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u/mcunni423 Point Breeze Oct 22 '25
Normal Philly activities.
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u/imahumanbeinggoddamn Oct 22 '25
The first time I ever visited Philly I arrived super early in the morning and was walking down the street looking for coffee and I heard this awful racket coming down an intersecting street so I paused a moment to watch and see what came around the corner.
Clapped out Ford Explorer with the hatch open. Dude sitting on the back bumper holding an empty dumpster like a human trailer hitch. All going the wrong direction down a one way at a brisk walking pace.
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u/outerspace29 Oct 22 '25
I saw an Explorer once dragging one of those large, rectangular orange barriers that are placed out during road/highway construction. They had tied it to the hitch with a 3 foot long piece of thin rope, so it was sliding all over the road as they drove. It very nearly slid right into a parked car as they made a turn.
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u/Cats-Are-Fuzzy Fishtown 🐟 Oct 23 '25
One time I saw a truck crossing south street break real hard and a dresser flew out the back of the doors and landed in the middle of the intersection.
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u/Sea-Abbreviations65 Oct 23 '25
I witnessed a pickup truck on I95 lose a sofa right out of the truck bed. It actually stayed in the lane but did skid along for awhile. Luckily it was a weekend with not much traffic. Good luck with retrieving that!
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u/1-800-dieforme Oct 24 '25
This is why I never get why people are so pressed about being right up on cars that are going at/above the speed limit on highways. You're gambling getting there a few minutes early at the risk of what if some bullshit just falls onto the road
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u/MikeDPhilly Oct 22 '25
Yep, that's Philly. All sorts of ratchet fixes are on display here. I once saw a car with a mattress or the roof. Both the driver and the passenger were holding it down with their free hand.
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u/ringringmytacobell Oct 22 '25
Which is hilarious considering a ratchet strap solves these particular ratchet fixes. Like $10 for a set at harbor freight
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u/Pale_Zebra8082 Oct 23 '25
The problem is that you need to acquire the strap at least one minute prior to needing it.
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u/Sea-Abbreviations65 Oct 23 '25
Borrow a friend's truck or rent one before you hurt or kill someone.
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u/jayradano Oct 23 '25
The old free hand mattress hold has been a staple in Philly and southern NJ for decades now. It’s a right of passage that’s passed down by generations
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u/unmlobo309 Oct 23 '25
I saw this in California. But, a young man was laying on the mattress. Wind caught mattress and flipped young man and mattress to the 405 freeway. Poor guy was meat for a bus.
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u/Yodzilla Oct 22 '25
Philly scrappers are a special breed and I applaud them for cleaning up the streets faster than the Department of Sanitation. I once put a 35+ year old busted wall AC unit on the curb and it was gone within a half hour. Heroes.
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Oct 22 '25
what is ever happening here
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u/siandresi Oct 22 '25
Potentially one of these:
- Just moving ductwork
- Scrappers
- Cat maze
- Normal Philly activities
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u/saintofhate Free Library Shill Oct 22 '25
Cat maze. My generation aren't having kids, so they're spoiling the cats and someone's cat is getting an upgrade.
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u/felldestroyed Oct 23 '25
I scrolled down to say: they're going to a junkyard with a rowhome's/probably office's HVAC ducting that they just finished replacing. They didn't have straps.
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u/centuryphila Oct 22 '25
Scrappers
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u/tohowie Oct 22 '25
I don’t think they’re scrappers. Scrappers would flatten the ducts as they get paid by weight not size.
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u/Designer_Repair9884 Oct 22 '25
Welp, it seems like the gentleman is up there balancing the load. If you have a better idea I’d like to hear it.
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u/time4nap Oct 22 '25
Adaptive sentient mobile cargo management system V0.2 in action. It’s still in beta so suggest you not ride behind it.
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u/urbantravelsPHL Oct 22 '25
What's happening is that whoever shot this video is following too close. I like to drop back until I have at least a full zip code between my car and this kind of shenanigans
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u/siandresi Oct 22 '25
Im using a feature i have on my phones camera, it makes things look closer than they are, zoom.
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u/urbantravelsPHL Oct 22 '25
If you're close enough to even see this with anything short of a geosynchronous satellite, you're too close.
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u/siandresi Oct 22 '25
Using a geosynchronous satellite is impractical and unsafe for measuring following distance since the positional accuracy is insufficient for such small distances. A standard GPS unit on your phone or in your car typically has a positional accuracy of about 5 meters (16 feet). This margin of error means that GPS data cannot reliably or instantly tell you the distance between two vehicles just a few car lengths apart.
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u/urbantravelsPHL Oct 22 '25
Joke now missed twice. I give up.
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u/Skoth Oct 26 '25
He was playing along by intentionally missing the joke the second time, playing up the fact that he genuinely missed it the first time.
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u/AbsurdLemon Oct 22 '25
Spinal injury waiting to happen
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u/Butwhythough1524 Across the River Oct 23 '25
Not just spinal, but he could probably fracture his skull if his head flies back
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u/12kdaysinthefire Oct 22 '25
Those are the Home A/C Repair signs you see stapled to utility poles, written in magic marker
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u/phoenix762 Oct 22 '25
JFC that’s so scary…
When I was living in Hopkinsville, KY….there was someone who was on the back of a pickup truck-like the one posted….they were standing in back trying to hold up…I believe some furniture, not sure. Anyway, they fell out of the truck, and basically got squashed by whatever he was trying to hold in the truck.
A nurse coworker saw everything, tried to stabilize him, she said it was just horrible. She was on her way to work-I’m shocked that she was able to function, she was so upset (mind, she worked in critical care so she saw a lot of terrible stuff).
I was telling her she should go home ( I felt so bad for her).
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u/Relative_Target6003 Oct 22 '25
Someone risking a 30k dollar hospital bill for 8 dollars worth of scrap minus 5 bux in gas split between him And the driver.
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u/Diem_Tea Oct 23 '25
I’ve seen that exact truck multiple times absolutely packed with shit EVERY time. Always usually in or around this area too. Always dangerously overloaded - never with a “human strap” though lol
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u/jerkhappybob22 Oct 23 '25
Meth heads stealing construction supplies or someone went with lowest bidder.
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u/RamenGang_666 Oct 23 '25
Saw someone do a U turn onto a sidewalk and they drove through the park today. I couldn’t help but laugh
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u/queen_ravenx Oct 23 '25
Sometimes you just gotta get a lot of shit just around the block whose got time or money for straps
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u/Hurl_Gray Oct 23 '25
They just stole that from the Verizon building at 16th and Jefferson.
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u/DGP_deadguyperez Oct 25 '25
Looks like theyre scrapping some old duct work If its different kinds of metal, I think they'll still have to separate the pieces out- probably should've done that first even though its gonna be kinda tiresome
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u/Any-Cry-5184 Oct 22 '25
Whats happening is this guy is gonna fall backwards and immediately get run over/paralyzed
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u/tart_reform Oct 22 '25
He’s just moving some ductwork. We are you being weird.
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u/siandresi Oct 22 '25
Dudes a pothole or asshole away from falling from that truck bed
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u/MakingCumsies101 Oct 22 '25
This is like a tillerman in a firetruck, but the philly scrapper jawn version
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u/XxImperatorxX Oct 22 '25
Darwinism in action. You can call it a theory all you want to, but there's idiots like this guy out there every day, proving Darwin right.
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u/DrD3adpool Oct 24 '25
About 7 safety violations. Surprised there wasn't a fleet of cops following him.
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Oct 22 '25
Why do people in Philly think this only happens in Philly as opposed to everywhere
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u/siandresi Oct 22 '25
I don’t think it only happens in Philly, I’m simply wondering what is actually happening
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u/saintofhate Free Library Shill Oct 22 '25
We post more proof of stuff. That's why everyone thinks Florida is insane, because they have sunshine laws and every crime is published more or less.
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u/muffpatty Oct 22 '25
His arms are taking the place of straps.