A Wisconsin driver, thinking he was being tricky, recently received instant karma after removing a “road closed” barrier blocking his path. Because after doing so, he immediately drove his truck straight into fresh concrete.
Images shared by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation show the man’s pickup truck bumper-deep in the freshly-poured concrete, surely totaling his vehicle.
“FEELING STUCK: A motorist in Milwaukee County recently cemented their inability to adhere to signs after physically removing a ‘road closed’ barrier and proceeding to drive into freshly poured concrete at the I-41/894/US 45 and National Avenue interchange,” the Wisconsin Department of Transportation wrote in a Facebook post.
“Crews place barricades and signs for your safety and theirs. Please – never remove or ignore ‘road closed’ or any other types of barriers… or this might happen to you!”
The photo of the pickup truck stuck in the concrete led to numerous comical reactions
Naturally, because the internet is going to internet, viewers of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s Facebook post had plenty of jokes at the ready.
“Florida Man has moved to Wisconsin,” one person commented.
“That’s not concrete, that’s karmacrete,” read another comment.
“The driver has cemented his/her status as a possible candidate for the Darwin Awards,” someone else joked.
Apparently, this is not a new thing in Wisconsin. Another commenter wrote that they were working “with a highway paving crew and we had somebody do that in Viroqua, Wisconsin. They went in with the end loader with forks on it and showed no mercy to that vehicle. Actually, it happened twice.”
“That guy is as brilliant as the guy who drove his Tesla truck into a lake and told authorities he thought it would be okay because it was in ‘wade mode,'” another reader wrote.