How did this still drive.

[George-Roper]

A driver in usa ran over a mattress on the highway, and decided not to worry -- and kept on driving...

It caught on the undercarriage of their Ford...

The ensuing jumble finally whipped around enough to tear a hole in the fuel tank and Still Managed to drive 30 More Miles With A 60-Pound Tangle of Stuff Wrapped Around the prop Shaft before stopping. It was towed to the Ford Dealership and this is what they found.

[lovejoy]

Amazing !! I imagine that is a Ford F150 or 250 pickup truck, looking at the RWD components ?

there's gotta be a funny punchline to this, by someone....

[trigger]

Those crazy Yanks!

[Micrashed]

That last photo reminds me of some of the rather strange pr0n mags one of my uncles had in the 70's with everyones eyes blacked out, but nothing else....

[autofive]

typical american muppet

 

say no more

[Paul Dupart]

"See you in the spring!'

 

.......I'll get me coat..

[Albert Ross]

Maybe he was bedding in the transmission.....

[shedvan]

That is dedication to the cause man, to steam over a mattress and have that cocoon develop on the prop-shaft over many miles, cause serious damage to the car and still plough on with the IRON WILL to hope for the best. Impressive.

 

(Possible meth user imo)

[John F]

typical american muppet

 

say no more

 

+1

[Jim Bell]

What really mattress, is that nobeddy was hurt.

[Cheggers]

The only thing that kept it running was divan intervention

[messerschmitt owner]

I once drove over a mattress on I-84 in a hire car - seems to me that mattresses on the road are a common American hazard!

[vulgalour]

Too many have commented for me to make a four poster pun, what a shame. Are you guys sure that the truck isn't actually a Bedford?

[ayrshirelad]

We got a notice posted up a wee while ago in work. Apperently one of my collegues in Fife didnt see a mattress lying in the road in fornt of him, so he drove over it in his trident double decker. Said mattress got stuck under the bus, caught fire and resultant damage wrote of the bus. In the pics attache to said notice the bus was a real mess. Note to self avoid mattresses or anything else lying in the road!

[PhilA]

...yeah

 

There was a mattress in the fast lane of the Luling bridge last night, and about 200 yards up the street some guy with his car on the shoulder and the string* that was holding it draped behind with the remains of the plastic sheet tangled around it...

 

Fairly common hazard. Wife's seen a full 3-person leather couch in the fast lane of the Interstate before

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I would love to drive into a sofa at 70mph or whatever, has anybody tried that? Obv it needs to be a wanky DFS one made of card, panel pins and 5mm hardboard not a 1960’s parker Knoll effort with a steel frame.

[vulgalour]

The sort of thing that when you hit it goes PLOOMFF! and disintigrates into a cloud of fluff and horrible fabric? That would be awesome.

[chaseracer]

The sort of thing that when you hit it goes PLOOMFF! and disintigrates into a cloud of fluff and horrible fabric? That would be awesome.

Replace fluff & fabric with feathers, and that's very close to describing my experience of hitting a large bird with a Citroen XM...

[fordperv]

this could spark an autoshite standard crash testing mmmmmm alsorts of stuff could be tried ranging from pikea flat pack furniture to b&q garden sheds, i can see it now on ebay listings " this montego is a 4* euro shitecap teted vehicle, buy in confidence that your family will be protected in the event of collision with an mdf bedside cabinet fly tipped by local tramps"

[ruffgeezer]

The sort of thing that when you hit it goes PLOOMFF! and disintigrates into a cloud of fluff and horrible fabric? That would be awesome.

Replace fluff & fabric with feathers, and that's very close to describing my experience of hitting a large bird with a Citroen XM...

 

That is how I'd describe the time I accidentally wiped out a pheasant, it was like the SAS had carried out a controlled explosion on a feather pillow.

[brickwall]

That last photo reminds me of some of the rather strange pr0n mags one of my uncles had in the 70's with everyones eyes blacked out, but nothing else....

 

 

I thought the same thing.

[autofive]

an mdf bedside cabinet fly tipped by local tramps"

 

you must live in a really posh area, if even the tramps have furniture

[dollywobbler]

The only thing that kept it running was divan intervention

 

That made me laugh in a frankly embarrassing manner. Thanks!

[Albert Ross]

I think it's time we put this thread to bed.

[Jim Bell]

I think it's time we put this thread to bed.

 

Not yet.

Lets at least sleep on it.

[Albert Ross]

You trying to get some pillow talk eh?

[Jim Bell]

You trying to get some pillow talk eh?

 

You fancy a bunk-up like?

[Des]

Where would you start with removing that mess? Cutting disc or a big bolt croppers maybe, but imagine then finding a smelly tramp that was asleep on the thing all wrapped up inside, I think I'd gas axe both ends of the prop and kick the whole sorry mess back into the road.

 

I once rammed a washing machine with a works Mitsubishi van at 40, it was a bad idea, later I shunted one of those Crown Stacker electric forklift things quite a way across a carpark and into some bushes, then parked up to have my lunch, watched angry guy wandering around looking for his stacker, eventually retrieve it and stomp off roaring expletives to seek out the guy who held the second set of keys.