Have you ever see a cement truck in a monsoon drain ?

Peps,

okie, I found this set of pictures in my hard drive, which i took many years back..just thought of sharing this with everyone. I'll give you a background to what happen. I live in a 5 storey apartment block in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As you might know, Malaysia is a Tropical country with heavy monsoon rains, so some of our housing development designs will built big monsoon drain in around the housing area and one of these drains run along my apartment block.

In one quiet sunny afternoon, I took a day off and thought of relaxing at home, Suddenly i heard a loud bang and went out to the staircase to see what is going on, and i saw smoke coming from the monsoon drain, without hesitating, i took a digi cam and ran downstairs, upon exiting the guard house, this is what i saw

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The driver of the truck escape unhurt and the story was, he was trying to negotiate a turn to the right (see the bridge above the truck ?) and that was when he realized the brake gave way, so he jump out of the truck before it it hits the railing and landed in the drain sideways..in the 3rd image, the guy with the safety helmet is the driver. luckily there is no one that is hurt in the accident. there is 2 thing i learn from this incident.

1) run as faraway as you can when you see a truck driver jumping out of his moving truck.

2) build a big drain surrounding your house, you never know when you need a big arse drain even if it does'nt rain

Hi OP,
I cannot see the pics???
Second line

reply to post by ahamarlin


i am working on it..hold on..

reply to post by affeyee


okie, link is fixed
phew...

reply to post by affeyee


How to upload pics....Click on the Tools+ tab, click on Pictures tab far right, Click on Upload picture, Find and highlight the pic, Click OK. Click the upload tab at the bottom of the page. Go to your Pictures then Click on the picture, Highlight the box at the bottom and right click and Copy everything in the box. Go back to your post and click edit, Click Image tab, right click and Paste into that box. Done.

I work in the Construction industry and look forward to seeing your Pictures. U2u me if you have problems.

OK I see you have done it, I'll go and have a look now.

reply to post by affeyee


whoa. nice.

also nice to meet another msian here.

reply to post by lewtra


yup done it enjoy the pics..

Sounds like good advice.I'm gonna start digging that drain tomorrow.

reply to post by neowakko


hello my comrade

reply to post by lonegurkha


yupyup, do you have monsoon from where you come from? otherwise you can hire some experts from my country to help you and make sure it is big enough to fit in a cement truck

reply to post by affeyee


I am from Lockport New York. No monsoons but I do have the Erie Canal in the backyard.