Sump Buster engage!

[fireheart]

So a bit of background: my state is known for having a guided busway, known as the O-Bahn. It's kind of like a train line for a bus. The service starts in the central business district and then moves out to the suburbs. I say service because at the moment it only runs on one line.

A little check of the paper this morning revealed that someone had tried to drive on the O-Bahn and got stuck.

In order to get onto said O-Bahn, you need to pass several signs. And then if you still can't read the signs, you get to meet the SUMP BUSTER.
THIS is a sump buster:

http://railgallery.wongm.com/adelaid..._7499.jpg.html

Said sump buster can and will rip out your car's oil pan.

We really need more sump busters with SC's!

(this isn't the first time this has happened by the way. A couple of years back , an Irish guy got stuck on the SAME BARRIER. Cue the Irish jokes)

[Shalom]

Sounds like the infamous Manchester Bollards. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Cw0QJU8ro) Except that getting stuck on the Sump Buster is even stupider, because the Manchester bus lane is ordinary tarmac that just happens to be reserved for buses, but that guided busway looks to me like nothing so much as a railroad track. What idiot would even think that was for cars? I wouldn't even have thought it was for buses, were it not for the photo of the bus actually driving on the damn thing.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Wish we had something similar to the Manchester Bollards here for emergency vehicles that need to park in the fire lane . . .

We could entertain ourselves all day long watching idiot customers mess their cars and trucks up with those things.

[LillFilly]

I need 6hrs of these tapes and a bag of popcorn! Bring these to the US of A!!!!!

[PepperElf]

I need 6hrs of these tapes and a bag of popcorn! Bring these to the US of A!!!!!

And don't forget to order extra popcorn for when they start filing complaints at PFB/M3C or crying "lawsuit"

[DGoddessChardonnay]

And don't forget to order extra popcorn for when they start filing complaints at PFB/M3C or crying "lawsuit"

'Cause you know one bag of popcorn ain't gonna be enough.

Might be a good time to invest in your own popcorn stand.

[fireheart]

Apparently according to Wiki, around 4 cars a year end up stuck ont he track and have to be removed by crane.

The buses themselves are kind of like hovercrafts, in that they can move on both rail and normal road. Generally they start in the Central Business District (colloquially known as "The City") and then they move out north.

[sms001]

Wow! Went and looked at some other piccys jus 'cause I'm interested in mass trans in general, and that thing's really cool.

Signs and sump busters aside, what was the SC-ish logic here do you think? "Oh look! A completely empty expressway just for special snowflake me!!!"

Also (and I'm not offended, just curious) I don't get the significance of the Irish reference. Are they just coincidentally known as "less-than-perfect" drivers in your neck of the woods, just as (Insert Roadkill Group #1) are in (Insert Tough Driving Town #1)? Or is this some universal thing I just have never heard about before?

[fireheart]

Also (and I'm not offended, just curious) I don't get the significance of the Irish reference. Are they just coincidentally known as "less-than-perfect" drivers in your neck of the woods, just as (Insert Roadkill Group #1) are in (Insert Tough Driving Town #1)? Or is this some universal thing I just have never heard about before?

It wasn't so much the fact that they were bad drivers because they were Irish, the joke was that they'd had a few at the pub and couldn't tell the difference.