A question I did not anticipate asking while taking the bus

[james_davis_nicoll]

"Why is there a boat blocking the road?"

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[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Please answer this question. Inquiring minds wish to know.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

It turns out reversing car towing a large boat on a trailer is tricky and the guy trying his hand at it on Krug St was taking his time to get it right. Probably doing at rush hour was suboptimal.

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know that, having done it a lot (I belong to a family of dinghy sailors). However, peak hour is NOT a good time. Nor is anytime really.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Oh, a boat on a trailer. Isn't that cheating, luring us in with the unusual and then it turns out to be oh so ordinary???

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Well, it wasn't immediately clear from where I was sitting that it was on a trailer.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I thought maybe you'd been visiting Wilkes-Barre.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Now, around here, boats are on roads because of the flooding. And some of the roads are gone, so who knows where those boats went.

[errolwi.livejournal.com]

How about a boat and a horse? In the desert?
http://gcaptain.com/ship-photo-week-overcrowded-boat/?30883

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

Is someone on a pony on the boat?

--Dave, will resurrect memes for food

[maruad.livejournal.com]

I used that on a Pittsburgh Steelers blog earlier this week. Still one of my favourite Lyle Lovett songs.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

I was once on a bus that was delayed because of an aircraft on the road in front. No, it hadn't made an emergency landing. It was a WWII plane on a trailer being taken to a museum somewhere, and it was having difficulty navigating the narrow roads in Guildford.

[awesomelies.livejournal.com]

"Probably should've taken the wings off that first, mate."

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

It got jealous of all the cars clogging up the waterways?

[runningbadger.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

That's nothing. I had to take evasive action when a garden shed appeared in the middle lane of the A3 with all three lanes doing 60.

It had been tied to the roof of a Landrover, but not very well.

I'm glad I didn't need to explain it to an insurance company. "So, you drove into a shed. Had you been drinking, sir? Ah, I see, the shed was in the middle of a dual carriageway. Had you been smoking, sir?"

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Seiche, eh?

[armb.livejournal.com]

Round here, it's because the wider road that it wouldn't block has low bridges that it wouldn't get under. They have police escorts telling people to move over to let them through.
Why the boatyard was built so far inland, I have no idea. I assume when it started it was building boats small enough to fit on the river, rather than ones delivered to the ocean on large trucks.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

In my city we have a facility which makes large river barges. Occasionally people have griped about (potentially expensive) riverfront property near downtown being occupied by unsightly industry rather than, say, overpriced condos. So far sanity has won out and nobody's managed to tear it out so as to put overpriced condos onto the flood plain (until the next flood comes through).