Poland in photo riddles - part 3

What do you think has happened and what are they doing? (since I can't see pawian's posts, his potential answers don't count):

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This is some kind of fire brigade exercise.

@Alien, nope, it isn't exercise.

The car appears to be missing a wheel on the passenger side and there doesn't appear to be anyone in the vehicle. The fire brigade are moving it off the road for some reason, breakdown? blocking traffic? but surely this wouldn't normally be their job? Unless there was a fire or multiple cars involved or someone had to be cut out of a car.....

Not much idea at the moment.

It looks like they are trying to lift up the front end or stop it from rolling. It could be in gear, thats if its an automatic transmission. Aren't most cars in Europe stick shift?

If it wasn't for the fact that there's a missing wheel, I would've said that it looks like they're trying to stop a moving car.


Mainly, yes.

I must need stronger glasses..lol


Ill agree with that.


I miss having a stick shift, they're hard to find over here these days.

Unless I've made a mistake. Where the first fireman's right foot is there appears to be a jack of some kind. I can't see a tyre or a wheel.


I've never driven an automatic but it makes sense that they're more common in the US. Much greater distances to cover. Less tiring than changing gear.

@Paulina Maybe someone drove into a fresh cement road and they're trying to remove/save the car.

Well, if the car is viewed as a danger (it's on the road and not in a ditch, for example) firefighters in Poland have to remove it, from what I understand. 🤔 It's not the case in the UK?


Wow, yes, exactly - you're so observant! :D


Yes, they're moving it off the road! :) It wasn't due to breakdown though, so what happened? Why the wheel would fall off?

Btw, for moving the car they used those thingies with wheels that I think are called car wheel dolly jack (?) in English. Can you guess why they would need two of those for one car?:

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Less fun to drive with an automatic, unless your stuck in a traffic jam in the city. It does free up your hands though. I can eat my lunch driving down the Hi way if I'm in a hurry.


Yes. It looks like he broke a tie rod and the wheel must have went rolling off in another direction. A scary situation for sure.


They use the jack to lift the car so they can slide the dolly underneath. Then they can roll the car wherever they want.

The situation was actually more scary than that. So what happened? What could be the other reason for a wheel to fall off?


Yes, but they used the second one, because the wheel on the other side got a flat tire:

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He sunk into pot hole or hit a concrete barrier if not a mechanical failure which I'm doubting now. In the photo the entire braking system is missing as well, so its still has to be attached to the wheel.

If there's no danger to life or fire, not usually. The police would normally call a towing company to remove the vehicle.


Wheel nuts worked loose and fell off or weren't tightened enough? Never known that happen before though. I had a tyre blowout once, That was scary, but unusual to lose a wheel I would think.


Now I need stronger glasses. How can you tell?

Yes, it depends on the situation, I suppose.


Nope.


Nope.


No, I think if a car hit a concrete barrier there would be some damage visible on the front of the car. 🤔 But you're getting closer...

Impact? Although I keep wondering what kind of impact that only causes wheel damage and nothing to bodywork. I had an insane thought at one time looking at the overhead pass above the road......but that would be ridiculous.....

Yes.

So what could it be? What happened?


Hmm, are you sure about "nothing to bodywork"? Is the whole car well visible from every side? 😉

Car was hit on the passenger side by another vehicle?

@Feniks, yes, exactly! You solved the riddle :)

You couldn't see the damage, because in my first post the firefighters were blocking the view on the passenger side. There was a couple with a kid travelling in this car, but fortunately noone got hurt.

Most of the passenger side got damaged - this is only a fragment:

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Another riddle - what is this?:

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Yeah, if I'd seen the damage to start with that would've been my first guess. Good riddle :)

Thanks and good luck with the one above :)))

My guess is that it's either a meteor shower or falling Starlink satellites. Having said that it's unusual to see such things that clearly in the day....

@Feniks, it's not a meteor shower or falling Starlink satellites, but something that isn't unusual to see that clearly in the day :)

Missiles with nuclear warheads incoming from Nizhny Novgorod?

Or maybe God smiting members of Konfederacja?

Or Perkun, the Slavic lightening god had found out there was a babcia in Sieradz who'd let her grandchild play outside without woollens and a hat when it was only 28c in the shade.

Now you've disappointed me Paulina! With your interest in astronomy I was expecting something a bit.......cosmic maybe ;)

It can't be contrails from aircraft, can it?

I grew up close to a huge airbase and that is what they look like.

Of course they're really 'chemtrails' whereby Bill Gates, George Soros, Elon Mush, Dr Fauci, the entire Jewish population of the world and several billion MTF trans kindergarten teachers are poisoning us all with special chemicals to make us woke.

lol


Oh, that's cool! And probably loud too lol


But it did look astronomical, didn't it! ;D


Yes, they are! You've guessed again! :D

Anyone can guess what kind of airplanes those are and why are they flying in a group?

Very and always plenty to see. They had a very old Hercules by the entrance that you could visit.

Military aircraft? If it is then I'm guessing they fly in groups for combat and situational awareness. Also for protecting each other from enemy fire, planes are safer when flying together.