Hey, have you ever found yourself careening down a massively steep mountainside hill in a runaway eighteen-wheeler with the brakes cut? If so, there’s really no need to worry.
AWESOME!
Photo from: here
October 2, 2008...12:01 am
#926 The Runaway Truck Ramp
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October 2, 2008 at 12:27 am
You know I was disappointed with the word “ramp” by the the time I got to the top I had lost momentum and could not clear the gully on the other side….. I lost my sponsorship deal as a result…. not-so-awesome
October 2, 2008 at 12:38 am
“and could not clear”
#927: Canadians’ refusal to use contractions.
October 2, 2008 at 12:46 am
When I was a kid, I always wanted to see a trunk use one.
October 2, 2008 at 12:55 am
Must be a regional awesome thing. I live on Long Island and have never seen one of those before.
That hill looks insane.
October 2, 2008 at 8:58 am
when I was about 8 years old we drove from new York to Mexico. You would not believe the levels of awesomeness I felt when my dad explained what those were for.
October 2, 2008 at 9:24 am
Nice, but charging up the incline on the far side would be a far more thrilling way to bleed off that extra velocity.
And here’s an awesome thing I thought of: getting 2 things from a vending machine for the price of one by choosing the product that is almost hanging off the little spring. Makes me happy, at least.
October 2, 2008 at 9:49 am
Runaway trucks are kind of awesome to start with. It’s nice they get their own ramps. I like on the Wikipedia article how they’re also called “gravity escape ramps”. I think mylesfromnowhere might also find that to be disappointing, though.
October 2, 2008 at 10:01 am
Check out this link to pictures of more of these crazy things:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=runaway+truck+ramps&gbv=2
October 2, 2008 at 10:50 am
The phrase “runaway truck” makes anything awesome
October 2, 2008 at 11:34 am
Totally agree. Runaway Truck ramps – AWESOME. When I was 6 my truck ran away, but two days later we found him congregating with a bunch of other runaway trucks at our local ramp. He was cold, and lonely, and completely ready to come home. That runaway truck ramp probably saved his life.
But I wasn’t always so lucky. When I was 11, my train ran away, and we looked everywhere but couldn’t find him. To this day, I’m still haunted by that stupid Soul Asylum song reminding me that he is “never coming back.” In fact, he’s probably already been purchased as scrap metal by the Chinese. Fuck – I miss that train. (drwizard.wordpress.com)
October 2, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Can i just say that with each awesome thing im more convinced that we are soulmates because you get me.
I love runaway truck ramps
October 2, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Is it more sad or awesome that I know from the terrain and the curve of the road exactly where that damn picture was taken?
October 4, 2008 at 9:00 pm
OMG the INSTANT i read this post i wanted to see one of these suckers used. did i go straight to YouTube.com? Yes I did. Was I duly rewarded? Yes we were. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q__9C4-UsE4&feature=related
October 6, 2008 at 6:12 am
They have arrester lanes in the Charlevoix in Quebec. I always thought they just slowed the truck down by the weight of it driving it into the gravel.
October 6, 2008 at 7:29 am
emegine saglık. super :)
October 16, 2008 at 12:41 pm
@The ranter formerly known as Dave
It’s awesome, and I say that simply because I’ve actually seen a truck use that particular ramp. Legen-Awesome-dary.
April 1, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I’ve always secretly wanted to go up one of those ramps but never did because I was afraid an actual runaway truck would come up behind me and smash me to smithereens. Haha.