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Can someone please explain what is happening in this photo?

The title is apparently "Train Track In The Kitchen" but... How? How did a train track bust up through the floor of someone's kitchen?

I'm completely at a loss here. I literally have no idea how this could have happened. People don't build houses or apartments over railways, and that doesn't even look like a full-sized train rail so... So...

GAH! What the hell?!?

This is really bugging me...

Of course, it can only be collateral damage from a superhero fight...

It is:

* collateral damage from SOMETHING that happened (at least partially) in the space below that room
* not a train track of any sort I recognize

If it were in my apartment I would be:

* glad that I wasn't standing there when it happened
* even more glad that I wasn't downstairs when it happened
* concerned about the structural integrity of my floor and the load-bearing walls of the space below
* interested in having someone qualified take at least a casual glance at the structural integrity of the whole building

This is where a mobile home picked up some road debris while in transit

Not knowing much about the circumstances, it appears a long, thin piece of metal was driven at high speed through whatever outside walls and bent on it's path to spear through the kitchen floor. There have been auto collisions where guardrail sections, pipes, and other such stuff have gone through the grill, to one side of the engine, and into the passenger compartment, causing considerable excitement therein. Train wrecks can easily launch stuff for dozens, if not hundreds of yards depending on the speed, the bounce, and object itself.

Sgt. Howard wrote:This is where a mobile home picked up some road debris while in transit

OOOOHHHH that makes sense...

GlytchMeister wrote:

Sgt. Howard wrote:This is where a mobile home picked up some road debris while in transit

OOOOHHHH that makes sense...

That would explain why there is so little space in that kitchen, if it is a mobile home...

Earthworms there have too much iron in their diet.

lake_wrangler wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:

Sgt. Howard wrote:This is where a mobile home picked up some road debris while in transit

OOOOHHHH that makes sense...

That would explain why there is so little space in that kitchen, if it is a mobile home...

Mobile homes can have huge kitchens; ours was about 12*14, and that was in a "single-wide". Motorhomes and other sorts of RV, though, not so much.

Warrl wrote:Mobile homes can have huge kitchens; ours was about 12*14, and that was in a "single-wide". Motorhomes and other sorts of RV, though, not so much.

Apartments can also be poorly designed, so as to give a ridiculously small kitchen... I once lived in a place that had a "dining room" barely big enough to have a table and yet walk around it, and at the end of which was the "kitchen"... the counter was at the end, with the oven on one side and the fridge on the other, the two facing each other and so close to each other that only one could be opened at a time!

(Yet the place had a double-size living room... )

GlytchMeister wrote:I'm completely at a loss here.

You think you're baffled and at a loss? Think of the guy who owns the place... I'm sure he was completely floored.

Dave wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:I'm completely at a loss here.

You think you're baffled and at a loss? Think of the guy who owns the place... I'm sure he was completely floored.

Good thing he was not ROTFLHAO at the time...

And the Pun Jar awaits, perhaps a bottle of Future would be nice. Or go all out with an electric buffer.

Definitely not damage while in transit. Too many unsecured objects for travel. My guess is something went disastrously wrong while working in the crawlspace underneath the house.

Dave wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:I'm completely at a loss here.

You think you're baffled and at a loss? Think of the guy who owns the place... I'm sure he was completely floored.

Not completely, you could easily fix the floor with just a patch...

shadowinthelight wrote:Definitely not damage while in transit. Too many unsecured objects for travel.

Correct, and the door that is visible is NOT a typical RV door. Mobile homes (not RVs) are rarely moved once occupied let alone while occupied.

Again, knowing nothing but what's in that picture, I'd be concerned about structural integrity. Of course, even a slight explanation of "What the (bleep) happened down there?", that concern might be alleviated - or might not. It isn't a concern that this thing coming through the floor might have damaged the structure - it didn't. But whatever bent it, mashed it, and shoved it through the floor, might have.

Easy answer; Meth Lab in the Basement blew up...

C'est Photoshop.

Original photo is here:

Awwww dammit. I was hoping for "wow that is really cool and unlikely" not "eh it's fake."

Twas a good fake. I honestly thought it was some sort of conduit.

GlytchMeister wrote:Awwww dammit. I was hoping for "wow that is really cool and unlikely" not "eh it's fake."

The "it's a fake" story is actually a cover-up concocted by the MiB, obviously.

Perhaps Bud was annoyed by something and started throwing objects through the planet again.