I thought they were numbered? For a couple a beers the orignal consulting engineer might have helped you out.Quote:
Originally Posted by David Love AI27
Ah... VATS.
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I thought they were numbered? For a couple a beers the orignal consulting engineer might have helped you out.Quote:
Originally Posted by David Love AI27
Ah... VATS.
Follow by connector and pin number :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by David Love AI27
(remember all the drawings I provided?)
jb
Great drawings and thanks for offering to drive down...Quote:
Originally Posted by jeffburch
I was just yankin' your chain :twisted:
Put THIS in the car so I could better pretend I drove the #3. 'Cept that I'm slower.
And I heard the Australian V8 guys like it.
Had a colonoscopy. That was a real hoot. FMR
On pupose or were you guys just F-ing around the surgery parlor?Quote:
Originally Posted by cobra132
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Originally Posted by mitchntx
ROFLMFAO!!!!
Usually your Sat night stories are about OTHER people.Quote:
Originally Posted by cobra132
Remember from the "who's going to Hallett thread?"
It's not the first left hand sweeper but the uphill right you gotta look out for.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr. Frank's Doctor
It's funny to me that you're just not supposed to notice a piece of equipment marked in meters.
LOL... now I can't stop laffin.
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OK... can't breathe... how do you top, "What did YOU do today?" "I had a colonoscopy; that was a real hoot."
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Originally Posted by Fbody383
OK kids ... this is the reason why you shouldn't post while intoxicated.
I assumed it was some kind of code.Quote:
Originally Posted by mitchntx
JJ
It was only 9:28.Quote:
Originally Posted by mitchntx
/begin messageQuote:
Originally Posted by ShadowBolt
Reference: 1X3348WRT
Body: AZRT-TREP-UVXX-AAPB-LOEE-IIWQ-CVXZ-CCRE
/end message
[quote="Fbody383"]It was only 9:28.Quote:
Originally Posted by mitchntx
And my point ... :shock:
:D :lol:
Was still finishing up the chocolate malt... too early for a 40.Quote:
Originally Posted by mitchntx
I knew you guys would like that one, and yes I am OK, routine screening. All you 50 and olders are due. FMR
We got back around 2am from Hallett. Unloaded the truck and hit the bed about 2:30am. Got woken up at 5:20am bacause a drunk teenager hit a tree and took out our brick mailbox. He wasn't too happy when he saw me on the phone calling the cops.
He was going to leave with a friend he called, but the cops got there before they could leave. The cop asked him how much he had to drink and his response was "too much".
If it wasn't for the trees that line our yard he probably would have taken out the V and the truck...
How many mailboxes have you "lost"???Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. Crumpacker
this is #3Quote:
Originally Posted by David Love AI27
RIPQuote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. Crumpacker
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/b...on20060006.jpg
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/a...r/DSCN0177.jpg
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/a...r/DSCN0187.jpg
http://i998.photobucket.com/albums/a...r/DSCN0201.jpg
http://s998.photobucket.com/albums/a...t=DSCN0206.mp4
New reason to plant a tree to celebrate Arbor day.. it could save your DD and race car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. Crumpacker
Man, that tree got hit pretty hard! Good thing those are there! :shock:
I'd recommend putting a 4" drilling pipe down the center of #4 ;)
Early apex'd, lifted in the front wheel drive Civic, missed track out.
3 mailboxes... - Just rename your street - "the bitch".
Glad the V is intact.
If you do that then you'll just wake up in the middle of the night to Glenn spinning his car in front of your house! :PQuote:
Originally Posted by MikeP99Z
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Originally Posted by michaelmosty
ZING! nothing but net.
JJ
:lol: During that last race... Glenn made sure he didn't spin in the bitch.... Rob would nearly ram him he was so slow through there.Quote:
Originally Posted by michaelmosty
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??????
We get back from a GREAT weekend of racing and there are NO race pics and NO race reports HOWEVER... we got pleanty of pics and descriptions of the great mailbox disaster at Casa Crumpacker... :?
What's wrong with us? Get it right, it's the Great Crumpacker Casa Tres Mailbox Catastrophy of 2010.Quote:
Originally Posted by David Love AI27
Booked my hotel & car for this weekend's Mid-Ohio Grand Am races.
http://www.grand-am.com/schedule/eve...ies=r&eid=1487
Watch it live Saturday nite! I'll be on pit lane for the races....
-=- Todd
Slippery slope. Have to be careful that you don't build something that has the intent to cause damage as thats illegal. Same reason you can't create a trap that will hurt a would be thief. Such as I guy I know in high school that put hooks and razor blades on the back of his stereo in his camaro. When it was broken into they didn't get the radio but blood was everywhere.
There is also a CSI episode like this where a guy loaded his mailbox with concrete. Kids came by with a bat in a car, bat broke, hit the driver in the head of a convertible, and ran into a tree killing them. Of course its TV but homeowner was arrested for murder.
Yeah, we have discussed after the last one and this one about putting in a large pipe to anchor the thing, but were advised both times that if someone hits it and dies/gets hurt then we can be sued. Not something we want to risk...there were discussions of putting a fake, bloody arm in the middle so the next person to hit it thinks they took someone out... :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by BryanL
I wonder if this is true or an urban legend. Businesses use bollards all the time for protection against vehicles:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. Crumpacker
http://www.acmesteelfab.com/images/bank_bollards.jpg
And I see folks incorporate boulders in their landscaping all the time to do the same thing:
http://ovnblog.com/wp-content/upload.../shelfroad.gif
These are being used to prevent parking on private property along a public road.
Build a ramp on the sidewalk, and they'll clear the mailbox completely - like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdFXW...eature=related
The problem is, you have had it hit before. If you did something now it may look bad.
Though if you happen to work in the oil field or had a friend with some stout pipe laying around and you just put it in to save cash you could get by with that. You would have to have a good lawyer for it to work though I am sure.
So you're going to cut down the trees before they get too big?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. Crumpacker
Next car is lowered and the contractor uses an epoxy based mortar and the entire mailbox comes through the windshield?
They hit the V and submarine under it?
They hit the house and it collapses on them?
They spear the corner of the trailer with the race car sitting on it?
They stop to take a leak and get struck by lightning?
Not picking on you but curious why everyone is nervous about building a mailbox to better withstand a vehicle strike when multiple risks already exist for someone breaking the law.
Not an attorney but I've had to talk to too many of them.
We have actually asked the same questions, and we were told that because the mailbox has already been taken out, modifying it's structure in that way could open up the possibility for a lawsuit. Can someone hit the trees head on, die, and the family sues us? Sure, but we have a better shot at winning then if they hit the mailbox with extra reinforcements, die, and sue us. This is just what we have been told by several different parties.
We can get sued for anything b/c someone hurts themselves on our property. Just like the dumb cable guy who jumped our fence and got bit by our dog. We told him to let us know when he needed back there and we would bring the animals in, but he didn't listen. He could have sued us b/c he was an idiot, but luckily for us he realized his stupidity and didn't...
Would a tire wall around the mailbox work? you could plant flowers in them like they do at Hallett, and when the idiot takes you to court just claim you have a thing for racing... and flowers...
A chicane prior to turn in might help.
The main difference "I think" is the obvious danger vs hidden danger. Hitting a brick mailbox is as dangerous as it appears on paper, the game changes once you hide a steel pipe inside it - something not normally found in the center of a brick mailbox. Also you should consider the person who is not at fault for the loss of control of the car they are driving and is knocked into the hidden pole.
Sam has it right, dont do it. But, why not take out a large insurance policy on the box. :wink:
Who's to say that it isn't standard? Reinforced concrete and cinder blocks are used all the time. Why not reinforced brick??? Just my .02.Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
Kinda like gridding next to Al or Glenn and having a good look at their cars...Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennCMC70