Comments on: Pictures of a bunch of wrecked cars

Pictures of a bunch of wrecked cars

swift — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:10:49 -0800

The driver, I found out later, was drunk, from Texas, and had only one arm. [Warning: there are at least 35 megabytes worth of jpegs, which take some time to load. YMMV] Via Presence Server

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:13:45 -0800

wasn't me

By: trharlan

trharlan — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:46:25 -0800

The GMC Yukon™ is one tough truck.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:49:23 -0800

Jeez, I just saved that page and it was 49.9Mb in size. Hope that Harvard bandwidth is free.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 01:25:23 -0800

Harvard BOFH™ is gonna be one pissed admin.

By: kjh

kjh — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 02:18:22 -0800

on june 17th, i pled guilty in arizona state court to leaving the scene of an accident. i paid the state $420 and promised the judge i'd learned my lesson. now i feel like a saint. thanks!

By: nathan_teske

nathan_teske — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 02:24:39 -0800

Mirror with the pictures scaled down by 50%. 500KB instead of 50MB. A 50MB web page is just plain wrong anyway

By: rudyfink

rudyfink — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 02:44:31 -0800

That was beautiful. I really love crazy shit in the middle of the night.

By: Eekacat

Eekacat — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 02:50:24 -0800

How do you handcuff a one-armed man?

By: sklero

sklero — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 02:56:30 -0800

"best of the web." yessiree. the sun is coming up (both literally and figuratively).

By: e.e. coli

e.e. coli — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 03:03:59 -0800

Eeakacat: you have founded a new genre: koans for kops. If a perp falls on his face, and there are no witnesses, does he make a sound?

By: Jairus

Jairus — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 03:14:24 -0800

That was a beautiful story.

By: triv

triv — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 04:12:39 -0800

did anyone else read it and think of - the fugitive?

By: jpburns

jpburns — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 04:27:09 -0800

Kiiiiiimble!!!!!!

By: lometogo

lometogo — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 04:52:05 -0800

Many are stalled but few are frozen.....

By: dabitch

dabitch — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 05:10:50 -0800

poor doggie.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 06:02:19 -0800

BITCH HIT MY TRUCK!

By: phyrewerx

phyrewerx — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 06:11:07 -0800

Wait so his car is ok?

By: triv

triv — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 06:14:07 -0800

thanks jpburns, glad i wasn't the only one...

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 06:35:47 -0800

I need follow-up!

By: phyrewerx

phyrewerx — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 06:37:12 -0800

One victim told NBC 7/39 that he had just purchased his car on Monday for $1,000 to use for a pizza delivery job. The vehicle was totaled before he had time to get it insured, he said. Wait, nevermind, poor guy.

By: phyrewerx

phyrewerx — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 06:38:55 -0800

Of course, by poor guy I meant the car owner...and well I guess the dog.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 06:47:27 -0800

a future president!

By: sunexplodes

sunexplodes — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:41:09 -0800

I can't help but note that the 'attack' vehicle was a tank... I mean SUV, and that a good number of the demaged vehicles were regular cars... yet another example of why SUVs are dangerous, potentially killer, vehicles. No matter if the driver is from Texas or not. Or has two arms, or not.

By: swift

swift — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:10:39 -0800

I think his car is okay, because someone took his parking spot when he went shopping. Right? I was hoping to see it, though.

By: dakotadusk

dakotadusk — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:11:31 -0800

Umm... sunexplodes? All vehicles are potentially killer. Granted, a Chevette probably wouldn't destroy 17 other cars (unless it clunked out in the middle of a California freeway or was filled with explosives and dropped via helicoptor onto a parking lot), but still. Blame the drunk driver, please.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:29:04 -0800

How drunk do you have to be to hit the first 9 cars (some severely) and keep on going through the next 10? That's staggering. Obligtory snark: you'd think someone paying $40,000+ per year for a Harvard education would know how to compress digital photos.

By: websavvy

websavvy — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:31:11 -0800

Obligtory snark: you'd think someone paying $40,000+ per year for a Harvard education would know how to compress digital photos. Yes, because the first thing they learn upon arrival at Harvard, no matter what their major, is photo compression.

By: riffola

riffola — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:37:54 -0800

That's just insane! How do you handcuff a one-armed man? Rick Allen, Def Leppard's one armed drummer, when arrested for spousal abuse at LAX had his arm handcuffed to his foot.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:38:41 -0800

I suppose I should have seen that one coming, websavvy. Oh, well serves me right. Regardless, the person who posted the photes to his/her site on Harvard's net is about to get a lecture from the sysadmin on the matter of how to shrink digital images down.

By: mrbill

mrbill — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:26:13 -0800

also:


-rw-r--r--  1 mrbill  mrbill      98K 19 Jun 12:24 1-web.jpg
-rw-r--r--  1 mrbill  mrbill       1M 15 Jun 06:33 1.jpg

Someone needs to learn about "save for web" in Photoshop or whatever program they're using. Both files are the same resolution.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:53:03 -0800

you'd think someone paying $40,000+ per year for a Harvard education would know how to compress digital photos. then again. you know someone paying $40,000+ per year for a Harvard education is gonna get some of it back in bandwidth.

By: foot

foot — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:32:24 -0800

FUCKING TEXANS! (remember that nation that projects its problems on the South?)

By: xmutex

xmutex — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:37:28 -0800

Hol-ee crap. That was an awesome link, far better than the polinewscrap being posted lately. Thanks. Amazing.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:51:29 -0800

I'm just shocked that there wasn't a farmers' market involved somehow.

By: geekyguy

geekyguy — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:48:04 -0800

I'll drink to that! I just wont drive! On preview what mrbill said. Both Fireworks and Photoshop have web gallery creation features. But, yeah, what quonsar said. This was a great post that made me laugh out loud and show my gums like a Simpson.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 13:17:54 -0800

(LA) kop koan: If you beat a black man and there are no video cameras to record it, does it break the law?

By: pmurray63

pmurray63 — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:31:03 -0800

That was an awesome link I thought it was fairly pointless, myself, but YMMV.

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:43:41 -0800

Not to mention that those are straight-from-the-camera 2272x1704 images that he's sending to the browser and then asking it to scale them down to 600x800. If he'd scaled them down to 600x800 to begin with, and then used a lower jpg resolution setting, for example this photo (a whopping 1.5M) could have been this photo (only 35K). That's 2% the size of the original! Yeah, he's gonna be having a chat with his sysadmin.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:36:38 -0800

I read the thread just to read the rips on any fool posting a 50 meg page and appreciate the little mirror. As for the one armed drunk dumbass. They should also book him for animal cruelty. He also didn't just hit some cars, apparently, he hit them, backed up and rammed into them again and again. But it does remind me of the video clip of the drunk guy blazing through San Diego a few years ago in a tank and destroying cars, trucks, RV's and finally getting caught on a highway divider so the cops could rush up and shoot him.

By: LionIndex

LionIndex — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:39:20 -0800

This is really nothing compared to the actual tank we had rolling through the streets a few years ago (also here in San Diego). Ripped through motorhomes like it was opening a zipper.

By: LionIndex

LionIndex — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:40:04 -0800

Damnit, fenriq!

By: fenriq

fenriq — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:46:57 -0800

LionIndex, hahaha. Sorry. Hey, if you had a link to it then I would concede victory,

By: Eekacat

Eekacat — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:02:57 -0800

Sheesh, here in Colorado a guy built his own tank out of a D9 Cat, some half inch steel plate, and concrete. Ripped buildings down even. Millions in damages. Must be the thin mountain air up there.....

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 21:53:42 -0800

I'm beginning to notice that fenriq has an uncanny ability to post what someone else is posting, beating them at it by mere moments. Spooky!

By: firestorm

firestorm — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 08:49:30 -0800

seriously. Thanks for the story, but who goes to Harvard and doesn't know how to compress jpg's ? Evidently, this is not so strange at Harvard, and it is not so strange for some of you. I feel quite a loss for the good old days of technology worship. Now we have people who know nothing about it but think they do, probably thinking they are better fit to make the decisions around here in the future. Posers

By: snarfodox

snarfodox — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 09:33:05 -0800

Thanks nathan_teske, your mirror was much appreciated.