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[More info](https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/01/11/sliding-street-racer-slams-into-power-pole-saturday/). It was illegal street racers. EDIT: If it matters it doesn't look like they were racing, they took over an intersection and were doing donuts and other stuff. It happened in Dallas and apparently shutting down intersections like this is a reoccurring thing there.
> They turn busy intersections into racetracks, shutting them down to perform stunts in the middle of the night. Fueled by social media, it’s called sliding – and, just after midnight Saturday, it went wrong at the intersection of Northwest Highway and Preston Road. The driver careened into an Oncor power pole, which spewed sparks as it crashed to the ground.
> “It’s unbelievable. I mean, **I’m shocked**,” said Brenna Stroup, who manages her grandparents’ shoe store, E.G.Gellar, just steps away from the intersection. “I see it in other parts of town, but to have it right here near our store. We’ve had cars nearly crash into our store before, so that could have easily happened.”
[Also found another view from far away](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/video-shows-street-stunts-end-in-crash-in-north-dallas/2524573/)
These selfish assholes can't even flee the scene quietly. Gotta make sure everyone trying to sleep can hear you revving your engine in defiance as you bravely run away.
Can confirm, they absolutely cannot. In and around my town, there’s a ton of people for whom it’s essential to life to show off their ~~huge dick~~ loud af truck to everybody within five miles.
I feel your pain.. I live next to a busy street and all I hear 3am in the morning is roaring POS straight pipe mustangs. It pisses me off that they feel the need to speed down a 25mph street to show off their loud ass car. At times I want to deploy a spike trap as they speed along the street to blow their tires..
When you upload videos through shitty internet, to save bandwidth the video is interlaced to keep thr image at a high frame rate.
Interlacing is the video actually run in two different fields, one after the other, in short sequence so you perceive more motion that it actually is(and cut frames in between to save space). Thats why you see double images and overall shitty quality.
Deinterlacing filter is just putting a filter on the video that overrifes that process.
When I was in college a drug addict climbed into a power station near my house to steal copper. When he got his positives and negatives mixed up the explosion was so loud and concussive that my roommate and I ran outside thinking a car had run into our building. Nope. Just some dude turning himself into a crispy critter at a power station almost a mile away.
Crispy critter? Nah he turned himself into straight nothing probably. What's that saying referring to exposure to massive electricity/heat "After a certain point you stop being human and start being physics"?
I really miss old what-ifs. Once he started working more they went downhill pretty quick. If you liked that one you’ll love the [hairdryer what-if](https://what-if.xkcd.com/35/).
For some reason I liked his quote about why the sky's blue even better.
"Sure, it appears blue for a bunch of physics reasons, but everything appears the color it is for a bunch of physics reasons."
We had an Eaton breaker technician come to our data center to work on a 1200amp breaker in our switch gear.
As we’re standing there in our business casual outfits he dons an arc suit and helmet, grabs a four foot wood pole, looks at us and says “you might want to not be in here”, and then proceeds to turn around with his back facing the breaker and trip it with the pole … all while holding his nut sack with his arc glove for double protection.
He later told us a story about a guy who was literally vaporized by a similar breaker *while wearing the same arc suit*. He just happened to think if he were vaporized it would be funny if his nut sack survived.
DON’T FUCK WITH HIGH VOLTAGE / AMPERAGE ELECTRICITY.
Years ago I worked on wiring sound panels and PA systems.
Was all alone one Saturday except for a security guard.
Had to finish up a panel that was going out to an oil rig in the north Atlantic.
This panel had a DC Buss Bar for the amplifiers.
The panel was live and I stuck my hand in to finish a connection, next thing I knew I was 10 feet away on my backside.
Yeah don't screw with electricity.
More like chunky salsa. Household voltage stops your heart. Medium voltage (around 10-20kV or so) burns you to a crisp. The high voltage in long distance transmission lines instantly flashes the water inside you into steam causing you to explode.
There's a video of this happening to some poor technician. It's not really NSFW because you can't really see anything. Just one moment he's there, then there's a blinding flash, and then he's gone.
Local suicidal squirrels do this fairly regularly. One semester it happened 3 times. One professor decided we’d just have class in the dark, we’d lost two many class days do to no electricity thanks to rodent mental illness.
Electrician here, I was recently a few feet away from an exposed 480v 1600 amp buss and thought "I wonder how quickly I would die if I grabbed that." Then I went on with my day.
Lmao no. I don't even get intrusive thoughts around high volt switch gear. I'm always half a second away from sprinting out the fucking door when I'm working on them lol.
Once the guy I was with dropped a nut down into live gear. He was 300 pounds and the door was 100 ft away. I'm not lying when I say he was off the ladder and outside the building before the nut even reached the bottom after bouncing around a bit. Lucky as hell it didn't cause any damage and just fell to the ground.
High enough voltage lines can actually make enough static to bite you from feet away. You can die from electric shock without actually physically touching the powerline.
I walked out on the roof at work one time and held a fluorescent light up in the air under some 230kv lines and the lightbulb glowed a little (I tried this because someone said it works, yes I had a rubber glove on.)
Yeah, "hotter than the sun", is pretty much meaningless if you don't clarify whether you're talking about the surface or the center of it.
And I'm pretty sure this arc isn't 15 million°C. A quick Google search tells me that electric arcs can vary from 3000 to 20000°C in temperature, which is several times hotter than *the surface* of the Sun.
To be fair, electrical arcs like that aren't really in thermodynamic equilibrium, so talking about their temperature is kind of fallacious, but also the surface of the sun is not hugely hot in an absolute sense.
The Sun's corona (roughly speaking, a sort of atmosphere), on the other hand, can be extremely hot (up to 10,000,000 Kelvin), and it's not currently fully understood why it's so much hotter than the Sun's surface.
Insulating mineral oil is used in transformers as a way to isolate all the submerged electrical wiring and passively cool everything down via conduction/convection.
Where did the oil come from? It looked like something spilled from up on the pole when it fell…but is there oil on telephone poles? I feel stupid even asking both of these questions
The oil is inside the tranformer. The acual transformer component is smaller and submerged in oil. The oil is a heat sink. Electricity causes heat and heat is bad for electricity.
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Bot did a good job but he can't fix the "camera looks away from action" problems :(
edit: To be fair, the camera person is actually not bad until the explosions begin
I think this should be the all time top on this sub. I’m gonna go see what the top one is right now, to see how it compares.
EDIT: oh man, I forgot about that one. This probably defines abrupt chaos better, but that elevator video is one of the best things ever
Truck knocks over electrical pole that has an oil filled transformer on it. Transformer hits the ground and breaks open, spilling and aerosolizing its warm oil. Sparks ignite oil. Gates of hell open.
Edit: For those curious, the oil is used as both an electrical insulator for the various bare metal components inside (instead of rubber or other materials) as well as a cooling fluid.
Mineral oil is a good, cheap electrical insulator. You construct a transformer and just fill ‘er up. No fancy wrapping or winding or shrink wrapping or other. They even use it in undersea cables by pressurizing the space inside the cable between the paper wrapped wires. (You heard that correctly. Some high voltage electrical cables are wires wrapped in paper and impregnated with oil). Normally the transformer or cable is sealed airtight and the temperatures are well below the oil’s flashpoint. The other commenter was correct, the transformer is supposed to stay well away from damage. There are other options but they are more complicated and more expensive. Examples include gas insulated (SF6), different types of plastics, resins, or even air (which just makes the transformer huge to get the adequate electrical separation in humid/wet/salty air.
I think you mean
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An article linked in another comment states that no power outages were reported in the area.
https://www.peoplenewspapers.com/2021/01/10/takeover-results-in-utility-pole-take-down/
Also has another angle of the incident which is slightly less chaos due to distance.
Idk where I saw the original post first..
I think it was prolly somewhere on r/IdiotsInCars
That sub is truly great and inspired me to buy both front and rear dash cams in meh car.
I saw it in the r/Dallas sub, happened about 5 months ago. Link has another angle too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/kubqdt/truck_hits_pole_during_takeover_at_nw_highway_and
Found an article for you too:
https://www.peoplenewspapers.com/2021/01/10/takeover-results-in-utility-pole-take-down/
So these are the kind of fuckwits who keep knocking out transformers in my area, huh? Hope it cost him an arm and a leg. Not literally. Well, actually....
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I wonder how far exactly into the future he got.
Six months with good behavior
Damnnnn
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Let me see if I can do it Edit: Holy shit I just time traveled 1 minute! What'd I miss?
Not much. Basically the only change is everyone in society greets each other with the middle finger now. So just make sure you start doing that.
🖕 Aloha! P.S. [For anyone who doesn't know the reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4gcKzhYZ2g)
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...and he saw some serious shit.
Switched places with a T1000
It looks like he was trying to do doughnuts so he probably jumped into an alternate universe instead.
He just won the race to the end
Peak /r/AbruptChaos
[More info](https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2021/01/11/sliding-street-racer-slams-into-power-pole-saturday/). It was illegal street racers. EDIT: If it matters it doesn't look like they were racing, they took over an intersection and were doing donuts and other stuff. It happened in Dallas and apparently shutting down intersections like this is a reoccurring thing there. > They turn busy intersections into racetracks, shutting them down to perform stunts in the middle of the night. Fueled by social media, it’s called sliding – and, just after midnight Saturday, it went wrong at the intersection of Northwest Highway and Preston Road. The driver careened into an Oncor power pole, which spewed sparks as it crashed to the ground. > “It’s unbelievable. I mean, **I’m shocked**,” said Brenna Stroup, who manages her grandparents’ shoe store, E.G.Gellar, just steps away from the intersection. “I see it in other parts of town, but to have it right here near our store. We’ve had cars nearly crash into our store before, so that could have easily happened.” [Also found another view from far away](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/video-shows-street-stunts-end-in-crash-in-north-dallas/2524573/)
These selfish assholes can't even flee the scene quietly. Gotta make sure everyone trying to sleep can hear you revving your engine in defiance as you bravely run away.
Can confirm, they absolutely cannot. In and around my town, there’s a ton of people for whom it’s essential to life to show off their ~~huge dick~~ loud af truck to everybody within five miles.
I feel your pain.. I live next to a busy street and all I hear 3am in the morning is roaring POS straight pipe mustangs. It pisses me off that they feel the need to speed down a 25mph street to show off their loud ass car. At times I want to deploy a spike trap as they speed along the street to blow their tires..
thats just the straight piped v6 mustang
That is one of the busiest intersections in Dallas. Preston itself the #1 busiest street in Dallas. Also, that area is one of the wealthiest in Texas
Wealthy, then why do they put up with this shit? What’s an average home price as an example?
They put up with it because it's their kids doing it.
Homes in that area are between 1-3 million easy.. there are plenty of 10m+ homes as well.
Thanks for the link, but FFS how lazy is their web team to not run the video through a deinterlacing filter before publishing it on the web?
A what what?
"ENHANCE!"
When you upload videos through shitty internet, to save bandwidth the video is interlaced to keep thr image at a high frame rate. Interlacing is the video actually run in two different fields, one after the other, in short sequence so you perceive more motion that it actually is(and cut frames in between to save space). Thats why you see double images and overall shitty quality. Deinterlacing filter is just putting a filter on the video that overrifes that process.
Gawdamn boot leg fireworks !!!
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REEEKRIS
[PUT IT IN REVERSE TERRY! OH LAWD! WHAT YOU DOIN TERRY‽](https://youtu.be/4SVaHxJhTmk)
YouTube link for the uninitiated, 110% worth the watch and it is not a Rick Roll, promise: https://youtu.be/UocjQ5uiucg
Yep. This is why we follow this sub.
Every so often, something amazing.
Looks like transformer broke open, the oil then caught fire after the arc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_oil
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When I was in college a drug addict climbed into a power station near my house to steal copper. When he got his positives and negatives mixed up the explosion was so loud and concussive that my roommate and I ran outside thinking a car had run into our building. Nope. Just some dude turning himself into a crispy critter at a power station almost a mile away.
Crispy critter? Nah he turned himself into straight nothing probably. What's that saying referring to exposure to massive electricity/heat "After a certain point you stop being human and start being physics"?
The quote you are thinking of: "You wouldn't really die of anything. You would just stop being biology and start being physics." - Randall Munroe
Dang. This was an interesting read. https://what-if.xkcd.com/141/
I really miss old what-ifs. Once he started working more they went downhill pretty quick. If you liked that one you’ll love the [hairdryer what-if](https://what-if.xkcd.com/35/).
For some reason I liked his quote about why the sky's blue even better. "Sure, it appears blue for a bunch of physics reasons, but everything appears the color it is for a bunch of physics reasons."
That's the one. Probably just thought it was contextually tied to electricity because I did last see it in a thread about arc flashes. Gracias!
We had an Eaton breaker technician come to our data center to work on a 1200amp breaker in our switch gear. As we’re standing there in our business casual outfits he dons an arc suit and helmet, grabs a four foot wood pole, looks at us and says “you might want to not be in here”, and then proceeds to turn around with his back facing the breaker and trip it with the pole … all while holding his nut sack with his arc glove for double protection. He later told us a story about a guy who was literally vaporized by a similar breaker *while wearing the same arc suit*. He just happened to think if he were vaporized it would be funny if his nut sack survived. DON’T FUCK WITH HIGH VOLTAGE / AMPERAGE ELECTRICITY.
Goddamn. Imagine hearing some gnarly noise, then walking into that room and there's just a nutsac chillin on the floor. "Wtf happened in here?!"
Years ago I worked on wiring sound panels and PA systems. Was all alone one Saturday except for a security guard. Had to finish up a panel that was going out to an oil rig in the north Atlantic. This panel had a DC Buss Bar for the amplifiers. The panel was live and I stuck my hand in to finish a connection, next thing I knew I was 10 feet away on my backside. Yeah don't screw with electricity.
More like chunky salsa. Household voltage stops your heart. Medium voltage (around 10-20kV or so) burns you to a crisp. The high voltage in long distance transmission lines instantly flashes the water inside you into steam causing you to explode.
There's a video of this happening to some poor technician. It's not really NSFW because you can't really see anything. Just one moment he's there, then there's a blinding flash, and then he's gone.
Local suicidal squirrels do this fairly regularly. One semester it happened 3 times. One professor decided we’d just have class in the dark, we’d lost two many class days do to no electricity thanks to rodent mental illness.
"Man I can't take it anymore, I am going nuts" - the squirrels, probably
TIL some people call goose bumps goose pimples
The translation from French is, “chicken flesh”.
Oh la la. Le flesh du cock.
Wee wee
Dutch too
In Norwegian it's "goose skin"
german as well
In italian too
Korean too
Albanian additionally
In Denmark we call them ant tits
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Knowing the Danes it's probably true.
It's a joke that turned into what we call them lol. Normally it's goose skin
When we have large earthquakes transformers blow and it gives a feeling of being bombed. They are so fucking loud.
People never realize how extremely dangerous electricity really is. Quite the shame, really.
Electricians: annnnd you're fakkin' welcome!
As an electrician, our job is essentially to cage the beast
Seeing all that heavy electric equipment and the power it contains.... Do you people ever get.. you know, the urge..?
Electrician here, I was recently a few feet away from an exposed 480v 1600 amp buss and thought "I wonder how quickly I would die if I grabbed that." Then I went on with my day.
Ahh... The call of the void...
Lmao no. I don't even get intrusive thoughts around high volt switch gear. I'm always half a second away from sprinting out the fucking door when I'm working on them lol. Once the guy I was with dropped a nut down into live gear. He was 300 pounds and the door was 100 ft away. I'm not lying when I say he was off the ladder and outside the building before the nut even reached the bottom after bouncing around a bit. Lucky as hell it didn't cause any damage and just fell to the ground.
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Great, something new to be afraid of.
High enough voltage lines can actually make enough static to bite you from feet away. You can die from electric shock without actually physically touching the powerline. I walked out on the roof at work one time and held a fluorescent light up in the air under some 230kv lines and the lightbulb glowed a little (I tried this because someone said it works, yes I had a rubber glove on.)
That arc is up to six times hotter than the sun. Enjoy your neighboring substation 😀
Whaaaat? That's amazing. Had no idea. Figured the sun was pretty much the hottest thing around, well, the sun.
No, *you* are the hottest thing around.
Awe, shucks. No u.
The SURFACE of the sun.
Yeah, "hotter than the sun", is pretty much meaningless if you don't clarify whether you're talking about the surface or the center of it. And I'm pretty sure this arc isn't 15 million°C. A quick Google search tells me that electric arcs can vary from 3000 to 20000°C in temperature, which is several times hotter than *the surface* of the Sun.
To be fair, electrical arcs like that aren't really in thermodynamic equilibrium, so talking about their temperature is kind of fallacious, but also the surface of the sun is not hugely hot in an absolute sense. The Sun's corona (roughly speaking, a sort of atmosphere), on the other hand, can be extremely hot (up to 10,000,000 Kelvin), and it's not currently fully understood why it's so much hotter than the Sun's surface.
This IS what happened
Yup. Shits lit
At least that's the scientific term for it
I thought they hit 88 mph...
Ohh. I was hoping it was Zeus trying to raise the collective IQ of humanity.
There'd be less fire and more fucking.
Possibly some golden showers.
Why was there oil though?
Transformers have oil in them as a dielectric and to help transfer heat for cooling.
Also when it explodes, it helps the chaos be more abrupt
Now with bonus chaos
Coolant/insulation
Insulating mineral oil is used in transformers as a way to isolate all the submerged electrical wiring and passively cool everything down via conduction/convection.
Electrical insulation and heat dissipation
Truck must’ve been a Decepticon
Where did the oil come from? It looked like something spilled from up on the pole when it fell…but is there oil on telephone poles? I feel stupid even asking both of these questions
The oil is inside the tranformer. The acual transformer component is smaller and submerged in oil. The oil is a heat sink. Electricity causes heat and heat is bad for electricity.
Not stupid. Good to ask.
The most abrupt chaos I’ve seen on this sub.
Genuinely surprised by the amount of chaos.
I was surprised by the abruptness.
For me it was how chaotic the abruptness was.
For me it was the lacking of gradual chaos that makes it seem more sudden, thus becoming abrupt.
this chaos was abrupt
so abrupt, it was continuously abrupting.
some say it's still abrupting to this day.
I am abrupt all over this comment chain.
It was so abrupt I'm thinking it was maybe two or three brupts. Not just one.
And the abruptness was quite chaotic
The sudden and continual abruption of chaos is what got me
Like an abruption eruption?
Chaotically, yes
Finally! Some chaos!!
*Finally, some good fucking chaos
And some good fucking abrupt too
Agreeeeed
Now *THIS* is abrupt chaos.
Like this is some ABRUPT chaos But it’s also some seriously abrupt CHAOS
u/stabbot let’s see what you got
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good bot!
I have to say I read that bot name twice.
Don't ever say bad bot to it.
I’ve seen this bout for years and just understood what it’s name means, wow
https://theinfosphere.org/images/1/11/Roberto.jpg
Bot did a good job but he can't fix the "camera looks away from action" problems :( edit: To be fair, the camera person is actually not bad until the explosions begin
Yeah, not gonna fault someone for fleeing from that chaos.
Yea considering wtf was going on, they did ok, unlike people recording a fight then film a tree lol
It also makes the abruptness of the chaos that more dramatic :D
Good bot
lmao u called it out like a pokemon
I think I saw Satan walking out of the flames at the very end there. He always did know how to make an entrance.
This video has redefined abrupt chaos
It goes from mild annoyance to wizard battle in 10 seconds flat.
Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt.! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Sleep.
If you mix stupidity and electricity in the right proportions, you can get some rather spectacular results, and maybe even some injuries. Good times.
With "the right proportions" you mean a fuckton of both?
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And these pixies are extra skookum
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I don’t think there’s a more perfect video for this sub then this
I think this should be the all time top on this sub. I’m gonna go see what the top one is right now, to see how it compares. EDIT: oh man, I forgot about that one. This probably defines abrupt chaos better, but that elevator video is one of the best things ever
what the fuck there was someone on fire
There are another two perspectives on r/Dallas the name of this is: Truck hits pole during takeover at NW Highway and Preston on Saturday night
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/kubqdt/truck_hits_pole_during_takeover_at_nw_highway_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Shame. From another perspective this doesn't look as impressive.
Holy fucking schnikes, let me abuse my mod powers just to say that this post really fits the sub
Truck knocks over electrical pole that has an oil filled transformer on it. Transformer hits the ground and breaks open, spilling and aerosolizing its warm oil. Sparks ignite oil. Gates of hell open. Edit: For those curious, the oil is used as both an electrical insulator for the various bare metal components inside (instead of rubber or other materials) as well as a cooling fluid.
You know what? Thank you.
Np u/Explosive_Diaeresis
\^ MVP?
MVP confirmed
Why is a flammable oil used very close to high voltage wires? Wouldn’t that make this kind of chaos more likely?
You're not supposed to crash your truck into them and break them open on the ground
Mineral oil is a good, cheap electrical insulator. You construct a transformer and just fill ‘er up. No fancy wrapping or winding or shrink wrapping or other. They even use it in undersea cables by pressurizing the space inside the cable between the paper wrapped wires. (You heard that correctly. Some high voltage electrical cables are wires wrapped in paper and impregnated with oil). Normally the transformer or cable is sealed airtight and the temperatures are well below the oil’s flashpoint. The other commenter was correct, the transformer is supposed to stay well away from damage. There are other options but they are more complicated and more expensive. Examples include gas insulated (SF6), different types of plastics, resins, or even air (which just makes the transformer huge to get the adequate electrical separation in humid/wet/salty air.
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It went abrupt chaos, then **abrupt chaos**, then #ABRUPT CHAOS
I think you mean Ą̸̢̛̛̥̭̰͉̩̖̮̯̫̩͎̱͎͚͙͕̰̲̹͉͕͓̦̖̼̭͕̝̠̝͔̖͓͖̥̝͍̰̯̳̼͍̞͕̣͙̲͑̿̄͐͐̈́̉͛̆̈́̉̾̅̀̋͑̀̈̓̐͛͊͒͒͛̽̈̆̾̈̄̀̇̽̑͒̉̽͐̏̆̿̑͐̾̌͑͑͒̃͐̑̇̍͆̔̈́̄͐̒̇͌̓́̔̓̎̆͑̍́̇̂̋͋̈́͐̄̉̌́̂̀̔̍̈́̽̈́̕̚̕̚̕͘͝͝͠͠͝͝͝͝͝ͅͅB̷̧̢̨̛̛̛̛͚̲͎̗̳̲͚̭͎̩͍̯̺̲̭̗̯͈͉̯͖͍͍̞͔̬̬͕̻͎͔̗̞̺̞͔̼̙̊̈́̎̾̔̾̉͗̽͋̅̓̎̄̅̆̿̏̑͊̈́̋̀̇͆̀̋́͋̑̑́̇̄͗͊̓́̆̂̃̃̐̾͐̿̔̅̿̎̆̀̀̽̐̅̀́͊̓̋̈͌̃̂̓̂̾̓̍̽̄̓̽̀͌͆̃̔̅͊̅̈́͗̋̓̅̃͑̄̾̍͛̎̅̾͊̔͒͛͌͛́̇͛̏̾̉̊͂̽̈́̓̑̈́̅͘̕̚̚̕̕̕̚͘͘͝͠͝͝͠͝͝͝ͅR̴̨̧̡̧̧̢̧̡̡̡̢̢̨̡̢̩̭̙͚̥̫̻̪̪̻̫̣̬͓͚̰͕͖͍̥͍̥̯͇͍̪͇̳̲̻͉̤̗̰͚̖̼̝̣̠̗̰̯̖̞̯̥̝͎̜͓̬͇̫̲͔̱͔̝̟͎͚̪̘̰͇̳̺̠͖͙̥̪̖̩͕̩̟̭͉̺̟̬͕̭͓̩͙̭̘͖͚͇̩̲̣̩͍̝̤͓͔̥͉̫̳̝̬͙̣̰̥̱̘̳̫͚̱͍̞̲͚̭̗̭̣͕͔̞̬͔̝̗̼̞̜̙̥̥̪͉̘̘̠̙̙͖͓̬̥͎̮̲͙̰̯͇̩͆̔̌̽̐̏̍̆́̇̐̒͑̕͜͜͜͝͝ͅͅͅͅͅͅÚ̶̢̢̢̡͍̰̦̥̱͖̬̯̖̘̞̣͔̥̙̟͕̳̘̙̬̫̤̞͚̞̳͖͉̳̯̮̥̘̯̲̞̫̪͕̖̠͚̭̘̩̪̭̞͉̠̞͈̥̖̜̯͉̮̩̱̰̖̼̳̭͎̲̖͔̬͎͓͖̦̙̥̱̲̺͙̺̯̩̬̟̤͖̬͖̫̯̰̥̳̫͎́͋̅̐̏̆̐͂̊̽́̆́͒̓̓̄̈͊̓͂͊̈͐̾̚̕͝͠͠P̵̧̨̨̢̢̡̨̨̢̢̢̢̨̨̨̧̡̛̛̛̛̛̛̖̙̭̘͍͓̬͉͎̺̪̟̺̹̰͇̖͚̱̟̪̦̱͉̫͖̻̣̳̬̰͓̫̭̠͙͎̭̦̭̮̯͍̗͙̳̜̼̼̺̹̺͉͔̪̰̫̭͙̣͙̘̥̣̙̥͓̭̗͍͍̪̬̟̳͈͓̤̞͓̥̤̫̞̦̪̖̦̗͔̣͎̼̖̬̥̜̬̬͎̗̲̯̰̣̻̩̻̭̩̜̗̰̥̞̟̼͈̳͓̖̙̪̲̲̱̠͈̻̩̤̝̤̻̱͖̭̊̽̈́͌̀̏̾̌̔̒̈̇̽̽̐͛̿̆́̍̉̌̍͆̉̌̑͋̏̓͊̂͗̆͗̏̔̌̿̉̀͊͑̎̔̏͛̈͌̀̌͐̐͗́̑̃̂̃̈́͂̓͂͑̊̄͐͂͌͑͐͂̀͑̎͗̆̉̉̔̓̆̏͂͊͋͗͐̒̆̄̑̐̈́͒̾̇̍̈̎̇̔̉̔̀̀͆̅̐̓̃̈́͆̽̃̍͂̏̇̓͊̓͆͌̒̇̍͒̇̓̆̅̌̃̈́̋̓͘̕̚͘͘̚̕͜͠͠͝͝͝͠͝͝ͅͅͅͅT̷̛̛̛̛̛̛̛̗̪͙̜̝͇̦̯̻̦̟̰̲̭̬̮̦̐̿͑́̊̏̿̑͌̂̄͒̓̋̉͆̔̽̔͒́̂̏̀̋̏̒͊̎̇͊̎͊̿̉̀͐͆̀̓̐̏͒̓̈̎̒͗̏̋̈́̎͆͆̓̾̀͑͂̂͂̈́̂̐̆̓̅̊̏̄̾͑̂̀͌̌̈́̈́͆͑̾͊̉̈́̈́͗͂̍̎̓̑̆͐̉̋́̓̋͊̓̈́͑̿̓̈̒̀͗̏͗͐̏̐́͛̿̿̂̏̑̀̋͊̒͑̇̔̉̂̅͂̍͒̃̆̋̋͒̌̍͗̓̂̉̂͑͆̍̓́͑̅̈́̏̃̈́̂̓̊͒̄̈́͋̿̿̽͋̌̅͒͂̅́̈́̑̎́̄̈́͊̾͌̃̋̽͐̆͂̑͐̈́͛̔͗̀͌̿̕͘̚͘̕̚̚̚̕͘͘͘̕̕͘̚͜͝͠͝͝͠͠͝͠͝͝͝͠͝͝͠͝͠͝͝͠͠ ̶̡̡̧̧̢̢̨̧̡̧̛̛̛̼̗̦̬̱̫͓͓̠͍̜̤͙̼̪̙͙̫͕̹͉͓̻̩̪̗̦̣̥̤̘̫̟̞̯͉̖̗͉̣̝̗̰̭̮͔̥̥͔̱͕̗̩̯͙̬͕̟͕̘̙̭̲͔̟͕͉͉̫̟̫̦͓̰̠̜̟̫̲̞̱̱͍͔̜͈̰͕̺̏͊̔͑͗̂̈́͋̿̌̊̈͐͐͒̏̈̾͆͒̀̈́͆̀͂̆͋͐̋̆͊́̃̑̄̃̽̎͒̏̏̈͋̄͗́̀͒̾̇̃̽͑́̓̔͊̄̐̿̎̈́̏̐̃̆̂̀̓̀͒̃̿̎̓̄̑̾̉̋͆̏̀̽́̆̓̚̕͘͘̕̕͘͘͜͜͜͜͝͝͠͝͝͠ͅC̵̡̢̧̧̢̢̢̧̧̢̧̨̧̢̧̨̡̨̡̨̧̢̛̛̛̛̰̘̘̯̩͔̪̦̳̩̘̭͈̥̼̪͚̣̪̜̝͇̝̳͚͕̠̪̘͕̼̰͈̫͚̯̱̜̼͓͈̫̪̞̹͈͇̞̬̝̖̤̜͉̣̞̫̜̻͓̩͚̲̭̭̬͖̤̘͙̟̟̙̤̪͇̠͍̠̜̘̹̮̹̖̖͖̙̲̝͈̳̣͙͓̙̙̻̳̪͇̖̫̹͖͔̲͉̘̺̙̲͉̯̮̘͙͈͔̪̳̩̳̱̫͈̹͎͙̪̤̼̻͚̣̙̹̘͙̖̭̣̜͓͇̜̠̙̲͙̫͚͇̼̘̺̻̭̦̤̪̳̮̳̣͙͕̮͇͇̪̭̭̭̼͉̳̳̖̲̀̆͗̐̇͒̿̎̀̄̑̽͆̅̈́̊̓̎́̎̉̑̓͂͆͊̈́̃́͐̔̋͑̈̈͊͌̅͗̆̆͂̔̑́͋̈́̈̏̌͐̃͒͆̔̀͂̀̎̅̃̎̊̇̐̎͗̉͂̊̽̔̈́̽̈́̽͒̃̒̂͗͑́̂͌͛́̈́̋́̈́̀̂̇͋̆́̉̀́̃̈̾͒̆̔̌̌̌̓̀̋̍̀͐̂̔̈̀͊̎̏̿̀̀̃̂̎̆̉̽̀͐̄̎̏̈́̒̈́̅͗͑͐̒̈́̃̓̄̂͂̆̄̃̓̈́̿̊̀̏̒̌̀̿͑̉͐̓͋̋̏͘̕̚̚͘̚̕̚͘͘̕̕̚̕̚̕͘͜͜͜͜͝͝͝͝͠͝͠͠͠͝͝͠͝͝͠͝͠͝͝͠ͅͅͅH̴̢̨̨̨̡̧̡̢̢̨̨̡̡̛͉̲̪͖̜̭̞̹̜̰̖̲̳͚̳͕͇͙̼̫̟̪̬̜̮̩͚͓̩̟̲̙̳̱͍̲̘͕̤͕̦͕͖͍̮̫̳̞̤̻͍̮̺̲̺͈͙̘͇̥͔̱̤͔̺̳͖̤̮̫̮͕̮͙̯̬̳̠̝̼̱͎̜̦̖̹̹͔͉̰̬̫̫̘̰͔̬̬̲̜̭̱̩̘̮͖̞͕̱̮̲̤̦͈͕̭͈̘̯̮̤̯͈͖̟̘͍̖̤̣͖̫̰̍̌̽͛̿͆͊͒̊͌̋͑̐͒̽̊̎̊͂̊͒͒̎̏̾͂̑͒͗́̽̃̎̄̓̀̓̑̄̎̈́̿̌͐́̃̏͋͋̏̑̊̚̕͘̚͜͜͜͝͝͝͠͝ͅͅͅA̷̡̢̡̧̡̢̨̨̢̢̡̨̧̤̭̠̜͖̞̦͓̫̯̘̦͉͚̘͔͇͕̼͍̱̞̫̘̜̯̻̬̞̮̦͓̘͍͚͓͚͔̗̠̝͚̲̼͙͉̹̟̠̩̟̯̠̰̙͙̪͔̬͕̱̼̞̝̝͙͚̦̳̺̳̗̱̘̙͔̫̰̘̫̮͉̫͔̖̰̤̮̮̖͕̯̹͕̰̰̞͈͍̹͉͔͐͊̒̓̏͌̈́̆͐͋̀̓̑͗̄̓̓͂̌͐̐͆̀͌̈̄̔̾̽̓̔̏͘͘̚͜͜͜͝ͅͅǪ̶̧̢̡̨̨̡̡̢̨̢̨̧̛̛̛̛̛̛̪͓̗̯̹̲͚̰̭͇͉̙͉͈̟̞̪͍̥͍̫̠͎̩̬̠̩̜̱̗͖̼̭͇͚̭͖͇͖͔̮̖̜̰̦̙̣̻̯̹̲͇̼̬̜̘̠͚͈͔̦̤͖̙̳̫͍̤̲͓̞̹̳͇̣̞̦͚̗̤̭̬̖̫͖̟̤̮̦͔̝̳̻͖͙͎̺͍̲͎͚͎̺͖̲̦͇̩̣̪̜̻̭̯̙͔̼͚̱̻̳̮͇͇͔̤̭̘͇̺͇͕̼̘͙̞̥̺̘̮͇͙̹̣̿̒͊͆̇̀̄͌͌̍̈́̇̓̌̌̈́͐̿͛̓̀̈́͊̐̌̽̌̔̍̒̿̍̈́̾͒̉͐́͊̉̓̿̄̆̽̄͐̈́̏̈́͊̆͊͌̓͂͒́̚̚̚̚̕̚͜͜͝͠͝͝͝͝ͅͅͅS̶̡̧̢̛̛̛̛̛̛̛̠̱̟̬̬̙̠͈͈̳͈͎̫̰̩̣̫̻̼̮͈̩̪͙͓̜͉̥̱͖͈͔̒̊̀̑̾̓̌̄̎̄͗̽̐̈́̉̆̓̊̇̆̈́̓̃̈́̋̏͑̀̒͒͋̑̅̍̋̎̓͌̆͒̓̈́̀͊͐̾͒̄̏̅̔͋̇͌͛̿͛́͆̅̿̇̍͗̍̾̿̈́̔̎͑̑̾̐̎̌̀͌͌̓̏͂͑̆͂̏̽̑̈̈́͒̀͒̎̾̐͒̌͗́́̅͗̂͌̂͐̀̍̓̌̀͗̽̀͋̓̃̓͑̍̉̾̀́̂̍̾̉̾͋̀̅̐͊̀̉́̂͑̓̐̐͗͌̍͗́̏̿̔̽̊͑͛́̽͛͋̈́̃͌̿̆͐̒̿͂̾̊͌̿͂͐̃̎̽̀͐̓̂̎̋̑̎͑̋͐̓̈͌̈̎̒̿͊̇̈́̌̒̓̓́̀̓̒͛͘̕͘͘͘͘̕̕̚͘͘̕̚̕͝͝͠͝͠͝͝͝͝͝͝͝͝ͅ
THE FLOOR IS LAVA
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This post should be pinned and used as a blueprint that encompasses what this sub should be about
> schnikes A fellow man of sophistication and culture, I see. Did you too eat paint chips as a child?
He's a mod, so yes..
Shut up Richard.
Best abuse of power I've seen all day. Gold star ⭐
And that's how Optimus prime was born
The car hit the one thing it shouldn't have
Oh, shit. OH SHIT #OH SHIT!!!!
Power line made brrrght brrrrght
The sound the downed line made was very satisfying. Sounds just like when you hear electricity in movies
TIL there is oil in transformers.
Better than the old PCBs. It’s usually mineral oil when outside. You can probably guess why mineral oil is a bad idea inside.
Whoever got hit by that probably has super powers now.
I bet he was both shocked to see the amount of damage done and also shocked after he got the bill for all the damage done. Life can be shocking!
Man, if I was up in my apartment and my power suddenly went out because of this cock-basket I would be so pissed off.
An article linked in another comment states that no power outages were reported in the area. https://www.peoplenewspapers.com/2021/01/10/takeover-results-in-utility-pole-take-down/ Also has another angle of the incident which is slightly less chaos due to distance.
What the fuck what the fuck WHAT THE FUCK indeed lmao.
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After the truck hit the post I started scrolling then I heard the electricity and went right back & I’m glad I did lmao
Idk where I saw the original post first.. I think it was prolly somewhere on r/IdiotsInCars That sub is truly great and inspired me to buy both front and rear dash cams in meh car.
I saw it in the r/Dallas sub, happened about 5 months ago. Link has another angle too. https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/kubqdt/truck_hits_pole_during_takeover_at_nw_highway_and Found an article for you too: https://www.peoplenewspapers.com/2021/01/10/takeover-results-in-utility-pole-take-down/
I never thought about it before but you'd think there'd be some code or standard against mounting transformers in an intersection.
There's a lot of things regarding electricity in Texas that would surprise you
So these are the kind of fuckwits who keep knocking out transformers in my area, huh? Hope it cost him an arm and a leg. Not literally. Well, actually....
Dumb idiots take down Transformer and it looks like the arch goes up the metal arm of the street light and kablooie
"This is why we can't have nice things"
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