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12ax7

Joined: 07 Nov 2009

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 12:22 am Post subject:

Steelrails wrote:

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I kept close enough to truck to be able to read its license plate while my wife was dialing the police (you did get that my wife was the one on the phone, right?).

You were able to keep up with a truck doing at least 45 kph? Who are you, Usain Bolt?

You and you wife were able to analyze this situation, mutually arrive at the decision to call the police all with you taking off after a truck to read its license plates going fast enough to through a dog out of it and were able to keep this truck in your field of vision long enough to conclude a phone call with the police? A truck doing 45kph+, with you on level ground, you were able to keep up with it and maintain it in your field of vision?

And magically the street is big enough to allow a vehicle to do this, yet is totally devoid of cars and the Bongo truck manages not to veer out of control? I mean seriously, most Korean streets have 60 kph speed limits, those that don't, side streets, are too small to allow the vehicle to swerve without it striking something.

And a deserted Korean 60kph street? Really? That's a major road. Maybe only at like 4AM in the morning, but then again, calls about crazy drivers and chasing trucks with dogs at 4AM generally get written off as drunkenness.

You must have telescopic eyes and the legs of a cheetah.

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He wasn't driving fast when it happened. As a matter of fact, the truck was stopped. She fell when it took off.

But that's being thrown due to acceleration, not swerving laterally. You said the truck was swerving, but in order to swerve and throw someone you need space and velocity to do this. Again, its like a wave- The faster the truck goes, the less its ability to maintain control and swerve with the force necessary to eject someone. If it goes slower, it needs greater space (amplitude?) to eject that person.

Anyone here who has actually driven a car should know this.

And in the end, what they heck were the cops supposed to do? They couldn't get their in time to do anything about it.

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Thanks Columbo. Now we can all continue with our day knowing that you have solved "the case of the swerving truck and dog in a box".
Don't you just sit back sometimes and think to yourself: "who gives a s**t"? It would seem you don't do that often enough.

I dunno, do you ever sit back and think that about all the frustrations you have with Korean lies, myths, and exaggerations?

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What's the next move going to be Mr. Garrison? The magic bump theory, possibly...

You said it yourself man, something about this guy's story doesn't hold water.

You may hate my guts, but look at the story and do the math and add in the other stuff. It just doesn't work out.

I was driving, numbnuts.

Died By Bear

Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 12:27 am Post subject:

Good GOD does he argue about every damn thing?

Zyzyfer

Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 12:46 am Post subject:

Died By Bear wrote:

Good GOD does he argue about every damn thing?

Apparently.

I am wondering now what SteelRails hopes to achieve by disproving 12ax7's story in a thread about Korean cops not responding to reports of crimes being committed.

Steelrails

Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 12:49 am Post subject:

So you're engaged in a pursuit of a drunk and being close enough to read his license plate instead of backing off and putting distance between you and a reckless driver. Sounds like there were two reckless drivers on the road that night. Anyways, with that last bit at least everything makes sorta sense. I should have asked if you were driving and you should have mentioned it earlier. Anyways, don't chase after drunk drivers.

12ax7

Joined: 07 Nov 2009

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:21 am Post subject:

Steelrails wrote:

So you're engaged in a pursuit of a drunk and being close enough to read his license plate instead of backing off and putting distance between you and a reckless driver.

Sounds like there were two reckless drivers on the road that night.

Anyways, with that last bit at least everything makes sorta sense. I should have asked if you were driving and you should have mentioned it earlier.

Anyways, don't chase after drunk drivers.

He was driving below the speed limit, I have better than perfect vision thanks to corrective laser eye surgery, and I know how to follow a vehicle at a safe distance (took advanced driving courses while I was in the armed forces). Happy?

The most you'll get out of me from now on is an emoticon.

12ax7

Joined: 07 Nov 2009

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:22 am Post subject:

Zyzyfer wrote:

Died By Bear wrote:

Good GOD does he argue about every damn thing?

Apparently.

I am wondering now what SteelRails hopes to achieve by disproving 12ax7's story in a thread about Korean cops not responding to reports of crimes being committed.

I'm guessing he's got mommy issues, which is sad since he'll never find a solution to those here.

IPayInCash

Joined: 27 Jul 2013
Location: Away from all my board stalkers :)

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:37 am Post subject:

Died By Bear wrote:

Good GOD does he argue about every damn thing?

He even argues when no one is arguing with him.

The dude isn't human. No one can't possibly live their life and literally see everything as an argument. There's no way his blood pressure would have survived this long with all of that nerd raging. Steelrails is more likely a simulated identity created by the government to simply argue with everyone to test our boiling points for research purposes. This makes so much more sense.

12ax7 wrote:

I'm guessing he's got mommy issues, which is sad since he'll never find a solution to those here.

He's adopted, so your guess would be correct.

Zyzyfer

Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:14 pm Post subject:

IPayInCash wrote:

12ax7 wrote:

I'm guessing he's got mommy issues, which is sad since he'll never find a solution to those here.

He's adopted, so your guess would be correct.

low blow with the adopted dig man

cabeza

Joined: 29 Sep 2012

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:34 pm Post subject:

Zyzyfer wrote:

IPayInCash wrote:

12ax7 wrote:

I'm guessing he's got mommy issues, which is sad since he'll never find a solution to those here.

He's adopted, so your guess would be correct.

low blow with the adopted dig man

+1
Not necessary at all.

IPayInCash

Joined: 27 Jul 2013
Location: Away from all my board stalkers :)

Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 10:08 pm Post subject:

How is that a low blow? He stated it in the thread I linked. If you put that info out there dont cry when others repeat it. I didnt announce it to this forum. He did.

Who's Your Daddy?

Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 5:23 am Post subject:

Fox wrote:

Korean police only resemble American police very vaguely, and that's generally a good thing. Sure, it means that on occasion people will get away with some risky behavior that an American cop would have used as an excuse to extract a couple hundred bucks via a ticket, but I'll take that trade off for being able to drive past a cop without wondering if he's going to pull me over and find some way to shake me down for cash in order to make his quota.

Exactly. It seems the police force has become a business; way too much revenue generation. I support detective crime solving, but that seems almost a side business.

My father got a ticket for rolling through a 4-way stop in Canada. Seriously. And you just have to be "sorry officer." Here there wouldn't even be a stop sign:)

Here, I got pulled over for going to fast in a school zone at about 11am. I argued with the young cop that all the students were in the building, and the rule shouldn't apply. He let me go with a warning. In Canada, I'd have a cop shoe up my ass, a ticket, and an insurance hike.

transmogrifier

Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 8:34 am Post subject:

Steelrails wrote:

You mean the bed of the truck? Given that it was probably some Bongo truck I figured by box it was probably some commonwealth way of saying the cabin. But saying box for bed makes more sense as to how the dog was thrown.

It still doesn't explain how this guy was able to keep it up long enough to stay in view and not hit anything. A car swerving back and forth is like a wave, amplitude and frequency and all that. A truck swerving back and forth at a velocity sufficient to eject a dog while maintaining control and not flipping over, all the while managing not to hit anything on a narrow Korean street (unless it was a major thoroughfare, about the only place where you could get the velocity and space necessary to pull off such a maneuver and the vehicle should be causing a massive disruption to traffic, as major thoroughfares are at least busy enough, even late at night, for this to cause some serious accidents). But how does this vehicle stay in the person's sight during the time it takes them to decide to call the police and actually make the call?

I have a sneaking suspicion the story is more likely "Driving on the highway in our bus, we saw this truck passing cars and such, with a dog in the back, when we tried to call the police." That's the only way I can really see this truck being able to swerve violently enough to eject a dog with the necessary space and the OP being able to maintain visual contact given the vehicles velocity. Either that or the guy is doing doughnuts in the local county office parking lot, but his truck should probably flip at that point.

I mean seriously, in order to get that kind of force necessary to eject a dog, the car has to be doing at least 45kph, probably more like 60. The max visibility someone would have in a city situation is 1 kilometer, and that's assuming an elevated view, perpendicular to the road, at the proper distance to get a wide view of it, yet still being able to see the dog. That gives someone maybe a minute to a minute and a half until they leave view. Now, the OP would have us believe that within a minutes he was able to witness this, decide to call the police, talk to the police, and maintain sight of the truck to the point where he could see the dog being ejected and dying "right before our eyes"?

Not to mention the police probably realized that by the time they got over there, the truck would be long gone. And if the truck really was doing doughnuts, other people would have called. Something about this story doesn't add up. Amateur detective? Maybe, but also there is something about this that doesn't add up.

What compels you to do these things? This is next-level pointlessness.

andrewchon

Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 1:26 am Post subject:

andrewchon wrote:

At my goshiwon, there was a young man living in the room across. One day a man claiming to be his uncle turned up and asked to see him. Young man lets him into his room. Soon there's sound of crashing and banging and some Korean tongue lashings that even I couldn't understand. It was 11 pm and somebody complained that he couldn't sleep. so police was called and guess how many turned up? Eight! Young man turned out to be a high school sophomore who ran away from home. Confused

Continuing Saga of Young and the Restless at roach motel called 'goshiwon I'm staying at':

This time a young woman moved in. She said she had a job working at a PC bang doing the night shift. Fair enough you'd think. Six days later she's gone. Apparently, she left home at 17 and already has popped out 5 kids. She's 22 BTW. In Oz she could get single-mom-support. Well, not in Korea. After a huge fight with her boyfriend over the phone she's disappeared. If the management demanded month's rent + deposit upfront like they supposed to then this wouldn't happen, but this is a farming country town. People are very forgiving around here.

Seoulman69

Joined: 14 Dec 2009

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 3:59 am Post subject:

12ax7 wrote:

I'm guessing he's got mommy issues, which is sad since he'll never find a solution to those here.

He's adopted, so your guess would be correct.[/quote]

No need for that.

Steelrails

Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 5:14 am Post subject:

Raise any issues you want about my background. Its completely irrelevant.

Thanks though to the people out there who said some supporting words.

Anyways, 12ax7 has cleared up any discrepancies. We can now return to the point of calling the fire or ambo before calling the police.

Besides you're wrong. You were much more right the first time-

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Steelrails is more likely a simulated identity created by the government to simply argue with everyone to test our boiling points for research purposes. This makes so much more sense.

No mommy issues for A-I programs.

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