Schadenfreude: noun
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pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune
That’s what makes it so strangely satisfying to watch drivers disregard signs and plow their too-tall trucks into clearly marked overpasses. Enter, 11foot8.com, a site dedicated to a specific overpass in Durham, North Carolina, where crashes like this happen on a monthly basis, despite massive amounts of signage.
Here’s the first crash of 2019. Not only does the semi ignore all the signs and plow into the overpass, he then backs up into the vehicle behind him when trying to get out.


