Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "FOX 29 Philadelphia" channel.

Here in the US, a 16 year old can acquire a driver's license after passing the driving test.
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@rse4379 I dunno, I get that light all the time. Computer readout gives a mysterious "Loose nut behind the wheel" alert that I can't find in the computer's documentation.
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Our eldest daughter beat down an ex-boyfriend in high school while on a school trip. She was found at fault by the school, as she shouldn't have been fighting. He, after all, was only trying to rape her. I showed up in my full Army dress uniform, wearing medals I usually didn't wear (I basically never wore all of my medals, as it tended to embarrass commanders to have less medals than their soldiers) and quietly explained to the principal, his safety was predicated upon my children's safety and from that point onward, whatever happens to them would happen to him. She got a one day suspension, he got one day detention, I took both kids to the zoo on that day. Oddly, there was no repetition of the offense and the school took oddly great pains to avoid their being together. Maybe it was that emerald beret that was convincing...
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@yvonneplant9434 obviously, a ship losing power and drifting into the bridge is precisely the same as a truck with an oversized load driving under control into a bridge and going off with a quarter of the information is entirely called for. Or something. OK, let's go with actual questions that are actually germane. What was the posted clearance for the bridge, both on the signage and on the road planning maps? What was the actual height of the load? One common cause of bridge impacts is driver error, the load is higher than what the bridge is marked at. Another, road resurfacing has happened since the last measurement and posting, which is now way off as the clearance is now a few inches less and nothing got posted about it - either on maps or on the bridge itself. So, obviously we need to close the port to all ship traffic or something...
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Not at all unusual, as highways are crowned to allow water to run off. Now, one major problem has long been road surface resurfacing, which changes the clearance and if there's a delay, well, the posted and registered clearance is fat out wrong. Saw a few bridges in PA nailed that way over the decades.
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Probably the parents car. At that age, I had a jalopy that barely ran, when it was broken down and I really needed to get somewhere, I was able to borrow mom's car, which I hated, as I had trouble controlling it due to extremely sensitive brakes. After watching my wife entirely fail in instructing our eldest in driving, way too nervous and excitable to properly coach and instruct, I took over. She never had a problem, even when she literally had a wheel fly off at highway speed on the way to college (we were driving our own vehicle helping her move). Impressively controlled the car, despite losing the driver's front wheel and managed to get the vehicle pulled over. I also trained every driver in my platoon in the Army on our manual transmission vehicle.
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Rule #2, always keep your vehicle under control. Funny how they're really the same rule, huh? The only time I hit a tree, it was a tiny inch and a half tree when I was forced off of the road. Fortunately, I wasn't going too fast, so after obliterating the top of a small berm, I was able to limp it home and spend an entire day getting the modern art that the control arm got turned into off for replacement and the tree unwrapped from the exhaust system.
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@askew9976 meh, the bark will heal and the outer wood will quickly heal, they've evolved to have larger trees bounce off of them.
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Stopped off at Tony Luke's for a sandwich? Yeah, that kind of thing has happened and the pilot vehicle was 20 miles away from where it should have been... More often though, the highway got resurfaced and the new clearance not updated.
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Obviously, he felt she was a danger and more physically capable of managing a confrontation than he was. What did that governator call it again? Girly man? Although, even at that age, had he hit me with a Stanley cup, he'd have needed a new cup. And yes, I owned them before they became a status symbol. But then, I was graced with a skull that was infamously tough and resilient. That trait came in handy in the wars.
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