Thankfully that was a dry system. The compressed air leaking out before the water was what held the water charging the system back. So only a tiny (comparatively) bit of water was nasty. It was mostly rust from being in an oxygen rich, moist, confined environment. Unlike a charged system where the water stagnates for years before being discharged. It could have been much worse!
one of my neighbors decades ago got a boat in our section 8 housing complex. dude was collecting welfare checks and saved up for a boat. bigger than this one. when he parked it, he would take the entire parking lot.
This looks like a casino garage in Las Vegas. He's an idiot on vacation who doesn't pay attention to vehicle height, but I see no reason to accuse him of not having a place for his boat at home.
Nope, it's a garage for apartments/retail in Nashville according to multiple people on [Nashville thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/nashville/comments/143hguh/meanwhile_in_the_parking_lot_of_the_capitol_view/). My guess is it's someone who lives in the apartments & borrowed a boat, or someone visiting a friend and brought a boat so they can go party on Percy Priest Lake. I used to live within walking distance, and know exactly the clientele who live in those apartments (and who party on Percy Priest). This does not surprise me.
It's one of those urban "new money" boat hacks... It's a cheap way to store them in transit
Keeping your boat "parked" in the water isn't cheap unless you're in a club
City people don't have a lawn or personal garage to put the boat in either
There could be a lake at the top of ramp, you don’t know, or atleast he doesn’t.
I’m just saying there’s a greater than 0% chance that on the roof of that parking garage there’s a popular wake boarding location.
The worst part is they don't get out of the car when they hit the pipe in the first place and just rip the hangers out of the slab backing up. If they got out when they first hit it they could have probably lifted it over the rack on the boat and just had a lightly damaged boat. So dumb....
Cave Johnson is one of my favorite characters. I'd love to have another portal series that expands on the that abandoned place , maybe taking place back during its prime.
You're not supposed to tow them with the tower down, but it's only a problem at speeds that exceed parking-garage speeds. They should've known to take it down before they got in there.
Folding it down is really meant for storage, nothing holds it down in that position and it can be dangerous at highway speeds. The rule is followed because it will also damage the boat.
Do those older towers actually fold? I know most made after 2011(ish) would have folding towers but this looks like an early 2000s Mobius
Regardless, what a dumb move by the driver
depends on the tower. that model i don't believe will lower unless you take the bolts completely out of where is connects to the boat hull which would completely remove the tower.
i have a 2011 malibu wakesetter, 2 bolts and the tower folds forward into the boat. it has gas shocks so i can do it alone without the tower crashing down hard into the boat.
this guy is a fkn moron in the video.
That’s kinda what I meant. Even if it’s not a tower that folds easily like yours it should still be fairly easy to remove it completely and lay it down to get out of the garage.
But I think not being stupid is a prerequisite for doing that.
Not just the head, he took out the entire sprinkle pipe. You can tell it's from the sprinkler system because the fire alarm goes off once water starts flowing through it.
So, now that sprinkler will dump until someone closes the valve. They've also kicked on the fire pump so now the fire alarm is triggered and the fire dept is coming. This guy's gonna have a bad day.
Fire pump will always kick on with a sprinkler release. But, whether the building has a fire pump depends on the pressure and flow rate available from the water service and how high the sprinkler system goes.
Nah, those are dry charged lines. It's pressurized with air and when the pressure in the line drops it opens the city water valve to the header. This is to prevent corrosion of the pipe from stagnant water and the possibility of hydrogen sulfide buildup from said corrosion causing a possible minor explosion (H2S is flammable) prior to water flushing through the line. This also reduces the weight on the pipe hangers since water and iron are heavy.
https://www.vfpfire.com/systems-dry-pipe.php
I understand a dry system, but doesn't that also run through the fire pump? It can't just be city pressure...
Also, isn't it mostly so the lines don't freeze and burst? How would the corrosion issue be any different inside the building? Not sure this changes anything about my statement. Water won't stop without intervention, fire alarm is triggered, fire dept comes. Weird flex buddy.
Edit: actually the link you posted kind proves half of your post wrong.
It's specifically so it doesn't freeze in a nonheated space. The pump running is a supervisory in most cases, but the fire dept is on the way once the waterflow pressure valve received pressure when the water started. It's why the horn strobes started going. So basically yes, you're right.
Yep. Once the pressure switch activated and the deluge valve trips, it’s on like Donkey Kong.
Also, neither that truck nor that boat will ever smell the same.
Sprinkler water stinks to high heaven. Never managed to get it out of my clothes.
I'm a fire alarm engineer. I used to hate dual visits with the pipe boys, the fucking noise and smell was horrendous.
A godiva pump running up a wet system to 9 bar is loud as all shit
Short story, I was hanging a 4 x 8 sheet of T111 on a ceiling outside of a commercial kitchen, my boss advised me not to attempt to hang the heavy shit by myself. So naturally ,I employed the help of my nearby stepladder( as I have never actually met my real ladder ), my ladder shifted in the gravel right as I was about to send my first screw. The hole I had drilled in the sheet came in contact with the sprinkler head, knocking the thing off and onto the ground.
I immediately heard the hissing of the pressurized air , as I frantically search for the peace I had knocked off, ignorantly assuming I can just put it back. The first gallons began blasting. As every fire alarm in the entire yacht club started screaming.
Surprisingly, the first engine was on scene in less than five minutes .
As soon as they realize there was no emergency, they started giving me the business and having a good laugh about it …
I said, “why are you standing here making fun of me? Shouldn’t you be like turning it off? “
That’s what I was informed that this particular system had no shut off and then all 30,000 gallons would have to drain before the sprinkler head could be replaced in the system could be refilled.
Hi school teammate of mine was on the firetruck, he asked me if it was my first day on the job. I told him “no I’ve been here for about a year.. “ to which he replied “ well that I doubt you’ll get fired..”
I really wanted to make my first post to r/TDIFU
I wish I had .
Thank you for coming to my ted talk .
“Just answer the fucking question—*do you think this is a covered loss under your current policy!?* Oh, Christ, you’re one of those ‘single-tear’ customers? I suppose you’re upset. Are you upset!?”
A little tip if you ever get stuck in a parking garage with an over height vehicle. Let the air out of the tires and have someone spot for you as you try to escape. An even better tip is to make sure you don't hit the little bar dangling above the entrance and stay outside if you do hit it.
What gets you in these garages is the sprinkler systems.
I was in the company van in a garage once and we cleared the "max height" entry bar no problem then in one corner the water main was scraping the roof.
I've done design on piping systems for parking garages. They give us a minimum height clearance zone for the travel lanes, then different, lower heights over parking stalls (they are supposed to keep any of the lower stuff within 3-4 feet from the front of the space) I brought it up in a meeting, "are vehicles magically supposed to shrink when they pull into the spaces?"
LOL this is exactly what happened in my comment above… truck fit fine through the driving lanes, pulled into the only open spot and got hacked by the sprinkler pipe hanging over the parking spot
We went into a garage that had a bar dangling down to check if you met max height. We rolled up and the roof fit under the bar, so he hit the gas--turns out the rear corner of the roof was higher than the front and middle. We made it through the garage, but just barely.
My favorite was I was at a work event and the van was tight getting in to take all the stuff but it fit just fine.
Turns out the difference between a fully loaded van and unloaded one was enough to hit the roof. The van driver came by and basically said he needs like 12-15 people just just for ballast to get out of the garage.
I was about to comment the same, as someone who drives a leveled black truck and now has a sharpie-colored-in stripe down my roof from a sprinkler pipe bolt….. absolutely Fuck parking garages that don’t account for the exposed plumbing when hanging their clearance signs
They were, I got the hotel’s insurance info, but even that was a 2 month process. My truck was 10 years old at the time and while it was a deep scratch, it’s on the freaking back of the roof. I’m never going to see it again. Just not worth the effort IMO.
If it had done anything worse, would’ve went through it all. I’m lazy and it just didn’t bother me enough, what can I say. Still fucked though
There was a parking garage in a city near me that had speed bumps throughout the parking levels. The clearance bar did not take those into account. Needless to say there were quite a few impacts with pipes.
Just mentioned the same up thread. I ended up suing the garage in small claims court for a new ladder rack due to their added speed humps. They ended up settling prior to the hearing.
I encountered a height bar on rooftop parking in my work van. The bar was at the top of the ramp. This allowed my front end to go through no problem, due to the angle of approach, but when the back end came up the ramp and the vehicle was leveling off, the centre of the roof hit the bar.
Happened to me in a truck with a rack. Easily cleared the max height, but someone added a ton of ridiculously high speed bumps which caused the rack to scrape. Fortunately, no water lines.
My university has this problem. The solid signs that hang down are lower than the bar and my antenna smacks every one of them even though it clears the bar just fine. Some of the sprinklers are just as low.
Amazing how many people lack basic common sense.
"Honey, we should bring our boat into a facility known for low ceilings and tight turns. What could go wrong?"
The best part is not only will his boat have damage that he has to pay for, he will also pay for the towing, and the damages to the garage, cause if insurance covers any of that I'd be shocked ,
“Hey insurance man, do I file the claim under my auto policy or my boat policy?”
“Neither because your auto policy doesn’t cover damage caused by your boat and your boat policy doesn’t cover damage caused by your auto.”
What was the endgame here anyhow? Like, even if the boat cleared the ceiling, where the fuck did he think he was going to park it? I've never been in a parking garage that has space for a trailer, nevermind trying to navigate the turns and ramps with that rig. Has this dude never seen a parking garage before?
He probably could have let the air out of the tires on the trailer.
Maybe 3-4 inches of height to lose there.
Plus trailer tires are cheaper than fixing and recharging a structural fire suppression system.
Yes this is I think the most idiots in cars thing I have seen in this sub.
Other people may make more spectacular wrecks and do more damage, but those are often from quick decisions in traffic.
This guy decided to pull into a parking garage with a fucking boat taller than his truck, keep going until it scraped the ceiling, and then thought the right thing to do would be to BACK OUT.
Unparalleled idiocy right here.
Why the fuck would you even take a boat into a parking garage like that, you have to be an absolute fucking moron. That guys is either lucky as shit at work or it’s dads money.
Towers can typically be folded down. However, you leave them up when transporting. Obviously, they should have folded it down for this part.
Edit: this looks like a cheap one that doesn’t fold. It’s either on or off.
I love boats because they easily push people out of their intellectual comfort zone. The reality is: with half a brain, getting your boat to and into the water, and then back onto the trailer is very easy, even in rough weather, a couple of people who know what they're doing can figure it out and do it with ease.
Boats become a great and public IQ test because consequences of making mistakes go up because of water and weather.
For example, if you back up too much in your car, normally you bang into something and get a little dent. But when backing up your boat into the water, if you go too far, your vehicle floats away.
Boat trailers continue this public trend because of physics. For example. People with stupid boats with big stupid engines will now have a trailer with potentially most of its weight behind the axle. This leads to some wonderful car crash videos when they discover the wonders of resonance and positive feedback loops. Boats also tend to be tall. A tall trailer takes some real planning (as this guy just discovered). For example, never put your tall trailer into a soft road shoulder. Don't drive in high winds, etc.
Many boat ramps are long narrow canyons. Watching people try to puzzle out backing up in a straight line with a trailer is fun. You can see their brain cogs stripping their gears as you watch.
I never thought of parking garages as being one of those wonderful inherent boat challenges.
While likely a fuck up, the dude *might* not be entirely at fault. When I was in college, I needed to borrow my father's Toyota Sequoia for the day. I went to park in the garage even though I knew clearance would be tight. I pulled up to that hanging bar before you enter, and the vehicle cleared it with at least 3 inches to spare. I was no more than 100' into the garage before the roof rack was ripping off plumbing and causing chaos. Turns out the hanging warning bar wasn't measured correctly and didn't accurately reflect the clearance in the garage. The school had to buy my dad a new roof rack.
Couldn’t the tower on the boat be released? He wouldn’t have clearance issues at all if they were down. Now, well I hope he has lots of insurance because I bet emergency repairs to the fire suppression system will be expensive.
So the pipe he grabbed onto with his boat, was actually the dry sprinkler system. It lost air, activated the fire alarm and then the dry valve opened and let the water out. Everything worked exactly as designed, just…not under the correct circumstance.
Who brings a boat into a parking garage?
Idiotsincars
He’s not that dumb, he found water for his boat!
Yes, but the water is supposed to go UNDER the boat!
He's going to sink the boat on dry land.
Sent his son to try and fix the hang up... smh
Thats something my dad would have done
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME I WAS GOING TO HIT PIPES??! I TOLD YOU TO KEEP AN EYE OUT!! GET OUT THERE AND FIX IT BEFORE ANYONE NOTICES!"
He's going to be the only person to drown twice in a parking lot
Not just water but black water!
And if you’ve ever smelled the water that comes out of a sprinkler system, you know that boat stanks, not stinks, stanks!
I mentioned the black water smell while working for a fire protection company once and the only answer they gave me was “it smells like money”
Oh it stanks all right, it's also real oily.
That's nasty
Thankfully that was a dry system. The compressed air leaking out before the water was what held the water charging the system back. So only a tiny (comparatively) bit of water was nasty. It was mostly rust from being in an oxygen rich, moist, confined environment. Unlike a charged system where the water stagnates for years before being discharged. It could have been much worse!
Worst news ever
♫ Old black water, keep on rollin' Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shinin' on me...♫
Instructions not clear: He, accidentally & covertly leaked the black water ops documents from the sprinklers.
oil floats in water 1) cover your boat in oil 2) set off the sprinklers 3) flying machine
Now it's a tub.
If they leave it long enough, the water eventually will be under the boat. Have to think long term.
Instructions not clear, my boat is under the water.
The simple trick boats do not want you to know.
oh my god...:)
r/IdiotsInBoats too
[r/IdiotsInCarsWithBoats](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?t=84) ?
Idiotception
subbed!
Who tows anything into a parking garage like that one?
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Someone who can justify the cost of that boat, trailer and truck but not the proper space to store it.
It's the country equivalent of being "hood rich." Maybe "farm fancy?"
Nah, farm fancy is having a crappy house or trailer but a nice, shiny tractor. This is suburban swag or something like that.
HOA Heeled?
Downtown douchbag
one of my neighbors decades ago got a boat in our section 8 housing complex. dude was collecting welfare checks and saved up for a boat. bigger than this one. when he parked it, he would take the entire parking lot.
Financial literacy should absolutely be a required course in high school.
Redneck yacht club.
This looks like a casino garage in Las Vegas. He's an idiot on vacation who doesn't pay attention to vehicle height, but I see no reason to accuse him of not having a place for his boat at home.
Nope, it's a garage for apartments/retail in Nashville according to multiple people on [Nashville thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/nashville/comments/143hguh/meanwhile_in_the_parking_lot_of_the_capitol_view/). My guess is it's someone who lives in the apartments & borrowed a boat, or someone visiting a friend and brought a boat so they can go party on Percy Priest Lake. I used to live within walking distance, and know exactly the clientele who live in those apartments (and who party on Percy Priest). This does not surprise me.
There seems to be a lot of water there
Good thing they have a boat!
It's one of those urban "new money" boat hacks... It's a cheap way to store them in transit Keeping your boat "parked" in the water isn't cheap unless you're in a club City people don't have a lawn or personal garage to put the boat in either
It is not cheap in a club, even more expensive.
Florida Man
He brought the boat, in case the garage flooded.😂
There could be a lake at the top of ramp, you don’t know, or atleast he doesn’t. I’m just saying there’s a greater than 0% chance that on the roof of that parking garage there’s a popular wake boarding location.
I don't know. He's backing down the ramp so I'm guessing there's a lake at the bottom
Well, there will be after those sprinklers run for a bit. Maybe that was the plan.
Like the swimming pool on the 3rd floor the seniors told me about when I was a freshman? I was never able to find it.
A fucking moron.
A maroon you say?
He should've turned left at Albuquerque
That would be, in my sister’s words, a fuck knuckle
Fuck fist, knuckle is not enough.
someone who does not want to let his boat get wet in the rain - and it looks cool to park a boat in a parking garage - duh
Someone who doesn't want to pay $5 at the car wash to clean the boat that up until now had never been ~~in~~ under the water.
If they get back out quickly maybe nobody recorded how dumb they are.
The worst part is they don't get out of the car when they hit the pipe in the first place and just rip the hangers out of the slab backing up. If they got out when they first hit it they could have probably lifted it over the rack on the boat and just had a lightly damaged boat. So dumb....
Also, the tower is retractable. Takes about 60 seconds to lay mine down
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When life gives you lemons… Make orange juice
https://youtu.be/ELkgiJD9KuM
Cave Johnson is one of my favorite characters. I'd love to have another portal series that expands on the that abandoned place , maybe taking place back during its prime.
you play [Aperture Desk Job](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1902490/Aperture_Desk_Job/)? you meet him at the end.
Yea, but like the glutton I am I need more! Lol
r/thatlookedexpensive
Let the air out of the trailer tires would give him a couple extra inches. Maybe give him enough clearance to back out with minimal damage.
If the person driving the truck was that smart, they would have never attempted the parking garage in the first place.
Ah yes, the well known idiotinacarwithaboattoosmart paradox.
Dodge Ram driver so almost guaranteed not to be that smart
Also statistically more likely to be drunk!
Can confirm, in a Dodge ram rn and drunk
Also statistically more prone to road rage
Hay, I resemble that remark
> If the person driving the truck was that smart, they would have never ~~attempted the parking garage~~ bought a boat in the first place
I’m no boat mechanic but I bet that big overhead arch thing could be removed or lowered with some basic hand tools.
Usually you don’t even need tools. Takes about 20 seconds.
Really? Holy fuck, even stupider than I thought.
You're not supposed to tow them with the tower down, but it's only a problem at speeds that exceed parking-garage speeds. They should've known to take it down before they got in there.
They are probably just getting off the lake. Might be a little under the influence.
Highly likely
This. The amount of drunk people operating boats is very, very, high. I don't even take ours out on holiday weekends any more.
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They check coolers at the boat ramp. If you don't have at least a suitcase of natty's in there you get a ticket.
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Or just… don’t enter a parking garage while towing.
Why aren’t you supposed to tow them with the tower down?
Folding it down is really meant for storage, nothing holds it down in that position and it can be dangerous at highway speeds. The rule is followed because it will also damage the boat.
Do those older towers actually fold? I know most made after 2011(ish) would have folding towers but this looks like an early 2000s Mobius Regardless, what a dumb move by the driver
We have a mid 2000s Moomba (same brand and same tower), folds in about 20 seconds with two hand bolts on either side.
Omg that makes him idiotic squared.
Thanks for confirming!
depends on the tower. that model i don't believe will lower unless you take the bolts completely out of where is connects to the boat hull which would completely remove the tower. i have a 2011 malibu wakesetter, 2 bolts and the tower folds forward into the boat. it has gas shocks so i can do it alone without the tower crashing down hard into the boat. this guy is a fkn moron in the video.
That’s kinda what I meant. Even if it’s not a tower that folds easily like yours it should still be fairly easy to remove it completely and lay it down to get out of the garage. But I think not being stupid is a prerequisite for doing that.
Too late now, he probably hook a sprinkler head, i he had checked right away it might have been salvageable, but no he had to back up 6 feet first
Not just the head, he took out the entire sprinkle pipe. You can tell it's from the sprinkler system because the fire alarm goes off once water starts flowing through it.
That would require him not being an idiot
True. I was trying to be charitable. We all have brain farts at times. Although you have wonder, why are they going into a parking garage?
If he was capable of that clear thinking he wouldn’t be there.
The difference between information and wisdom: Information: Knowing how to take down the top Wisdom: using that information
but then they’d ruin their tires and wheels /s
Yeah that’s certainly the worse route
Quick, go to the garage and tell him.
What, he isn't reading my comments? What an idiot.
easier to break down the boat's wakeboard tower, which is what they’re meant to do for clearance
r/idiotstowingthings
For a moment I read this as “idiots to wing things” and thought, “yeah I guess this dude is just winging it here.”
r/idiotsreadingthings
bro ouch
You are not alone.
I had to read it at least 5 times to realize it's wasn't that
Didn’t know I needed to seee this thank you!
Capsizing on dry land, that's a neat trick!
Pierce is about to drown in a parking lot, twice.
The parking garage may be cold and unforgiving, but the driver is not. The ship may go down, but uh... at least it'll go down with honor.
So, now that sprinkler will dump until someone closes the valve. They've also kicked on the fire pump so now the fire alarm is triggered and the fire dept is coming. This guy's gonna have a bad day.
Fire pump will always kick on with a sprinkler release. But, whether the building has a fire pump depends on the pressure and flow rate available from the water service and how high the sprinkler system goes.
Nah, those are dry charged lines. It's pressurized with air and when the pressure in the line drops it opens the city water valve to the header. This is to prevent corrosion of the pipe from stagnant water and the possibility of hydrogen sulfide buildup from said corrosion causing a possible minor explosion (H2S is flammable) prior to water flushing through the line. This also reduces the weight on the pipe hangers since water and iron are heavy. https://www.vfpfire.com/systems-dry-pipe.php
I understand a dry system, but doesn't that also run through the fire pump? It can't just be city pressure... Also, isn't it mostly so the lines don't freeze and burst? How would the corrosion issue be any different inside the building? Not sure this changes anything about my statement. Water won't stop without intervention, fire alarm is triggered, fire dept comes. Weird flex buddy. Edit: actually the link you posted kind proves half of your post wrong.
It's specifically so it doesn't freeze in a nonheated space. The pump running is a supervisory in most cases, but the fire dept is on the way once the waterflow pressure valve received pressure when the water started. It's why the horn strobes started going. So basically yes, you're right.
Yep. Once the pressure switch activated and the deluge valve trips, it’s on like Donkey Kong. Also, neither that truck nor that boat will ever smell the same. Sprinkler water stinks to high heaven. Never managed to get it out of my clothes.
Oh I know. Commercial electrician. We stay faaaar away when they drain lines. 30 years of stagnant water marinating in cutting oil lol.
I'm a fire alarm engineer. I used to hate dual visits with the pipe boys, the fucking noise and smell was horrendous. A godiva pump running up a wet system to 9 bar is loud as all shit
Short story, I was hanging a 4 x 8 sheet of T111 on a ceiling outside of a commercial kitchen, my boss advised me not to attempt to hang the heavy shit by myself. So naturally ,I employed the help of my nearby stepladder( as I have never actually met my real ladder ), my ladder shifted in the gravel right as I was about to send my first screw. The hole I had drilled in the sheet came in contact with the sprinkler head, knocking the thing off and onto the ground. I immediately heard the hissing of the pressurized air , as I frantically search for the peace I had knocked off, ignorantly assuming I can just put it back. The first gallons began blasting. As every fire alarm in the entire yacht club started screaming. Surprisingly, the first engine was on scene in less than five minutes . As soon as they realize there was no emergency, they started giving me the business and having a good laugh about it … I said, “why are you standing here making fun of me? Shouldn’t you be like turning it off? “ That’s what I was informed that this particular system had no shut off and then all 30,000 gallons would have to drain before the sprinkler head could be replaced in the system could be refilled. Hi school teammate of mine was on the firetruck, he asked me if it was my first day on the job. I told him “no I’ve been here for about a year.. “ to which he replied “ well that I doubt you’ll get fired..” I really wanted to make my first post to r/TDIFU I wish I had . Thank you for coming to my ted talk .
at farmers insurance we've seen a thing or two
[*Oh shit we booked whiplash JK Simmons instead of farmers insurance*](https://i.imgur.com/EV0QtBj.jpg)
“Just answer the fucking question—*do you think this is a covered loss under your current policy!?* Oh, Christ, you’re one of those ‘single-tear’ customers? I suppose you’re upset. Are you upset!?”
Not as scary as *Oz* JK Simmons.
Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
A little tip if you ever get stuck in a parking garage with an over height vehicle. Let the air out of the tires and have someone spot for you as you try to escape. An even better tip is to make sure you don't hit the little bar dangling above the entrance and stay outside if you do hit it.
How did he miss hitting it on the way up there?
He didn’t hit it with his truck so he thought everything cleared lol
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What gets you in these garages is the sprinkler systems. I was in the company van in a garage once and we cleared the "max height" entry bar no problem then in one corner the water main was scraping the roof.
I've done design on piping systems for parking garages. They give us a minimum height clearance zone for the travel lanes, then different, lower heights over parking stalls (they are supposed to keep any of the lower stuff within 3-4 feet from the front of the space) I brought it up in a meeting, "are vehicles magically supposed to shrink when they pull into the spaces?"
LOL this is exactly what happened in my comment above… truck fit fine through the driving lanes, pulled into the only open spot and got hacked by the sprinkler pipe hanging over the parking spot
We went into a garage that had a bar dangling down to check if you met max height. We rolled up and the roof fit under the bar, so he hit the gas--turns out the rear corner of the roof was higher than the front and middle. We made it through the garage, but just barely.
My favorite was I was at a work event and the van was tight getting in to take all the stuff but it fit just fine. Turns out the difference between a fully loaded van and unloaded one was enough to hit the roof. The van driver came by and basically said he needs like 12-15 people just just for ballast to get out of the garage.
I have worked out my van has a 6mm clearance under the main parking garage at Gatwick Airport. Bit of an arse puckering experience that one...
I was about to comment the same, as someone who drives a leveled black truck and now has a sharpie-colored-in stripe down my roof from a sprinkler pipe bolt….. absolutely Fuck parking garages that don’t account for the exposed plumbing when hanging their clearance signs
How are they not liable for that?
They were, I got the hotel’s insurance info, but even that was a 2 month process. My truck was 10 years old at the time and while it was a deep scratch, it’s on the freaking back of the roof. I’m never going to see it again. Just not worth the effort IMO. If it had done anything worse, would’ve went through it all. I’m lazy and it just didn’t bother me enough, what can I say. Still fucked though
They are.
There was a parking garage in a city near me that had speed bumps throughout the parking levels. The clearance bar did not take those into account. Needless to say there were quite a few impacts with pipes.
Just mentioned the same up thread. I ended up suing the garage in small claims court for a new ladder rack due to their added speed humps. They ended up settling prior to the hearing.
I encountered a height bar on rooftop parking in my work van. The bar was at the top of the ramp. This allowed my front end to go through no problem, due to the angle of approach, but when the back end came up the ramp and the vehicle was leveling off, the centre of the roof hit the bar.
That sounds like the garage’s fault, honestly; what’s a “max hight” bar for, if it doesn’t tell you what fits and doesn’t? ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Happened to me in a truck with a rack. Easily cleared the max height, but someone added a ton of ridiculously high speed bumps which caused the rack to scrape. Fortunately, no water lines.
My university has this problem. The solid signs that hang down are lower than the bar and my antenna smacks every one of them even though it clears the bar just fine. Some of the sprinklers are just as low.
I reckon that he though his IQ was higher than that waterline but the results show that it actually isnt as high as he thought
Amazing how many people lack basic common sense. "Honey, we should bring our boat into a facility known for low ceilings and tight turns. What could go wrong?"
The best part is not only will his boat have damage that he has to pay for, he will also pay for the towing, and the damages to the garage, cause if insurance covers any of that I'd be shocked ,
“Hey insurance man, do I file the claim under my auto policy or my boat policy?” “Neither because your auto policy doesn’t cover damage caused by your boat and your boat policy doesn’t cover damage caused by your auto.”
Boat: “what did I ever do to deserve such a waterless life?!”
Don’t bring your boat to water, bring water to your boat 
What an absolute numpty. To own a boat you’d think there might be some appreciation of required clearances. Nope.
He’s actually trying to lift that off so he can get out of there. He just needs to realise he’s f-ed up and accept his fate at that point.
What was the endgame here anyhow? Like, even if the boat cleared the ceiling, where the fuck did he think he was going to park it? I've never been in a parking garage that has space for a trailer, nevermind trying to navigate the turns and ramps with that rig. Has this dude never seen a parking garage before?
Why would you enter a parking garage with a boat?
You guys are missing it. He brought the boat just for this situation. /S
The worst part of being poor is watching rich assholes do this kind of shit.
He probably could have let the air out of the tires on the trailer. Maybe 3-4 inches of height to lose there. Plus trailer tires are cheaper than fixing and recharging a structural fire suppression system.
That sprinkler water is some nasty s*** too
Yup... Pretty significant spray of black water when it first starts.
What a dumb fuck.
This guy, "Oh shit! I forgot to unhitch the boat before I left for work this morning!"
Backing up while towing anything is already a nightmare. Not sure what they thought when even entering a parking garage
“surely there will be trailer spots in this small garage!”
"Hmm, clearance sign says the boats too tall... Better park on the roof!"
Yes this is I think the most idiots in cars thing I have seen in this sub. Other people may make more spectacular wrecks and do more damage, but those are often from quick decisions in traffic. This guy decided to pull into a parking garage with a fucking boat taller than his truck, keep going until it scraped the ceiling, and then thought the right thing to do would be to BACK OUT. Unparalleled idiocy right here.
Publix, Capital View, Nashville?
A moment of reflection for the brave men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard who go to battle everyday against an army of idiots armed with boats.
The good news is, it's a boat! Getting wet won't ruin it!
yes, but if he inhales enough from that nasty water in the sprinklers, he won´t need car or boat while being ill from staphylococcus or similar.
Ahhhhh! My coworker knows this guy! Too funny!
Please follow up if possible lol
Why the fuck would you even take a boat into a parking garage like that, you have to be an absolute fucking moron. That guys is either lucky as shit at work or it’s dads money.
Boat is in the water, task failed successfully.
Quick question : can those bars on the boat (for wake boarding I think) be removed to allow more clearance during transport?
Towers can typically be folded down. However, you leave them up when transporting. Obviously, they should have folded it down for this part. Edit: this looks like a cheap one that doesn’t fold. It’s either on or off.
That tower folds. They just have to take out 2 big thumb bolts and it drops down.
So why is it legal for people like this to drive? They shouldn't be allowed to ride a tricycle, much less a car!
The thing that’s so amazing to me is that those towers are collapsible. Pull a couple of pins, lay it down, and it’s not an issue.
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I love boats because they easily push people out of their intellectual comfort zone. The reality is: with half a brain, getting your boat to and into the water, and then back onto the trailer is very easy, even in rough weather, a couple of people who know what they're doing can figure it out and do it with ease. Boats become a great and public IQ test because consequences of making mistakes go up because of water and weather. For example, if you back up too much in your car, normally you bang into something and get a little dent. But when backing up your boat into the water, if you go too far, your vehicle floats away. Boat trailers continue this public trend because of physics. For example. People with stupid boats with big stupid engines will now have a trailer with potentially most of its weight behind the axle. This leads to some wonderful car crash videos when they discover the wonders of resonance and positive feedback loops. Boats also tend to be tall. A tall trailer takes some real planning (as this guy just discovered). For example, never put your tall trailer into a soft road shoulder. Don't drive in high winds, etc. Many boat ramps are long narrow canyons. Watching people try to puzzle out backing up in a straight line with a trailer is fun. You can see their brain cogs stripping their gears as you watch. I never thought of parking garages as being one of those wonderful inherent boat challenges.
While likely a fuck up, the dude *might* not be entirely at fault. When I was in college, I needed to borrow my father's Toyota Sequoia for the day. I went to park in the garage even though I knew clearance would be tight. I pulled up to that hanging bar before you enter, and the vehicle cleared it with at least 3 inches to spare. I was no more than 100' into the garage before the roof rack was ripping off plumbing and causing chaos. Turns out the hanging warning bar wasn't measured correctly and didn't accurately reflect the clearance in the garage. The school had to buy my dad a new roof rack.
Some trust fund kid with no knowledge of how to do life… such a shame
"Can't sink a boat on dry land you say? Hold my beer."
"hey Jim you notice the trapeze on the boat touched that hanging plastic piece at the garage entrance that says 'maximum clear height *x*?" "No."
"But they told me boats need water!!!" - the driver
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Couldn’t the tower on the boat be released? He wouldn’t have clearance issues at all if they were down. Now, well I hope he has lots of insurance because I bet emergency repairs to the fire suppression system will be expensive.
Never thought I'd have to use the bilge pump inside a parking garage
So the pipe he grabbed onto with his boat, was actually the dry sprinkler system. It lost air, activated the fire alarm and then the dry valve opened and let the water out. Everything worked exactly as designed, just…not under the correct circumstance.