# The Undefeated Bridge (funny)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 26, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888 "2012-10-26T00:24:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/1 "2012-10-26T00:24:54Z")
[This bridge is 11’ 8’’ and remains…undefeated!](http://www.prochan.com/view?p=da1_1351183858)
I could watch this video over and over. It brings joy to my heart.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/2 "2012-10-26T00:47:13Z")
Does nobody ever come at it from the other side?
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### Author:  [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/3 "2012-10-26T00:51:12Z")
In my mind, it has an elaborate moustache and keeps saying, “The truck is too damn high!”
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### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/4 "2012-10-26T00:57:34Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Does nobody ever come at it from the other side?
I doubt it’s any higher from the other direction 🙂
Also, it appears to be a one-way street.
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/5 "2012-10-26T01:04:58Z")
I like the hay truck driver who sees what happens to the hay truck in front of him and decides to just go through anyway.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/6 "2012-10-26T01:33:50Z")
> [@levdrakon](#):
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> I like the hay truck driver who sees what happens to the hay truck in front of him and decides to just go through anyway.
Screw it, it’s just a bit of hay.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/7 "2012-10-26T03:08:00Z")
With so many victims, I’m wondering if the bridge is, in fact, maybe 11’4" and the sign is wrong. 😃
mmm
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### Author:  [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/8 "2012-10-26T03:13:04Z")
Shouldn’t they be putting up regular warning signs starting a couple of miles before? That is the best way to warn even the careless drivers.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/9 "2012-10-26T03:23:58Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#):
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> I doubt it’s any higher from the other direction 🙂
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> Also, it appears to be a one-way street.
I know it’s no higher, it’s just that all the trucks in the video were going the same direction. One way would explain it.
Looks like there’s a separate girder mounted bridge-high, but a bit before it, that takes the hits. I think that deserves most of the credit for the bridge’s unblemished record.
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### Author:  [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/10 "2012-10-26T03:35:23Z")
> [@Indian](#):
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> Shouldn’t they be putting up regular warning signs starting a couple of miles before? That is the best way to warn even the careless drivers.
Do you really think that most drivers read the warning signs?
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/11 "2012-10-26T03:40:29Z")
> [@flatlined](#):
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> Do you really think that most drivers read the warning signs?
Most do. But that’s just one more than half. That leaves plenty that pay no attention, and probably have no idea how tall their truck is anyway.
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### Author:  [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/12 "2012-10-26T03:44:37Z")
Very entertaining! Bridge must have been designed by a MIT grad, eh?
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### Author:  [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/13 "2012-10-26T03:51:28Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> Most do. But that’s just one more than half. That leaves plenty that pay no attention, and **probably have no idea how tall their truck is anyway**.
Good point, bolding mine. A lot of those trucks in that really funny video are rentals.
One of the most effective warning signs I ever saw wasn’t the official “Do not cross when flooded” sign. It was the hand painted sign next to it that said Farmer with tractor and chain. $some insane amount of money, his phone number and directions how to get to his farm by foot.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/14 "2012-10-26T03:53:46Z")
Love the music.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/15 "2012-10-26T04:04:12Z")
> [@harmonicamoon](#):
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> Very entertaining! Bridge must have been designed by a MIT grad, eh?
There are low bridges in the Boston/Cambridge area. When I moved here I was warned to be alert to moving-in day; lots of students with rental trucks who don’t know their way around, yet.
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### Author:  [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/16 "2012-10-26T04:07:49Z")
I guess I’m the only one wondering why they didn’t build the bridge a little higher or the road a little lower?
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### Author:  [@getitrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/getitrite)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/17 "2012-10-26T04:11:50Z")
Some of the most obvious questions are the best. Semi 's 13’6" . Question answered.
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### Author:  [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/18 "2012-10-26T04:27:44Z")
> [@getitrite](#):
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> Some of the most obvious questions are the best. Semi 's 13’6" . Question answered.
Nope, after that bridge, the semi is at most 11’ 8".
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/19 "2012-10-26T04:28:29Z")
I worked for a time in Pennsylvania for an electronics retail company that had a box truck for deliveries. Came in one morning and said truck had a dent across the entire width of the box up front. Nothing so drastic as those peel-offs in the video, just a dent. I walked in and asked, “What happened to the truck?”
"You know that 9-ft 6-in underpass in Birdsboro? (About ten miles away)
“Yeah.”
“The driver didn’t”
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### Author:  [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2012, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-undefeated-bridge-funny/638888/20 "2012-10-26T07:25:17Z")
I love how half of them keep going, without even slowing down.
“Screw it, I’ll tell the boss it was like this when I got in”
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