Author Topic: WTF Thread (Read 6103 times)

clarion · « **on:** 28 February, 2013, 10:45:58 pm »

I couldn't find anywhere else to put this, so I thought I'd start a new thread...

Seen on my walk to work in Southwark

PaulR · « **Reply #1 on:** 01 March, 2013, 08:10:25 am »

Excellent - that must have taken quite a bit of thinking to achieve. Is the building part of the NHS?

clarion · « **Reply #2 on:** 01 March, 2013, 08:40:49 am »

Not sure what it is. It always seems to be shuttered up. It's on Content Street.

Chris S · « **Reply #3 on:** 01 March, 2013, 09:11:00 am »

I believe it's customary to wheel this one out on such occasions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Headington_Shark

It is a sight to behold (or was - dunno if it's still there).

Riggers · « **Reply #4 on:** 01 March, 2013, 05:00:59 pm »

Is that airliner about to crash into it!!!

clarion · « **Reply #5 on:** 01 March, 2013, 05:09:00 pm »

Yes, Riggers. Now you mention it, that does remind me. There was an air crash in Southwark yesterday. Fortunately, it was a teeny-tiny airliner, so no one was injured. Phew!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #6 on:** 01 March, 2013, 06:48:19 pm »

Some kind of bell tower pulley system? Or maybe for opening some vents?

Arch · « **Reply #7 on:** 01 March, 2013, 08:16:11 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 01 March, 2013, 06:48:19 pm

Some kind of bell tower pulley system? Or maybe for opening some vents?

No, if you look carefully, I think you can see footrests and handles. I think it's a wheelchair (non-self propelled) that's been upended on the turret.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #8 on:** 01 March, 2013, 09:37:39 pm »

You know, I think it is. I was thinking it, whatever it was, had been put there to (possibly) do something or at least be something. But it's nothing more than either a prank or perhaps some "conceptual art". Or it fell from a passing spacecraft.

clarion · « **Reply #9 on:** 01 March, 2013, 10:05:04 pm »

Well,y first thought as I approached it was that it might ne something practical, for roofcrawling access or something. Then I thought it might have been an installation. It was only when I was closer I could discern the wheelchair.

I ride along that street a lot, sometimes on my commute, but I couldn't tell you if it was there before.

Arch · « **Reply #10 on:** 01 March, 2013, 10:25:26 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 01 March, 2013, 09:37:39 pm

You know, I think it is. I was thinking it, whatever it was, had been put there to (possibly) do something or at least be something. But it's nothing more than either a prank or perhaps some "conceptual art". Or it fell from a passing spacecraft.

I guess Ziggy Stardust is getting on a bit. Maybe his legs aren't what they were...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #11 on:** 01 March, 2013, 10:28:01 pm »

Look very closely and you can just make out the cobwebs... from Mars...

Arch · « **Reply #12 on:** 01 March, 2013, 10:57:26 pm »

I have to say, it looks like a useful bit of salvage, those wheels would be good for trailers...

Pingu · « **Reply #13 on:** 01 March, 2013, 11:05:05 pm »

http://tinyurl.com/az28966

JonBuoy · « **Reply #14 on:** 01 March, 2013, 11:10:40 pm »

Snap:

http://goo.gl/maps/BDnDP

clarion · « **Reply #15 on:** 01 March, 2013, 11:12:07 pm »

"Get the wheels in line! Get the wheels in line!"

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #16 on:** 01 March, 2013, 11:28:21 pm »

PaulR · « **Reply #17 on:** 07 March, 2013, 12:38:04 pm »

To hark back to Clarion's original post, I remain baffled by the building. But here's a nice photo of a bearded fixie skidder riding past it with a triple chainset.

You can tell by the heat haze just above his head that he's struggling with that gear ratio.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #18 on:** 07 March, 2013, 02:10:56 pm »

"fixie with a triple chainset" deserves a WTF all to itself! Although at least you can easily guess how it happened.

zigzag · « **Reply #19 on:** 10 March, 2013, 08:59:21 pm »

Kim · « **Reply #20 on:** 10 March, 2013, 09:13:49 pm »

"Haven't they just ...wait, what?!?"

A really half-arsed adjustment for a small rider?

clarion · « **Reply #21 on:** 10 March, 2013, 11:00:46 pm »

Wow.

Btw, I went and had a look round the building in the original photo. No signs at all, but I think it may have formerly been a Locality Housing Office.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #22 on:** 11 March, 2013, 11:16:30 am »

I initially assumed the bars and wheel had just got twisted round while parked, perhaps as a result of falling over and being picked up clumsily. But the reflector is facing "forwards" when the bars are "backwards" so maybe not. I did once see a demonstration by police motorcyclists where everything on their bikes was backwards - so throttle was on the left and opened twisting forwards, clutch was on the right and had to be held in to engage, etc etc - but I'm not sure even they had back to front brakes! And they certainly didn't ride those bikes on the road!

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #23 on:** 14 March, 2013, 11:16:05 am »

It's the mudguard that is the giveaway.

That is truly amazing.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #24 on:** 14 March, 2013, 08:25:51 pm »

That looks like an accident waiting to happen. Bet it steers like a dog too.

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Chris S