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Murphy's Law // pics

middlecity.com — They say that "whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time" and these hilarious pictures definitely prove that. I realize this isn't the newest thing around but I'm sure many people haven't seen it before and it's certainly still a good laugh.

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  • dennisk85, on 10/10/2007, -5/+364That last picture has been photoshopped. Compare it to one of the earlier ones.
    • sepultura, on 10/10/2007, -10/+27Hmm now that you mention it the last one looks kind of photoshopped so it's possible, but the rest are definitely real so it's still funny :)
    • iownsomuch, on 10/10/2007, -7/+82Even if it is photoshopped, the first truck falling was enough to make me laugh lol

      Dugg.
    • sepultura, on 10/10/2007, -1/+27Thanks to it5five below for submitting this snopes link http://snopes.com/photos/accident/crane.asp the last pic is fake but the first truck was real.
    • Lezlee798, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Yeah, If that actually happened I don't think the group of people would just stand there talking to each other.
      • Shorties, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6especially after a bunch of people just disappeared from the previous picture
    • xxx420xxx, on 10/10/2007, -12/+3Thank you, Captain Obvious
    • NSMike, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Yes, the last one is definitely photoshopped. If you look at the previous photos, you can see the larger crane operator was smart enough to put out his outriggers, so it was not possible for him to have suffered the same fate.
    • Razster, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1I noticed it too because of the Seagul and the white boat next to the tuggboat... Bad Adobe CS3 Photo Editing.
      • Sibre, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yes, since it is incredibly easy to tell exactly what version of Photoshop they were using to make the edits...
        • CrazedGeek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Check the EXIF data? (or, some other type of file association?)
      • sourwood, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3CS3 was not released yet, smarty pants.
    • Twelve-60, on 10/10/2007, -5/+5Yeah fairly obvious, just look at the positions of the people standing in these 2 pictures:

      http://www.middlecity.com/pic25734.jpg
      http://www.middlecity.com/pic20671.jpg (Last one)

      - Twelve-60
    • aliarshad1988, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Indeed something is definitely wrong here.....the first truck followed the laws of physics and made a splash.....but for some reason the second truck decided to not...hm mm.
    • d686, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yep, the guy just found an image (#5) that had nothing in the position of the big green truck and then photoshopped the two trucks into the water of that image. the people are in identical positions/poses, there's no water splash, etc. he could have made it a lot better.
    • snapcase, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Totally obvious that the last was fake. But still funny for the stuff leading up to the fake.
    • andyrobo60, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2wow murphy's law in action, if a server can crash it will crash, 404
  • terrordemon, on 10/10/2007, -9/+150baaaad photoshopping
    • quetzatcoatl, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Yeah, the last photo has the same guys in the background as the photo of the first truck falling into the water.
    • tempusrob, on 10/10/2007, -14/+2Yeah, I can tell from some of the pixels.
    • lothar250, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Trying to make an old series of images look new by photoshopping = lame

      ... Especially if the shopjob is unbelievably bad
  • sarazen, on 10/10/2007, -10/+43Old
    • cheeze_ballz, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2you think? it happened almost 3 years ago!
  • murphygr, on 10/10/2007, -7/+71my law?
    • dorianh49, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4It looks like people pay attention to Murphy's Law. Quick! Command everyone to stop spouting off "In Soviet Russia" "jokes". That could be Murphy's second law. I'd lobby for it.
  • Homerr, on 10/10/2007, -6/+34Yeah, last one is photoshopped. Compare people in past pic to 5th pic.
    • jbenson2, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Yup, your correct. The people in the upper right side of photo 5 are in exactly the same position as in the last photo. The last photo was purposely blurred to hide some of the PhotoShop effects.
      • ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3You could have chosen "you're" as the contraction for "you are," but you chose the wrong word.

        Murphy's Law? Or just glaring third-grade ignorance? Hmm...



    • ogore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The rubber ducky is also back from the previous pictures
  • tfb9999, on 10/10/2007, -6/+18Shop, pixels, etc.
  • it5five, on 10/10/2007, -4/+59The last picture is fake:

    http://snopes.com/photos/accident/crane.asp
    • smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2nice, but the first crane operator is still a moron. i mean sheesh, hasn't he heard of center of gravity? anyone who's passed high school physics should have seen that coming from a mile away. he should have lifted the car from the front of the truck using the rest of the body as a counter-weight.
      • Sibre, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Or he could have simply put out the stabilizers. They do tend to help with this sort of thing sometimes...
        • smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i'm assuming you're talking about the things on the sides of that second truck. yea, i wasn't sure if that was standard on all cranes, but that definitely helps too by shifting the center of gravity and moving the fulcrum of the system.
  • synod, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37Is it murphy's law when bad photoshopping leads to bad digging?
  • kamel, on 10/10/2007, -7/+53Can we have an older than your mom bury option? Then pictures and stories like these could have a "Reported by diggers as possibly being older than your mom" flag on the front page?
    • Davede70, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15They need to start increasing the effect of the Bury button. Too much garbage is floating to the top.
    • nymphetamine, on 10/10/2007, -6/+4Can we have a 'Sorry I have a life and you live on the internet' comment bury button? Then comments like these could have a "Reported by diggers as STFU" flag on the front page?
  • jester55, on 10/10/2007, -16/+3lez get dis car out. oh noes we needs a bigger truck. oh noes we still needs a bigger truck! OH NOES we dont got a bigger truck!
  • miriclaire, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2Didn't see THAT comin'.
  • pr5owner, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3what kind of dumb ass crane operator doesnt extend his stabalizers when picking up a freaking car out of the water? thats his own dumb fault
    • minideezel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2its not that he didn't extend his stabilizers it was that the truck was extremely under rated for that kind of load, that crane was probably designed for moving pallets on and off of his bed, not picking up a several ton car, and also the fact that he probably didn' t have outriggers like the bigger second crane.
    • mikeazorin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Crane operating run in the family?
  • kuppoppo, on 10/10/2007, -11/+4Yes, it's obviously Photoshopped. Yes, its ***** funny. All of you need to lighten up and learn to laugh. Christ.
  • dodger6, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2Dug down, (duplicate story) the same exact story was posted several weeks ago.
  • Warptera, on 10/10/2007, -4/+16Last picture is a very bad photoshop. (fiftieth person to say it!)
  • Treythalomew, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0Didn't even keep the same cars in the background.
  • mixmastabeef, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2i dont give a ***** if its been fotoshopped, i still laughed my ***** ass off for 10 mins
    • LongShlong, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0It's not that it's bad to laugh at it, even it if is fake... But, don't you feel somewhat mentally molested or raped after realizing what you just induldged in wasn't real?
      • Sandurz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Like the time you found out that it wasn't a woman on the other side of that hole but a Fleshlight
  • topcat31, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6What is it with email chain stories from 1996 making the frontpage all of a sudden? what, so he photoshopped the last image. Badly. Big deal.
  • cpugeek2214, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3As old as the Internet itself.
    • FightOnTrojans, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2I've heard it is so old, that Al Gore is claiming he put it all together, just after inventing the internet.
  • Ironspork, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Cute, but photoshopped. It's still funny that they were dumb enough to use a crane with a low enough load limit on the first one though...
  • ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26Murphy's Law
    prov. The correct, *original* Murphy's Law reads: "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it." This is a principle of defensive design, cited here because it is usually given in mutant forms less descriptive of the challenges of design for lusers. For example, you don't make a two-pin plug symmetrical and then label it `THIS WAY UP'; if it matters which way it is plugged in, then you make the design asymmetrical (see also the anecdote under magic smoke).

    Edward A. Murphy, Jr. was one of the engineers on the rocket-sled experiments that were done by the U.S. Air Force in 1949 to test human acceleration tolerances (USAF project MX981). One experiment involved a set of 16 accelerometers mounted to different parts of the subject's body. There were two ways each sensor could be glued to its mount, and somebody methodically installed all 16 the wrong way around. Murphy then made the original form of his pronouncement, which the test subject (Major John Paul Stapp) quoted at a news conference a few days later.

    Within months `Murphy's Law' had spread to various technical cultures connected to aerospace engineering. Before too many years had gone by variants had passed into the popular imagination, changing as they went. Most of these are variants on "Anything that can go wrong, will"; this is sometimes referred to as Finagle's Law. The memetic drift apparent in these mutants clearly demonstrates Murphy's Law acting on itself!

    -Jargon File
    • Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3C.f.

      Finagle's Law: n.

      The generalized or ‘folk’ version of Murphy's Law, fully named “Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives” and usually rendered “Anything that can go wrong, will”. May have been first published by Francis P. Chisholm in his 1963 essay The Chisholm Effect, later reprinted in the classic anthology A Stress Analysis Of A Strapless Evening Gown: And Other Essays For A Scientific Eye (Robert Baker ed, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-852608-7).

      The label ‘Finagle's Law’ was popularized by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this ‘Belter’ culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy. Some technical and scientific cultures (e.g., paleontologists) know it under the name Sod's Law; this usage may be more common in Great Britain. One variant favored among hackers is “The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum”; Niven specifically referred to this as O'Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law. See also Hanlon's Razor.

      and

      Hanlon's Razor: prov.

      A corollary of Finagle's Law, similar to Occam's Razor, that reads “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” Quoted here because it seems to be a particular favorite of hackers, often showing up in sig blocks, fortune cookie files and the login banners of BBS systems and commercial networks. This probably reflects the hacker's daily experience of environments created by well-intentioned but short-sighted people. Compare Sturgeon's Law, Ninety-Ninety Rule.

      At http://www.statusq.org/2001/11/26.html it is claimed that Hanlon's Razor was coined by one Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, PA. However, a curiously similar remark (“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”) appears in Logic of Empire, a classic 1941 SF story by Robert A. Heinlein, who calls the error it indicates the ‘devil theory’ of sociology. Similar epigrams have been attributed to William James and (on dubious evidence) Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • XorpheusX, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1This is a Digg post - it is made of fake and old. (Buried)
  • SeniorZo, on 10/10/2007, -6/+7This is so old...I think Moses wrote about.
  • neoblaque, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6We here at the pub don't care if it is shopped or not, one guy blew beer through his nose when we got to the last picture.
    Priceless.
  • jigeen, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Don't know why but reminds of the simpsons.

    Bart: it fell off a truck truck
    Homer: it fell off a truck truck truck
  • busdriversteve, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2Actually, the image was manipulated using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
    • xaxxon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4We, here, at Adobe®, prefer you say "creatively enhanced by Adobe® Photoshop® software." Thank you, and have a nice day.
    • Sandurz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I actually had faith in Digg users for a while.

      And then I made it down to this comment.

      I expected it, but that doesn't make the reality of it any less chilling.
  • willgonz, on 10/10/2007, -10/+3¡sıɥʇ doɥsoʇoɥd
    • ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5these pictures are fresher and more interesting than your ***** upside-down text gimmick.
  • gullevek, on 10/10/2007, -6/+6We need a burry as "OLD" option ...
    • ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Are you Spanish? Rrruffles have Rrridges! Carrne Asada...

      Burry...
  • Gullop, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Worst photoshop i have ever seen.
    • ozsynergy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Don't you read the papers/news sites?
  • TheFlood16, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5This picture is so old that one of my really old professors used it in class last semester to demonstrate poor planning...I think he prefaced the showing of the picture with something like "You can find some weird stuff on the internets."
  • subrato, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Why would you exactly be hooked to internet in a pub ?? Why not just drink and hook up with some chicks instead ...
  • stingerau, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Yeah last pic is fake!
    • ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5WHAT?!?!?

      HOLD ON EVERYBODY!!

      WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?!?

      /moron.
  • hokeywebb22, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2There is a tiny white boat next to the bigger boat in all the pictures until number 5 when it is gone. Then suddenly it apperas again in the same postion as in picture number 5.
  • nmeu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0we're on a Quest For Herb!!!
  • themattreid, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2Ok morons, it happened in 2004 if you read here: http://snopes.com/photos/accident/crane.asp

    Photoslopped or not it's FUNNY. Wow, you saw that it's photoshopped? way to go. have a laugh once in a while and stop being haughty 16 year olds that think they know everything. Chances are 98% of you couldn't photoshop that well anyway. Asshats.

    In other news: Digg has been sucking lately b/c of all the asshat comments like yours.
    • ninti, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2"Photoslopped or not it's FUNNY."

      So I guess whether something is true or not is not important to you. Are you a Bush supporter by any chance?
  • Error601, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6There should be a filter for stuff that showed up on snopes three years ago.
    • jtorkbob, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Heck at this rate I could just browse Snopes...
  • p51d007, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5Could someone tell me how crap like this ends up on Digg?
    • xaxxon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4because someone submitted it and a bunch of people, probably not that unlike yourself dugg it. It's pretty simple. I think the basics of the algorithm are available online somewhere.
      • moschops, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Exactly - I blame Digg for not making the Bury button as obvious, if not more obvious than the Digg one. Folks you don't have to Digg it to leave a comment... just bury and move on.
  • Rkstar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1A few years back something similar to this (except real) happened out by me. Some people were boating on the river, and went to leave. Backed the truck up with the trailer down the ramp... and slid on all the algae or whatever slipperiness forms on concrete ramps going into the river, and the whole truck, boat, and trailer went under water. Then a tow truck came to tow it all out, and it slid into the river as well.
  • spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5The third one is a truck truck truck!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0x7fj6gwJk
  • PatoLucas, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2nevermind
  • theysayjump, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Meeeer, anyone?
  • Scheissen, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1old
    horrible photoshop job

    BURIED
  • ThinkBox, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Only on digg can an article be pronounced FAKE by EVERY comment.... and still get 600+ diggs and stay on the front page.

    Buries stopped working, and not only do people not read the article now, they dont even read the comments.
  • Al3x, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4http://duggmirror.com
  • acebrickman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18 broken images, front page of digg, and ... oh, I get it guys
  • zachninme, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Dugg just to annoy other diggers.
  • repete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Someone needs to further photoshop it, adding a helicopter which ends up suffering the same fate.
  • iloveazngurlzs, on 10/10/2007, -6/+3FAKE! stop posting *****!
  • adolfojp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The best part is the footer of the page.

    "For personal educational use only."
  • nubnub, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/crane.asp Seriously digg I can disappointed in you.
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