Electric barrier accidents/story's

[Thian]

Last week i got the barrier full on my head (helmet that is) and this thread is about electric barriers.

Our security has electric barriers but are too dumb to use them properly. Almost every week some of them are out of order or the whole thing is missing because somebody drove it out of it's socket.

Car's have a keycard to use them but for taxi's and motobikes the guards have to push the button. Since our guards have to work at the frontgate when they are new to the job it has become a very dangerous place for me.

2 times before i could just stop when the barrier came down (the fault of the operator) but last week they got me. The thing is damaged and my helmet has some scratches.

But those barriers are made in Thailand and many times the red/green lights aren't working or the barrier won't open totally, there's always something wrong with them. Then we get new ones who are rusty within a few months or they even wrap them in plastic so the engine/electronics don't get wet...

I guess about every month 1 or 2 barriers are broken because they hit a vehicle.

Also once in 3 months they even manage to drive the whole thing out of the ground, everything totally gone.

I hope they stop with those electric barriers and just do it by hand like in the old days. This must be costly..

How about your experiences with them?

[Soutpeel]

buy a car then

[uksomchai]

Never had a problem with any. When they are down I stop and when they go up I drive / ride through. It isn't exactly rocket science. I find it difficult to understand just how you could get hit on the head on a motorcycle with one unless you parked and waited for it right in the middle ?

Strange to say the least

[h90]

Never had a problem with any. When they are down I stop and when they go up I drive / ride through. It isn't exactly rocket science. I find it difficult to understand just how you could get hit on the head on a motorcycle with one unless you parked and waited for it right in the middle ?

Strange to say the least

And now the difficult thing: it is half open, on the way to closing, you either speed up or stop.

Doing neither of this and you get hit on the head (or worse).

Of course you must factor in the time dilation, beside velocity and gravity you must add the Chang factor.

[kannot]

i just smash through them, judging by the state of them im not the only one

[kannot]

Never had a problem with any. When they are down I stop and when they go up I drive / ride through. It isn't exactly rocket science. I find it difficult to understand just how you could get hit on the head on a motorcycle with one unless you parked and waited for it right in the middle ?

Strange to say the least

he may have/be

1 an abnormally large head

2 a very slow bike

3 unusually tall

4 retarded

[stoneyboy]

Here's the OP in action.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VDnCXagnfzM