Something is missing from this picture.

[bivenator]

Whats missing?
The guy laying on top securing the load as is done during the OSHA approved method of refrigerator moving.
Saw this today on I-10 moving at about 70. The still picture doesn't do justice to the precarious stacking.
I got in front ASAP.

[sc_rufctr]

Some people are just plain stupid and that photo proves it.

All it is is laziness... Like he gives a "rats" for any body that may be following him.

[asterix031]

I had a railway sleeper fall off the back of another vehicle, and bounce menacingly towards me whilst driving at 100 km/h. Creates a bit of an unexpectant fright. When I caught up to them the driver and passenger simply laughed at us and drove on.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by asterix031

I had a railway sleeper fall off the back of another vehicle, and bounce menacingly towards me whilst driving at 100 km/h. Creates a bit of an unexpectant fright. When I caught up to them the driver and passenger simply laughed at us and drove on.

Cheers...

It's like their embarrassed by the whole thing. And the cops are out bustin people for being 5km over the speed limit.

[oldE]

Those concrete blocks made a shiver go up my spine.

Years ago, when I had the 924S, I was mid-way through a well-known winding country road, lining up the car ahead for the passing stretch around the next bend. Coming out of the bend, we met an old pick-up with a wooden body and 'stuff' on the back. I was already in a lower gear and accelerating to pass and was up to the car's rear wheel when I realized there was a concrete block in the middle of the lane I was in. I had time to nail the brakes, tuck in behind the car then overtake him as planned.

After I was by, wondering where the block had come from, I recalled the POS truck with the stuff on the back and the frost-heaved section of road and wondered if he had lost that block just before he met us. He wouldn't have driven over it and I knew I would have lost oil sump and Lord knows what else had I collected it.

Watch out for these guys!

Les

[GH85Carrera]

It amazing to me how many mattresses & box springs I see all wadded up on the side of the road. It is the worst near the last & first of the month. It is almost like some folks are just dumping an old mattress to get rid of it.

[red-beard]

I-10 & Barker-Cypress, going West?

[bivenator]

I think I had just passed BW 8, but you know your westside well.

[URY914]

I was behind this a few years ago.

[Tobra]

Saw one this morning that made me wish I had a camera. To say the load was precarious would be generous. Old Chevy truck with the load probably 4 feet higher than the top of cab, various things sticking out past the tailgate, secured with a nylon rope no thicker than a pencil, sort of wound through some of the stuff, I guess he really only cared about his hand truck on top of the load. At least he had his hazard flashers blinking...

[kaisen]

I hit a spare tire/wheel that had fallen out of the bed of a pickup with no tailgate. It heavily damaged two other cars, the last punting it my way but thankfully sliding on its side, not rolling or bouncing. I straddled it the best I could so it wouldn't tear my wheel off, but it caught my subframe as I killed the motor and coasted onto the shoulder to a stop. Broken radiator, broken oil pan, broken motor mount, bent subframe. Over $2000 in damage and it would have been much worse if I wouldn't have shut it down before stopping. This on a brand new car with 300 miles on it.

Some people are stupid, lazy, ignorant morons. They can win their own Darwin award, just don't risk others.

[vash]

i am not without sin. i had a ratchet strap fail and it allowed my truck to spit the mattress out of the bed. now i put the boxspring ontop and spiderman the load down with everything i own. that walk/jog of shame to retrieve the bed was brutal. honking, middle fingers..brutal.

i have moved alot of stuff, and this was my first mishap. in general, people were cool..someone drops a mattress in front of me, i am going over it.

[azasadny]

I don't see what could possibly go wrong...

[sammyg2]

When i was about 18 I was cruising down the freeway in my mustang II with the T-tops off, and in front of me was a work truck with one of those square tube cage things on the bed and on top of the rack he had a bunch of 2x12s about 12 feet long. Looked like scaffold boards.

One of em caught air and i saw the front of it raise up, and like in slow motion it flew up in the air towards me. I slammed on the brakes and it hit hard on one end right in front of my car and flipped over and landed behind me. Coulda used some depends that day.

[Hugh R]

Antelope Valley Freeway heading south a stake bed with lots of semi-truck tires WAY overloaded, one comes off and bounced right in front of me, I'm stuck between two cars one either lane beside me. I think this is it. The tire bounced on the pavement, went right over my car and hit the windshield of the car behind me. She crashed, lots of us stopped, the pickup kept going. She was cut up but OK, got taken away by the paramedics. Don't imagine they ever caught the POS.

[red-beard]

[bell]

just curious.....what if he had 2x4's sticking vertically through the blocks? that would make it a bit more safe.......

[Hads930]

That's the Technip building, and my exit! Don't worry I'm sure he had insurance.

[porsche4life]

Idiot.... Of course I can't talk... we have lost ladders........ At the end of a long day you tend to space out. Thats a costly/scary mistake. Luckily no injuries, just minor vehicle damage.



I had a genius buddy that drove around for close to a month with his ATV in the back of his shortbed p/up with a tool box. The ATV's rear wheels were on the open tailgate and there was only one(crappy) strap holding the thing in. I pointed this out to him, so he added another strap in the front. Only this one was apply force in the backwards direction. If the back strap broke this one would have LAUNCHED the ATV out.....

That was one of the many things that made me realize I no longer needed him as a friend...

[kaisen]

Was his name Chumlee??