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Grain hoppers are typically covered, so why are they running uncovered grain cars on this run?
by labrador 3y ago
Grain hoppers are typically covered, so why are they running uncovered grain cars on this run?
- dmix 3y agoMoney falls out of armoured bank trucks all over highways when it’s supposed to be secured in the back sometimes. Stuff happens. Humans etc
- Swizec 3y ago> Money falls out of armoured bank trucks all over highways when it’s supposed to be secured in the back sometimes I had a few classmates back in high school whose uncles could get you cheap Nike, Adidas, Calvin Klein etc that fell out of trucks. Happens all the time. Stuff sometimes just gets lost on the way.
- msrenee 3y agoI'm pretty sure saying goods "fell off the truck" is just a euphemism for them being stolen. That's why they're sold cheap.
- adolph 3y agoWhy would they be sold cheaply because they are stolen? If the item is the same, then why wouldn’t the price be nearly the same?
- transcriptase 3y agoA discount moves the stolen items out of your possession much faster, reducing risk of being caught with them and need for storage.
- zztop44 3y agoIf the price were nearly the same, why would anyone choose to deal with criminals and expose themselves to some level of legal risk when they could get the same product (with a warranty) in a store?
- adolph 3y agoPeople "deal with criminals" all the time. They don't all wear an eye mask and striped shirts. Every buy choose something from Ebay or an Amazon seller because it was 5-10% less costly than conventional sellers?
- wjnc 3y agoYou get downvoted but are describing a nice trend. In the old days all you had were stores and poachers. Who was who was easy to tell and the poachers had to suffer a loss. In the modern days, where say novelty sneakers can be bought via innumerable websites the price difference between stores and poachers must have come down. A smart poachers sells stuff that fell of the wagon at retail via pop-up websites. Anything Amazon sells will have fallen of a wagon here or there.
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- brvsft 3y agoLeave this particular commentary on Reddit, please.
- johndunne 3y agoHappens so often, the evolved euphemism is "fell out the back of a low flying aircraft." Us Dubliners are fond of this one.
- psunavy03 3y agoThat wasn't what "fell off the truck" actually meant.
- jahnu 3y agoThe ole 5 finger discount.
- passwordoops 3y agoYeah, yeah. My hand just happened to fall into that man's back pocket. It's not my fault his wallet stuck to my palm
- dmix 3y agoI know people are joking but money has fallen out of trucks at least 8 times in recent history: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article279330934.html https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article27933093...
- hristov 3y agoIf you read to the last paragraph, the article suggests but does not outright state that the grain is spilled as the result of derailments. So there is some kind of derailment, grain cars tumble over spill all of their grain, and the railroad decides it is not worthwhile to collect it. This results in piles of grain by the track side which gets wet and starts fermenting, and the grizzlys eat it, get drunk and decide to race trains.
- 9991 3y ago… causing a train derailment, and completing the cycle. Is this some new form of life?
- pfannkuchen 3y agoThis is the yeast/bear version of toxoplasmosis cat/rat?
- jeffrallen 3y agoI come to HN for quality speculation like this. Keep up the good work!
- sethammons 3y agoHitting a bear will not derail a train
- COGlory 3y agoNo, but moose can cause derailments. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1350630723003278 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13506...
- badcppdev 3y agoMaybe if the bears learn to put logs on the tracks... or they develop fire and burn the railway sleepers. https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bears-discover-fire/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bears-discover-fi...
- notatoad 3y agomy understanding was that grain comes out of the opening on the bottom used to empty the car, rather than flying out the top. whatever the mechanism is, grain on the tracks is definitly not exclusive to this run, it's a problem anywhere there's railways and bears.