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Old Mar 7, 2009 | 11:34 PM
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Stuuuuupid Drivers

These are from an email. The message was something about a driver running over a mattress on the highway. He took his truck in because he noticed a slight 'jerking and wobble'.





 
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Old Mar 8, 2009 | 09:45 AM
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I want to see Mythbusters replicate this one.

It is possible tho, I dunno about a mattress, but my 88 sucked up an extremely long piece of barbed wire, after a good hour of cutting, I finally got it all out.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2009 | 12:09 PM
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I've sucked wire around the diff like that, first hing it does is cut he dang pinion seal out. We get a lot of twine around axles and brakes too. Never anything like that pic though.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2009 | 01:06 PM
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I picked up a very long length of barbed wire many years ago when my wife and I took a "shortcut" home through a field late one night.
Took hours to get it all cut out.
It was very dark and I never even saw the single-strand fence.
But how in the world do you not see a mattress in the road?
He's got a big job ahead of him!
 
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Old Mar 8, 2009 | 02:44 PM
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must have been a chevy guy,how do you not notice a mattress on the road,and how can you not notice a clump of wire wraped around your drive shaft, the guy must have been high,drunk,or just plain stupid
 
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Old Mar 8, 2009 | 05:15 PM
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Just showed the wife the picture.
She said: "that guy is even dumber than you were!"

Thankfully, she used the past tense.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2009 | 05:35 PM
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yours probably wasnt as bad
 
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Old Mar 8, 2009 | 06:19 PM
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That'll be a job that sucks big time.....
 
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Old Mar 8, 2009 | 06:34 PM
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the mechanics look a little shocked in the picture
 
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 09:16 AM
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Never seen it on a pickup but have spent many hours and big trucks with this kind of thing. Working at a landfill brings all sorts of interesting work. If my drivers can feel it at 5 mph in an big truck, surely this guy knew it.
 
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 09:32 AM
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It's amazing what people will run over.
 
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Old Mar 9, 2009 | 11:42 AM
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That would have to be one in a thousand chance that it would happen like that, I guess it wasn't his day.
 
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Old Mar 10, 2009 | 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by ckal704
Just showed the wife the picture.
She said: "that guy is even dumber than you were!"

Thankfully, she used the past tense.
She could have meant you are smarter now but more likely,she was saying you are even dumber now.
 
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