"Trailer safety chain stops couple's pickup from plunging into Idaho gorge".
H/T: Mrs. Paco
Update Some people, on the other hand, spend their whole lives just sort of...dangling.
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"Trailer safety chain stops couple's pickup from plunging into Idaho gorge".
H/T: Mrs. Paco
Update Some people, on the other hand, spend their whole lives just sort of...dangling.
I know that bridge well, having crossed it many times. The couple, and their dogs, would not have survived the fall.
ReplyDeleteMy respects to the rescue team and the trucker.
Job well done, indeed. I'm glad to see this terrifying experience turned out ok for everyone involved.
ReplyDeleteYikes. That was scary to look at.
ReplyDeleteCastellfollit de La Roca looks like it came straight out of "Lord of the Rings". Considering how Italian villages are emptying out because Italians aren't replacing themselves, I wonder how many people actually still live there.
Whoops. Castellfollit de La Roca is actually in Spain, but the point remains the same.
ReplyDeleteI get it, RebeccaH. Italians, Spaniards, what's the difference?
ReplyDeleteActually there is so much shared culture between the two, especially along the Mediterranean, that it makes me wonder how France shoehorned themselves in between them.
Steve, I'd say they did it because they have a lot of gall.
ReplyDelete*smack*.
Sorry.
They did have large mountains to hide behind in both directions.
I do wonder why they built that town there. The Huns never made it that far and that's a defensive position if ever I saw one.
Imagine being a "newbie" in the neighborhood, and you get up your first morning there and absent-mindedly step out your back door to walk the dog. That's a l-o-n-g way down.
ReplyDeleteThe Huns never made it that far and that's a defensive position if ever I saw one.
ReplyDeleteProbably protection against local marauders, raids by jealous neighbors, civil war, and the occasional Moorish incursion. Not to mention sealing off the town against the occasional plague. That's a natural redoubt, and probably proof against most small units.
Oh, and I bet it made collecting taxes and fees a snap.
Why, I bet you could hear the tax collector's bones snapping all the way down.
ReplyDeleteCastellfollit de la Roca is amazing.
ReplyDeleteReading about the Moorish invasion of Spain(and the many Spanish civil wars), it is understandable why the Spaniards chose to build a town in such a defensible location.
Also, hygiene wouldn't have been a problem: just whizz off the cliff.
ReplyDeleteGood fertilizer for those rich farmlands below.