Ridicule of the hard-of-thinking.

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While I've been off work, my company have installed those one-way cast-iron 'rake' gates which flap down when you drive over them one way, but puncture your tyres driving the other way. The idea is to make the carpark a one-way system because one T-junction is quite dangerous if you misjudge it.

I work for an automotive firm. Many of us are petrolheads (go figure.) So, the first lowered car that goes over the gate? The gate goes down fine, then pops up and proceeeds to score grooves down the underside of my mate's Ford Focus ST. He was so mad he was on the borderline of popping someone and it's lucky some of the Facilities team were there to abuse, because otherwise the buck would have stopped with our boss' boss.

I'm looking forward to seeing what's been done when I go back to work. My car is lower than a snakes belly, currently has a bit of an exhuast blow and needs a new HEGO sensor. :trouble:

And what's funnier that that? No-one measured the rakes to see if any of the cars the company manufactures goes over it either.

Dumb-ass idiots.
 
:lol: Brilliant!

Yeah people never think of these things, boy I would be furious if it scratched the whole underside of my car! :crazy:
 
A) This is part of the problem with lowering your car to ground level
B) You're responsible for what you try to drive your car over once you've modified it.
 
what's the correct term to this "rake"? I am interested in reading more about them...

and I can't find anything by googling
 
Apparently they are called car park alligator teeth or one way traffic flaps..

http://www.alligator-teeth.co.uk/alligatorteeth.htm

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I don't know what the definite name for them is though...
 
Danoff
A) This is part of the problem with lowering your car to ground level
B) You're responsible for what you try to drive your car over once you've modified it.
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Bull! Having to drive a particular car to work is ridiculous. The company obviously did not consider this decision at all because they never even checked to see if their own cars would clear the thing. It's simply a bad decision, and they should get rid of the thing and substitute...I don't know.......arrows? I mean, if they're good enough for McDonald's...
 
Danoff
A) This is part of the problem with lowering your car to ground level
B) You're responsible for what you try to drive your car over once you've modified it.
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A) Aston Martins are like that as standard.
B) This is at the entrance to the Aston Martin's site.
 
Once enough people bitch, and they all do the whole "unhappy employees don't work well" approach, and complain constantly, they'll fix the problem or else the crap will hit the fan. :lol:
 
Giancarlo
Whaaaaaat?
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:)

Anyone else got any class examples of people spending vast quantities of cash on something that if someone had simply sat down and asked some simple questions, it would have obviously been the wrong thing to do?
 
Venari
Anyone else got any class examples of people spending vast quantities of cash on something that if someone had simply sat down and asked some simple questions, it would have obviously been the wrong thing to do?
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Venari
Anyone else got any class examples of people spending vast quantities of cash on something that if someone had simply sat down and asked some simple questions, it would have obviously been the wrong thing to do?
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Juan Sebastian Veron.
 
Maybe there should be some kind of motion sensor something-or-another that causes the flaps to go down when a car breaks the beam than pop back up once the beam is re-established. Or have a guy with a button to lower them when a car approaches.
 
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:lol:

I can sympathise with this 'situation' quite a bit, since I work at a University where decisions are frequently made by people who don't really know what they're doing, whilst failing to consult the people who would have known... our new staff bar is a wonderful example - clearly designed by someone who doesn't drink :crazy:
 
Loon
Maybe there should be some kind of motion sensor something-or-another that causes the flaps to go down when a car breaks the beam than pop back up once the beam is re-established. Or have a guy with a button to lower them when a car approaches.
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...or a simple gatehouse would do. From the first post it didn't sound like a priority to disable cars that leave incorrectly, but just to sort out the traffic coming in and out.
 

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