This photo was posted in our forum section by BangShift member HPA-Bodies. He said that this potential disaster on wheels happened by him, and since we know he lives in NY and the truck has NY plates on it, we believe him. He also said that the driver got 17 tickets for doing this. We also believe that, too because this is the craziest thing we’ve seen on an American highay since, oh, forever.
Who ever did this really has some sack. You have to know a few of his buds tried to stop him and he waved ’em off, saying, “This thing ain’t goin’ anywhere!” While gently pushing on the side of the wayward Taurus.
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Is this guy ballsy or the dumbest bastard ever? You decide below!
Balance is everthing.
Well, the engine/transaxle IS in the front of the Taurus so most of the weight is over the truck’s axle. I’m thinking that this explains why the whole deal didn’t go over backwards. I’d love to know what the 17 tickets were for – is gross stupidity against the law in NY? Obscured license plate would be one.
BAD PLAN!
Dan
Stick to the back roads and alleys when loaded in this fashion.
I am a little skeptical, mostly since the rear suspension does not seem to be bottoming out as it should with a load four times the rated load for the vehicle. I wonder why it is worth destroying the pickup for the POS Taurus, too. I would have expected to see him trying to tow it with that same web strap, maybe he wanted to keep the mileage down on the Taurus and save the tread wear on the tires.
17 tickets? Um, shouldn’t that be one and both towed and driver arrested? Way to go NY State Police!
The scrappers in Chicago are a crazy bunch. I’ve seen full size cars strapped on pickups a few times, but they put them on sideways. Chicago police don’t seem to notice.
I’ll bet his steering is really light….
Same guy, later that night, was seen with a twenty foot tall stack of pallets held on bu a single piece of twine.
Around here, people would be still tailgating his dumbass for going too slow.
Here is another shot from across the highway. Times are tuff in the streets, yeah gota make a buck any way you can lol.
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“sure, it’ll work… hold my beer and watch this”…
And the dumbass award goes to
Some people still live simply because it is against the law to kill them. An exception should be made in this case.
If you need to ask…
This is Real, my boss saw it on the way to work– he was taking it to a local scrap yard- this gives Rednecks a bad name! LOL
and the Darwin award goes too
I took the picture in my Black BMW. Here’s the story:
I was on a local road running some errands on Monday when across the way on Route 17, I spotted some police lights and had to look. Everybody loves a rubbernecker?Ǫ and I?
i saw a wrecker hauling a car with no wheels or suspension once. he had the frontend of the car balanced on the bed of the wrecker and the cable strung out to the rear of the car, then he just picked up the rear of the car and headed down the road. yes it did sway around somewhat
Just goin’ to Wally World
Hey, Frank, the trooper let him continue because they haven’t outlawed stupid yet!
Any guesses on how he got it on there?
Hey, Look!
It has dual exhaust!
Except for the over hang without a red flag whats the problem?
He couldn’t flat tow it because it doesn’t have a plate.
im just waiting to see another picture with the grandma sitting on top of the roof in a rocking chair.
Not much of a car guy are you Frank? That’s a Chevy truck. Like a rock. 🙂