That’s as bad as the house I had rented this last year. The water heater went out and it turned out the door to the closet it was in was too small to get it out. They’d built the closet around the water heater. Considering that a water heater only lasts a few years, at least with the hard water in this area, that was a very dumb thing to do.
The landlord had to tear down the door just to replace the water heater.
I did it!!! For the last like many weeks i’ve been browsing trough all those nearly 400 pages of the failblog, and today i’ve finished!!! I’ve reached the last one!! THe last page!!!! Now i’m free!!!! Hurray for me!!!!
Assuming that the average intelligence and abilities of burglars and thieves are more or less those of the population in general, and in light of the contents of the present blog, I’m assuming that there are indeed people likely to steal just about anything.
It’s not really a FAIL; its a demolition WIN. Obviously this guy wanted to take out the major load-bearing support in this garage and have a little fun in the so doing.
Clicky. Ignore that the trash bin is overflowing; notice the metal plate under it. Why does that exist, you ask? Well, I asked that myself. The answer is: To empty the bins a small truck stops close to them. Then they don’t take the bag out of the bin, they also don’t lift the bin and empty it onto the truck. That both would be too simple and too cheap.
Instead, a hydraulic system underneath the metal plate automatically lifts the bin two meters up in the air (which actually takes awhile) and then empties it onto the truck.
Thought I’d share that; when I first saw that happening I couldn’t stop laughing about this expensive method for half an hour!
In fact we are not able to see through the pole, so we don´t have an evidence of the two car parts beeing connected behind that pole… tada,
theres the clue, it´s a splittable car.. like uhm.. the batmobile
This is not necessarily a fail. A long time ago, in a different country, I had a “place” to put my car that couldn’t be closed by a door, just like the place in the picture. The solution was a removable horizontal back, locked by big padlocks, that would be removed as needed, keeping car thieves away. Maybe the guy in the picture took the vertical approach…
This is actually a house I pass often… It is in a small city in West Texas… If I remember the story correctly, the elderly lady’s carport roof started to sag. Since she no longer drove, moving the wagon was not an issue, so whoever decided to fix it just stuck the middle pole in where you see it now, and Voila! This is actually a pretty good post for the “There, I Fixed It” site!! LOL!
Looks like a late 70s Ford LTD Country Squire.
AAh, that brings me back. My folks used to have one. It was humongous and it handled like a barge. So much legroom you could hide someone under the dashboard and still not feel cramped. They sold it to a guy who did demolition derby. Memories…
Anyway…let me guess, the porch was in imminent danger of collapse, and the car has been dead for years…so they rigged up those flimsy looking supports as a temporary fix.
Poland?
Poland.
Is that the 51st state now?
*tongueincheek*
I thought that was the UK under Blair.
*tongueincheek*
GAAAAAH!!! WHY WON’T YOU CHANGE?! AND WHY IS MY NAME WEIRD?!
1. It has changed.
2. Because you have numbers in it and a rank in the military and Bond and Fan.
3. Safety.
Has it? DAMN YOU, IE!!!
*shakes fist at computer*
I’m going to log out of Gravatar now, and see what happens.
Patience grasshopper, you have patience. It takes a while for your avatar to change.
Your avatar is like unto a pot of water, put to boil.
You realise that the UK is under Gordon Brown now?
You realise that was a joke about the previous government leadership and their relationship with Bush right?
And the fact that I have been living in the UK for about three years, and not under a rock?
Nope, you’ve been stoned.
How romantic! A pole for Valentine’s day.
A pole a day keeps the… car inside?
…Bailiffs at bay?
…Backsides at play?
Car out of the driveway?
Drunks in the house?
Elephants in the pool?
this is Fake and Gay
Never mind the fake part – just mate with it.
Some boobs are fake, wouldn’t stop me from mating with them.
And fake lesbian boobs are even better.
What about heterosexual boobs?
I wouldn’t kick them out of bed, either.
It isn’t polish license plate.
The point of that comment eluded you there didn’t it!
shouldnt it be spelled “PINNED”?… failblog fail
“Penned” is correct – as in “kept in a pen”. FantasmaFail. http://www.dictionary.com is your friend.
It was assembled from the inside, like those ships-in-a-bottle.
I thought they build the house around it.
naah its a caged animal
That’s as bad as the house I had rented this last year. The water heater went out and it turned out the door to the closet it was in was too small to get it out. They’d built the closet around the water heater. Considering that a water heater only lasts a few years, at least with the hard water in this area, that was a very dumb thing to do.
The landlord had to tear down the door just to replace the water heater.
Ohhhh, do you think they did the thing with the string too?
Not sure I want to know what that thing with the string is.
To raise the masts, honestly, everyone here has such dirty minds!
Yeah, just ’cause someone has to erect the masts doesn’t make it… *giggle*… dirty!
Just don’t mention the poop deck huh!
Butt… you just did! I think I have to make you work… errr, wank… no: walk the plank for that!
Aft, I nearly broke my stern-um.
Can you still give berth with a dodgy stern-um?
I am not sure, I suppose it could keel me.
In that case you should be safe and just stick to the poop deck.
*passes the port*
Careful! That might lead to the first mate!
*shrugs*
Nowt wrong with a few able seamen.
They’ve been to exotic ports, they probably came back with compuss.
*opens navi gate*
Helloah sailors!
*stocks head out of a lorry window*
Will a soldier do?
Watch what you are doing.
*shakes head*
Amizzen he didn’t kill himself!
Well this is just (d)aft…
*crashes into a tree*
You lot are mast-ers of distraction!
This boat is full of sea-men
I keel You!
Maybe but: why would you want to?
’cause, it is something unique?
To prove you can?
To annoy the Guinness book of records?
That’s FB’s job!
To have the drive-in cinema experience at home?
To keep the value of the car by not being able to drive it?
That car has no value… it is a FORD. Too often Found On Road Dead.
There seems to be a trash bag on the roof.
Which one, there appear to be several, at varying angles, in this shot.
Roofs, not trash bags.
^Hehe…Mr Eld, that still looks like a lillywhite butt getting squeezed into tight black pants. FB p0rn, I love it!
*makes mental note to get dressed in the dark from now on*
*snork*
Never saw it that way… that has changed forever, I think. LMAO!
*LAO!*
*collects A x2*
*sells on black market*
*laughing* Whenever the esteemed Mr Eld says LMAO! He means LickMahAssOle! in debaucherous French accent *roflsnork*
Clickie!
ROFFLE!
good lord…
Liz Phair is gonna cover Mozart?
In fact the exit is on the other side, so you have to drive through the house to get out.
…and stop at the fridge for breakfast.
…I blame McDonalds. Damn drive thru nation.
You should see their bathroom.
Knowing what a permenant drive through diet does to the digestive system….I am thinking no.
This is why you should never let the Three Stooges build your garage.
Merry christmas!
I’ll get that avatar changed right away. Please wait.
Thank you!
I’m averting my eyes. I just know you’re gonna thank him in your own special, deep but tender way.
*sprintstothenearestairport*
Just thought I’d say hi, BFF hehe
BFF? Who is this BFF of which you speak? I am Juan Jose Carlos, Costa Rican carpenter!
*adjusts moustache*
Sssht… real Costa Rican moustaches are broad and bushy, not Charlie Chaplin-style…
LOOK! OVER THERE!
*quickly changes ‘tache while everyone is distracted*
IT IS I!!! JOSEF STALIN!!! I HAVE RETURNED!!!
It’s Eartha Kitt!
♫Santa Baby, slip a sable under th…♫
Hey! Wait a minute!
*opens trenchcoat*
Errrr, are you supposed to wear Jellyfish like that DrB?
Whew, a jellyfish! For a minute I thought… nevermind.
Facehuggers don’t aim for that bit Arthur.
Costa Rica has no military. Get an education, please.
sez you.
Second!
Your name represents what I scream whenever I see a comment like yours.
I did it!!! For the last like many weeks i’ve been browsing trough all those nearly 400 pages of the failblog, and today i’ve finished!!! I’ve reached the last one!! THe last page!!!! Now i’m free!!!! Hurray for me!!!!
You know there are several fails daily, right?
*facepalm* well, should browse through the new ones in just about several days…
*cough*HotelCalifornia*cough*
hurray for you! but a bit pathetic too xD
i dont think this is a fail, it’s a burglar protection win!
Burglar? What kind of idiot would want to steal a late-model Ford Station Wagon with broken back springs??
Assuming that the average intelligence and abilities of burglars and thieves are more or less those of the population in general, and in light of the contents of the present blog, I’m assuming that there are indeed people likely to steal just about anything.
It’s not really a FAIL; its a demolition WIN. Obviously this guy wanted to take out the major load-bearing support in this garage and have a little fun in the so doing.
Okay, OT alert.
Clicky. Ignore that the trash bin is overflowing; notice the metal plate under it. Why does that exist, you ask? Well, I asked that myself. The answer is: To empty the bins a small truck stops close to them. Then they don’t take the bag out of the bin, they also don’t lift the bin and empty it onto the truck. That both would be too simple and too cheap.
Instead, a hydraulic system underneath the metal plate automatically lifts the bin two meters up in the air (which actually takes awhile) and then empties it onto the truck.
Thought I’d share that; when I first saw that happening I couldn’t stop laughing about this expensive method for half an hour!
WTF!
World=going to the dogs
*headdesk*
You didn’t like the pups?
I guess our city saves 10 or so trash bags a week with this hydraulic system. That means in roughly 2344 years it’ll be cheaper than using bags.
Just wow. *stunned into silence*
Second!
so how did they get the car in there?
did they just build around it
they look to be about the same age
……
In fact we are not able to see through the pole, so we don´t have an evidence of the two car parts beeing connected behind that pole… tada,
theres the clue, it´s a splittable car.. like uhm.. the batmobile
Wait. So the next time I go to a strip club, those dancers are… nvm.
…awww come on, at least use Herbie as your example.
The other possible solution is that this is a mobile home^^
Yep, because all mobile homes like like normal cars.
The house right to the car is top mounted on the roof and the hydropneumatic drivetrain lifts the whole thing up to drive to
holiday… with your home
I too wouldn’t want to leave such a nice house behind.
Hey BFF — “like like” is that like, love? Or, just double the like, so you double your fun??
Whooops! There should, like, be an, like, “are”, in there, like. I wonder, like, what’s wrong, like, with, like, me.
I think the correct answer would have been PLLLLBBTT!
PLLLLBBTT!!!! Oh yes, that is, like, way more fun!
PLLLLBBTT!!!!! PLLLLBBTT!!!!! PLLLLBBTT!!!!! Weeeeeeee …. I like it.
*pulls out megaphone*
PLLLLLLLLBBBBBBBTTTTT!!!!
*bows*
MOM! Elsa is PLLLLBBTTing at me!
*pouts* YOU started it!!! *crosses arms and taps foot*
Did not did not!
Yes, you did!!! did too did TOO DID too DID TOO
DID TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
PLLLLBBTT!!!!! PLLLLBBTT!!!!! PLLLLBBTT!!!!!
*adds rasberry and custard tart to the mix*
*runsawaywithaquickness*
Oh YUM!!! *Picks up the custard tart, add raspberries, enjoys*
PLLLLBBTT!!!!! too bad for you AE, the rest are all up side down … no dessert for you!!
Don’t worry, I got my share when I licked all over the tarts.
Hmmm … I thought like, maybe the first like could , you know,maybe, be a look, maybe, like.
I like the PLLLLBBTTs of this^^
i shat bricks
Stuck between a pole and a hard place.
I would say it is an anti theft device except:
#1 who would want to steal a station wagon?
#2 it wouldn’t work since the station wagon could easily take it out while backing up.
sucker
Hey, awesome stationary wagon! ^^
woot polacks for valentines
Who voted for this!? It’s stupid.
This is not necessarily a fail. A long time ago, in a different country, I had a “place” to put my car that couldn’t be closed by a door, just like the place in the picture. The solution was a removable horizontal back, locked by big padlocks, that would be removed as needed, keeping car thieves away. Maybe the guy in the picture took the vertical approach…
back->bar in the message above.
Now how did that post come behind the station wagon?
PHOTOSHOPED GAYNESS!!!
This is actually a house I pass often… It is in a small city in West Texas… If I remember the story correctly, the elderly lady’s carport roof started to sag. Since she no longer drove, moving the wagon was not an issue, so whoever decided to fix it just stuck the middle pole in where you see it now, and Voila! This is actually a pretty good post for the “There, I Fixed It” site!! LOL!
*PHOTOSHOP WINS AGAIN*
oh, wait, [reads last post] really?
that car got to drink the pole
Looks like a late 70s Ford LTD Country Squire.
AAh, that brings me back. My folks used to have one. It was humongous and it handled like a barge. So much legroom you could hide someone under the dashboard and still not feel cramped. They sold it to a guy who did demolition derby. Memories…
Anyway…let me guess, the porch was in imminent danger of collapse, and the car has been dead for years…so they rigged up those flimsy looking supports as a temporary fix.
this is a FAIL