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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/17/09

    In reply to How Do You Ship the Biggest Trucks in the World?

    This is my preferred method. #monstermachines
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    Image of KevlarSTi KevlarSTi
    09/22/09

    In reply to Backwards Painted Truck Doubles as Pants Crapper 3000
    This reminds me of something from my younger, more wreckless (read: stupid) days of driving. I was blasting across the Howard Franklin causeway from Tampa to St. Pete with a friend, chasing down a 911 and an SLK55 AMG. We were probably doing around 100, finding the empty lanes (light traffic) and maintaining a good clip. The 911 and SLK made a bad lane choice and had to slow down, but I saw an opening two lanes over in the fast lane and took it. No sooner did I get into the fast lane (still doing north of 100) than I saw a massive semi, staring me down. My friend and I about shat ourselves. I didn't swerve, but I slowed down very quickly. Turns out it was a semi tractor towing three identical new semis, with the last facing backwards. When your adrenaline is pumping, your brain is recting to instantaneous sensory inputs, not necessarily common logic (trucks don't typically drive backwards down the fast lanes of causeways). Granted, had I been driving sanely it wouldn't have been an issue, but I can sympathize with those who think this is a cheap prank and a hazard.
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    ripfire promoted this comment KevlarSTi was starred KevlarSTi was unstarred
    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/22/09

    @KevlarSTi: "Granted, had I been driving sanely it wouldn't have been an issue..."

    You can stop right there. Thank you.
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    Image of Twanzio Twanzio
    09/22/09

    In reply to Backwards Painted Truck Doubles as Pants Crapper 3000
    This reminds me of a prank video I saw awhile back (and now can't locate). A guy was sleeping in the passenger seat of a car and the driver pulled up really close to a truck towing another car backwards. They woke they guy up by screaming "WE'RE GONNA CRASH!" and the sleepy dude proceeded to S*** himself. Good times.
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    Bigbadbikernerd promoted this comment Twanzio was starred Twanzio was unstarred
    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    09/22/09

    @Twanzio: I'll have to try that...
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    Image of SwatiMosquito SwatiMosquito
    09/22/09

    In reply to Backwards Painted Truck Doubles as Pants Crapper 3000
    Seriously -- if you judge the direction a vehicle is moving by the direction it's facing, it's time for you to get off the road. Should we ban towing trucks or buses also, as they have to be towed backwards?

    The sheer lack of intelligence and/or visual acuity by commenters to this post is nothing short of appalling.
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    ripfire promoted this comment SwatiMosquito was starred SwatiMosquito was unstarred
    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/22/09

    @SwatiMosquito: "Seriously -- if you judge the direction a vehicle is moving by the direction it's facing,..."

    Wait.. Let's think about that for a second...

    It this a trick question?
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    Image of Skid-Vicious Skid-Vicious
    09/22/09

    In reply to Backwards Painted Truck Doubles as Pants Crapper 3000
    This is criminal, it's like those assholes who use red lights in the front.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/22/09

    @Skid-Vicious: I'm still working on a realistic tunnel entrance on a brick wall for people and roadrunners to slam into.
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    Image of facepuncher: you're right: facepuncher: you're right:
    09/22/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: obviously you must mean coyotes, not roadrunners. As it's common knowledge that roadrunners can definitely run through a painted-on tunnel.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/22/09

    @facepuncher: you're right:: Damn! I need to brush up on my Fritz Freleng Laws of Physics.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    09/22/09

    In reply to Backwards Painted Truck Doubles as Pants Crapper 3000
    It seems like this could be potentially dangerous. What if some driver freaks out and swerves?
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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    09/22/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Then the best of luck to them.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/22/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: You'd have to be some extremely high strung person to pull something like that. The relationship of motion of both that motorist and the back of that trailer would suggest that even if the person briefly fell for the idea of a truck facing the wrong way up ahead, that truck is in a very fast reverse :P

    *if you ARE that high strung that you'd swerve, snip your license in half, and get the number for your favorite taxi company.
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 09/22/09 11:24 AM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Skid-Vicious Skid-Vicious
    09/22/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: When you drive at 100mph it's very difficult to determine if a truck is going in your same direction, the opposite direction or if it's stopped.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/22/09

    @Skid-Vicious: I imagine you're not going to find many trucks with gag graphics on the Autobahn.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/22/09

    @Skid-Vicious: I believe you have more problems than a truck facing a wrong direction if you're approaching it at 100mph.
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    Image of Identity (Metric) Identity (Metric)
    09/22/09

    @Skid-Vicious: Then don't drive at 100mph.
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    Image of Skid-Vicious Skid-Vicious
    09/22/09

    @Identity less than three:
    When you drive for hours, long and well known roads you fall asleep if you don't ran a little.
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    Image of chaoss13 chaoss13
    09/22/09

    In reply to Backwards Painted Truck Doubles as Pants Crapper 3000
    I like how the driver and passenger are both looking "backwards" Good work on that one.
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    Image of Tiny Iota Tiny Iota
    09/22/09

    In reply to Backwards Painted Truck Doubles as Pants Crapper 3000

    that's good, but this is better
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    Image of ELPARTO ELPARTO
    09/22/09

    @Tiny Iota: ...I don't get it.
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    Barry99705 promoted this comment ELPARTO was starred ELPARTO was unstarred
    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    09/22/09

    @ELPARTO: Look at the shadow. That semi is being towed, so it's a real semi, going the right way down the highway, backwards.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    09/22/09

    In reply to Backwards Painted Truck Doubles as Pants Crapper 3000
    i had a buddy that was on a trip with his father. they were driving behind a semi being towed backwards. so, while his dad was sleeping he pulled up real close to the back of the towed truck and slapped his dad's leg and started screaming. needless to say -- hilarity ensued.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/22/09

    In reply to Backwards Painted Truck Doubles as Pants Crapper 3000
    Most would probably not fall for it in the daytime, but if you're in the front seat of a Greyhound at night and you happen to wake up as the bus is coming at a good speed behind this trailer, and you may just make peace with God right there.
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 09/22/09 10:35 AM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of TreFacTor TreFacTor
    09/22/09

    In reply to Backwards Painted Truck Doubles as Pants Crapper 3000
    Anyone who can't tell that that's the back of the trailer and not the rig was probably going to crash anyway.
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    Kaiser-Machead promoted this comment TreFacTor was starred TreFacTor was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/22/09

    @TreFacTor: A cursory glance only gives you the rough details, If you just happen to catch view of this as a passenger it may scare the bejebus out of you, because all you saw was the general look of the front of the truck, not the mudflaps, high clearance or even the locking posts.
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    Image of KTK1990 KTK1990
    09/22/09

    In reply to Backwards Painted Truck Doubles as Pants Crapper 3000
    This would be awesome to scare the sleeping people in the car. Just scream, they will look up and see it and freak out.
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    Image of moonrad moonrad
    08/05/09

    In reply to World's Fastest Car Wash Has Certain Disadvantages
    This video will give you better quality and a few better angles, enjoy!
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    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    08/05/09

    In reply to World's Fastest Car Wash Has Certain Disadvantages
    Bet they didn't sea that coming!
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    Image of Paul Windsor Paul Windsor
    08/05/09

    In reply to World's Fastest Car Wash Has Certain Disadvantages
    Its powered by a jet turbine? It says in the product description that its powered by twin 2000 hp 16 cylinder engines.
    [www.liebherr.com]!11929-0
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    Barry99705 promoted this comment Paul Windsor was starred Paul Windsor was unstarred
    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    08/05/09

    @Paul Windsor: I give you a hint, jet engines don't have cylinders.
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