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FailBlog |
FailBlog – Being tall – First reaction. (Map this!)
We had been reading FailBlog, a humorous website that features various things that unintentionally go wrong. Reading these kinds of websites give us that superior feeling that allows us to laugh at other people’s misfortunes while complacently shaking our heads at how silly people can be. Until that is, something of a similar nature happens to us.
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Loaded FJ |
On FailBlog, incidents resulting from the underestimating the height of a vehicle seem to be unusually common. Especially the one where the whole roof of a truck came off, presumably due to misjudging the clearance of a bridge. “How can people do this?” I wondered. It does seem that most of these height incidents happen with UHauls which were probably rented. I was shaking my head in disbelief at the carnage until….
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Lighthouse, Chiloé |
In Chiloé, our friend Vinay joined us. When we have another person traveling with us, we throw our jerry cans on the roof, thus raising the height of the car from approx 6’8″ to over 7′. We had just pulled into a fabulous hotel with ocean front rooms in the small town of Ancud and were off to see the local sights. The driveway passed underneath a nice little carport. Just as I drove under it, THWACK! the sound startled the living daylights out of me. What had happened? The jerry cans had taken a part of the portico right off!
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Hotel damage |
And what was Shreesh’s first comment after finding out what happened?
“Oh no! We will be on FailBlog!”
(His second comment was “Hey! The jerry cans are OK!” while the poor, gracious hotel manager was looking at the damage to the carport and telling us not to worry, he could fix it).
I seem to recall *ahem* a similar incident returning from Burning Man involving a Bay Bridge Toll Plaza and a rented RV – but I would never publically mention such an alleged incident or the fact that I might have been a part of it.
So, are you going to add an entry to failblog?
Hey Ada,
If I had the pictures with broken pieces of the portico hanging off the FJ, I would!