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[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

Obviously this is scary and unsafe but what a bloody legend though.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That ain't shit, if you've heard the phrase "riding the rods" it's a reference to belting yourself to a moving train cars brake rods to sleep for the night.

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/riding-rods-while-freighthopping-trains-photos-video-73572

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

I know there are more extreme things but if you're gonna say that someone riding 400 ks on a truck bed because of shenanigans is not shit, I'm gonna insist that you personally have done something more extreme.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

It's hyperbole bud.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A man who stowed away beneath a B-double trailer instead of paying for a short taxi ride home is lucky to be alive after he ended up travelling nearly 400 kilometres on metal racks suspended barely a metre off the road.

Truck driver Pardeep Dahiya said he was driving a Sydney-Brisbane freight run and had stopped in Nambucca Heads for a short nap at about 1:30am on Friday.

Mr Dahiya said he initially thought to phone the police and report the stowaway but instead took pity on the man and gave him some water and offered him a seat inside the truck, rather than under it, to ride further north.

When the conversation between the pair became hard to maintain, Mr Dahiya revised his decision and called police from a service station at Coomera, on the northern Gold Coast.

Acting Inspector Peter Miles said the 43-year-old had told officers he climbed under the truck at Nambucca Heads, hoping to hitch a ride to Coffs Harbour where he planned to disembark at a red light.

"There's bumps in the road, objects potentially flying up and hitting you, the types of speeds involved, side wind shear and all of those forces that might have affected [his] grip," he said.


The original article contains 533 words, the summary contains 206 words. Saved 61%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[-] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I don't know who owns you, bot, but you are really really inreliable and they should put you back in the box where your summaries won't mislead people.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

That summary seems ok. What did it miss?

[-] Petri3136@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago
[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago

That's unpossible!

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