Interesting barn photo

[Woulde]

A picture can say a thousand words, but I could only shake my head when I saw this.

Photo taken in Hybe, Slovakia.

[terrifictimbersllc]

Is this "eminent domain"?  I've heard of the electric company butchering your trees but not your building!

[isawlogs]

I guess getting a pole longer by a few feet would of been to easy  :   Then again , not knowing the whole story behind the pic, makes it defficalt to comment. But I did anyway  ;D

[mrcaptainbob]

I dunno....right off I'd have to accuse that as having been Photo-Shopped. No way would that barn have been built like that. No way would the wires have been draped over the building like that. Restrictions are really adhered to under high tension lines like those. No permanent structure on the wire right-of-way, usually within thirty feet either side of a perpendicular from the wire. There were also height restrictions on some 44kv lines on the neighbor's property that affected trees on my property. The power company claim was the tree height was such that if they toppled and came within twelve feet of the lines that arcing can occur. I kept them from cutting the trees down by allowing them to top them instead, restricting further upward growth. We were both satisfied. That building just doesn't look real in that setting.

[beenthere]

mrcaptainbob
It was credited as taken in Hybe, Slovakia.  Maybe photoshopped, and maybe not the standard electrical codes we have either. Likely, never will know for sure.  

[Jeff]

Its got a strong photoshop feel to me.

[Gary_C]

There's waay too many powerlines in that picture for it to be real. And the shadows on the building do not make sense. If the sun is behind and to the right and the pole is in the sun, why is this side of the building in the shadows.

A fake.  :

Here are some real pictures from the offical city web site.

http://www.hybe.sk/index.php?b=foto&id=15

http://www.hybe.sk/index.php?b=skola&id=7

Looks like a nice little town in the mountains.

This guy does not look pleased that such a photo could be shopped around.

http://www.hybe.sk/index.php?b=starosta&id=3

    :D :D :D

[shinnlinger]

My vote is it is real, but I am impressed with Gary's research.   I have done a few things with photoshop, but taking a non-descript barn and hacking the roof a bit was not on the list of things I wanted to do.  There simply isn't enough people that would care about that photo to make it worth it, but then again, we seem too....

Now Slovakia used to be Communist and I can see that if the power crew only had that length pole and private property rights were nonexistent the above barn is what happens.  

is this real???

[Woulde]

Suppose I should have said that I took the picture during a recent trip to Slovakia.  I was so amused by this photo, I went back and took another.

[Jeff]

Well that's about as good of validation as one needs to have.  That's crazy. :D


But is THIS real?  :D
From the Thread Bringing down the silo. A Forestry Forum Classic.



https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,19531.0.html

[Woulde]

My wife was born in Slovakia in 1968 and lived in Hybe with her Grandparents for the first seven years of her live.  Her parents during that time lived about an hour away in Banska Bystrica.  The Russians had taken the country over in 1968 and her parents felt she was safer in Hybe.

Here are a few more photos taken during our visit this summer:

[Gary_C]

Ya that does look real now. But then again, where did those crossing power lines from the first picture go?   :

[beenthere]

Ya that does look real now. But then again, where did those crossing power lines from the first picture go?   :

They are still there.  ;D   

[Warbird]

They are still there, Gary.  You have to look real close.

[shinnlinger]

So do I win a prize?????

[Woulde]

This photo was taken after the Lions and Bears game Sunday.

Is it real?  Cast your vote!  ;D

[Jeff]

I watched that game so I can vouch for the validity of that one.

[beenthere]

I saw that setting, but without the mask and sidearm. ;D

But do think the Lions were robbed.

The intent of the rule certainly can't include the way the ball was received and carried (albeit in one hand) and placed on the ground, to be released when the receiver was standing up. IMO 

Da Bears should feel real guilty accepting that win.

So I vote "not real"    : :