Truckbed Cargo Fail

[EvilEmpryss]

Witnessed this one on my way to school. This guy has a washing machine in the back of his pickup truck. No big deal so far. BUT instead of tieing it down to one of the myriad of hooks or holes in the truck bed meant for just such a purpose, he had it tied to to bumper over the tailgate. I saw this setup just as I pulled up next to him at a stoplight on an inclined road.

Anyone want to predict what happened when he pulled away from the light a little too fast?

Yup. The washing machine shifted back, the tailgate gave way, and the washer tumbled backwards to the ground!

Glad I wasn't the car directly behind him!

[Aethian]

Ohhhh that's a good way to get huge fines and tickets.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Since it was tied to the bumper, he could tow it the rest of the way home. Did he notice the mishap?

[EvilEmpryss]

He did notice, but I can't say if it was the machine crashing to the ground or the next car back blowing his horn at him that gave him the clue.

Maybe I shouldn't have said "tumbled" to the ground. When the tailgate went down, the washer went over with it and the ropes loosened, allowing the machine to slip out of them. It landed on the top edge of its back and then slammed down, so if he's lucky there's a chance the machine isn't totally FUBARed. I seriously doubt it, though.

Tow it home...

[blas]

The very morning I went to pick up my new car and was bringing it back into town (I had my dad with me riding shotgun), we got behind this.....really special person who had an enormous bail of hay in the bed of his pickup truck, and it was not secured in any way.

I stayed way the heck back. Way the heck back. Needless to say, not many turns later, the bail of hay bounced and went weeeeeeeee into the ditch.

[wheeitsme]

He's lucky no one was hurt. A guy was killed around here on the freeway a while back by an unsecured stove. An idiot stole a stove, didn't secure it, and didn't stop when it fell out.

A couple drivers clipped the stove, others swerved to miss it. When the deputy sheriff on his way to work swerved to miss it he was slammed into by a cement truck.

Somebody followed the idiot and got enough info to identify him.

Idiot got 26 years to life for first degree murder.

[wolfie]

The very morning I went to pick up my new car and was bringing it back into town (I had my dad with me riding shotgun), we got behind this.....really special person who had an enormous bail of hay in the bed of his pickup truck, and it was not secured in any way.

I stayed way the heck back. Way the heck back. Needless to say, not many turns later, the bail of hay bounced and went weeeeeeeee into the ditch.

Hay, lumber/plywood, and furniture (especially mattresses) are 3 things I HATE - mainly because they're the 3 bulky commodities most likely to be transported by amateurs who've never heard about cargo securement.

[blas]

We got really lucky that it was windy that day and the hay went into the ditch.

The idiot in the pickemuptruck pulled over and actually looked confused as to why this happened.

[Andara Bledin]

My favorite unsecured load actually came from a secured source.

Someone was hauling several video game consoles in the back of a stakebed truck, and it appears that one of them had a loose face plate, so that the glass got ripped out of the frame due to draft and went flying up behind the truck.

It sailed up, sparkling in the air, then came down on a corner, where the entire thing just shattered. It was like it turned to water when it hit the asphalt. It was actually rather pretty to watch, and I'm glad there were no cars anywhere around that particular stretch of freeway at that moment.

^-.-^

[AccountingDrone]

Chickens.

Yup. Chickens.

We were driving south along the eastern shore headed home to Norfolk from visiting my mom and dad in western NY and avoiding the Balt-Wash-Richmond corridor.

Look, a dead chicken by the side of the road. Sucks for the people to lose a layer, I guess.

Hey, another dead chicken.

Another one. And another one. Look a couple more. And there is another one.

Perdue Factory.

Looks like a cage broke, and the truck started dropping chickens for about 10 miles

[Ironclad Alibi]

Chickens.
...
Looks like a cage broke, and the truck started dropping chickens for about 10 miles

That reminds of the song Wolf Creek Pass.

And then there are those 30,000 pounds of bananas (true story).

[AccountingDrone]

That reminds of the song Wolf Creek Pass.

And then there are those 30,000 pounds of bananas (true story).

LOL those are great, I added them to my favorites =)

And I have actually been in that area of Scranton before. I never knew of the banana incident.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Not a truckbed cargo fail, but something else once.

My friend Sean and I were on our way up to Philly to go to a wrestling show, and Sean at the time was aspiring to be a pro wrestler himself. He and I were discussing various gimmicks he could try out, and I'm driving behind this vehicle towing a small wooden trailer of some kind.

I could see the trailer had some kind of lid that was not fastened down pretty securely. I hung back a little further, while Sean discusses a gimmick he had in mind-- "Atrocities over Time" involving dressing up in various "evil" uniforms etc. (Nazi, Columbine), while I'm telling him "That's a really bad idea..."

Then the lid on that trailer ahead of us snaps back in the draft, breaks loose, and lands on the road. I swerve around it, and get out from behind the truck and its trailer.

Sean's response was to look skyward and say, "Okay, God, I get it, bad idea, forget it!"

[Shalom]

That reminds of the song Wolf Creek Pass..

I have to point out, having driven that particular stretch of US 160, that he took a little poetic license there; if you're going from Wiggins to Pagosa Springs, the tunnel's on the uphill side. Also the clearance is 15'6", so he ought to have fit, unless he got under the roof supports at the shoulder.

(Also it's actually a snowshed, not a tunnel. They have dug an actual tunnel in 2005, but it wasn't there in '75 when that song came out.)