Man I wish those people had a security camera. Would have been hilarious to watch that unfold.

The story narrator says it was a truck that hit the stump. How do they know it was a truck?

Stumpy still stands

Didn't we have a member here that had a problem with people running over his trash cans? I seem to recall he put a VW engine block in it one night which seemed to put a stop to the problem after it was hit.

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
The story narrator says it was a truck that hit the stump. How do they know it was a truck?

Look at the impression in whats left of the snow on the stump. It was a truck

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Originally posted by gearhounds:

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
The story narrator says it was a truck that hit the stump. How do they know it was a truck?

Look at the impression in whats left of the snow on the stump. It was a truck

Or an SUV, or even maybe a jeep? It's just interesting that he said truck, but didn't mention an eyewitness.



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What goes around, comes around,
Eye for an Eye,
A Truck for a Trunk?

Redneck Haiku?

my favorite was the guy who kept getting his mailboxes run over

so he built one using a steel i-beam wrapped to look like wood

Too bad they didn't leave a front plate behind.

Too bad they didn’t go after it a lot faster. Appears like they drove up to it and attempted to push it over.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
Didn't we have a member here that had a problem with people running over his trash cans? I seem to recall he put a VW engine block in it one night which seemed to put a stop to the problem after it was hit.

My BIL had an idiot that would drive down the street hitting garbage cans. He filled a brand new garbage can with blocks of concrete. Early the next morning he heard “Bang,” “Bang”, then “Crash!”

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Originally posted by TigerDore:

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Originally posted by gearhounds:

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
The story narrator says it was a truck that hit the stump. How do they know it was a truck?

Look at the impression in whats left of the snow on the stump. It was a truck

Or an SUV, or even maybe a jeep? It's just interesting that he said truck, but didn't mention an eyewitness.

Technically, those examples you gave are trucks.

I couldn't help but smile at that story.

Time and time again I'm reminded that trees (and tree stumps) don't like to move.

What are the chances the guy hitting Frosty or a passenger filmed the hit?

Hahaha, when I was a kid, a guy used to race down our street. One day, my dad got home from work early and put a concrete block in a trash can, and waited for said asshole to roar down the street....

Threw the trash ca out it in front of the guy, who hit it and wrecked into a single tree in the neighbors yard.

I’m not saying my dad beat that guy until the cops showed up,but the cop did ask if anyone had seen the wreck and my dad said he came out afterward and was trying to help...

karma.

I used to work in Sausalito, CA, in which some areas can be partially inundated with rainwater and high tide saltwater. A friend was once walking through a marina parking lot which was known to have some deep pockets of water.

A guy in a mini truck drove by, hitting a large puddle in a deliberate attempt to splash water on my friend. When it happened my friend heard a loud clang as solid water was sucked into the engine intake, causing hydraulic lock. What happens is that the pistons try to compress water, which does not compress. Something must give, and usually it is bent connecting rods, broken pistons, and sometimes the engine block cracks as well. Karma got the mini truck driver, and he had no one to blame but himself.

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Too bad they didn't leave a front plate behind.

Kentucky doesn’t use front license plates.

Had a very similar story in our neighborhood when I was kid (1970’s). The kids built a snowman on top of a fire hydrant and some yutes thought it cool to jump the curb and plow it down. The car was impaled on the hydrant gushing water all over the car.

University of Minnesota, late 1960's, Minneapolis used thick rubber tubes painted yellow and black and implanted in the roadway to show where a turn lane was. Worked well if the snow hadn't been plowed yet as they stood high enough for traffic to see. They also worked well if you wanted to wake up an entire dorm full of sleeping students at 3AM, just run over them with a car or truck and they made a glorious "Thumpthumpthumpthump."

The students got pissed at the near-nightly interruptions, so in the dead of a Minnesota winter, they filled the tubes with water, which freezes pretty quick and pretty hard at -25 or -30 degrees.

I guess it was just one guy doing it every night, because the next morning they found his wrecked car and were never bothered again.