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Why do people go out of their way to dodge manhole covers while driving? (ttrpg.network)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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There are a lot of manhole covers on the first section of my drive to work, and I commknly see people swerving all over the road just so their tires won't touch them, even jeeps. Why?

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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

As someone who opens them regularly, because so many of the chimneys are collapsing and I regularly wonder how some haven't caved in yet.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Around here the chimneys are fine and the road around them has sunk so they stick up a couple inches above the road surface.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    I've witnessed a failure like this once but it took a sunken brick crosswalk where we get frost heave into a U-shape with a flat manhole cover in the middle of one lane to get driven over for a couple years until one day the lip under the cover was so busted up it flipped the lid right out when my mom drove over it lol.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    I was in Oklahoma one time and I opened a lid on a road and the whole lid fell in because the frame broke as I opened it. City was just kinda like "yeah that happens" and I'm like wtf do you mean that happens?!?! Their system was very very fucked though lol

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