r/11foot8 • u/David-HMFC • Jul 31 '25

A skip lorry pranged the railway bridge in Dunbar this morning

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The bridge didn’t sustain any real damage and the railway was reopened once the lorry was removed by the police.

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u/thriftedqueer Jul 31 '25

Never heard that verb before, feels extremely fitting. Great sound symbolism.

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u/jnmtx Jul 31 '25

American translation: a truck carrying a big garbage dumpster.

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u/funnystuff79 Aug 01 '25

By verb I thought they meant pranged.

Great English language verb, American translation: Fender Bender

2

u/mike9874 Aug 01 '25

It's more onomatopoeia, so not so much

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u/Stormy_Wolf Aug 01 '25

Haha, thanks! I was fascinated by that combination of words, that I'd never seen before.

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u/Specialist_Ad_7719 Aug 01 '25

It's perfect English.

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u/Stormy_Wolf Aug 01 '25

British English, which has more interesting words than American English. (at least to an outsider!)

I had to pause a moment and realize "Dunbar" was a place, not like "pranged in (the) Dunbar". I'd seen the words "lorry" and "skip" before but didn't 100% know what they meant, only sorta-kinda. But "pranged", I had never seen before, but am getting it's meaning by context, and I like that word!

1

u/itstreeman Aug 01 '25

Thanks must be a different language

1

u/spank_monkey_83 Aug 02 '25

I read it and didn't even flinch. Made perfect sense to me🇬🇧

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u/IdealBlueMan Aug 01 '25

That's the most British sentence I've read all day

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u/ketchup1345 Aug 01 '25

That is an excessive amount of skips 😂

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u/MrT735 Aug 01 '25

It's skips all the way down.

2

u/Howtothinkofaname Aug 01 '25

I was hoping for the delicious prawn cocktail flavoured snacks.

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u/parsifal Aug 01 '25

Yeah, is this typical?? Why is it hauling actual skips? This can’t be how they haul garbage away?

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u/TOG_II_star Aug 01 '25

They're probably delivering the skips to a number of new hires. If you've got 5 new hires in the same area, it makes sense to deliver all 5 with one lorry, rather than send 5 lorries whose only job is to deliver a single skip.

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u/parsifal Aug 01 '25

Makes perfect sense. Thank you!

1

u/friendlysaxoffender Aug 02 '25

They did NOT skip Skip Day

9

u/Large_Score6728 Aug 01 '25

They stack um high across the pond

10

u/catherine_zetascarn Aug 01 '25

These are moments where I remember I speak a regional accent of English.

6

u/amancalledJayne Aug 01 '25

It’s like a Russian nesting doll, but with dumpsters

3

u/syncsynchalt Aug 01 '25

Bally Jerry, pranged his lorry right in the how’s-your-father; hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.

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u/dazrage Aug 01 '25

Blimey!

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u/Einveldi_ Aug 01 '25

Is that bridge actually height restricted? I don’t see a restriction sign on it, which means that the vehicle was illegally overloaded and would’ve hit just about any bridge going.

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u/David-HMFC Aug 01 '25

There’s a max height sign on approach to the bridge - you can see the slither of the red edge on the left hand side of the photo, 4.1m / 13’6”

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u/37boss15 Aug 01 '25

this was the fucker that cancelled my XC train yesterday

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u/Hirohitoswaifu Aug 01 '25

XC must be absolutely raving that they have an actual excuse to cancel.

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u/10b0b Aug 01 '25

Beautiful execution of the word ‘pranged’.

It’s made my day.

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u/Pizzaboi-187 Aug 01 '25

I love how British this is

1

u/kneejerk2022 Aug 01 '25

Interesting. No height restrictions for truck height in the UK. I wonder if they're going to review that soon 🤔

https://haulageexchange.co.uk/blog/lorry-sizes-and-uk-regulations/

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u/David-HMFC Aug 01 '25

There’s a max height sign on approach to the bridge - you can see the slither of the red edge on the left hand side of the photo, 4.1m / 13’6”

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u/Bloxskit Aug 01 '25

Oh no, not Dunbar...

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u/sarg7ant 29d ago

oh momma!! she is stuck!! 😅🤣😂🤣🤣🤣

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u/Party_Ad_8595 28d ago

Canadian here.  I understand very little from that heading

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u/Geekenstein Aug 01 '25

It sounds like English, but it’s pure nonsense.

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u/cool_weed_dad Aug 01 '25

Cor blimey, guvnuh!

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u/SkyeMreddit Aug 01 '25

That is the most Bri’ish thing I’ve heard all day