• Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    14 days ago

    It was too heavy to move, except for like the single truck that moved it when it crashed. It didn’t just get heavier over night did it?

    It’s just code for nobody wanted to pay to have their shit cleaned up, so everyone just left it because who cares. I can’t imagine it’s much of an “attraction”, that’s just some smart local politician inventing an excuse to not have to clean it up.

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      Let them have their fun, this is the biggest thing to happen in Winganon, Oklahoma in a long time

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      It’s Route 66 memorabilia - shit like “oh shit this is an oddly round barn” is considered notable. There’s also a whale that looks like a fifth graders paper mache project.

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      I was gonna say, sounds like no one wanted to pony up for a crane, flatbed, and disposal. I dig the paint job creativity though.

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      If it was full of (now hardened) cement, it really could be too unwieldy to move without expensive, specialized equipment.

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        In the 50s id be surprised if there was more than one piece of equipment in the state that could move that thing. Even today I’d be shocked if there were more than a handful of capable machines in the state.

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    This is like one of the roadside attractions they’d go visit in American Gods, and it would effectively be a minor shrine to the god of spaceflight or something.

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    So what?

    Construction companies can just leave their broken shit around because it’s inconvenient to their bottom line to clean it?

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      Wait until you hear the real shenanigans. Remember the cards against humanity fricassee with elon musk’s company down near the border? It’s not all that uncommon. I lived in an area with less people than cows for a few years, and there was a famous (true) local legend of a construction company that had put heavy machinery (I think some sort of road roller) in front of a farmer’s front land/gate, then refused to move it when asked. The farmer stacked about 30-50 round bales of hay around said piece of equipment, and told them just what would happen if they tried to ‘steal’ his hay. 6 years later, that equipment was still sitting there, and I’m betting it still is.