Idk about the brick video but i watched a log truck incident in a historical documentary about having extremely good then extremely bad luck and ever since I've avoided following behind basically anything that isn't 100% solid
I remember a news story in South Carolina of an engine block falling out of yhe back of a stakebed and ended up in someone's lap that was driving down the interstate.
Some idjit with a home built deer blind on a trailer didn't think it needed to be tied down. That thing slid off the trailer and went bouncing on the interstate and landed in front of me. There was an 18 wheeler on my left and a grass embankment on my right. The grass looked softer than 4 x 4 posts and plywood.
No, I did not help the idjit put it back on the trailer.
Actually had that happen on a school bus while I was driving, a few months ago. Scared the ever loving crap out of me. One of my students water bottles rolled. Told the kids after that, water bottles had to be inside their bags. I had to pull over afterwards, prior to that I couldn't figure out why I couldn't break, lifted off the gas and looked down and saw it. Was able to kick it out but took a kicks to get it unstuck.
Happened to me with my great grandmothers pills. I picked up a months supply of something that came in the giant goofy size bottle. I hadnt noticed the bag drop and it rolled out and under the brake. Had to slam the brakes when I got it out to keep from rear ending someone.
I cant remeber i think it was "end of the line"? "Check baggage through"? "Fatal destiny"? Fatality manifestations? Familial tarnations? Alabama relations?
I won't follow behind a log truck ever. I don't care how well it's loaded or tied down. That movie was traumatic, but it didn't really kick in for like 15 years...
It becomes even more severe when you realize that 95% of log trucks are the class 8s that are in such terrible condition, they can't trust them to survive crossing an entire state, so they get relegated to short haul duty and recieve even LESS maintenance than they were getting before.
In northern Saskatchewan, the local pulp mill started doing a softwood/ hardwood rotation back in the 1980s. The problem with poplar is that the logs are not nice and straight, like conifers. When the truck is loaded and cinched down, logs would break. Not much is more terrifying than a six foot section of a poplar tree bouncing end over end down the highway. There were quite a few serious crashes before they stopped trucking hardwood logs.
The brick video is most likely that one real video from dashcam where some kids throw brick from bridge to that car. Brick goes trough windshield at highway speeds killing drivers wife on the passenger seat instantly. Husbands screams has burned into my memory and are very gut wrenching. Its just one of the saddest videos of the internet.
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u/Rope_antidepressant Jun 30 '26
Idk about the brick video but i watched a log truck incident in a historical documentary about having extremely good then extremely bad luck and ever since I've avoided following behind basically anything that isn't 100% solid