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Darwin Award - Car Mechanic Edition

post yer fav-o-rite pics !!

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You see that all of the time in Astan..Middle east...that's the proper technique.
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Old 08-12-2019, 06:47 PM
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All you could ever imagine, and then much more:

https://imgur.com/r/justrolledintotheshop/

(Zillions of photos by mostly pro auto techs and what they see everyday.)
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Fair warning... This would have to be one of the worst videos on YouTube!

The guy closest to the camera died and the second guy had very serious injuries.

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All you could ever imagine, and then much more:

https://imgur.com/r/justrolledintotheshop/

(Zillions of photos by mostly pro auto techs and what they see everyday.)
From the link...

Really?

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Really?

Just in the last year, I had one come in with a space saver spare on like that .
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I had one come in like that also
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Just scrolling through my facebook pics, here are a few that I saved for one reason or another .





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Fair warning... This would have to be one of the worst videos on YouTube!

The guy closest to the camera died and the second guy had very serious injuries.

WTH

Forget the f**kin' car !
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From the link...

Really?

What are we looking at here?
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WTH

Forget the f**kin' car !
I know the guy was in bad shape, but then the others were dragging him around too roughly.

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What are we looking at here?
Lug nuts are backwards.
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FWIW, Darwin’s studies had exactly nothing to do with people doing stupid things. Ironically, continuing the habit of using his name in this way on the internet contributes to the general dumbing down of society.
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I know the guy was in bad shape, but then the others were dragging him around too roughly.



Lug nuts are backwards.
The guy in the POS fake Rolls video got killed in at least 5 different ways. And he did die from momentary bad judgment but nothing to do w Darwin.

The reason I missed the lug nuts on backwards is because it’s such a minor thing in the realm of mechanical stupidity. I was looking for something bigger.
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WTH

Forget the f**kin' car !
He did.

Poor guy.
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Many, many years ago, I worked at a retail parts store and a guy came in with "brand new" pads that had been installed backwards, probably similar to the pic below (but both were backwards). His pad that had been facing the piston had a round cookie cutter type cut through the braking material.

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What are we looking at here?
Don’t ever change a wheel.

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