Before I make fun of you, I would like the back story please.
That area is not even a road way.
As for the original rock, wtf!!! How do you hit a big rock like that.
I was meeting some friends who met some Aussie girls who insisted on going to Hooters for some reason. So on this particular snowy night I turned into the parking lot from 27th ave eastbound. Not sure how well the street view shows it, but when turning right into the car dealership parking lot, you go down a small hill as you turn. Given the fresh snow I completely misjudged where the curb was and drove over it, proceeding to drive into the snow bank in my 2001 Eclipse.
Forgetting that this was on a hill, I continued to try to go forward, eventually not realizing that my front right tire had lost contact with anything resembling ground. By that point, my car had gotten high centred on the snowbank and I walked into Hooters yelling out "who's the ####### who parked on the curb" while waiting for a towtruck.
I was meeting some friends who met some Aussie girls who insisted on going to Hooters for some reason. So on this particular snowy night I turned into the parking lot from 27th ave eastbound. Not sure how well the street view shows it, but when turning right into the car dealership parking lot, you go down a small hill as you turn. Given the fresh snow I completely misjudged where the curb was and drove over it, proceeding to drive into the snow bank in my 2001 Eclipse.
Forgetting that this was on a hill, I continued to try to go forward, eventually not realizing that my front right tire had lost contact with anything resembling ground. By that point, my car had gotten high centered on the snowbank and I walked into Hooters yelling out "who's the ####### who parked on the curb" while waiting for a tow-truck.
It's not a great parking lot design to start with...if that little median is so tight that they couldn't pour rounded corners of concrete there, then they should have shifted everything further out. Then you wouldn't have people "cutting" the corner because it's how they would take the corner in a normal lot.
There's lots of space on the road there, big empty parking lot with no other stores open yet. All 3 of the people were turning into a bottle depot that opened about 2 days earlier.
I had to veer around the SUV on the right to get to the bottle depot on Saturday.
They just were looking for the entrance to the new depot rather than watching the road.
While I don't think anyone should hit that particular rock, the design is part of the problem. The rock is below the belt line of most vehicles and is easily forgettable when you are merging into traffic.
I'm sure all the critics have never touched a curb with their tires.
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I don't care what anyone says Calgary is home to the worst drivers in the world. Sure there are places where it appears more chaotic (I've been to plenty larger North American cities) but this city is full of drivers that simply have no business behind the wheel of an automobile as stories like this illustrate.
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Before I make fun of you, I would like the back story please.
That area is not even a road way.
As for the original rock, wtf!!! How do you hit a big rock like that.
Not only how do you hit a rock like that, how do you manage to flip your car or get it wedged up like that? The damage to the cars doesn't look like they hit it with much force, it just looks like they hit it gently, and kept driving, hoping that something miraculous would happen.
It almost looks like some kind of prank, actually.
I was meeting some friends who met some Aussie girls who insisted on going to Hooters for some reason. So on this particular snowy night I turned into the parking lot from 27th ave eastbound. Not sure how well the street view shows it, but when turning right into the car dealership parking lot, you go down a small hill as you turn. Given the fresh snow I completely misjudged where the curb was and drove over it, proceeding to drive into the snow bank in my 2001 Eclipse.
Forgetting that this was on a hill, I continued to try to go forward, eventually not realizing that my front right tire had lost contact with anything resembling ground. By that point, my car had gotten high centred on the snowbank and I walked into Hooters yelling out "who's the ####### who parked on the curb" while waiting for a towtruck.
Yeah but how was Hooters?
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While I don't think anyone should hit that particular rock, the design is part of the problem. The rock is below the belt line of most vehicles and is easily forgettable when you are merging into traffic.
I'm sure all the critics have never touched a curb with their tires.
Touching the curb with your tires and this:
Are two different things.
Never mind how hard you have to drive to get your vehicle you on the rock.
This type of driving really is indefensible.
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I don't care what anyone says Calgary is home to the worst drivers in the world.
You have clearly never driven for any length of time in Richmond, British Columbia.
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I like this rock. I also had to google Sage Hill. This city is bloated.
It's more that every six block radius seems to think it deserves its own neighbourhood moniker.
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