I wonder what happened

dozerII

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I had this photo sent to me with no discription. I'm not sure what took place but I bet there are some dirty shorts.

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marlboro180

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Re: I wonder what happened

Bet he is glad his safety chains were on!:eek:
 

robert graham

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Re: I wonder what happened

Looks like the entire truck's hanging by that trailer hitch ball....pretty good set-up he's got there!
 

Subliminal

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Re: I wonder what happened

That picture has been floating around for quite some time.

That's one lucky sunuvagun right there...that could have been their demise.
 

180shabah

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Re: I wonder what happened

Anybody care to wager - no trailer brakes.

"...been pullin' for years without 'em, never had a problem..."
 

jeeperman

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Re: I wonder what happened

Anybody care to wager - no trailer brakes.

"...been pullin' for years without 'em, never had a problem..."

Maybe, but maybe the breakaway feature of the trailer brakes was activated just in time to stop it all from continuing over the edge.
 

Silvertip

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Re: I wonder what happened

This looks very much like the east end of one of the resevoirs in the rockies. I may have been at this site. If this is indeed the site, there are signs that caution about high winds. The day I went through this (or an area very similar) there was a car and pop-up camper laying in pieces down the embankment. However, roads like this are packed with tourists who are all trying to drive and look at the scenery at the same time. Perhaps this driver just jerked right to avoid a rear ender.
 

HANGEYE

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Re: I wonder what happened

PHEW!!! The boats OK. We can get another tow vehicle. LOL
 

cribber

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Re: I wonder what happened

That's one lucky guy to save his boat like that... too bad about the truck.
 

JB

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Re: I wonder what happened

I wonder how one pic can be posted here five or six times over the last 9 years and is a surprise to so many each time.
 

northernmerc

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Re: I wonder what happened

I wonder how one pic can be posted here five or six times over the last 9 years and is a surprise to so many each time.

Not everyone is "ancient.":D

My money's on too big a boat with too small a truck, mixed with mountain roads. Pretty much every time we drive through the Canadian Rockies we see a towing accident.
 

fat fanny

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Re: I wonder what happened

I still say he was sitting there with his foot on the clutch tranny in gear and everyone else out side saying "come look at this" and he and or she jumped out and ther it went
 

H20Rat

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Re: I wonder what happened

It wouldn't have been so bad, if the guy didn't buy a second truck and then do this with it on the way home!

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BTMCB

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Re: I wonder what happened

Betcha that was last time the admiral drove!
 

Frank Acampora

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Re: I wonder what happened

Boat looks an awful lot like a Bayliner! Maybe the guy believed what people say about them and was trying to get rid of it.
 

bruceb58

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Re: I wonder what happened

I wonder how one pic can be posted here five or six times over the last 9 years and is a surprise to so many each time.
That picture has been on here more than 5 or 6 times I bet.
 

KeyWestSkipper

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Re: I wonder what happened

As many times as it has been posted, and viewed, you never forget it oce you see it. It's the Zapruder film of towing mishaps.
 

dozerII

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Re: I wonder what happened

It wouldn't have been so bad, if the guy didn't buy a second truck and then do this with it on the way home!

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This one happened on the Transcanada Highway just west off Golden a few years back. If you notice how shiny the highway is it was covered with ice from freezing rain, and the trailer he was towing was very heavy. I was stuck on the highway with a set of super b"s loaded with hay waiting to go west.
Glen
 
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