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re: Has anybody ever hit the cable things on the interstate?
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:11 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:11 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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There’s a lot of dirt in my intestines. I think that’s bad.
You are correct. That is not good. Sounds like you really don't need my help though. Amber lamps should be along... Hockey is on though. Caps are winning.
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Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:12 pm to MobileJosh
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:13 pm to MobileJosh
Cable things? As in the post?
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:14 pm to MobileJosh
I have a buddy that gets drunk and goes around using some tool and cuts them.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:15 pm to shawnlsu
I wonder what kind of stroke you need to have to get the construction gig for that.
Talk about a gigantic waste of money.
How many palms do you have to grease? And I wonder what else you have to do?
Talk about a gigantic waste of money.
How many palms do you have to grease? And I wonder what else you have to do?
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:17 pm to Walt OReilly
Walt, I’m at the Vineyard and need a ride
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:17 pm to MobileJosh
DesktopJosh posed better questions
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:18 pm to MobileJosh
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Are they doing their job? I would like to see some data on it, seriously. In instances where the median is of some width I would think they are just putting more people at risk of hitting something. Whereas it used to be just grass and tire marks of where people ran in the median. Which brings me to my original question asking about how the collision with the cables was to those who have experienced it.
I had 4 friends on our way to Florida a couple of miles in front of me in 1992 in a Delta 88. A drunk man at 9:00 am heading Westbound just past Foley veered off the inside into the trough of the median and launched landing ON TOP of my lifelong friends car at over 80 mph. The cars were smoking when I pulled up maybe 2 minutes later and I listened to 3 of my friends screaming to get them out and could do nothing and the 4th was cut in half. The other 3 died at the scene with me looking I to their eyes.
I see members of all 4 family’s on a regular basis and it absolutely destroyed all of the remaining members lives as well as fricked me up for awhile too.
To answer your question, yes they work and my friends positively would have never gotten in that wreck and a lot of people would not be fricked up.
Driver of other car walked away with a broken nose and not a day in jail.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:19 pm to MobileJosh
Would have saved 5 of my family members from a car that crossed the I-10 median after a blowout.
They also would have kept Livingston Parish from flooding so bad in 2016 as the water would not have backed up at the dam between the I-12 lanes.
They also would have kept Livingston Parish from flooding so bad in 2016 as the water would not have backed up at the dam between the I-12 lanes.
This post was edited on 5/30/18 at 9:23 pm
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:23 pm to MobileJosh
I know a few people who fell asleep and died in a head on collision. I know no one who has run into those cables.
Plus, I12 with the part that had the concrete barrier got people stranded in the flood.
Plus, I12 with the part that had the concrete barrier got people stranded in the flood.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:24 pm to Martini
That’s terrible man, I’m sorry I asked this. I never doubted that they prevented head on collisions. Was just curious if the good out weighed the bad on the damage they caused by adding another barrier for people to hit. Especially when they are located just a few feet off the shoulder on some interstates. Nevermind
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:38 pm to TypoKnig
The LADOTD said on the news about a month ago that statistics show that they are saving lives. What I think sucks is he said in that same interview that the state pays around one million per year repairing the spots that people hit. I would have thought that the person that damaged them would be responsible for the cost. But then again we are talking about the state of Louisiana.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:45 pm to MobileJosh
Yes.
Hit black ice in Corsicana, TX and lost control. Slid over a lane of traffic and into the cables
pretty sure they saved my life
Hit black ice in Corsicana, TX and lost control. Slid over a lane of traffic and into the cables
pretty sure they saved my life
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:46 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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Just hit one, posting this from the top half my body. Don’t know where my bottom half is
Hey dickless.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:51 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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I’m bleeding out, can one of you send help?
For frick's sake - be a man. Rub some dirt or spray some Windex on it and you'll be fine.
Walk that off, Mike.
Sheesh.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:51 pm to MobileJosh
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My bad. But the number of head on collisions I’ve heard of on the interstate pale in comparison to the damage I see every quarter mile of what appears to be caused by a human cheese grater.
I'm having deja vu
This conversation has come up 2-3 times on this board before, always with one or two people zealously and irately ranting about the dangers of the cables while everyone else tells them about head on collisions
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MobileJosh
Member since May 2018
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u suspect
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:52 pm to Walt OReilly
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I have a buddy that gets drunk and goes around using some tool and cuts them.
I stopped doing that, Walt. The getting drunk part, anyway.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 9:58 pm to Pettifogger
quote:OweO alter?
u suspect
Posted on 5/30/18 at 10:07 pm to LongueCarabine
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Talk about a gigantic waste of money.
Statistics show they have significantly reduced fatal head on collisions.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 10:19 pm to MobileJosh
I originally thought those cables wouldnt do shite.
My dad passed out from a diabetic coma at the wheel about 5 years ago and hit those cables on a highway in arkansas. It shredded his truck but saved his life, and more importantly, saved the lives of people on the other side. They are there for a reason.
My dad passed out from a diabetic coma at the wheel about 5 years ago and hit those cables on a highway in arkansas. It shredded his truck but saved his life, and more importantly, saved the lives of people on the other side. They are there for a reason.
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