The Bus Plunging Thread

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 9:03 pm

Found this documentary about roads in Nepal in anyone's interested.

shuize · Post by **shuize** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:11 am

Anaxagoras wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 9:03 pm Found this documentary about roads in Nepal in anyone's interested.

I did a nine hour bus trip in Nepal on a road that looked very much like that video from 25:50.

It was one of the scariest experiences of my life.

I'm sure there was at least one "Oh, shit!" moment once a minute for most of the trip.

On the way back, we insisted on a hiring a jeep. Our guide said, "Expensive." We were like, "Fucking try us."

In the end, I think we paid $150 total for the five of us and, I have to say, to this day it was probably the best money I've ever spent.

If I'd taken the jeep on the way up, I'm sure I would have thought it was insane. But, compared to the bus, it was glorious.

Riding that jeep down was probably one of the top 10 happiest moments of my life.

Fid · Post by **Fid** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 5:09 am

I never actually did this but the scary stories told me by Nepalese co-workers convinced me.

I ain't going to Kathmandu.

shuize · Post by **shuize** » Mon Apr 20, 2020 8:05 am

Fid wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 5:09 am I never actually did this but the scary stories told me by Nepalese co-workers convinced me.

I ain't going to Kathmandu.

I think bus plunging is more of a problem outside of Kathmandu.

I'm not sure if the video below was the actual road we took. But it's very similar. Including the waterfall. And we did it in an old, overloaded, piece of shit bus like the one in the earlier video. The jeep here looks like the one we were laughing our asses off in all the way back.

Note the lack of any sort of guardrails as far as the eye can see. There were points when the outer edge of our bus tires extended over the edge of the canyon with the "spotter" directing the driver inches at a time.

Nepal is amazing. But that bus ride was scarier than shit.

ceptimus · Post by **ceptimus** » Mon Nov 02, 2020 3:46 pm

Okay, not a bus, and not a plunge either, but in tangentially related news, one of those little trains that looks a lot like a bus was prevented from plunging by a handily placed whale sculpture.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpspr ... 412914.jpg

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54780430

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:52 pm

That’s fucking awesome

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:55 pm

Yesterday I saw a car merge over into the fastest lane on the interstate and almost hit a car already in the lane and the lady in the lane already jerked the wheel to keep from getting hit, hit the concrete barrier, flipped the car over (she was doing 87mph in a 65 zone) and she died

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:56 pm

Mostly I am amazed this doesn’t happen all the time

Drivers are fucking insane

ceptimus · Post by **ceptimus** » Mon Nov 02, 2020 11:38 pm

Catching that train was a fluke.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Mon Nov 02, 2020 11:54 pm

heh heh

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Tue Nov 03, 2020 1:33 am

ceptimus wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 11:38 pm Catching that train was a fluke.

wins internet

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Tue Nov 03, 2020 1:41 am

The plastic sculpture has been there for twenty years

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Fri Jan 15, 2021 2:40 pm

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-new ... 6cc79a7737

An articulated bus dramatically plunged off an overpass in New York City, leaving the front half hanging from the highway ramp it was navigating, its fall broken only by the road below.

The driver was seriously injured in the crash just after 11 p.m. Thursday at an interchange of the Cross Bronx and Major Deegan expressways, and seven passengers suffered minor injuries, fire officials said. They were taken to hospitals. No other vehicles were involved.

https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod ... c/800.jpeg

Rob Lister · Post by **Rob Lister** » Fri Jan 15, 2021 2:43 pm

https://i.imgur.com/8rgPmoO.jpg

ed · Post by ed » Fri Jan 15, 2021 2:48 pm

Bravo!! A true classic of the genre. Like an O. Henry short story illustrating what a short story is.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Fri Jan 15, 2021 3:10 pm

Philosophical question: if the "fall was broken only by the road below", was the fall actually broken?

ed · Post by ed » Fri Jan 15, 2021 3:45 pm

Pyrrho wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 3:10 pm Philosophical question: if the "fall was broken only by the road below", was the fall actually broken?

I think they mean that if it weren't for the road, the bus would still be plunging into the bottomless abyss.

Witness · Post by **Witness** » Thu Feb 18, 2021 1:52 am

Bus drives off bridge into canal ; 40 dead

NEW DELHI (AP) — An overcrowded bus drove off a bridge and into a canal in central India, killing at least 40 people, an official said.

Six people were rescued after the accident in Madhya Pradesh state, District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Choudhary said.

He said more than 46 people were on board the bus, which was designed for 34.

Rescuers recovered 40 bodies and were searching for other passengers. The water supply to the canal was cut to aid the rescue effort.

...

Police say more than 110,000 people are killed every year in road accidents across India. Most crashes are blamed on reckless driving, poorly maintained roads and aging vehicles.

https://hardandsmart.net/2021/02/16/bus ... l-40-dead/

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sun May 23, 2021 4:47 pm

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/0 ... ash-italy/

Thirteen people have been killed and two children seriously hurt after a cable car in northern Italy plunged to the ground.

The updated death toll was announced by Italy's alpine rescue service, having risen from earlier reports that nine people died.

The cable car links the town of Stresa on the shores of Lake Maggiore with a mountain area called Mottarone, which lies 4,900ft above sea level.

The force of the impact as the cable car hit the ground flung some bodies into the surrounding forest, reports said.

ed · Post by ed » Sat Dec 25, 2021 12:35 pm

This is not a bus per se but it has many of the characteristics necessary for inclusion

1- occurs in a shithole country
2- overcrowded
3- conveyance looks like a piece of shit

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/14744370 ... name=small

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... ce=twitter

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Dec 25, 2021 1:55 pm

They should have had the good sense to be born in the USA.

ed · Post by ed » Sat Dec 25, 2021 2:50 pm

Darn tootin'

ed · Post by ed » Sat Dec 25, 2021 2:51 pm

Alternatively, they should have realized that if they got to their destination all they would be able to say is that they got from one horrid place to another.

"Look!!! I'm in a new shithole!!!"

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Tue May 10, 2022 6:27 am

School bus falls into construction hole in Cleveland

https://fox8.com/news/school-bus-falls- ... cleveland/

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Tue May 10, 2022 7:15 pm

Not full of children? Too bad.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Tue May 10, 2022 7:22 pm

Why do you hate Cleveland, sparks?

shemp · Post by **shemp** » Wed May 11, 2022 1:42 am

He doesn't hate Cleveland, he hates children.

I hate both.

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed May 11, 2022 2:30 am

What a shock

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Mon Dec 26, 2022 10:02 pm

https://apnews.com/article/madrid-b8cd4 ... 2140f4302a

Spanish authorities announced Monday that they had recovered another body after a bus plunged 30 meters (100 feet) from a bridge into a river on Christmas Eve, raising the toll of the fatal crash to seven dead and two injured.

ed · Post by ed » Wed Jan 04, 2023 11:25 am

Cops give disturbing update after four survive car plunging off cliff

https://a57.foxnews.com/hp.foxnews.com/ ... ?tl=1&ve=1

A man who injured himself and three others, including two children, after driving his Tesla off a cliff in California on Monday is now facing multiple charges after authorities said the plunge was intentional.

California Highway Patrol in San Francisco on Facebook said Dharmesh A. Patel, of Pasadena, was arrested for attempted murder and child abuse Tuesday. After talking to witnesses and gathering evidence at the scene, investigators believe "this incident was an intentional act."

Not a bus but there were passengers and the word "plunge" was used in the story. Has the correct characteristics except for the vehicle. Now the driver is named Dharmesh A. Patel which could well be the name of a driver of one of those third world busses that seem to plunge with alarming regularity so I think that this might actually qualify as a legit story for this thread.

I ask you, could this not be Bangladesh?
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews. ... ?ve=1&tl=1

solely · Post by **solely** » Wed Jan 04, 2023 11:57 am

I don't think Bangladesh has a helicopter.

ed · Post by ed » Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:28 pm

solely wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 11:57 am I don't think Bangladesh has a helicopter.

https://i.imgur.com/1CCoD2y.jpg

solely · Post by **solely** » Wed Jan 04, 2023 1:20 pm

I don't know if you remember but George Harrison wrote a song about it. Sort of.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=so ... 6PC%3dLCTS

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:33 pm

Teslas must be pretty good if a person can survive driving off a cliff...

robinson · Post by **robinson** » Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:59 pm

They are.

shuize · Post by **shuize** » Mon Jan 23, 2023 6:05 am

I feel there is potential here.

https://twitter.com/gnuman1979/status/1 ... wsrc%5Etfw

ed · Post by ed » Mon Jan 23, 2023 12:46 pm

Potential does not begin to describe it.

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Wed Jan 25, 2023 1:33 am

Pyrrho wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:33 pm Teslas must be pretty good if a person can survive driving off a cliff...

I thought it was their share price that was falling off a cliff?

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Jan 28, 2023 1:05 am

Twit: https://twitter.com/CrazyIdeasNZ/status/1618836475621306368

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Jan 28, 2023 4:40 am

Swimming room only.

– J.D.