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Italian Job conundrum solved

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It is the most frustrating ending to a film, ever.

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that's rubbish - what if the bloke got out the bus and that was the difference between it staying and falling...

the obvious solution is to sit tight, wait til a farmer comes buy in his tractor, and drag the bus back....

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let's face it, this is no 'conundrum' - richard whitely (god rest his soul) would laugh in the face of this conundrum...

the real 'italian job conundrum' is: "did the producers of macgyver really believe that no one would notice the roof top chase scene from a sixties movie shoehorned into an episode of 'said show"

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that's rubbish - what if the bloke got out the bus and that was the difference between it staying and falling...

the obvious solution is to sit tight, wait til a farmer comes buy in his tractor, and drag the bus back....

No-one gets off the bus... he gets lowered to the tyres from a window!

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No-one gets off the bus... he gets lowered to the tyres from a window!

How does he get to the fuel tank underneath the back?

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Can't believe this guy (the competition winner) had been thinking about it for years? :unsure:

It's a bit like that bloke who took 20-odd years to solve his Rubix Cube. Madness :dunno:

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This solution assumes that the fuel tank is at the back. What if it's nearer the front (if memory serves, they usually are)

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This solution assumes that the fuel tank is at the back. What if it's nearer the front (if memory serves, they usually are)

"Second, its weight distribution needs to be changed, particularly over the rear of the coach which is overlooking the drop. This involves emptying the fuel tank which John Godwin discovered was at the rear of the coach. This, he estimated, would contain 140kg of fuel."

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"Second, its weight distribution needs to be changed, particularly over the rear of the coach which is overlooking the drop. This involves emptying the fuel tank which John Godwin discovered was at the rear of the coach. This, he estimated, would contain 140kg of fuel."

yeah, phube, god, why don't you, like, read the thread before you wade in with, like, your vulcan logic or whatever :rolleyes:

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yeah, phube, god, why don't you, like, read the thread before you wade in with, like, your vulcan logic or whatever :rolleyes:

:huh: Errr... what!

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:huh: Errr... what!

Gosh :rolleyes:

that's rubbish - what if the bloke got out the bus and that was the difference between it staying and falling...
No-one gets off the bus... he gets lowered to the tyres from a window!
How does he get to the fuel tank underneath the back?
"Second, its weight distribution needs to be changed, particularly over the rear of the coach which is overlooking the drop. This involves emptying the fuel tank which John Godwin discovered was at the rear of the coach. This, he estimated, would contain 140kg of fuel."

BOING!

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Phube says no one gets off the bus but someone has to get off the bus to empty the fuel tank

yeah but, as the back of the bus is hanging off the cliff, and 'he' is lowered from the bus, his weight is still being taken by the bus? surely? :dunno?

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yeah but, as the back of the bus is hanging off the cliff, and 'he' is lowered from the bus, his weight is still being taken by the bus? surely? :dunno?

Yeah, but to get to the back (to empty the fuel) he'd have to be lowered from the back windows. Over the pivot. Meaning the weight's on the wrong side of the bus (the side they're trying to make lighter).

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Yeah, but to get to the back (to empty the fuel) he'd have to be lowered from the back windows. Over the pivot. Meaning the weight's on the wrong side of the bus (the side they're trying to make lighter).

i see, but maybe he cut the fuel pipe at the engine end?

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