Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[EscapedSuburbia]

Here's one I took a month or so ago.

 

[Rockbadchild]

I’ve been hauling boats in and out of the water for 45 years, every weekend some summers, and honestly never had that nightmare. Even someone with zero experience should understand Newton always wins, inertia is real. If there’s some reason you can’t hook it on with the winch, then at least lash it to the trailer with a bit of line!

To have punched the accelerator coming out of the water like that, and to not see the boat sliding off the trailer in the rear-view… these guys are a special kind of stupid that you don’t often encounter in daily life.

special kind of stupid alright

 

[WinterDeere]

I remember one summer in Harvey Cedars NJ, probably around 1985, seeing a full-size fan hauling a 30’ish ft. Baha cigarette boat rear-end a larger truck. The boat had slid forward on the trailer, rode up onto the winch stand and the bow punched thru the rear window of the van. But the trailer strap and winch held, the boat did not come off the trailer!

I’m sure there was some repair work involved, the glass had to have been incredibly stressed at the bow eye where the winch connects and there was probably damage to the nose of the bow where it punched the back of the van, but much better than having the boat fly off the trailer and land in the road.

 

[Runner]

I’ve been hauling boats in and out of the water for 45 years, every weekend some summers, and honestly never had that nightmare.

That's the good thing about nightmares - they don't usually happen in real life.

 

[Runner]

Not your typical collision, 737 vs pickup, at about 180mph, at night.

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From:

https://sistema.cenipa.fab.mil.br/cenipa/paginas/relatorios/rf/en/PS-GPP_12FEV2025_ENG.PUB6.pdf

Bruce

"The crew and passengers were unharmed, while the vehicle’s occupants sustained minor injuries."

 

[WinterDeere]

"The crew and passengers were unharmed, while the vehicle’s occupants sustained minor injuries."

Wow... were they in that truck? The way it's pancaked, you'd assume anyone inside must've been crushed to death.

I've never been scared to the point of sh*tting myself, but I'd guess that being in that truck at the time and seeing that jet headed for us at 160 kts, might get the job done.

 

[Runner]

Wow... were they in that truck? The way it's pancaked, you'd assume anyone inside must've been crushed to death.

I've never been scared to the point of sh*tting myself, but I'd guess that being in that truck at the time and seeing that jet headed for us at 160 kts, might get the job done.

If I'm reading it correctly, it sounds like it was dark (10pm) and the plane hit the truck from the rear. Occupants of the truck might not have ever seen the plane coming (until the last second).

Edit: The report said one worker got out of the truck and the other one lay down in the seat just before the plane hit, so they had some forewarning it was coming.

 

[GreyhawkUSA30340]

Here's one I took a month or so ago.
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Seems like an awful big crane for that size boat, but maybe that's just what was most readily available...

 

[LouNY]

Or they wanted one with spreader bars to lift with, most smaller wreckers don't have the lift to use them.

 

[dstig1]

From reading the conclusions in the report, it looks like the control tower had a history of being a bit loosey goosey with procedures. The conclusions appear to point to the tower, 100%.