# Cecil's Overhead Crane Incident? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [September 13, 2011, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-overhead-crane-incident/596148 "2011-09-13T11:20:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-overhead-crane-incident/596148/1 "2011-09-13T11:20:36Z")
From this [column](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/592/what-does-do-not-hump-mean-on-the-side-of-railroad-cars), dated July 4, 1986 Cecil writes… > [@](#): > > nearly as funny as the time I almost knocked out the side of a building with an overhead crane. But we’ll get to that story some other day. I checked my old books and and tried an archive search but to no avail. So… has some other day arrived yet? ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-overhead-crane-incident/596148/2 "2011-09-13T23:52:55Z")
He described it in [post 14](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=3176765&postcount=14) of [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=171000), eight years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-overhead-crane-incident/596148/3 "2011-09-14T12:22:45Z")
Thanks! Funny, missed that in the search results. :smack: