Ummm, Excuse Me ... You Dropped Your Beam On My Beemer!

[Five_Inch_Heels]

http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/42/55/54/9100032/4/920x920.jpg

A San Jose driver narrowly escaped a potentially fatal injury on Interstate 280 Friday afternoon, impressing even San Jose firefighters, who tweeted out a photo of a long metal tray sticking out from the front of the man’s car.

Shortly after 2 p.m., the driver of a black BMW was going southbound on I-280 when the metal beam fell off of the back of a nearby truck and went through the windshield, said Cpt. Christopher Salcido, a San Jose Fire spokesman.

The driver pulled over to the right of the road, and escaped with only a slight scratch.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Jose-driver-narrowly-avoids-death-when-beam-6693128.php

 

[MissMaidenMinx]

Wow! Just wow!

 

[Queersetti]

Truck driver had a mote in his eye.

 

[allateup]

So is it a "tray" or a "beam"?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

A beam holds a building up.

A tray holds the ale the barmaid is carrying.

 

[rosco rathbone]

So is it a "tray" or a "beam"?

Yeah, it's not a beam. Some kind of sheet-metal shape. Big restaurant-equiptment type trough was my first thought too.

 

[Saint Peter]

I would not call that a beam. It will still chop your head off and fuck your day up.

 

[Saint Peter]

Yeah.

 

[rosco rathbone]

The second thing I ask myself after "can he see me in his mirrors" is "what's going to happen if the load binders fail"?

 

[Saint Peter]

It is a good thing the BMW driver was texting at the time of impact.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

These articles never mention if the people soiled themselves or not.

 

[Queersetti]

The second thing I ask myself after "can he see me in his mirrors" is "what's going to happen if the load binders fail"?

Among the joys of driving in Maine; getting behind these guys.

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/wooden-logs-logging-truck-trailer-23181086.jpg

 

[lovecraft68]

Among the joys of driving in Maine; getting behind these guys.

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/wooden-logs-logging-truck-trailer-23181086.jpg

If you ever saw Final Destination that gets even creepier

 

[allateup]

Among the joys of driving in Maine; getting behind these guys.

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/wooden-logs-logging-truck-trailer-23181086.jpg

Why would you be so stupid to do that?

Oh, it's 'salli...

...never mind.

 

[Sean]

Among the joys of driving in Maine; getting behind these guys.

On the roads in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, you see loads of those fuckers thundering along at way above the speed limit. Used to scare the crap out of me every time I drove down there.

 

[lovetoread]

If you ever saw Final Destination that gets even creepier

Or read a Stephen King novel.

 

[Aella_]

Wow! one lucky bastard..They feature such things in horror movies like "The Omen", "Final Destination" and so on. (only that they all die).

Such photos make me cringe every time, knowing that something bad is gonna happen, like watching a wall socket or the guillotine in Paris museums. (one has to fight the bizarre impulse of stucking their fingers underneath.)

 

[Pairaclities]

I would not call that a beam. It will still chop your head off and fuck your day up.

It is a beam if it is installed horizontally in a structure.
It is a column if installed vertically.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I'm really not sure what it is, or what it's made of to be able to bounce or fly.

Typical steel beams hit the pavement with a thud when dropped and stay put.

 

[allateup]

Geezus...

It's been pretty much ascertained that it isn't a "beam".

Not authoritative enough, evidently, so now the playgrounders are going to figure out everything else for the thread?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Geezus...

It's been pretty much ascertained that it isn't a "beam".

Not authoritative enough, evidently, so now the playgrounders are going to figure out everything else for the thread?

You'll just have to console yourself with being free to jerk around like a piece of shit who textually assaults all the posters on this Board, piss flounder, and then go whine about a childboss when you're asked directly to leave your textual assaults which don't work with your hypothetical slaughter.

How does it work that your very words/actions are jerkable when maliciously directed to other posters, but when they're figuratively directed back at you, you can't help but be such an outrageously offended and victimized cunt?

Bet you'd really piss more about a childboss if posters blatantly and intentionally accused you of being a pedophile, yet you so much enjoy posting with those who maliciously accuse you like you do other posters the same.

Fancy that.

 

[about_average]

It's not a beam, beams are 'I' and 'H' shaped.
It's also not a channel (which I thought it was at first glance) because it was bent from steel plate.
Tray would be the closest term so far.

 

[Saint Peter]

We already covered that.

 

[yossi]

So, it's definitely a beam?

 

[Saint Peter]

So, it's definitely a beam?

Full Definition of beam

1
a : a long piece of heavy often squared timber suitable for use in construction b : a wood or metal cylinder in a loom on which the warp is wound c : the part of a plow to which handles, standard, and coulter are attached d : the bar of a balance from which scales hang e : one of the principal horizontal supporting members (as of a building or ship) <a steel beam supporting a floor>; also : boom, spar <the beam of a crane> f : the extreme width of a ship at the widest part g : an oscillating lever on a central axis receiving motion at one end from an engine connecting rod and transmitting it at the other

2
a : a ray or shaft of light b : a collection of nearly parallel rays (as X rays) or a stream of particles (as electrons) c : a constant directional radio signal transmitted for the guidance of pilots; also : the course indicated by a radio beam

3
: the main stem of a deer's antler

4
: the width of the buttocks

You could argue the either side.

Antlers and ass width? Not so much.