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[msmemory]

So when will the first truck get stuck on Storrow Drive? I'd guess probably tomorrow, but it might be as late as Wednesday (the 1st of the month).

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[baron_steffan]

Not so much, apparently.

This is Durham, NC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-n0NqJKse8&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgreeUKQOts&NR=1

[cvirtue]

I guess I'm clueless. Why would a truck get stuck on Storrow Drive?

[cvirtue]

Aha! Didn't use a U-haul in college, so there's my blindness. Thanks.

[lucianus]

I can report no stuck trucks around noontime today when I came back from a meeting in Camb.

[baron_steffan]

It's a wonder that this happens, given the abundance of warning signs and flashing yellow lights and whatnot. But there's always someone who figures that the roof of the underpass will magically rise because...it's me.

The absurd limit of this is the Pawtucket Bridge on I-95 in RI. The signs that give the tonnage limit and the "2 axles per unit" warning and the "EXIT NOW" instruction start in Connecticut. Oh, and the "$3000 FINE!" warning -- the decimal point is not missing. But there's almost always a semi pulled over with a police car behind it.

[ladymacgregor]

Isn't that how you keep your taxes lower? The idiot fines? (Seems very efficient to ME.)

[bubbette]

It still won't beat the brand-new, $500K fire truck that Boston Fire Station 1 drove into the bridge on Storrow Drive. They had to let the air out of the tires to pull it out. I think it was something like $50K of damage to the new truck.