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The luckiest truck crash

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Bagels
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"Truck Wreck" --

Read the captions on the first photo, then look at the second photo...


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Look at the picture above and you can see where this driver broke through the guardrail, on the right side of the culvert, where the people are standing on the road.

The pick-up was traveling about 75 mph from right to left when it crashed through the guardrail.

It flipped end-over-end, bounced off and across the culvert outlet, and landed right side up on the left side of the culvert, facing the opposite direction from which the driver was traveling.

The 22-year-old driver and 18-year-old passenger were unhurt except for minor cuts and bruises.

Just outside Flagstaff, AZ, on U.S. Hwy 100.

Now look at the second picture below...


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May 17 2011 4:51PM
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1337
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holy shi-
May 17 2011 4:53PM
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AWALLRUS.
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HOLY FUCK.
May 17 2011 4:54PM
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Davy.Crockett
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lord
May 17 2011 4:54PM
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hoodhugo
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oh my fucking god. how did that even happen?
May 17 2011 4:54PM
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SPskier543
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that would suck if the passenger survived that crash, was dazed and opened the door, then fell. They are incredibly lucky 
May 17 2011 4:54PM
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Zump.
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Photoshopped. Look at the image of the white truck in both pictures (they're the same), and then back at everything else.
May 17 2011 4:55PM
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Zump.
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Holy shit, I take that back. That is fucking ridiculous.
May 17 2011 4:56PM
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yelsel
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holy fuck
May 17 2011 4:56PM
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Jpurd
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oh




my goodness
May 17 2011 4:57PM
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240sxKid
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Shopped. Look at the "Ambulance" and "Firetruck" dont they look pipsqueak sized?
May 17 2011 4:57PM
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DERS.
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i remember seeing this in my drivers ed course a couple years ago. but yea its insane...
May 17 2011 4:58PM
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AWALLRUS.
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good call, something looks fucky, but it might be real I dunno
May 17 2011 4:58PM
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240sxKid
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And the fence thats next to them in the first pic. Its far away in the 2nd
May 17 2011 4:59PM
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theJones
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thought shopped at first, but i believe it is real

May 17 2011 4:59PM
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Bagels
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It's been verified:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/culvert.asp
May 17 2011 5:00PM
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240sxKid
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Im callin BS
May 17 2011 5:01PM
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reverendwrong
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no its real, the pic has is not in aspect ratio, they narrowed it and made it taller, probably to fit in the article better. but everything is compressed, it looks less due to the angle of the truck
May 17 2011 5:03PM
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WorthDaMoney
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first picture is taken from behind the truck and the second one is more square to side of the truck. its two different angles. i thought the same at first though.
May 17 2011 5:04PM
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H8CH
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Just trying to find US hgwy 100 outside Flagstaff Az on google maps with Sat image, and nope.... the is i17, i40, hghwy 180 and hghwy 89A...

Im calling Shop until someone show's me a Google earth image of this location...... 

May 17 2011 5:04PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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rt. 59 according to the cnn and snopes articles above. also the snopes one has your google view.

My question is, why the hell aren't those rescue workers roped in?????
May 17 2011 5:13PM
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theJones
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that is what i was thinking at first, doesn't seem like a smart thing to be doing
May 17 2011 5:14PM
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H8CH
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Holy Shit baws....

And yes - why didn't they secure the truck and rope the rescue workers up? da fuck....   doesn't look the most stable of rock either....

May 17 2011 5:18PM
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monkatizer
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load of shit
May 17 2011 5:26PM
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MiraFFe
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WOW! I'd have nightmares for life
May 17 2011 5:29PM
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Bumblesteeze
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That's crazy!
May 17 2011 5:35PM
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zakaroo
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just showed this to my math teacher and he stared in disbelief
May 17 2011 5:35PM
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Relish_man
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..........k

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May 17 2011 5:40PM
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maximiliaan
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:O!
May 17 2011 5:43PM
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CAPITA-DEVOURS
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no fucking way. now those two people are still with us today because they have tsomething that will help humans in the future.
May 17 2011 5:43PM
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cwillygood
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dang that nuts
May 17 2011 5:45PM
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WorthDaMoney
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the huge drop is actually there. I just checked on google earth

street view of where the truck would have gone off:

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and the zoomed out view. the highest part thats dark is where the accident happened:

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May 17 2011 5:55PM
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egg.
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so sketch
May 17 2011 5:59PM
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Anathema
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whether it's shopped or not, the idea of something like that happening is ridiculous.

reminds me of the time i was tree planting and a shortbus full of millions of planters piled with gear and all that veered into a pond and started to roll onto its side but got snagged on the edge of the road. thank god, cause if the thing had actually flipped over onto the side / roof there would have been a clusterfuck of people underwater, scrambling like cockroaches to get out..
May 17 2011 6:07PM
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statuswhitegirl
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repost
May 17 2011 6:12PM
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SeanTom
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holy fuck a duck. absurd
May 17 2011 6:33PM
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Steve-Brown
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wwwhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhooooooooooooaaaaaaaaa.

god's on their side
May 17 2011 6:36PM
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Jpurd
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this
May 17 2011 6:39PM
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jorb.co
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lol at a million people crammed into a shortbus
May 17 2011 6:40PM
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POWDER.RANGER
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..and thats another pair of boxers lost to nsg...
May 17 2011 6:42PM
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skitheWest.
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holy shit that guy if fuckin lucky
May 17 2011 6:43PM
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860media*
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Mother of God
May 17 2011 8:31PM
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maximiliaan
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something called a different angle.... ever heard of that?
May 17 2011 8:35PM
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theabortionator
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holy jebus
May 17 2011 8:43PM
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reverendwrong
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http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_truck_accident.htm

/thread
May 17 2011 8:47PM
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OMGimDADDY
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Sooo you win. Its obviously true. There is way too many pictures of it too for it to be fake.
May 17 2011 8:52PM
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Moosen
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OH MY GOD!
May 17 2011 9:00PM
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Bagels
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It really happened and he stomped the shit out of it!
May 18 2011 10:42AM
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pink_squid
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false. i can tell by the pixels
May 18 2011 12:24PM
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Scott.Benson12
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1st reaction:  yeah he was pretty lucky I guess.....
 ---scrolls down---
2nd reaction: holy fucking shit balls
May 18 2011 12:27PM
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RunRich
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if you look at everything else youll notice that the whole image is "squished" and its all like that just not as noticable.
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