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This is a video of the notoriously low 11-foot 8-inch railroad bridge (aka 11foot8, aka Canopener Bridge) at Gregson and Main in Durham, North Carolina
claiming its latest victim (#145 since April 2008), a Swimmingpool.com tractor trailer that actually speeds up to beat the red light designed to make it stop and turn because it's been identified by the bridge's detection system as too tall to pass (hence the light changing and OVERHEIGHT MUST TURN light coming on). KE-RUNCH! Some more info while I'm just thankful I'm not as bad a day as this driver. At least not yet anyways:
In the evening hours of March 28, a semi truck hit the 11foot8 bridge in quite a spectacular fashion, at pretty high speed scattering debris across the intersection. Luckily no one was injured! The busted semi trailer was wedged under the trestle for over 90 Minutes before the recovery operators were able to winch it out of the canopener's "jaws" ... the beast has been fed! This was crash # 145 since April 2008 ... and probably the biggest mess we have seen here, yet.
Or, who knows, maybe the driver thought if he could just go fast enough the truck's shocks would compress another foot and a half and he could safely pass under. I've had dumber ideas before.
*thinks really hard* Wait, maybe I haven't.
*in disbelief* Today is a day for the record books! Mark it down -- February whatever today is, 2019. "It's April." Whatever, just get the balloons and cake on their way.
Keep going for the video, complete with multiple angles and aftermath.
This is a video of a man (who I assume is a personal trainer) clearly itching for some cardio, but, with no electric treadmill and presumably a blizzard outside, makes his own makeshift treadmill by adding a little powdered soap and water to a tile floor. Just make sure you have a solid grip on something when you're running or you are going to bite that soapy tile with your pearly whites. So, yeah, between this for cardio and bodyweight exercises for strength training, you really have no excuse not to start a basic workout program besides being tired and lazy, which, for the record are valid excuses and I don't care what my doctor says. You know what I told him? I told him I'll start running when he starts seeing me at my scheduled appointment time. I felt pretty good about that one, but not so deep down I know my future health problems aren't going to be prevented with sass alone.
Keep going for the whole video, and please, make sure there's a friend or family member nearby to drive you to the hospital if you try this.
These are the Paladone 
This is the officially licensed 
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Note: A decent OREO recreation of the Game Of Thrones opener after the jump.
Because everybody and their brother wants to hitch their horse to the Game Of Thrones wagon, these are 
Note: Worthwhile larger shots of this image and the other three 
This is a surprisingly fascinating video of Bryan Ropar of Bryan Ropar's Plastic Chair World briefly counting down his top 25 plastic patio chairs of all time. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that there are over 25 models of patio chair. That was a real shocker. Also, that his number one chair (the Grosfillex Malaga Chair) is the chair that started it all -- the chair that launched a thousand barbecues, if you will. He says it spawned the entire industry, all other plastic chairs owe their lives to it, and he strongly believes it's the best plastic chair ever made (they got it right the very first time, that's rare). Sadly, Grosfillex intended to start remanufacturing the chair but found out they don't have the original mold anymore, so it can never return and the remaining chairs are collector's items now. Heartbreaking, really. *sits in chair, all four legs immediately snap off* Honestly I don't see what's so special about it.
Keep going for the video while I run to Home Depot to start my plastic chair collection.
This is the $15 
This is the $23 IT Pennywise face umbrella 
This is a video of Polygon producer Brian David Gilbert 
These are several shots and a video of the paper dragon