Great Master, the one true God, George W. Bush, with a burning passion.
But hey, you’re a smart person, so you know all of this already, that’s why you posted that comment, so that you could voice what everyone already knows for the sake of knowing and agreeing and sharing and fucking and eating and laughing and mating and breeding and hating and segregating and deserting, right?
If you’re so incredibly intelligent, regardless of what nationality you are, then why would you make such an incredulous statement? Why would you make such a generalized statement? How many Americans do you know personally?
Go suck a fuck, twatt.
Yes, I know, deal with it.
Natural selection
Gosh, ‘cicili’, you’re really comment-happy right now aren’t you?
What a fu**ing noob
Well said!
I think it’s funny how the train doesn’t slow down. I guess he thought that the driver was an idiot and should be left to die. Though it would be hard to stop one of those things… it was hauling ass.
It takes a train over a mile to come to a stop when it’s running at regular speed. How the hell was he supposed to even begin to slow down?
Agreed. Captain Wow-I’m-So-Dumb-It-Hurts.
LOLOLOL~!!!
Well Hitting the Big Rig was a good start…
lol
How can a speeding trian, with no prior notice , weighing that much, going at that velocity, possibly slow down in the tiny time of that clip?
Train—duh…*
(you may be tryan too hard … titan up)
trains can take up to a mile to stop. Physics people!
Do you have any idea how long it would take to slow down that train?
I’m guessing … It takes a train over a mile to come to a stop when it’s running at regular speed.
Especially with no prior notice, weighing that much and going at that velocity …
*grins*
@ 60MPH with 8000ft or so of pig train about 3/4 mile to get stopped. Provided he put the train in emergency.
*shaking head*
and this is why people get hit by trains
If it was hauling ass I want to find out where it was going so I can get me some!
Don’t know where it was going but it was coming from your moms house…
Sorry I just couldn’t resist it, I know it was juvenile…
/r/ song! ^(>_
Train 1 – Truck 0
WTF, Oh I can make that!!!! Don’t worry, it’ll buff out
It was photoshopped.
I wouldn’t want to be on a train when somethign like this happens…YIKES!
something—-duh…*
Id rather be on the train than in the cab
o.O
lalz
Driver, grabbing a quick nap…..
Optimus Prime has a Bad Day.
I think it’s funny how the train doesn’t slow down.
Have you any idea how long it takes a freight train to slow down?
i’ve heard it can be up to a mile if it’s going regular speed…
Oh, come on already!
*grins*
sorry, the spirit of fail compelled me
Not the power of christ?
power dammit… i thought i remembered it… haven’t watched the film in many years
Ah, I didn’t even realise you were attempting to reference it!
*forgives*
How could I not?
Darwin Award nominee
Epic Fail!
Wintrain slows down for no one.
Windows slows down for any reason.
We have these dumb-ass drivers all over the world. Thank god we don’t have such fast trains in my country though.
What do you live in Poland?
Why would Poland not have fast trains?
In Soviet Poland…
How much fail would a failtruck truck?
If a Fail Truck could truck fail…
– in this case, clearly a mothertruckin’ train load.
What most people don’t realize is that the Mötley Crüe song was actually playing in his cab (loud enough for the security camera to pick it up and drown out the train)…and the pounding, relentless beat of the hair metal music caused him to back up, rev the engine a few times, say to himself “wait for it, wait for it” then gun it when the 2nd guitar kicked in. Mötley Crüe will do that to you.
Dr. Feelbad
Woo! Yes! Sucks to be the guy in the truck, but that was awesome to watch!
Chuck Norris was the Engineer of the train.
Seriously, how can one person have so many different comments to make about one fail.
how can one person have so many different comments to make about one commenter?
Only 2, I guess. When it’s someone like that.
# comments from cicili on this failpage = 16
# comments from Loz on this failpage = 45
Looks like he picked the wrong week to quit driving trucks.
Worst driver ever..!!
Seems like the driver went to go, then the thingy went down, so stopped, then the other thingy went down, but on top of the truck bed, so he went to back up, then didn’t want to break the arm thing, so he thought he could just make it across. RETARD.
I think that its not the thought of making it across but more of a “if I stay here the train will hit the cabin, if I cross the train will hit the rest of the truck” thought.
When He realized he was trapped just crossing the front part may have saved his life….
Seems like you watched this video, close-captioned it for the thinking impaired, and shared your masterpiece with the world.
^ Seems like this Mac driver hasn’t stopped to RE.A.D a thingy or two on top of the truck fail thread.
Last!
not really
So, he pulled up slowly, and the bar came down so he followed the law and stopped. – The Right thing to do.
Then he tried to back up – The right thing to do.
But the bar stopped him so he decided to move forward to get off the tracks. Still the right thing to do.
Dumb-ass drivers? For following the rules?
And since when did these fail videos have to come with a soundtrack? Either the sound was recorded or not. I don’t need a musical background unless it’s supposed to be there. Otherwise it sounds like a TV show.
the bar keeps on getting lowered
Well this IS failblog.
It is, isn’t it? JOHN MCCAIN JOHN MCCAIN JOHN MCCAIN!
Thars some fail for ya. :/
overentertained fail. more armpit queen would have gone nicely tho.
Holy crap! I dont know what in the world makes you think “The trains far enough away, I can make this in my tractor trailer” IDIOT!
All aboard the Win Train!
Darwin Award nominee?
Chuck Norris could stop a train in 1/2 a second
I think that’s a safety fail. If you look he tries to reverse back out at the start but the barrier has already dropped over his carriage. So if he tried to reverse further he’d have broken the barrier, got a hefty fine and probably lose his job and maybe his license.
Also judging by the angle he couldn’t see the barrier dropping because of the billboard.
He HAD to have seen the fast approaching Train!
I saw this video a few weeks ago on another site and one of the commenters there was pointing out the same thing. He was from the area, and said he was surprised this sort of thing didn’t happen more often due to the poor design of the intersection.
Needless to say, i’m sure the driver has been discarriaged from doing that again…
[i'll get my coat]
is discarriaged anything like miscarried?
I kinda like left over Indian food so please don’t dis curry age.
Yeah don’t, it makes me tikka maSADa. (We should all quit while we still can.)
You might want to see a doctor about either of those issues.
Middle! Woo!
(Always strive for mediocrity.)
well you’ve accomplished it.
That’s a track fail, but a train win.
I meant truck*
I fail
That crossing is poorly designed.
Notice he was coming around a curve? As he’s coming around, he sees the far one drop, stops and tries to reverse (at which point the other one drops down and traps him). If the first gate had started to drop at the same time, he would’ve seen it before he began the crossing and stopped in time.
He’s still an idiot for going through when the lights are flashing.
Also, had he not tried to go forward and stayed put, he would’ve been fine (unless there was another train on the other track coming, which I doubt).
There was only one rail tho. But indeed, if he just stayed there, this wouldn’t had happened.
LMFAO!
Pwned.
the voices in his head told him it was a good idea to go..
Unlike Amtrak, the FailTrain is always right on time.
I still don’t know why he attempted to cross. He was clear of the the track the train rolled down. Why try to cross? He had to have seen the train coming.
Must have panicked….not that I blame him.
CN win!
kinetic energy WIN
That train driver was texting-whilst-driving for sure.
I totally do not get the music. Do not understand.
does not fempute?
Why the fuck are you all finding this funny?
You should mourn!!!!! :@
you should REPENT!!!!! <*:oDX
mourn in the mourning?
Look closely. There are two sets of track. The cab gets caught on the far track, when the guard rail comes down behind it (on top of his flatbed). Obviously, they tried to get out of the way the best they could. Honestly, I would’ve bailed and ran like hell, rather than risk it. Yipes. I hope they’re ok. :^/
GO! Speed Racer, GO! Speed Racer, GO!!!!
»this is the bad joke of the day…«
I love how people make judgment calls on this guy’s intelligence when they know absolutely nothing about driving a semi, nor do they know or understand the structure of the crossing, proper speeds for trains within city limits, the condition of the crossing signs and gates, or what the driver was capable of seeing from where he sat.
And go ahead and justify yourselves, too, because I’m sure that you’re only doing that because “this is only a forum,” and in real life you actually keep yourselves from drawing conclusions on such things when you realize how little you know about the situation.
It doesn’t sound like you really do ‘love’ it.
It’s called a joke. You need a sense of humor to understand it. I’m sure you can find one second-hand somewhere. If you try.
PMS?
Not anymore. Why?
brevity is the soul of wit, or some shit like that.
I agree, but I believe most of the frequent posters on this “forum” actually think it’s a “chat room”, judging from the preposterous amounts of douchebaggery and pseudo-cybering that goes on in here.
Now, back to the fail.
Says the biggest douchebag of all :p
You fall into this category yourself, I hope you know that.
Better that he falls onto that train tract than that category
One can only hope.
Now, now, let’s be kind to the poor fellow who doesn’t see his own idiocy.
Buttock.
Definitely the first thing that comes to mind is GIVE THIS TRUCKER A DARWIN AWARD.
You mean… the first thing that comes to your mind isn’t SOI SOI SOI SOI?
could you explain the SOI SOI SOI SOI thing. i must have missed a memo.
Have you missed every other comment thread?
‘Whut?’ only ever posts one comment. About roflcopters.
whut?
i have trouble keeping up with this place.
failblog.org/2008/09/23/payment-fail/#comment-111113
one of many examples.
Well obviously Teh Roflcopter did come to mind, but he is currently vacationing in Miami, so I do not have the legal obligation to post about how he goes SOI SOI SOI.
For anyone who DIDN’T see a train
in the immediate future… You fail.
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This includes the truck driver.
He fails most of all.
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Who WOULDN’T see something that
large and purple, rushing down the tracks?
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His penis must reach from A to Z.
The truck driver was unlucky to find a badly designed railroad signals, but was lucky to save his life!!
OMG!!!!!!!!!! I hope the truck driver was ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
something wrong with your ‘!’ key..? it seems to be stuck diva.
this seems more like a fail for the barrier timing… the truck was past the fisrt barrier when it came down, the driver saw the barrier for the other direction and tried to back up only to hit the barrier that dropped behind him… so he tried to get out of the way, but according to the timestamp there was only 15sec between the barrier drop and the train passing at about 20mph (guestimate math without being able to look at it frame by frame) the train couldn’t have been more than 400ft from the crossing.
20 mph..!? are you for real?
take a look at the traffic out on the road before the train goes past.. that train is doing a good 50 or even 60mph… and yeah.. it aint stopping for a little orange truck..
anyone seen the movie ‘hancock’? he stops a freight train.. with predictable results..
way too much inertia, way too little time..
truck driver did the only thing available to him (once he put himself in that shitty situation), so credit there.. pity he’s probably still ‘out’ there.. somewhere… breading more just like himself probably.. *sigh*
EPIC FAIL!!! nice song tho
He’s probably dead. Not a funny fail
Did that trucker live through that????
We can only hope the moron died from his injuries so we can get his ass out of my gene pool.
The train of justice was just a little late this time.
Can someone tell me what the song is?
ALL ABOURD THE FAIL TRUCH
That was a wintrain, a failtruck, and an overall fail.
I hope they were okay. :/
At least the truck’s cab made it across, but it looked like he still got thrashed pretty bad when it whipped around.
I APPRECIATE THE MOTLEY CRUE IN THIS!
i’ve always wondered who would win…..
What he should’ve done: Backed up through the guard rail (and report it to his trucking company or a cop).
What he did: made a judgment call…which turned out badly…for obvious reasons.
He could’ve also just stayed put. Was there a train on the other track? Well according to most state laws, it was his responsibility to know before going over them.