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    Pace Bus On The Race Track: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

    Transit Bus Guard Rail Test Doesn't Go As Planned

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    10/31/09

    In reply to Pace Bus On The Race Track: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
    I'm calling foul. The bus is in way too nice shape. There's no way it cost less than $500. And it's probably over the weight limit, too. #bus
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Pace Bus On The Race Track: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

    I want to ride a bus where the driver is wearing a hat like that! Maybe it's time for all-bus heats somewhere at a Lemons. This would be even scarier but you could of course go Furthur. #bus
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    Image of CptSevere CptSevere
    10/31/09

    @Novaload: You're either on the bus or you're off the bus. If Neal Cassaday was still around, you can bet he'd be a contender. #bus
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    Image of Mr. M Mr. M
    10/31/09

    In reply to Pace Bus On The Race Track: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
    ...and you didn't even jump any under-construction bridges that were conveniently missing segments? I'm disappointed.

    But, this begs another question: what part of the bus blows up if you drop below 55 mph?

    Or does it just blow a head gasket on some toyota somewhere else on the track? #bus
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    10/31/09

    In reply to Pace Bus On The Race Track: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
    Sure it's fun now. Just you wait until you're trying to get home for dinner and the driver keeps blowing right by your stop, heeled over like a sailboat and all the tires howling. #bus
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    10/31/09

    @Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Sounds like typical MUNI in San Francisco... #bus
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    10/31/09

    @Scandinavian Flick: I once knew a MUNI driver. He got his run done, but he was a pretty mellow guy. I used to wind up walking everywhere, because the bus wouldn't ever show until I was within 2 blocks of my destination. And driving was limited because parking in a lot of neighborhoods is a total bitch. #bus
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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    10/31/09

    In reply to Pace Bus On The Race Track: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
    This is the worst episode of Bang Bus I've ever seen. #bus
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    Image of jbh11126 jbh11126
    10/31/09

    @LTDScott: FTW #bus
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    Image of DooDaBeeDooBaa DooDaBeeDooBaa
    10/31/09

    In reply to Pace Bus On The Race Track: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
    I hope it wasn't this much fun... #bus
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    @DooDaBeeDooBaa: Hilarious! Thanks. #bus
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    Image of skitter skitter
    10/31/09

    In reply to Pace Bus On The Race Track: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
    Active ballast is all well and good, but will the brakes hold up for a few laps of Monticello against the CTS-V? #bus
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    Image of stoke stoke
    10/31/09

    @skitter: I could see the weight transfer causing brake bias issues. #bus
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    Image of PaulE PaulE
    10/31/09

    In reply to Pace Bus On The Race Track: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
    Now *there* is a rapid transit system Jalops can get on board with... #bus
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    Image of Stoatmaster Stoatmaster
    05/08/09

    In reply to Transit Bus Guard Rail Test Doesn't Go As Planned
    Why were they even testing that barrier?


    The science of barrier cross-sections has been gone into for some time.


    Engineers now have a pretty good idea of what a stepped, curved, low, high, whatever shape barrier will do to a given vehicle at a given speed.


    Surely the computer simulations or original calculations would have given them a clue that this could happen?

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    05/07/09

    In reply to Transit Bus Guard Rail Test Doesn't Go As Planned
    "In other news, a crash test broke out during a meeting of Oxygen Thieves Anonymous..."
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    05/07/09

    In reply to Transit Bus Guard Rail Test Doesn't Go As Planned
    "I'm going to stand right in front of that bus as it approaches this barrier that they're testing. I'm a highly-trained journalist so I know the barrier will work and I will be comnpletely safe."


    I'm a handyman and I would prefer to stand somewhere back around where the bus started. 'Cause I know that testing to destruction often leads to, you know, destruction.

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    Image of FlakJack FlakJack
    05/07/09

    In reply to Transit Bus Guard Rail Test Doesn't Go As Planned
    Is there no video that Yakety Sax wouldn't improve?
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    05/07/09

    In reply to Transit Bus Guard Rail Test Doesn't Go As Planned
    "Does this bus stop at the photographers' area?"

    "Um, not so much. Not exactly."
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    05/07/09

    In reply to Transit Bus Guard Rail Test Doesn't Go As Planned
    Once upon a time, there was a Little Bus...


    As the little bus was racing down the highway, the good fairy appeared and granted its wish to be real. Hurrah! he exclaimed, and then realized he was headed straight for the guardrail. The little bus turned his wheel as hard as he could, but he was going too fast, and the guardrail was too close.


    He hit the guardrail but managed to leap up atop it. And then over it! On the other side he saw the evil men who had made him go so fast, and wanted him to crash into the hard guardrail. Dick-bastards! he shouted and accelerated as hard as his little motor could toward them.


    The evil men weren't just evil, they were stupid, and didn't even move as the Little Bus bore down on them. He first hit a platform and sent several evil men flying. Then he hit a big blue truck that had lots of evil men in the back. The big blue truck yelled Ouch!, and the evil men were knocked to the ground. The Little Bus ignored the cries of the big blue truck and tried to squish the evil men under his tires.


    In the background, the good fairy looked on wide-eyed in horror. I'm sooooo getting fired for this, she thought to herself before flying away.


    The End.

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    05/07/09

    @Graverobber: Thanks for the laugh.


    "I'm sooooo getting fired for this"

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/07/09

    @Graverobber: I fell over laughing at "Dick-bastards".
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    Image of BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ BЯдΖǐL-ЯЄРΘЯΤЄЯ
    05/07/09

    @Graverobber: Graverobber we miss your PCH tirades.
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    Image of PatFromGundo PatFromGundo
    05/07/09

    In reply to Transit Bus Guard Rail Test Doesn't Go As Planned
    "Look honey, I'm taking pictures, I'm taking pictures, I'm dead!"
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