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« on: August 11, 2025, 04:40:52 AM » |
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Originally saw this little gem on FOX website but found it on YouTube for easier viewing. After a quick narrative from local police the video is cued up with some appropriate theme music and brought a good laugh this morning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRJKRslgiY |
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GiG
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« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2025, 10:10:10 AM » |
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Saw it on Fox, too. My thought was; one in disabled car had no concept he was responsible for securing, steering or braking his own piece of crap car!  |
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« Last Edit: August 11, 2025, 10:25:11 AM by GiG »
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Nothing is Everything.
When you come to a fork in the road - TAKE IT!
(Then be sure to send it to OSS... C.O.D.)
This isn’t Rocket Surgery
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Jess from VA
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« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2025, 10:40:16 AM » |
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My dad once towed my old beat up MG Midget on an 8 foot chain behind his brand new Chevy Impala.
Jess, YOU have to do the braking for both of us, and whatever you do DO NOT ram that piece of sheit into my new car. I'll tap my brakes to let you know when to brake. Pay Attention!!!
30 miles of Detroit traffic and it was a miracle I never hit his car.
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GiG
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« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2025, 10:55:46 AM » |
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Dad was right of course but probably too trusting of a beat up midget to brake his new Impala  True story from my family lore : my brother almost lost his head while his little project car was being towed by Ernie . Ernie broke hard and brother Bob’s car went underneath tow mobile  |
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Nothing is Everything.
When you come to a fork in the road - TAKE IT!
(Then be sure to send it to OSS... C.O.D.)
This isn’t Rocket Surgery
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Willow
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Excessive comfort breeds weakness. PttP
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« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2025, 03:49:19 PM » |
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LOL! I also saw it on TV but it is better with the music. ROTFLMAO  |
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« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2025, 04:50:06 PM » |
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Not entirely germane to the original story but.....
In the late 1960's I had purchased what was sort of my dream car (for a 20 year old just joining the US Navy and waiting to head to boot camp). It was a 1959 MGA.
I was taking a trip from my parents home in GA (near Savannah) to NC to meet my girl friend for a date night. Along the road in NC, the car's generator pulley failed. Lost coolant flow along with lack of charging.
As I was sitting on the roadway. (two lane) a gentlemen pulled up behind me in his pickup truck. He looked at the issue and offered to tow me (just a rope I think) to a place to spend the night and then he would come back for me the next morning and take to a place to get the pulley fixed.
Now, I was offered a place, for the night, with a mattress and bathroom at the home that he dropped me off at in what I think was, at one time, a barn.
The next morning he came back by and towed me and my car to his recommended repair shop. Now, remember this is a 1959 MGA. The person who met me at the repair shop had a plan. The was to take my pulley and weld another pulley onto the mounting plate for the original pulley (at least that is what I remember 55 years later), charged me $25 and I was off.
Those were the days
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scooperhsd
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« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2025, 05:48:36 AM » |
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One summer (after I got my unrestricted driver's license - age 16), I worked as a lot boy for a car dealer . This meant that I kept cars clean, went running for car parts, etc. One unusual experiance - me and the shop manager had to take the pickup and go tow a customer's car to the garage. So, he got the car hooked up to the truck, then told me to be VERY CAREFUL as I was driving the truck back (he was in the car) - we got to the garage safely. There were a few times he hit the brakes on the towed car that I felt the jerk.
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Willow
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« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2025, 07:14:16 AM » |
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... me and the shop manager had to take the pickup and go tow a customer's car to the garage. ... I was driving the truck back (he was in the car) - ... There were a few times he hit the brakes on the towed car that I felt the jerk.
That was how my father towed all during my growing up years. That was before the solid tow connections were available or maybe common. I don't think you should call the manager a jerk simply because he felt the need for the brakes now and then.  I should mention that during my youth my dad towed on a chain with his Packard the church bus (school bus) for a lot of miles after its breakdown. |
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« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2025, 10:03:40 AM » |
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A time when I was in the Army in West Germany, our aviation platoon jeep battery was dead. Now, I was not there but heard a couple of “smart” platoon mates decided to give the jeep a pull start with the units deuce and a half (2.5 ton troop hauler). They found a chain and within a few minutes managed to snap the bumper clean off the jeep. Pretty dam funny, until the Army decided to make the two drivers pay for the fix. I remember it being something like $250 split between them. And then they disallocated all the chains in the unit too. The Army has no sense of humor.  |
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scooperhsd
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« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2025, 10:07:29 AM » |
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... me and the shop manager had to take the pickup and go tow a customer's car to the garage. ... I was driving the truck back (he was in the car) - ... There were a few times he hit the brakes on the towed car that I felt the jerk.
That was how my father towed all during my growing up years. That was before the solid tow connections were available or maybe common. I don't think you should call the manager a jerk simply because he felt the need for the brakes now and then. I should mention that during my youth my dad towed on a chain with his Packard the church bus (school bus) for a lot of miles after its breakdown. No - Don was actually all right. |
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Serk
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« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2025, 12:41:17 PM » |
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My dad was once bragging to me that he'd never caused an auto accident...
His mistake was making this claim in ear shot of his mother, who piped up with:
"What about that time you totaled 7 cars and a church?"
Evidently he had the family car in a parking lot, hood up, engine running, and was standing next to it fiddling with the throttle, went WOT and it stuck, and somehow dropped in gear.
The car went tearing across the parking lot slinging cars left and right and then eventually drove through a church.
My grandfather was upstairs in said church meeting with the pastor at the time.
My dad tried to say it didn't count because he wasn't in the driver's seat...
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Jersey mike
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« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2025, 01:44:06 PM » |
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