how about a meme generator thread...

[bailey mountain brewer]

Those look like hydraulic security cylinders that can be lowered to allow entry, I used to have to cross over similar ones when I would enter and exit the senate building and other government buildings. So it could easily raise up and lift the van without damage if it happens to rest on a place capable of supporting the van, which if there isn't much of a load in that van it would be rather light.. definitely possible.

 

[day_trippr]

I'm going with stupid driver backed into spot and didn't realize they were over the lowered bollard...

 

[doug293cz]

Retractable bollards it is ("other lift".) I still think it was staged, since it would be very improbable for a random parker to center the differential perfectly over the bollard by accident. That plus the apparent added lighting..

Brew on

 

[day_trippr]

I dunno, could be a completely faked construct.
Anyway, I don't think that bollard is near the center of the vehicle. Looks more like it's in line with the left rear tire...

 

[Agent]

I'm with @day_trippr that it's at least inline with the rear tire, If not slightly outside.

And the one shadow that makes zero sense is the big round one surrounding the bollard.

 

[balrog]

I love it how we come together as a collective cerebral gathering, and work together to find solutions to so many disparate problems!

[bourbon may have been involved in that answer]

 

[doug293cz]

Anyway, I don't think that bollard is near the center of the vehicle. Looks more like it's in line with the left rear tire..

Nothing in the photo suggests to me that the differential, in the center of the rear axle, is not sitting on the bollard.

And the one shadow that makes zero sense is the big round one surrounding the bollard.

Took me a while to figure out that shadow. That is the shadow of the tire closest to the viewer due to the light that is out of view to the left.

I have changed my mind about the position of the backlight. I now believe that it is not hidden by the van, but rather mounted up higher, out of frame towards the top of image.

Brew on

 

[day_trippr]

Here's another image...from here: https://x.com/aidanmcnelis/status/1771829125155553613/photo/1

Apparently the whole thing is legit...it was an advertisement for SpecSavers



Cheers!

 

[chessking]

 

[AzOr]

Poor guy went in for an oil change and got a colonoscopy instead.

 

[Kharnynb]

 

[Broken Crow]

 

[scrap iron]

 

[day_trippr]

“I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.” ​

 

[balrog]

Yup.
Or handled paper bags.
Or every.
Single.
Cardboard.
Box.
Ever.
Created.

Ever.

 

[Broken Crow]

 

[Kent88]

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[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[Agent]

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You mean PYREX?

 

[pvtpublic]

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[Jayjay1976]

 

[day_trippr]

I got nothin'...

 

[bruce_the_loon]

“I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.” ​

“I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.”​

"I am your uncle's nephew's cousin's former roommate."

"I am your cousin's cousin's former roommate."

"I am your former roommate." or "I am your cousin's former roommate" or "I am your brother's former roommate" or I am your sister's former roommate"

See what the magic of math can do

 

[pshankstar]

 

[nobadays]

 

[Broken Crow]

 

[Kent88]

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I hate* you

*Not really

 

[Broken Crow]

I hate* you

*Not really

 

[Skeeter686]

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Someone please tell me this is actually printed on a package of peas somewhere!

 

[nobadays]