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We might be biased, but this Halloween costume is so good it can stop traffic.
This year, NBC10 Boston photographer Mark Garfinkel and his family got into the Halloween spirit by dressing up as that scariest of Boston driving phenomena: "Storrowing."
The group costume featured Garfinkel and his wife, Laura, as the "LOW CLEARANCE" and "NO TRUCKS" warning signs that try to keep unknowing trucks from getting stuck on Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road and Memorial Drive, while their son Leo was a yellow-and-blue "junk trunk."
My wife Laura, son Leo, and I honored the fine #Boston tradition of #Storrowing as we attended a North Shore Trunk of Treat celebration tonight. Two Bridges and a Dump Truck got a couple of laughs along the way. Happy Halloween #Storrowedpic.twitter.com/yIoBNxRiTY
Garfinkel is one of the city's "Storrowing" experts, as it happens. A veteran news photographer, when he gets word a truck gets "Storrowed," he rushes to the scene — he's even gotten there before first responders.
The crashes can cause some pretty major damage to the trucks, peeling a roof back or knocking it sideways, but Garfinkel noted he's never seen anyone be injured in one of the crashes.
"They're like a snowflake, there's not one that's the same," he said in a brief phone interview Monday morning.
Mark Garfinkel
A truck got stuck on Boston’s Storrow Drive under the Silber Way footbridge, Eastbound.
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Mark Garfinkel
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A box truck filled with water and ice overturned on Aug. 7 on the westbound side of Storrow Drive under the overpass of Kenmore Square.
The top of a truck ripped off after the driver tried to squeeze under the Dartmouth Street footbridge on Storrow Drive on July 27. The truck was then moved to Beacon Street to get it out of the way of traffic.
Yet another tractor-trailer truck fell victim to one of the low bridges on Storrow Drive in Boston, getting stuck underneath on July 22.
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The aftermath of a Ryder box truck striking the overpass on Thursday, July 5, 2018.
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Mike Biuso
A struck truck on Storrow Drive on January 12.
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This truck got stuck on August 30, 2016, just in time for college move-in day.
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@j goodell
This truck got "storrowed" on May 6th.
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Aftermath of a "Storrowing" on Memorial Drive in Cambridge on June 9th.
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Shamus Moynihan
This one happend on June 21st.
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Diane McLaughlin
Diane McLaughlin shared this photo of a stuck truck on July 5.
Teddy Kokoros
Here's Teddy Kokoros' photo of a truck on July 20.
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This truck was "Storrowed" on the Bennington Street ramp onto Route 1A southbound on August 11th.
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A truck hit an overpass and rolled over on Jan. 12, 2018.
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This moving van out of Maine hit an overpass on Storrow Drive westbound on July 24, 2018.
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A Storrowed truck in Boston on Friday, Oct. 15, 2021.
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A truck gets “Storrowed” overnight in Boston.
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(Boston, Ma 011218) Workers unload the contents of a Servpro truck as it lays on its side, on the Kenmore off ramp from Storrow Drive west bound. January 12, 2018 Staff photo by Chris Christo (Photo by Chris Christo/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)
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BOSTON – MAY 4: A tractor trailer truck became stuck under the Fenway/Charlesgate ramp on Storrow Drive on May 4, 2015. (Photo by Jaclyn Reiss/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
It is not uncommon to see moving trucks or other large vehicles stuck under the low bridges on Storrow Drive. The state is trying to drive down those numbers with new signage.
Think your Boston-themed costume is even better than the Garfinkels'? Send a picture to shareit@nbcboston.com!
