Funny pic/gif thread...
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A little trivia for you...
You probably have seen one of those reflector-tape adorned bars hanging below the tractor-trailer in front of you at a red light or out on the highway. Turns out it's known as a Mansfield bar, and it didn't used to appear on truck trailers. It’s designed to help prevent you from recreating its namesake's death.
On June 28th, 1967, actress Jayne Mansfield, her driver, her lawyer and three of her kids were driving to New Orleans for an interview after an appearance in Mississippi. While cruising along the highway at two o'clock in the morning, the driver didn't see a semi-truck that had slowed because of a mosquito fogging truck ahead -- the fog masked the big rig's trailer, and Mansfield's driver couldn't react in time to slow the 1966 Buick Electra 225. The car slid under the semi-trailer and Mansfield and the other adults didn’t survive.
https://www.autoweek.com/news/luxury/a1717526/watch-new-mercedes-g-class-ace-euro-ncap-crash-tests/
Known technically as the Rear Underrun Protection System, the steel tubular bars immediately gained the name Mansfield bars: likely due to the gruesome severity of the crash, and Mansfield’s star status. Following her death, the U.S. government mandated trailers have a rear bumper to help prevent similar deaths.
While the bar is designed to prevent people from sliding underneath semi-trailers, it doesn’t completely stop it: cars with low bumper heights and hood heights can still slide underneath a semi-trailer. There are updated designs that work even better to prevent this, but our recommendation is to focus on not hitting a semi-trailer with your car.
Hajimemashite, Watashi wa Brock desu...
Of course, it WASN'T Japanese, but...
You were saying?
Jaden
Rusty in Montana
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While working on the movie The Horse Whisperer I stayed / lived just down the road from the Road Kill Cafe , when I last drove past it there was a dead skunk in the middle of the road out in front of it ha ha !
Thanks for the info and the links. I read the entire Wiki link and also found the info on Underrun Protection Systems interesting.
From the Wiki, I can't believe they were at Gus Stevens' club in Biloxi. We lived in Gulfport and Mississippi City (at the time, between Gulfport and Biloxi) in the 50s and 60s. Whenever my uncle (my Mother's brother) came down (he lived in Hattiesburg), he always took my mother to Gos' for a couple drinks and some entertainment.
Thanks again for the info.
DeeDeeCues
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Interesting fact, 'diners' came about with the advent of the highway system. They were originally called 'Donners' after the fateful pioneer wagon train.
HA- I could of sworn it was a young Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, and Brenden Frazier.
I just ordered one!
First picture is taken in a mirror. Second one is taken by someone else. Her watch also changes wrists. And the seam of the pants don’t match. All indicating one of the pictures is flipped. Or it could be two different women.
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Except if the photo was reversed as in taking it from a mirror, the watch and bracelet would be on opposite hands, but they're on the same hands.
Jaden
edit: On closer inspection, the watch appears to be a fitbit or other fitness watch she bought after beginning exercising and it appears that the bracelet in the second photo may be dangling down from the wrist holding the phone in the first photo.
