An archive of videos from Durham's famous Canopener Bridge, where over-height trucks keep discovering that clearance signs are not decorative.
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The premise is brutally simple: a low railroad bridge, warning signs, cameras, and a long-running collection of drivers who are about to learn geometry in public.
The site has kept count for years, including crashes after the bridge was raised from the original 11 foot 8 inch clearance to the equally ominous 11foot8+8 era.
It belongs in Weird because it turns municipal infrastructure into episodic slapstick, with the bridge playing the same patient villain every time.