Comments on: Vehicular tetris plan foiled by German policeman with tragic lack of imagination

By: BrettKnoss

BrettKnoss — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:14:00 +0000

I think the bed’s made like that. Look at the shape of the fuel tank. Yes he is overweight though.

By: jimh

jimh — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:15:00 +0000

I’d like to see it with two smart cars instead of the benz.

By: numfar

numfar — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:25:00 +0000

The numbers were probably added by BILD, a German tabloid whose readers aren’t exactly known to be capable of counting to 4 by themselves.

By: Sparg

Sparg — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:09:00 +0000

An appropriately Slavic solution à la матрёшки (matryoshki).

By: duncancreamer

duncancreamer — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:20:00 +0000

Why not cover it with a tarp?

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:00:00 +0000

Them Oakies were headin’ to cali-fro-nie-yay!

By: Mary Carpenter

Mary Carpenter — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:25:00 +0000

Is that Mitt Romneys dog in top?

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:23:00 +0000

Dang, you beat me to it, but you misnamed it…

Turtrucken!

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:24:00 +0000

First, I’m not very happy to see Boingboing take stories from Bild (which is known for pretty manipulative stories and not caring too much about truth, ethics and that)
Second, I thought this site deserves better than a Google translated version of that quote (which I myself had trouble understanding):
“Especially as he still wanted to load another truck onto the trailer, to make matters worse!”

You can often see larger trucks with smaller trucks on the back going west on the A2 (Germany main northern east-west Autobahn connecting Poland and the Netherlands) because there’s a lot of used cars bought west and sold in the east. So they stack the trucks on the way west and have them all loaded up with used cars going east again. This guy had just bought a bunch of used trucks…

By: Sebastian Spinczyk

Sebastian Spinczyk — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:47:00 +0000

Believe me, on European roads, those are not assumptions. And it’s not the truck drivers who are at fault, but the shipping companies.

By: Sebastian Spinczyk

Sebastian Spinczyk — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:46:00 +0000

“Hitler was German, Mozart was Austrian!”, as they say.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:21:00 +0000

No doubt a majority of truck drivers are also responsible drivers, but I can’t begin to count the number of times I’ve seen trucks driving way over the speed limit and even recklessly, I’ve seen it even in passenger buses. The size and weight of the vehicle, plus the load, therefore the inertia, makes for a much higher level of responsibility on a trucker’s side of things.

One night, a truck with no load entered the highway at an intersection in front of me at full speed, I had to violently swerve to prevent ramming into it. Once ahead of him, I slowed down to try and get behind him and write down the license plate to report him to his bosses, but he caught on to my intentions and slowed down at my pace, so I couldn’t do it.

Maybe this happens more often in countries where truckers don’t earn as much, where more loads transported = more salary.

By: OJW

OJW — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:44:00 +0000

Looks like a test script for Rigs of Rods…

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:30:00 +0000

All part of the complex we´ve had ever since the mighty Austro-Hungarian empire crumbled and suddenly made Austria a small-timer beside its despised and envied big brother Germany. I mean seriously, Vienna had more inhabitants over 100 years ago than it has now, and let´s not even talk about the rest of Austria.

By: Mike Meyer

Mike Meyer — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:00:00 +0000

It’s like Turducken on Wheels.

By: John Geoffrey

John Geoffrey — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:06:00 +0000

As a German living in Poland I can say this: most likely the truck driver both drove a truck pile and to the max. Polish drivers seem to think that speed is the same as driving skills. Every time we do a longer cross country trip there is at least one crashed/toppled/burning truck every 200 km.

By: John Geoffrey

John Geoffrey — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:01:00 +0000

To be fair, the thing about Austrians not being Germans only really came up when people were looking for those responsible for WWII. All of a sudden Austria went: “Oh, no! We were the first ones to be invaded by Hitler! We valiantly fought back by throwing flowers at the evil, evil invaders!”

By: cavalrysword

cavalrysword — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:06:00 +0000

I am pretty sure all that weight exceeded the rating for the tires.

Then you have all the inertia of 4 vehicles, and all the brakes of one.

Unsafe load is an understatement.

Makes a nice picture, I might put something together like that in the company yard for a funny photo. But take it on the road?

No, no, a thousand times no!

By: gibbon1

gibbon1 — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:04:00 +0000

Germans don’t have respect for other peoples cultural traditions.

Friend of mine was Austrian living in Germany. Germans are very particular about things, Austrians are very particular about being not being Germans. When was visiting a friend in the US a car drove down the street with no hood. Mind Blown. He said that convinced him to move to the US.

By: ImmutableMichael

ImmutableMichael — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 06:18:00 +0000

Wings?

By: Kibo

Kibo — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:22:00 +0000

Zounds! A Tachypomp!

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602521h.html

By: Cleo

Cleo — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:16:00 +0000

It’s flatbed trucks all the way down.

By: denis gallagher

denis gallagher — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:57:00 +0000

you make a lot of assumptions there about truck drivers.

By: Gotanda

Gotanda — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:49:00 +0000

Saw plenty of nested vehicle stacks on the roads in Cambodia between Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville but they would have squeezed in a small dump truck at 1.5, filled the cabs of all the passenger trucks with dry goods, and maybe packed some livestock in around the edges.

By: Roger Brumlow

Roger Brumlow — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:26:00 +0000

Yo dawg, I like how the description in the paragraph corresponded to the convenient numbering on the picture. It helped alot yo.

By: Gabe McGrath

Gabe McGrath — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:15:00 +0000

Michael Bay was driving that truck in Mexico.

By: CCinBmore

CCinBmore — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:02:00 +0000

Yes, please!

By: me d

me d — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:58:00 +0000

Motor home owners seem to have a mania for clamping vehicles together. Once I saw a motor home as big as a fullsize Greyhound bus zipping down the interstate. It had two bicycles on the front, a kayak on top, and it was pulling a trailer. On the trailer were a motorcycle and a golf cart.

By: for_SCIENCE

for_SCIENCE — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:56:00 +0000

THERE… ARE… FOUR… ̶L̶I̶G̶H̶T̶S̶ VEHICLES!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:19:00 +0000

18 comments and not a single yo dawg?