now that's a bollard

[WDixon27]

http://www.humordump.com/3180/Pole_destroys_lorry

 

[Dieselnut59]

WOW! But I bet the mexicans in some of the plants where I service forklifts could still figure out a way to tear up the bollard, the equipment and what the bollard is intended to protect.

 

[AMink]

HOLY CARP! That looks like something I need in some of the parks that I manage. Speeding in the park? BAM! Now you're not!

 

[KBennett]

That was impressive! Good engineering is an art. I wonder what kind of steel was used to make it?

 

[AMink]

I thought it was cool that the bollard was still able to be retracted. I thought it would be bent far enough to bind as it went back in it's hole.

 

[DJW]

A few years ago when visiting my cousin living in London, she told me that those type of bollards had been inserted in one of the streets in East Ham, I believe she said to close off the street for special occasions, however a police car happened to pass when they were being demonstrated and got hung up on one. She said it was a real Cock-Up, a favourite term of expression on British and Australian TV News. Doubtful if one would hear that discription on ABC, CBS or NBC in the USA. or even CNN or FOX.