I almost won a hundred bucks doing that when I was 18.
The challenge was to pick up a VW Rabbit high enough that the wheel came off the ground. Didn't quite make it though. I got it up high enough that another guy could turn the wheel, but not enough that the wheel would spin freely.
I guess I should have lifted at the bumper instead of the wheel opening.
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Joe, who's GONNA BE A DADDY!!! drives an 02 supercab shortbed 3.0 liter automatic power nothing Ranger Edge. BC Chapter Member
Well I don't see all that many good samaritan stories here. I kinda figured this would be the load of them. Here's Mine:
A good friend Called me this evening. His truck had broken down. I got dress, drove out to the truck, and towed him (despite the risk of a ticket) back to my yard. His truck now sits waiting for the mornign dawn for us to get her back on the road.
I think that this may qualify but I will leave the judging up to you.
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The more I get to Know women, The more I like My Truck
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet you could shoot beer out of your nose. -Jack Handy
Today there was a trucker that had stopped with his hood up on a busy intersection in Saskatoon. I did think about trying to give him a pull to get him out of the way, but his truck was pretty loaded.
So anyways I went around him and went into this parts store, to get some parts, and kinda kept my eye on him and his truck. He walked over to the parts store and started to tell the guys behind the counter he had run out of fuel. Well it just so happened that I had two diesel cans in the back of my truck so i offered to give him a hand.
Went and got him some fuel, helped him start his truck back up, shook his hand and went on my merry way.
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$Sheldon$
2003 F-250 supercab shortbox 4x4 lariat
~Everythings legal man as long as ya dont get caught~
well since lubbock likes to become its own lake everytime it rains... Gettin 6"+ in less than 24 hours pretty much shuts the town down due to flooding... Well i got off work late it was about 8 oclock and peoples cars were dying cause of all the water on the roads, 4" in the shallow places 2' in the deep places and up to 3-4' in the deepest spots... Well i took my normal route home and started pulling people out of the road to the nearest parking lots and offering them cell phones to call people for a ride and to give them a ride home perosnally... I probably helped out 7 people on friday night, this aint the first time i have done this, i have tried to get there cars running before but never have due to EVERYTHING being soaked from all the water... I quite often pull people out of ditches... I have backed about a mile with a trailer, so a tractor to come through... It was bigger than me, and he was pulling more weight than i was so, in theory loaded vehicle has the right of way, he was more loaded....
I was a volunteer firefighter for several years, but i think thats something totally different.
I have stopped and helped with many wrecks.
My most memorable one was a guy was driving a van with his family in it and had a sezirue going around a corner, he floored it and slammed into the retaing wall the flew across traffic and launched off the concrete barrier between lanes... When all was said and done the van was on its side and some how resting on the guys head.... So me and a bunch of other people lifted the van enough to get it off the guys head and he climbed out... Then he started freaking out about his family and started running back to town, which was about 10 miles away. I just decided that i was gunna go with him, and try to tell him that his family was ok and they were back at the van, well we got about 3 miles away when he came to his senses and sat down in themiddle of the road. I talked to him for about 20 min before we walked back to the van.... Got back to the van and there was news reporters and everything wanting to do a quick interview but i refered them to the police, they wanted to give me a reward or something like that but i declined, i just so happened to be in the right place at the right time, i was on a road trip about 200 miles from home when it happened...
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Don
I like bacon.
95. f250 4X4. "stock" 5.8l mated to a zf 5speed.
37" good years and some fender trimmin.
One thing i am guilty of though, is when punks go out and start driving like jackasses, they wind up in the ditch, yea ill pull them out, for 50 bucks... Wreckers around here will charge atleast that just to leave the shop...
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Don
I like bacon.
95. f250 4X4. "stock" 5.8l mated to a zf 5speed.
37" good years and some fender trimmin.
We were on vacation last month up in Maine, and my daughter and I stopped to help an old lady (found out later from the locals she's known simply as "Dirty Martha") at a run down dairy farm deliver a breech birth calf.
Does that count?
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'06 F-350 5.4 4wd --- '97 Ranger 4.0 4wd --- '03 Escape Limited 4wd Member of the Massachusetts Chapter "Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others." Theodore Roosevelt
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