Video of the Week: How Not to Pull Out a Stuck JeepBy Brian Lohnes Posted 04/16/09
With the news that our pals at StreetFire and CarDomain recently joined forces, we realized that we were relying way to heavily on YouTube for our Video of the Week selections. After all, if we’re looking for great car and truck videos it would make sense to go to a place that features them.
Anyway, this week’s selection grabbed our attention for stupidity, wanton destruction, and its sheer wow factor. You’ll be wowed be the ending to this sucker as well. Beware, the language used is salty to say the least. Come to think of it, you may utter a choice word or two when you see what happened to this poor Jeep.
Don’t try this at home!
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Written by tiresmoke!
Apr 17 2009
EGADS!!
x2 on the chain-whip-of-death....unfortunately, I've seen the aftermath, and it ain't pretty, boys...a guy I know damn near lost a leg due to that kind of stupidity.
Tow straps are your friend.
They violated the common-sense approach and pulled in the direction of the "stuck"....tsk, tsk.
Written by Remy-Z
Apr 16 2009
That's a special kind of "special"....Damn.
Written by dagenesta
Apr 16 2009
That looks suspiciously like upstate Pennsylvania. Some of the most obscene things happen on the old coal piles up there.
Must be something in the water...
Written by TheSilverBuick
Apr 16 2009
Haha, now that I'm home I got to watch it ;D All the funnier because I own one that looks just like that :P Now I know what "not" to do.
Written by Huskinhano
Apr 16 2009
I think we'll be reading about him in the Darwin Awards
Written by Brian Lohnes
Apr 16 2009
Wish they showed what they were pulling it with. Sounded like a diesel truck.
Yeah if that chain broke someone was bound to get hurt bigtime. I like the guy in the dirt bike gear sitting on the ground directing traffic.
Classic stuff.
Brian
Written by stoneshrink
Apr 16 2009
nice, the stuck wheel didn't even move. I'm impressed with the guy who's sitting within swing distance of the strap/cable/rope. People seem to think if they break it they won't get hurt; what they forget is that nice steel piece on the end of the rope will knock them silly if it snaps.
Oh well, I think what you see there is the pre-Darwin award winners. I nominate the guy with the camera you see in the picture, and most certainly the guy on the tire who almost fell underneath the jeep on the 2nd to last pull.
Written by NMCA_Ron
Apr 16 2009
I wish I could have seen the footage of when they actually got the Jeep out of the mud. That thing is busted up bad, and they STILL didn't have it pulled out.
Ron
Written by Bamfster
Apr 16 2009
Why is it that people insist on pulling a stuck truck out from the direction they were going????
I love it! Guy with nothing at stake giving directions without really paying attention, then after the damage is done, owner gets out and says: thats not good. Would have loved to him explaining to the wife how he needs to borrrow HER car to get to work ! Let me ad this also, they might as well pull it the direction that they did and tear it up because they would have just drove it back in . that's just they way half of us four wheel mud puppys are !