Too scared to drive over it!

02-09-2013 09:53PM #1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23887805
Millions of Americans will be on the road heading back from the beach on the Labor Day holiday, which marks the end of summer in the US.
For those in the state of Maryland, that journey may involve driving across the long and notoriously nerve-racking Chesapeake Bay Bridge, ranked as one of the scariest in the world to cross.
The trip is too much for some motorists, who pay someone else to drive them and their cars across the water.

Some people are just too scared to drive over a bridge,

That's not a scary bridge,

THIS is a scary bridge :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJqDyrZfJpI

drunkmonkey · 02-09-2013 09:56PM

woo hoo, youtube night!!!

token101 · 02-09-2013 09:57PM

No need for breathalysers there anyway

cml387 · 02-09-2013 09:58PM

A friend at work has got a pathological fear of bridges. must show her this.

December2012 · 02-09-2013 10:00PM

Why not use the big long blue bridge that's constantly to the right of it?

Sh1tbag OToole · 02-09-2013 10:02PM

... you can always walk around it !

02-09-2013 10:03PM

December2012 wrote: »

Why not use the big long blue bridge that's constantly to the right of it?

I'm guessing that it's a railway bridge, having said that the one they're using used to carry rails, you can see the sleepers at the end.

wazky · 02-09-2013 10:04PM

"Chesapeake Bay Bridge"

More like cheapskate?

byhookorbycrook · 02-09-2013 10:06PM

Meh, the old bridge on the Dungarvan side of Youghal was scarier.

Spring Onion · 02-09-2013 10:08PM

Aint nuttin

wazky · 02-09-2013 10:09PM

Spring Onion wrote: »

Aint nuttin

But a G thang, baby?

Fox_In_Socks · 02-09-2013 10:12PM

I like how half way over, they met the "fancy upgraded bit" and coasted over in relative silence.

longhalloween · 02-09-2013 10:14PM

I like how there seems to be a modern bridge on the right hand side of the screen.

shanec1928 · 02-09-2013 10:17PM

crossed this a few years ago in a bus Buna Bridge Shkoder,Albania

Dyr · 02-09-2013 10:21PM

December2012 wrote: »

Why not use the big long blue bridge that's constantly to the right of it?

Its too blue

bonzodog2 · 02-09-2013 10:34PM

see next post, this one didn't seem to appear the first time...
I think I win !

bonzodog2 · 02-09-2013 10:37PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Some people are just too scared to drive over a bridge,

That's not a scary bridge,

THIS is a scary bridge :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJqDyrZfJpI

No, THIS is a scary bridge ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFzu6CNtqec

JohnCleary · 02-09-2013 10:43PM

That's nothing compared to some of the yokes we had to cross up in North Thailand. I remember a few of them I used to just go as fast as possible over them on the dirt-bike

02-09-2013 10:44PM

but that one fell down!

bonzodog2 · 02-09-2013 11:01PM

Deleted User wrote: »

but that one fell down!

It was susceptible to high winds for a while before it collapsed. Would you have driven over it?

bonzodog2 · 02-09-2013 11:37PM

The Bridge Of Death is pretty scary too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpx6XnankZ8

TeddyTedson · 02-09-2013 11:42PM

Lucky there was nothing coming the other way.

vicwatson · 02-09-2013 11:49PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm guessing that it's a railway bridge, having said that the one they're using used to carry rails, you can see the sleepers at the end.

Defintely, the one they are driving over is an old train bridge and the blue one to the right is the new bridge.

Be tempting to speed up near the end but..........:)

seosamh1980 · 02-09-2013 11:51PM

There's a bridge in the grounds of the K Club that's very steep at the top and wooden, the sound of the wood clunking as I drove over it nearly made me sick, it was then I realised I had never driven on a wooden bridge before

Too scared to drive over it!

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