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Peeled and rolling back like a tin can. Big rigs are stuck under the thing. And despite many large warning signs, flashing lights, warning drivers who dare to pass under its 11 foot eight clearance, people just keep running into it.
One day, Jurgen Henn started recording. The bridge is right outside my office. I started working in that building in 2002, and every time a truck hits the bridge, we kind of notice because it's loud, usually. And so over the years and every few weeks, we walk out there and check on the driver and kind of survey the mayhem.
The trestle is over 100 years old, and at the time it was built, there were no standards for minimum clearance. On average, about once a month, the truck runs into the damn thing. In 2008, I was setting up a home security system with wireless cameras and decided that it'd be kind of interesting to set up one of those cameras at the office to start filming the traffic and maybe catch one or two of these truck crashes to see what that actually looks like. I'd never actually seen it happen in real life. As it happened just a couple of weeks after I set up the camera, I caught the first crash and decided to put it on YouTube.
It became pretty popular right away, so clearly there was an interest for that kind of footage, so I kept recording. There was not much overhead, really. The North Carolina Railroad Company owns the trestle, but lifting it would cost millions of dollars, so they installed a crash beam. It reduces the impact of trucks hitting the trestle by slicing open the vehicle like a 46 Ford cutting through a DeLorean. They call it the can opener. The road can't be lowered because of sewer lines underneath, and there are warning signs for three blocks leading up to it. There's even a sensor that can detect a truck that won't fit. If your rig is too tall, it'll trigger a sequence of massive flashing lights that specifically tell the driver to exit.
But still, people keep hitting it. Jurgen has hundreds of videos of people crashing into this thing and millions of views on YouTube. He even collects parts of the crash debris and sells it back to his fans. I credit my wife for that idea. I mean, I just clean up a little bit when we go down there, kind of pick up the pieces, and notice that they're kind of cool looking. You know, sometimes they're bent in spirals or other interesting shapes, so I started keeping the more interesting looking pieces in my office. And over the years, well, one box after another, I eventually hauled some of those boxes home. And my wife said, honey, let's do something with these boxes of truck pieces. How about I try to sell them?
I'm like, sure, honey, you try to sell them. Well, yeah, he was actually onto something and took some nice pictures, named the pieces, and started our online store where we sell t-shirts and crash art. That moniker was also her idea to call it crash art. Lucrative is probably not the word that comes to mind. I'm not about to quit my day job over this, for sure. I would call it a self-sustaining hobby, making enough money off the t-shirt sales and crash art. And I have a Patreon page now, too, to help sort of sustain the whole thing every couple years or so, get new cameras so I can capture good high-quality footage.
Now, for the record, the actual clearance height of the 11-foot 8-bridge is 11-foot 10.8, which technically gives it 2.8 inches more than advertised. And thanks for that story, Jesse. And people do everything in this country. They have all kinds of hobbies. Some people bowl.
Some people play poker. This guy? Crash art. And as he said, it's a self-sustaining hobby. And boy, that's better than most.
Most of us have to pay for our hobbies. By the way, you can go to YouTube, and there's a video of somewhere over 7 million views of the ultimate montage of all the crashes that this gentleman has filmed over the years with his little homespun-rigged camera that he just decided would capture all the crashes he'd never seen. Now he gets to see it. Now we all get to see it.
By the way, if you have quirky stories like this, passions, hobbies, or know people who do, send them our way. I'm trying to run down a guy who has a toaster museum. I'd seen an article about it somewhere.
And if anybody knows, the wisdom of the crowds is great. I'd seen or read this story about a guy who'd collected toasters from the beginning of time and has turned his home and several others into this ultimate toaster museum. And that's right. Toaster. T-O-A-S-T-E-R. And he's walking through it and talking about every single kind of toaster, the one piece of toast toaster, then the two piece of toast toaster, the ones that fold, the one that hold four. And he was just waxing poetic. And I can just imagine what his wife thinks of that toaster museum, because it's tens of thousands of dollars in time.
But if it keeps them off the streets, well, you know, what's the problem? This story, the 11 foot 8 inch bridge, actually the 11 foot 10 inch bridge here on Our American Stories. This is Lee Habib, host of Our American Stories. Every day on this show, we tell stories of history, faith, business, love, loss, and your stories. Send us your stories, small or large, to our email O-A-S at OurAmericanStories.com. That's O-A-S at OurAmericanStories.com. We'd love to hear them and put them on the air.
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