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| Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle  |
I get home from work. Wife - "2nd born could not start her car. she needs it fixed." So I start the truck pull it around, get it charging her vehicle. Alternator volts check out, batter at 10.5 volts. Cold has nuked it. It needs replacing and the whole battery well needs to be cleaned. Delivery guy shows up with my new tires. I decide to roll one to the shed instead of carrying . . it rolls down the hill, through the woods, all the way to my neighbors driveway. Damn. I am heading to the store anyway to get a new battery, so I back down my neighbors drive to get the wayward tire . . . and . . . I drive off nearly rolling my truck. He handled it well. but by the time the BeeLine towing got my rear end pulled up enough for me to drive out, every teenager in the neighborhood, three dads with tractors were there to help too. The dumbest thing I have ever done in a truck and the whole neighborhood shows up. I am really grateful that he took it well. What a great guy. So . . . anyone want to buy a 2003 Ford F250?  20241202_172353 by redstone71, on FlickrThis business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | ||
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| If you see me running try to keep up  |
That’s the kind of truck I am looking for. I’d like to pick up a high mileage flatbed. I’ve done plenty of dumb stuff, eventually everyone makes a mistake. At least its still upright. | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr.  |
Yeah, These kinds of things never happen unless everyone is home, the neighbors have just charged their drones, the local TV reporter shows up... | |||
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Truck's okay, you're okay... it's all good. Yeah, you'll take some ribbing for it from the neighbors for a bit, but that's alright. Heck, I clumsily dropped a motorcycle at work one day. Yep, it was at lunchtime on a beautiful summer day, so everybody was outside to see it. "D'oh!"  God bless America. | |||
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| Three Generations of Service  |
Went to an antique motorcycle meet. Free admission for anyone that rode a bike to the show. On the grass. Rode in, backed into a spot between two of the other hundred-odd bikes and proceeded to get off the bike. Didn't trust the side stand in the sod, so I was attempting to hold the bike while dismounting. Bootlace got hung up on something, I lost my balance, bike fell over on my leg. In front of 20 or 30 other riders. Had to have help to get the bike off me so I could stand up. Nobody laughed right then and there, but I suspect there was a fair amount of effort made to suppress snickers... Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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| Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle |
It was kind of funny. My wife said all the moms were texting about how much 'fun' the boys had watching the truck get pulled out. It was definitely a very humbling evening. The two truck driver, "were you kidding about selling it?" "Nope, it is definitely up for sale" He took vid3eo and pics and said he was going to share it at the 'shop' and he might even be interested it. This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | |||
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Prepared for the Worst, Providing the Best |
About 18 years ago I met my new neighbor by doing something similar in my own driveway. It was freezing cold out, fresh snow on the ground, and I was pretty sick. I'd taken NyQuil the night before which always leaves me groggy anyway, and I got a very poor night of sleep. I was trying to back down the driveway to go to work and couldn't see the edge due to the snow. I ended up backing over this giant flower planter that was down at the end of the drive...think like a wooden whiskey barrel cut in half full of frozen dirt. It broke the winch cable for the spare tire and I ended up with the spare wedged between the top of the (now destroyed) planter and the bottom of my truck, with the rear wheels off the ground. It was a RWD truck, so it wasn't going anywhere. I was headed up the driveway to go find a jack when my new neighbor came over and asked if I needed a hand. He pulled me off with his 4x4 Dodge. Thankfully no significant damage...I had to get a new spare tire hoist, and we got rid of the planter which I didn't like anyway. Neighbor still lives next door. He's a good dude. | |||
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This was early 2000's, but as a youth group we were on a mission trip in the mountains of KY. We did VBS for the community kids and would travel around to pick them up and drop them off. Needless to say the one night it was raining and my dad was backing one of the vans up a drive to drop a kid off. He ended up backing off the edge with a van loaded with kids. Everyone bailed out of that thing quick. We ended up waiting at that kids house for awhile before another van could come pick up us and then drop the remainder of the kids off. Thankfully it didn't roll, but was then towed off the edge the following morning. | |||
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Optimistic Cynic |
I guess it just shows that there are two kinds of people: 1) How careless of me for getting in that situation. Thank goodness I had friends to help me out. 2) I should have ponied up for that damn winch. I'll admit the very minute I saw the picture of the truck in the ditch I was asking myself, "Where's his winch?" | |||
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I was driving a rescue F250 diesel on a call out and stopped on an ice covered road with a high crown. Once fully stopped, it slid sideways into a deep ditch to the point where the left side wheels were off the ground about 4 inches. I did not attempt to move it for fear it would roll over onto its side. Everyone else thought it was hilariously funny. + was no damage to the truck! End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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| Green grass and high tides  |
Looks like you maybe could of backed it out by straightening the front wheels out a bit. Why would you want to sell it after a little diddy like this? "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
Needs a backup camera, put on on my F150 and it helps since everyone now walks behind moving vehicles in parking lots, looking for that John Morgan Payday... | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
 הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| Connoisseur of Fine Firearms  |
Vacation Bible School | |||
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| Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle |
the lovely 'Mrs Redstone' was there. "So how come you do not have a winch?" (she had vetoed the winch last year) So I replied, because I married one . . .
Actually the back is where the big dropoff was. Originally it was not so bad, but I put it in 4x4 and started pulling forward and the rear end kicked over and I nearly rolled it. This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | |||
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| In the yahd, not too fah from the cah  |
Having worked commercial auto claims for years I was expecting an asphalt driveway with a rut in the lawn and neighbors expecting damages. Glad to see it wasn't that. | |||
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| The success of a solution usually depends upon your point of view |
I know that it’s your own stupid so that makes it special but, if it helps any, that probably wouldn’t crack my top 5.  “We truly live in a wondrous age of stupid.” - 83v45magna "I think it's important that people understand free speech doesn't mean free from consequences societally or politically or culturally." -Pranjit Kalita, founder and CIO of Birkoa Capital Management | |||
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| Ammoholic |
I hope that you’re not selling because of a minor, no injuries, no damage to vehicle, oops. Doo doo occurs. When it does, I try to do my best to learn from it, not repeat the mistake again, and whenever possible learn from the mistakes of others. I’m pretty sure I’ll never have time to make them all myself.  The other thing I try to do is remember that as much as I might think I’d like to be perfect I am not, so I should give myself a little grace when my imperfects show. Everybody else will rib me plenty, I don’t need to beat myself up for my mistakes. | |||
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| Page late and a dollar short |
I had to backup a Ford E350 ambulance a quarter mile. On a two track flood control levee along the Rio Grande. We were fighting a fire in the bosque and the ambulance was there if one of the crew was injured. I was coming in from the opposite direction and was told to use the two track. All fine and good until there was a tree down across the two track. Radioed for assistance, Chief got on the radio “No assistance available, back it out and don’t roll it!” -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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| half-genius, half-wit |
הפוסטיליון נפגע מברק. | |||
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