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Old 3 November 2020, 09:28 AM   #1
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Saved by a Whale's Tale

Tram runs off track, lands on whale statue's tail in the Netherlands.

"The statue, coincidentally called 'Saved by a Whale's Tale', had not been intended to actually save a train."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-...pture/12841780
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Old 3 November 2020, 10:23 AM   #2
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Old 3 November 2020, 10:25 AM   #3
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Saw this on the evening news. Incredible.
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Old 3 November 2020, 11:00 AM   #4
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I thoight it was photos op, was it really real?


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Old 3 November 2020, 11:02 AM   #5
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That is so crazy. I shouldn’t watched the video before questioning it. Somebody posted a picture somewhere earlier and I just wrote it off. Crazy!


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Old 3 November 2020, 11:27 AM   #6
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That is so crazy.
Yeah unbelievable
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For all the world, it looks like functional art. As though being an emergency backstop was an intended part of the design. But from what everyone's saying, I guess not.
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That’s one time “form follows function” really played out.


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Tram runs off track, lands on whale statue's tail in the Netherlands.

"The statue, coincidentally called 'Saved by a Whale's Tale', had not been intended to actually save a train."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-...pture/12841780
I remember when the whaletail was all the rage ..................
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Old 3 November 2020, 05:34 PM   #13
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What a fluke!

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Old 3 November 2020, 07:19 PM   #15
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Lucky that whale tail was built properly
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Old 4 November 2020, 12:36 AM   #16
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Learned something new today. Thanks Grady.
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Old 4 November 2020, 02:02 AM   #17
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I'm a big fan of whale tails.

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