Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[dstig1]

Are you telling us that Hollywood is "Hauling or Towing something wrong?"

 

[goeduck]

Yes GingerBilly is quite a hoot, but I find there is only so much of him I can take at once...

I could only take about 60 seconds.

 

[square1]

I could only take about 60 seconds.

You outlasted me by about double

 

[kenmbz]

Then there's the traffic in India. No rules.

And a feature I'll bet is a holdover from when the Brits ruled India: Anything larger and heavier in heavy traffic owns the road. So his horn means get out of the way or die, non negotiable.

I was stopped at a light in Jaipur, next to us was an ox pulling the back part of a truck.
Across from use was someone riding a camel.
Along the side was an elephant going up to the tourist area.
While surrounded by small motorcycles, Padmini taxis, tuk-tuks and other older cars based on very old french and british designs.
Most motorcycles had whole families on them.

Only the Camel and elephants were unusual, seeing ox driven wagons was pretty common, as was overloaded trucks and motorcycles and scooters. 30 to a truck, 4-6 to a motorcycle.

During rush hour, many roads become one way, even 4 lane ones. And it's not by design, just seems to happen organically!

 

[groundcover]

All because of a ladder that was in the roadway, too bad the hauler didn't have a ratchet strap or two.

8 Orange County (California) Firefighters were hurt, some critically, when their apparatus crashed on a freeway near Irvine, California, last night.



The Orange County Fire Authority truck overturned on State Route 241 at about 1850 hours in the Portola Springs area.



A ladder of some kind that was in the roadway caused the fire truck (personnel transport rig) and another vehicle in front of it to swerve. The OCFA truck collided with a nearby guard rail and overturned. See photo attached.



6 members have suffered "very serious" injuries and 2 others have minor injuries.

OCFA Chief Brian Fennessey said one of the Firefighters was airlifted to a hospital while paramedics rushed the seven others to local medical centers. Just 2 of the Firefighters are in stable condition.



"We ask that you pray for our Firefighters and their families," Fennessey said. "All of the families have been notified. This is the beginning of a long road for many of those Firefighters and our fire department."



The Firefighters had been operating at the massive Airport Fire before the crash and they were on the way home after a 12-hour shift.

 

[LouNY]

All because of a ladder that was in the roadway, too bad the hauler didn't have a ratchet strap or two.

8 Orange County (California) Firefighters were hurt, some critically, when their apparatus crashed on a freeway near Irvine, California, last night.



The Orange County Fire Authority truck overturned on State Route 241 at about 1850 hours in the Portola Springs area.



A ladder of some kind that was in the roadway caused the fire truck (personnel transport rig) and another vehicle in front of it to swerve. The OCFA truck collided with a nearby guard rail and overturned. See photo attached.



6 members have suffered "very serious" injuries and 2 others have minor injuries.

OCFA Chief Brian Fennessey said one of the Firefighters was airlifted to a hospital while paramedics rushed the seven others to local medical centers. Just 2 of the Firefighters are in stable condition.



"We ask that you pray for our Firefighters and their families," Fennessey said. "All of the families have been notified. This is the beginning of a long road for many of those Firefighters and our fire department."



The Firefighters had been operating at the massive Airport Fire before the crash and they were on the way home after a 12-hour shift.

I hate to hear about someone getting hurt especially from someone else's negligence. I also have a problem with drivers that swerve out of their way to try and avoid obstacles and end up creating a worse incident then driving through the obstacle be it debris or an animal.
A few years (several) I was coming home from work in heavy traffic when some dipstick lost a pallet off his truck just a few vehicles ahead of me with all of us doing over 70 mph 3 lanes wide. The vehicles in front of me swerved to avoid the pallet and got tangled up with other cars and started creating what became a several vehicle incident, if I had tried to swerve I would have been in that incident, instead I treated it just like I would have an animal, I drove right through that damned pallet, I did pick up a nail but I got home with no other damage and fixed the tire that night.

 

[Renze]

Those "minis" are bloated, almost 1500kg in such a small car, pathetic.

They arent exactly mini anymore, more like a VW Golf. The VW Up is in the size class where the original Mini was

Volkswagen Up - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[gstrom99]

Then there's the traffic in India. No rules.

If this thread could get a traffic cam feed from India, we'd be overloaded with the crazy stuff they do there, within a week...

 

[WinterDeere]

During rush hour, many roads become one way, even 4 lane ones. And it's not by design, just seems to happen organically!

I remember meeting a German buddy of mine for lunch in Verona Italy, when I was working in Florence (Firenze) one week about ten years ago. I meet him at the train station, and we head on foot to the town center to find a restaurant. At the first major intersection, 2 or 3 lanes in each direction with a traffic light and crosswalks, he stops and waits for the light. But when the light changes, none of the traffic stops, and he just continues standing there.

This cycle repeated two or three times, and I tell him he just needs to start walking, and traffic will stop. He looks at me and says, "this is no place for a German".

Having lived several years in Philly proper, where pedestrians are generally treated like targets, I didn't think it was such a big deal.

I hate to hear about someone getting hurt especially from someone else's negligence. I also have a problem with drivers that swerve out of their way to try and avoid obstacles and end up creating a worse incident then driving through the obstacle be it debris or an animal.

Swerve into my lane to get around a cyclist in your lane, on any country road having only one lane in each direction and no shoulder, and I will hit you head-on. My truck is a lot bigger and heavier than your Rav4... I won't be the one taking the med-evac chopper to the local trauma center.

I don't understand people who are so entitled to think all traffic in unaffected lanes of traffic should have to stop for them, just because they don't want to wait a few seconds to safely pass an obstacle in their own lane.

 

[KennyG]

Swerve into my lane to get around a cyclist in your lane, on any country road having only one lane in each direction and no shoulder, and I will hit you head-on. My truck is a lot bigger and heavier than your Rav4... I won't be the one taking the med-evac chopper to the local trauma center.

I don't understand people who are so entitled to think all traffic in unaffected lanes of traffic should have to stop for them, just because they don't want to wait a few seconds to safely pass an obstacle in their own lane.

As a cyclist, I've been surprised at the apparent increase in the number of people who think it's OK to run oncoming traffic into the ditch so they can pass me without slowing down. Of course, I should probably be happy because they are probably the people who used to run me off the road. (And I'm talking about low traffic rural roads here.)

 

[Renze]

This cycle repeated two or three times, and I tell him he just needs to start walking, and traffic will stop. He looks at me and says, "this is no place for a German".

Yup, Germans are orderly people. Vice versa, when they are behind you at a traffic light in Dresden, and you dont pull up within 1 second after the light turns green, they honk the horn that you dont follow protocol...

Swerve into my lane to get around a cyclist in your lane, on any country road having only one lane in each direction and no shoulder, and I will hit you head-on. My truck is a lot bigger and heavier than your Rav4... I won't be the one taking the med-evac chopper to the local trauma center.

Good luck with that. If its a jacked up RAV4 that hits you above the frame rails, all the sheet metal gets stripped off the frame and youre deader than him in the Unibody. In banger racing, they bolt body-on-frames through and through because the passenger cab just gets stripped off, as it has little crash resistance by itself.

I don't understand people who are so entitled to think all traffic in unaffected lanes of traffic should have to stop for them, just because they don't want to wait a few seconds to safely pass an obstacle in their own lane.

I was cut off the day before yesterday. Honked at him but i usually dont make problems with such types, its usually people who have a short fuse anyways.

2 weeks ago a pedestrian dude jumped in his car and followed me home after i didnt slow down when he stopped in the middle of the road and made some gestures at me. He slammed on the side of my vehicle when i didnt slow down like he did for no reason other than to look for trouble.

At home the St Bernard was waiting. I walked to the driveway and he started "i dont think this is normal ! My son walked there !" I said me neither, your boy walked back to see you standing on the street throwing gestures. Thats provoking, and you shouldnt do that to me, it doesnt end well.

Oh. And now ?
I said there is no damage, so it ends here. I wish you a nice day, and hopefully next time better.

He went back into his car, but before driving away i saw him talking bent over towards his 7 year old son. I guess daddy had some explaining to do, why events turned so quicy

Normally i let things pass, but i have had a lower back inflammation surgery causing me to wear womens sanitary pads, so i have a right to be as cranky as women and i wasnt in the condition to risk escalation

This St Bernard, its a childrens darling. But i am sure if this guy rose his hand at me, she would have pulled that down before he knew it

 

[thirdroc17]

So little on topic content anymore, I'm starting to wonder why bother.

 

[Tpondel]

A friend at work drove a Fiat 500, and the thing had something like 0.9 liters displacement. I used to tease him that my car also had almost 0.9 liters displacement... per cylinder.

Even his 10-12 year old daughters made fun of him, in fact they're the ones who started calling it the "clown car". But I'll admit, it was fun to tool around town in that stupid little thing, probably a great car for tight streets in Italy.

Rented one a couple years back in Italy. Yea. A perfect choice.

 

[bigtiller]

So little on topic content anymore, I'm starting to wonder why bother.

Well the title of the thread is "Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong"

So just scroll past all the wordy posts and look at the pics.

 

[bmaverick]

Well the title of the thread is "Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong"

So just scroll past all the wordy posts and look at the pics.

I try to post and say little. This way there are more images.

 

[bmaverick]

At least he pulled over to use the cell phone and not stay on the road.

 

[bmaverick]

Back in the 80s we towed like this,

 

[bmaverick]

When you say your boat has plenty of HORSE POWER, to take your girlfriend out on the lake.
(His sister and her dog too!)

 

[bmaverick]

God said, You will be fishers of men. Wonder if they are taking this too far.

 

[bmaverick]

Is this a real trend? Just how many black road buggies are used to tow boats?

BTW, Officer on the bike, I'm legal.