Crazy/Stupid things you have seen

[Will67]

Back when i was still in college i worked at Lumberjack (Home Depot before there was a Home Depot)...We had a lumber yard with all the twine for tying things down and flags outside the gate enterance (i was told this was for liability reasons???). At least once a month someone would come in and load 10-20 or more sheets of OSB into their pickup bed and not tie it down at all. They would exit the yard and go through the parking lot and turn on to the City street, acelerate and like a deck of cards the OSB would come shooting out the pickup bed. I would with other employees stop traffic and take a forklift to gather up the OSB and drop it off in the parking lot for cutomer to reload. Some customers even tried to return the OSB because it was damaged.


I saw an owner of a gorgeous new convertable mustang with white leather interior load around 50+ redwood fence pickets into his back seat and 4-5 bags of 90lb redi-mix in front seat. This guy was a regular and was a general contractor too...dude buy a truck.


You ever see anything like this that makes you scratch your head and wonder what people are (not) thinking.


Sorry this should be in Free Parking...Mod please move

 

[Coach James]

When I worked at a lumber yard I had a guy put 2x4's through his side window. He shoved one in so hard it busted his front windshield.

Another guy wanted us to load a pallet of chain link fence onto the back of his NEW pickup truck. He wanted it loaded between the wheel wells from the side of the truck. The wheel wells were too close together for a pallet to go between them so I suggested we remove the rolls from the pallet first. He told me that he was in the army for 20 years and knew what he was doing.

The guy driving the fork lift was also retired army and told to stand back and let them handle it and I'd learn something they wouldn't teach me in college. So the lift operator pulled the forks out, the pallet fell over, the plastic tore and fence rolls scraped and gouged the entire side of his truck.

The temptation to gloat was great but I didn't as I knew the manager would soon be out there having a stroke. The same guy also ran over a fire hydrant in an empty parking lot with the fork lift. Water shot as high as the building. Another time he drove it out into the field behind the store and got it stuck in the sand.

Coach

 

[russlaferrera]

This one is on ME.

I had the opportunity to buy a 10 hp Quincy air compressor, in good shape for $150. It was 3 phase so I dragged my feet and walked away. Only to run back and it was sold. I still kicking myself!

 

[wilbilt]

A couple of weeks ago, I was driving down the road and saw a pickup coming the other way. He was driving very slow, about 15-20 MPH. As the truck was approaching, I could see something bouncing from side to side through the rear window.

As he passed, I saw it was a towable concrete mixer. The axle was bent so badly that the tires were toed in an extreme amount...like 6 inches...

This caused the mixer to hop from side to side as it went down the road. The tires were smoking. I wonder how far he got.

 

[ni[x]it]

Bentonville Arkansas.
circa 1999

1986-1990 ish Burgandy Oldsmobile Cutless Sierra (4 door),
with all 4 windows open. Loaded in the rear seat was a baby
cow (calf), with it's head out the far side, and tail out the near side.

Sadly, I could not get to my digital camera in time to get this shot.

I will never ever forget that site.

 

[mhoffm911]

Several:

Fiero on the freeway with a full-size couch loaded on the roof tied down with twine. I swear to God, I 'bout wrecked my truck laughing.

Leaving Home Depot, guy had just bought one of the brand new stainless steel gas grills. Parking lot is sloped at the traffic light - he gunned it and it fell over on to the ground. He was ticked...

Yep, I will admit to launching about 6 sheets of drywall out of my old F150 when I took off too fast from the traffic light. By the time I could get turned around there was some other guy trying to take off with it.

 

[daddylama]

some dude put ~500lbs of lumber (2x6x20, 2x6x12, 4x4x8) on the roof rack of his volvo, and eight 80lb bags of concrete mix in the trunk...

when i got home, i made fun of myself. then i made another trip

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used to be the foreman of a metal fabrication shop. we'd have people come in all the time to buy metal by the foot. dude bought 6 or 7 20' sticks of 2x8 .25 square tube. dragged it all out to the parking lot, he put it on a little 4x8' utility trailer... with at least 10' sticking off the back. first turn out of the parking lot, the trailer lifted off the ball.... he hadn't latched it. the weight of the 2x8 metal sticking that far off the back, made the tongue of the trailer sand up, metal dragging on the ground, sparks flying... dude didn't seem to notice for about a block. slammed on his brakes, trailer slammed into his minivan.

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a guy buys about 15' of 4" pipe. i bring it out to the parking lot, he's standing next to a brand new RX-7. i set it down and walk inside the shop, 'cause i want nothing to do with this. he gets a couple beach towels and wraps 'em around the pipe. sets the pipe on the passenger mirror, wraps a bungee cord around it. another bungee cord on the back, tied to something under the hatch.
the next day, i saw the car driving down the road... no passenger mirror, a bunch of scuffs on the side and a spare tire on it. no idea what happened, but it was funny as hell.

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back when it was legal to ride in the back of pick up trucks...
my buddy's grandpa's truck... we put a couple folding patio lounge chairs in the back. i'm on one, my buddy is on another... his grandpa takes off out of a parking lot, goes OVER the median/divider... my buddy flies out of the truck. his grandpa is pretty deaf... me pounding on the window to tell him to stop didn't do anything. took about 5 miles for him to stop.

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same grandpa, driving in his rambler... going down a road... a wheel goes by. he says "look, some ******* lost his wheel!" just as he veers right, the back left of the car hits the road...
he was three sails to the wind when he put the wheels on... guess he never tightened the lug nuts.

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saw a guy down the street working on his transmission. had the front of the car jacked up real high... about 3'. the only thing holding the car up was a 2x4 on end, on each side.

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one more...
i said "i do" when the minister asked. (ex wife)

 

[jimvannoy]

Back in my younger days a friend borrowed his bosses truck so we could pick up a SBC I had bought. We load it in the truck and I get in the bed with the engine to hold it. We stop at a red light, light turns green, friend punches gas, engine starts to slide and pull me with it, I let go, engine slams into tailgate which bends and pops open, engine lands in middle of busy 4 way intersection. Luckily it was right near the gas station I worked at so I went and got the tow truck winched up the engine and drove off with it hanging from the boom.

 

[jimvannoy]

I just remembered another one. Back in high school I am late to pick up my girlfriend so I am flying down the road in my 69 442 Cutlass. All of the sudden the right rear of the car hits the ground, I see sparks flying in the rear view mirror and then see my Keystone wheel with N50-15 tire go flying by me and land way out in the middle of a corn field.

 

[Danglerb]

When the first little Datsun and Toyota pickup's came out, guy we knew at a wrecking yard was really impressed with them. He told us he put 6 V8 blocks in the back of one and the only problem was with the brakes. Accelerated just fine, but tap the brakes too hard and it would go end for end. He said you get used to after a bit and just turn the truck around and keep going.

 

[Detroit Diesel Man]

About 8 years ago in a Menards outdoor Lumber yard Forklift Guy was flying around a blind corner with the forks at windshield height..Nice Suburban just turns the corner and whammo..forks slice thru the A-Pillar and smash thru the windshield..covering the driver and Passenger in glass,coming within inches of the passengers head......I sued them...got My Suburban repainted new glass and $ 1,000 worth of Bldg Materials.


DDM

 

[mhoffm911]

Saw this a couple of weeks ago....

Newer Chevy S-10 pickup going the opposite way with the rear end almost (within inches) of touching the ground. As I got by him I saw that he had the entire bed loaded with gravel. All I could do was scratch my head and think about how he had probably just cost himself some hefty repairs.

 

[malibu101]

Saw this a couple of weeks ago....

Newer Chevy S-10 pickup going the opposite way with the rear end almost (within inches) of touching the ground. As I got by him I saw that he had the entire bed loaded with gravel. All I could do was scratch my head and think about how he had probably just cost himself some hefty repairs.

I don't know about the repair bills. A certain guy I know had a large amount of topsoil placed in the bed of his El Camino. It had a coil spring rear. The pinion snubber was in contact with rear after loading
Instead of removing some load he said "It's only about 3 miles to home and it's an old truck." I say truck but an Elky is barely a truck.
Got home fine with no problems then or later. However less than a year later the Elky was scrapped due to the body mounts being completly rotted away both the frame and the body
Amazing the body did not slide off the frame!
Let's not mention who that certain guy was

 

[jimvannoy]

When the first little Datsun and Toyota pickup's came out, guy we knew at a wrecking yard was really impressed with them. He told us he put 6 V8 blocks in the back of one and the only problem was with the brakes. Accelerated just fine, but tap the brakes too hard and it would go end for end. He said you get used to after a bit and just turn the truck around and keep going.

We use to have a 1988 Mazda B2000 pickup. One time I hauled 25 or 30 80lb bags of concrete in it. It was sitting real low in the back but drove fine. I also hauled several full loads of gravel and dirt it it, V8 engines, scrap metal, heavy equipment, etc. I abused the heck out of that truck and it kept on going and going. It had been wrecked in the front twice. I drove it after one wreck for a week with no radiator while I was waiting on a new one to come in. It never overheated. After 5 or 6 years I quit changing the oil in it. I just kept it topped off. I put 1 set of plugs in it the entire time I owned it. Sold it a few years ago with about 150,000 miles on it and it would still crank up right away and drive fine. I would take it out of town several hundred miles to pick stuff up and not even worry about it. I still see it driving around town.

 

[SteveL]

Circa 1975....I was managing a retail remodeling store that sold wall paneling and almost every week, some one would come in and ask that we load the paneling on top of their car. We would oblidge and tie it with two ropes from side to side through the windows and one rope front to back bumper.

Worst was one guy that bought 32 sheets of 3/16" press board paneling and asked that we put in on his Volkswagen....yes a VW Bug. We said sorry, can't do that as it will never make it home. He got pissed and loaded it him self, tied it down and left the store barely able to see out the windshield. We watched out the front window as all 32 sheets slid off the car right in the middle of a busy street and distroyed about 75% of them. He did not bother to come back in and buy more.

Oh, and one of the part timers that worked for me there painted his 1966 Chevy Biscayne a Laclede Gas Blue.....with a roller! Very nice patina! This guy now lives accross the street fom me some 30 years later, and he's still a tool!

 

[fotoflojoe]

I worked in an independent lumber yard for a few years.

- A guy loads two 16 foot bundles of clapboard in the back of his Toyota Land Cruiser, one end on the dashboard, the other end sticking out the tailgate window. He decides to do a 100-point turn in the narrow alley between two buildings. Point one, point two, point three, point four, POP! out comes his windshield as the clapboards pushed into one of the walls.

- Seen many cases where the truck driver was carrying a unit of some thin sheet good uncovered, and tied down at only one point. Going down the road and SNAP, SNAP, SNAP, SNAP, SNAP, SNAP, SNAP, SNAP, SNAP, SNAP, sheets start riffling like a deck of cards.

I drove a truck for the lumber yard, but I never, ever, not even once lost any plywood like that. My specialty was 5 gallon pails of joint compound. Lost an entire pallet off the side getting on a freeway entrance ramp. Worst mess I've ever seen - or made.

 

[boiler7904]

I drive interstate 80 every day on my to and from work. There are days when I wished I kept the camera in my truck for some of the crazy things I see.

This morning was a local police squad car transporting a couple of guys from their jail to the county jail. The obviously obliviously drunk guy in the middle seat was rocking back and forth until he puked on the not so happy large black man to his right.

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As kids were going back to school a few weeks ago, I noticed that a car with something odd hanging out the back as I was getting ready to merge onto interstate 80 to go home. It took me about 10 minutes to catch up to him. When I did, I found out that he had put the front wheel of his motorcycle (yamaha or kawasaki crotch rocket) into the trunk of his Mercury Mystique (think mercury version of a late 1990s for ******) and tied it down with a couple of ratchet straps. The backseat and front seat were piled high with all kinds of other stuff like clothes a tv and computer.

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A couple of years ago I was driving down the street and thought I was going nuts because 5 or 6 cars in front of me was an old craftsman lawn tractor levitating above the road. It ended up being at the top of a heap of scrap metal in a guys pickup. It was half hanging off and didn't look too secure - I'm glad I didn't follow him for too long.

 

[ni[x]it]

"If there was a problem, yo I'll solve it"

Enjoy;
http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/lumber.asp

 

[Will67]

I think every County has that one neighborhood everyone makes fun of... Around here it was Rio Linda, Ca. I was helping a friend load a "ton" of sideing on to his trailer after work at this distributor which was located in Rio Linda. I left and it was getting dark, I was driving down some country road and see what looks like sparks flying off way behind a truck coming towards me. I am think WTF??? is going on and slow down. Well the truck coming towards me is towing a Ford Pinto via a large chain doing around 40...the Pinto is on its front rotors/rear drums, and sparks are flying like a fireworks show off them.

I about pissed my pants laughing.

 

[mhoffm911]

 

[mhoffm911]

 

[mhoffm911]

 

[jimvannoy]

Hmmm the chopmower is not crazy or stupid. I like it. A future to do project maybe........

 

[rodnok1]

Seen a guy at Lowes in a honda 4 door open the trunk put a dryer on trunk opening and use twine through back windows to secure, he wrapped it 50 times at least and away he went.

 

[wrigh003]

Love the lumberyard stories. Owning a small truck, I gotta say that I am completely paranoid about anything flying out the back. I'm the guy in the lot at Lowe's or Depot tying stuff down probably WAY more than is necessary, just because I don't want to be "that guy" standing by the side of the road getting a ticket for having sheets of plywood all over or whatever. I can't understand how anybody could just chuck something up in there and think "Eh, gravity should hold it in place."

Thanks for the laughs.

My wife took same small truck (4cylinder Ranger) to her work one day, she works for a family-owned company where the office is on the family farm. Let her boss know that she needed some topsoil, sez he "bring yer truck" and away she goes. Shows up after work that evening with two loader scoops of heavy clay dirt in the truck bed and wonders why it was driving a little squirrely on the way home. "Honey, it's because the front tires are barely on the ground" sez I. It's probably not nice to make fun of your wife, bnut I was laughing so much on the inside that I couldn't help laughing on the outside. I'm just glad she didn't get hurt. AND after I finished laughing, I got to shovel the truck bed out.

 

[61pv544]

I know that I'm resurrecting this thread from the dead, but I love this kind of thing! Anyone got more stories?

 

[adam728]

In Arizona I've seen a late 80's Toyota 2wd truck flat towing a late 80's Toyota 4wd truck, flat towing another early 80's Toyota 4wd truck, all LOADED with parts, headed for Mexico (quite often see large groups headed down there with cars/parts). Also saw a small 2 door Toyota car towing 2 cars.

One of my favorites was coming up behind a Suburban with it's flashers on that was swerving all over the place. It was being towed by a Tahoe. The "towbar" appeared to be a length of chain from the Tahoe's reciever to the Suburban's front tow hooks, looped through a number of times. An old tire hung from a piece of rope tied to the Tahoe's roof rack, placing the tire between the bumpers of the two vehicles. He was doing 70+ mph on the freeway.

Last one. 15 person van around Memphis (I think, this was 4-5 years back) with a big enclosed car hauler on it, and obviously a metric sh!t ton of tongue weight. Back of the van looked bottomed out. That section of freeway was almost "whooped" out, and every time the van hit a dip it would come out of it with at least a foot of sunshine under the front tires. It'd bounce and bob like a bouy in a hurricane, then settle out just about in time to hit the next one and start all over again. I don't know how he was even able to stay on the road, let alone in his lane at close to 80 mph.

 

[Heavy Metal Doctor]

About 15 years ago, we had a tractor trailer driver show up with an industrial tractor, (heavy compact articulated unit) the we where a dealer for back then, inside the back of a closed trailer. Our street is sloped in front of the shop. He was outside for a few minutes before he came in to let us know he is here and then he says he's in a hurry to unload and for us to get a rollback or whatever we're gonna have him unload onto (no loading dock in sight). We tell the guy that he has to follow one of our guys back up the street to another company to use thier dock. The guy was ticked off and got in a huff. He jumped back in the truck and turned around and started hauling *** up the street....we all watched in amazement and the tractor came rolling out the back and hit the street face first...evidently he used that few extra minutes to undo all the chocks / tie downs expecting to unlaod on the spot.....my boss told the truck driver "There's a wrecker company across the street. After you get it picked up, take it back to the factory!!"...that had to be 10 or 15 thousand dollar mistake.

Way back at Hurricane Andrew cleanup, I watched one of our guys loading road grader onto a low-boy put the wheels off one side of the trailer and lay it right onto it's side
beside the trailer -- nobody hurt, little damage, but interesting to watch!

 

[BillGalbraith]

I arrived at a favorite lake a couple minutes too late, to see a 4-cylinder Fiero that had pulled an 17 foot boat out of the water. The ramp is a difficult one to get out of anyway, with lots of sand. I can't imagine how the Fiero got this boat out.

Same ramp, another day. Guy backs his fishing boat in, pulls it off the trailer manually, then parks the car. Comes back and gets in the boat and tries to start it. Engine won't start. It's his buddy's boat, so he doesn't know anything about it, like starting it, or even putting the plug in. The boat is slowing sinking, ht bilge pump is working overtime, draining the battery. He's grinding the starter, draining the battery, boat is sinking. I finally went over and put the plug in for him, and told him to get his boat on the trailer.

Didn't see this one, but I would have paid for a picture. Idiot on my lake hits the "UP" button on his lift and walks into the house and forgot about the lift. The lift motor finally drew too much current and tripped the breaker, but not after it destroyed the windshield, and dug the front lift cable into the fiberglass before breaking. This happened to a Ski Nautique less than 1 year old.

Same idiot, maybe years ago. Wanted to cut carpet for the then-brand-new boat, to protect the factory carpet, since he flips a boat every year. Places the oversized carpet down in the boat, marke where it needs to be cut, gets his razor knife out and cuts it right there, slicing through the new carpet AND the factory carpet.

Same idiot. Calls me at 10 pm for a ride tot he airport the following morning at 6:30, since I go right by there. On the way in, he leans over to see the gas gauge is at about 3/8, and says that if I stop for coffee, he'll fill my tank. This was a 75 Caprice convertible with a BIG tank. I think it cost him cost to $40. He was pissed. Thought he was going to spend $10. Never asked for a ride again.

 

[Heavy Metal Doctor]

Another one - right here at work......
I'm out in the shop doing my thing one afternoon when I hear a long drawn out screeching noise....
I run out to see what it was just in time to see big car hauler tractor trailer rolling down the street on the far side pushing about 5 cars along the curbline...just piling them together - truned one up on its side on the sidewalk - and came to a stop when the whole pile pushed up against on of our customers trucks parked on that curb.
Just as it stops I see the driver sprinting down the street, whips open the driver door and jumps in. Then I hear the tell-tale "pop - sssssss" of him setting the brakes!!!
He denied leaving the brake off to everyone on the scene. He was telling everyone (his bosses) " There's something wrong with this truck!!!"......

Same towing / auto transport company: Back when BMW came out with the little Z3's.
I had a huge truck parked on my side of the street - bumbass towtruck operator gets the Z3 out of thier lot - floors the gas coming out the gate and hits the dew-wet street and immidiately put the car into a sideway slide -- SLAM - right into the truck I mentioned -- then he tried to hide it - put it on a rollback and disapeared. I never actually saw it, but I heard it from inside the shop. He already had it in thier other gate up the street by the time I got outside. I showed the broken BMW light lenses to the cops when they got there. I knew it was the towing guys 'cause you could still see the fresh tracks in the dampness on the street. It ended up taking the cops a couple of weeks to hunt down the car - never figured out which idiot was driving. The car was a dealer transfer - never titled - appearently he hit hard enough to total the car! the damage on our end was only a fuel tank, since he mainly slammed into the heavy structure of the machine mounted on it (all 1/2" and 3/4" steel plate). We had a PITA fight with thier insurnace company trying to get them to understand the we ARE a shop and WE CAN fix the damage to the truck - it's cheaper than getting the truck towed to a IH dealer - we can slap a tank on it, just pay us!


See this topic has got me started!!!!......I gotta go do some work.....

 

[Cryptic1911]

Here's the house behind mine.. There's a road up about roof level with my house, and a steep hill that comes down around he neighbors house (down the side, then around the front). This guy in the blue truck (another neighbor) took a left about 75 feet too early. Ran over a fire hydrant, a fence, some bushes, a stone wall, and hit the porch. I was outside at the time, and it sounded just like a truck dropping a dumpster off at the store which is up the road

 

[nehog]

In Tampa Florida, On Florida Ave there is a HD...

Was in buying some electrical stuff. Guy outside just finished loading about 10 sheets of sheetrock on the ladder rack of his truck. (Guess the bed was full?)

He is just in front of me when he drives out, and I have a WTF moment when I realize he's not tied the load down. Northbound on Florida Ave... I'm back a good distance, it's Sunday and traffic is (fortunately) light. Yep, a sheet of sheetrock lifts and sails off and lands in the road in front of me. I don't care, I drive over it, it ain't mine! Then a second lifts off. "Gee, doesn't this guy realize he's loosing his load?" I think... Third peels off. Then four, five and six. He's down to the last four sheets he bought, when number seven comes off, and I get tired of dodging sheetrock, so I pass him. I'm a nice guy, but I believe that idiots deserve what they get so I say and do nothing, but keep watching as he drives.

Number eight goes, he's down to the last two, and I see the truck make a sudden stop! Yep, he finally noticed what was happening to his load...

I laughed all the way home, knowing he'd never scrape enough of that stuff off the road to make it worth the effort. And I know when he goes back to HD to get more, they'll be laughing their butts off because I'm sure they watched him load and drive away.

I'm amazed at how gracefully sheetrock will sail when coming off a truck at 45. And at how nicely it crumples as soon as it hits the street.

(FWIW, there were spots of sheetrock on the road for weeks after that...)

 

[brownbagg]

we have a guy in town that has a 66 mustang converable, that he welded a pipe rack on to haul lumber

 

[kb2tha]

I sold a Delta DJ-20 8" jointer. The buyer ($1000) loaded it in the back of his pickup. The truck had a bedliner. He secured the jointer in the front of the bed with only a pressure bar. I found out about a year later that within two miles of leaving my house that he lost the jointer out the back of the truck. At an intersection with a right turn upgrade the jointer slid to the tailgate and because it was top heavy, tumbled onto the highway. Broke one of the table castings, bent up the base pretty good. Unsure whether he ever did use it or just tried to salvage the motor.

 

[GarageEnvy]

So many things came to mind reading these posts but I'll limit it to 3
1) Circa 1988. I worked as a stock guy at a department store and had to load people's cars. Guy buys a 6' particle board entertainment center which comes unassembled in a relatively small (18"x6"x6') box. Then he pays to have it assembled. Leaves and returns to pick it up in a mid 70's T-top corvette. I stand there waiting for the truck to show up. He says load it. I say where. He says rest it on the little chrome luggage rack on the deck. I tell manager who says do it. He originally was going to just hold it but at least put some twine around the T-top after prodding. 30 minutes later, he's back to buy another one and repeats all of his mistakes. He could have a) not had it assembled b) returned with a truck c) learned from his mistake and he chose d) none of the above.

2) Housing related. I work as an appraiser. Realtor and I are talking and homeowner keeps walking by with full garbage bag from the yard and returning with them empty. After the 3rd one we look at each other and wonder what is he doing? Ask homeowner. Homeowner says I use my grass clippings for insulation. Apparently for who knows how long this guy has been filling his attic with grass clippings. Prior to sale condition, remove grass from attic.

3) Sort of car-person-real estate related. Client buys house for himself near Bass Lake (elevation 5000). I inspect and note a very steep driveway leading down to garage. Behind house is very steep hillside leading about 200 yards down to highway. I even tell the client not to attempt parking in garage when it snows. "If you're lucky enough to get it in without sailing through the rear of the garage, you'll never get it back out." Sure enough first winter client's (now ex) wife bobsleds car through the rear wall of the garage. Fortunately it lost enough momentum that it didn't go all the way down the hill. She's lucky she didn't get killed. Her response, "it has 4wd I don't know why that happened."

 

[LocoCoco]

...Her response, "it has 4wd I don't know why that happened."

Haha, I've heard that one many times before. People somehow think because 4wd gives you plenty of go-traction it'll give you plenty of stopping-traction too. Then you have to explain to them that all vehicles have 4-wheel brakes.


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My dad told me of a time he was in a hardware store parking lot and had a good chuckle. A little old lady bought like twenty 2'x2' cement patio stones and had an employee cart them out for her... to her Chevy Corsica. Guy just smiled and explained to her that the car could maybe carry four of them at a time, much to her surprise.
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LC.

 

[58Yeoman]

A few years ago, I sold a refrigerator to someone in the next town. He came to pick it up with a friend and a PU. They loaded it in the rear, but didn't tie it down. I asked him if he was going to tie it down, and he said No, I'm only going to Peru (about 5 miles). He left, and I left shortly after, finding him beside the road at the S curves; he and his buddy were putting the fridge back into the bed, with big dents in the side of the appliance.

 

[eborcim]

Two things seen on the road:


1) somebody towing a car down the AZ mountain 4 lane with a rope!

2) loaves of bread in the plastic wrap about every 100 feet for a mile or so until we come upon a pickup with a bread rack cart just tooling down the road...sans the top three levels of bread in the cart!

 

[MScott]

Back a few years ago, a friend of mine purchase a new fibreglass tub and shower surround for the house he was building. It seemed to be a tight fit in the back of his truck so he thought he could just drive home slowly without tying it in. A few miles before he reached home, the wind got underneath it and flipped the tub out onto the pavement. Since the corner was cracked, he decided he should report the incident to the police so he could claim for the damage with his insurance company.
Police charged him with failing to have the load properly secured and, to make matters worse, his insurance company refused to cover him. He was out $7-800 for a new tub plus the cost of the ticket.
Only good part of this was that we were able to repair the tub and it now resides in our hunting camp.

 

[GarageEnvy]

Consider this one a public service announcement to boaters since I've seen it who knows how many times.

If you are kind enough to tow another boat in after it breaks down, remember that boats do not have brakes. When you pull up to the dock with the other boat 20' off your stern there is a better than excellent chance that it will hit you or careen into the dock if you don't simply release the line and drive away.

Also release the stern straps on your boat before backing it into the water so you don't swamp it when you launch. I won't mention the drain plug because every boater has, or will, do this at some point.