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Hermy
07-15-2009, 09:49 PM
Plan accordingly, there may be some barrels.

Tahoe
07-15-2009, 11:16 PM
POIDH

darkobetterthanmelo
07-15-2009, 11:55 PM
I could see the smoke from 14 and van dyke, it was crazy. it royally fucks up my commute now...

MoTown
07-16-2009, 12:17 AM
Any deaths?

Hermy
07-16-2009, 09:56 AM
Any deaths?


No.

WTFchris
07-16-2009, 10:18 AM
Glan would appreciate this:


A 27-year-old Clawson man apparently lost control of his car while driving about 70 m.p.h. in the curve, which has a suggested speed limit of 50 m.p.h. He swerved into the tanker truck, driven by a 45-year-old Armada man. The cab and the trailer separated as the tanker, carrying 9,600 gallons of gasoline and 4,600 gallons of diesel fuel crashed, Kemp said.

But the 38-year-old Monroe man driving the Meijer semi tractor-trailer saw what was happening, moved over to give the tanker room and was able to avoid an even more devastating crash, said Kemp, who declined to release names of the drivers or the tanker company.

"The guy in the Meijer’s vehicle observed what was going on, so he was making some arrangement to reposition his vehicle, so the tanker could reposition his vehicle to avoid things," Kemp said. "That’s why it’s important to be very observant of your surroundings. If a person’s not paying attention to things, they do not know how to react."

Big Swami
07-16-2009, 10:34 AM
Fuckin' guy in the Meijer truck is psychic. With the size of the blind spots on an 18-wheeler, I can think of no other explanation.

Glenn
07-16-2009, 11:14 AM
And he did it all whilst holding three gallons of milk.

Fool
07-16-2009, 11:26 AM
Clawson. Nothing good.

Big Swami
07-16-2009, 11:43 AM
As usual, Oakland County fucks up and Downriver saves the day.

WTFchris
07-16-2009, 12:01 PM
Clawson. Nothing good.

You are correct. I lived in Royal Oak for a few years and Clawson was just a pocket of shitty pothole covered roads in my way. Nothing worth going to there at all.

Glenn
07-16-2009, 12:04 PM
Isn't Jon Jansen from Clawson?

Glenn
07-16-2009, 12:05 PM
^which is really relevant

MoTown
07-16-2009, 05:32 PM
http://www.wxyz.com/news/story/VIDEO-Cars-Drive-Through-I-75-Fireball/g7rOFqBT-0ma6IWdnjBUHA.cspx

So apparently some cars drove over the bridge after the exposion and after the bridge was engulfed with flames.

I guess I have one question... HOW THE FUCK ARE 7 DRIVERS THAT GODDAMN STUPID??!!?!?! What the hell was so important that they had to cross a bridge engulfed by flames??? I know this is going to be a horrible thing to say, but if you're that stupid, you deserve to die. Survival of the fittest. It would be one thing if only one car crossed, but 7??? Detroit is the dumbest city on earth.

Timone
07-16-2009, 05:33 PM
http://www.wxyz.com/news/story/VIDEO-Cars-Drive-Through-I-75-Fireball/g7rOFqBT-0ma6IWdnjBUHA.cspx

So apparently some cars drove over the bridge after the exposion and after the bridge was engulfed with flames.

I guess I have one question... HOW THE FUCK ARE 7 DRIVERS THAT GODDAMN STUPID??!!?!?! What the hell was so important that they had to cross a bridge engulfed by flames??? I know this is going to be a horrible thing to say, but if you're that stupid, you deserve to die. Survival of the fittest. It would be one thing if only one car crossed, but 7??? Detroit is the dumbest city on earth.

Yeah! Motown = DUMB.

Glenn
07-16-2009, 05:39 PM
Hay, won't rebuilding the bridge create some jobs?

Weeeeee!

WTFchris
07-16-2009, 06:02 PM
MoTown learned his lesson trying to cross the one in Minny when he saw they had Twins Jerseys on sale at the mall.

WTFchris
07-17-2009, 10:16 AM
http://cmsimg.freep.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C4&Date=20090717&Category=COL12&ArtNo=90717026&Ref=AR&Profile=1189&MaxW=550&MaxH=650&title=0

MoTown
07-17-2009, 10:38 AM
MoTown learned his lesson trying to cross the one in Minny when he saw they had Twins Jerseys on sale at the mall.
You're misinformed. The bridge isn't even close to the Mall of America... and it was an autographed Twins hat.

WTFchris
07-17-2009, 11:21 AM
I heard you immediately lost it while riding a roller coaster in the mall.

MoTown
07-17-2009, 01:27 PM
The coasters are actually pretty pathetic. I don't recommend them.

WTFchris
07-17-2009, 02:01 PM
A man who police say lost control of his car along a Detroit area highway and caused a tanker carrying 13,000 gallons of fuel to crash and explode has offered no apology.Twenty-seven-year-old Saied Haidarian-Shari of Clawson was one of three drivers who escaped Wednesday night’s fiery explosion along I-75 with minor injuries.

When asked Thursday night by WJBK-TV whether he felt he should apologize for the crash that also included a tractor-trailer, Haidarian-Shari said: “No.”

He says, “I don’t think I made a mistake,” adding that he’s given a statement to police.

Crews are removing debris from a collapsed section of bridge over the northbound expressway. The National Transportation Safety Boardhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/mag-glass_10x10.gif (http://www.freep.com/article/20090717/NEWS05/90717021/#) also is investigating.

Interview video here:

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/090716_Haidarian_Shahri

I guess going 20 over isn't his fault.

Uncle Mxy
07-17-2009, 09:00 PM
Here's the vid on Youtube:
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Let Saied know how you feel: saiedhs00@yahoo.com

The reason he's only had a license for a few months is that he's from Iran:

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:Pvxn5dhA_cQJ:homopan.wayne.edu/PhD%2520Students/Saied_Haidarian/index.htm+Saied+Haidarian-Shahri&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
http://khorshid.ut.ac.ir/~f.rastegar/CSICC07_2.pdf

More proof that PhDs shouldn't touch anything...

Fool
07-22-2009, 02:26 PM
To be honest, if Kevin Federline showed up on my doorstep with a microphone I wouldn't apologize to him either.

WTFchris
07-22-2009, 04:34 PM
Well, that douche bag got a ticket for speeding, so apparently he officially did something wrong now.

Big Swami
07-23-2009, 01:13 PM
If he tries to fight that ticket, he is going to get pulled over once a day for the rest of his life.

Uncle Mxy
07-24-2009, 10:37 PM
The smart thing would be to revoke his probationary license.

DennyMcLain
07-25-2009, 07:27 PM
http://www.realitydreamship.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/erik-johansson-02.jpg

Talk about milking what's left of Detroit's city funds....

or, it's just an Erik Johansson photomanip.