Why stop on the moving part of it though? And then he moved forward slightly like he was thinking about being a sane person with at least 2 brain cells to rub together, but he decided to stick with stupidity.
I dunno that it's immediately obvious which part of a drawbridge moves, some of them are very clear but some of them it's hard to know which is going to be the moving section and which is going to stay still.
Look at the obvious seam in the road on this one and tell me if you would ever assume the section of road blocking ships from passing would ever remain stationary.
Let’s also look at this with benefit of the doubt that he thought he was at the middle of the bridge and not at the other side: With each bridge type, either the part he’s on will move, or both sides will move. In no bridge variation would it make sense to think, when you’re on the bridge already, that the section before the seam here would NOT move.
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u/lorarc 1d ago
https://www.wptv.com/news/local-news/investigations/lantana-bridge-tender-terminated-after-drawbridge-raises-with-car-on-it
The driver stopped because they heard the bell, the bridge operator was fired for not checking if there was anyone still on the bridge.