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How did they think they'd get away with this ?

Do some folk have absolutely NO sense ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-33608816

A driver spotted towing a car with a van strapped to the boot has been stopped by police in Gloucester.

The motorist had removed the front wheels, doors and engine from the van to lighten the load before hoisting it into the rear of a grey hatchback......
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madness , total madness :eek: :eek: :mad:
 
LOL he should have thrown a spare wheel in the boot and claimed it was coupled to a 5th wheel :D
 
camerassassin said:
How did they think they'd get away with this ?

Do some folk have absolutely NO sense ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-33608816



madness , total madness :eek: :eek: :mad:
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He'd probably got the idea from places like India, He's certainly not the first.

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Took me a couple of seconds to realise that it was another car towing BOTH the hatchback and van :eek:
 
I once saw an estate car in a vosa centre with two excavator buckets in the boot. The back end of the car was almost dragging on the ground. Driver had been stopped and escorted to the centre to get his 'load' tested. The two buckets took up the full width of the car but had to sit right at the back because they were too tall and of course the door was wide open.
 
I had to look hard before I spotted that right at the front was one car - towing the other one with the other vehicle just sort of attached by a webbing strap ?

Mind boggling .
 
Yip, India. As above, and a couple with four kids on a motorbike (mum sitting sidesaddle at the back), or a guy with two 15 kg gas cylinders slung on each side of his motorbike...you see the same things in some parts of Africa too. Very resourceful people!
 
I remember when in cape town going from airport to where we were staying - guy driving one of the little buses.. "Sea Point!. Camps Bay" - no steering wheel but a pair of stilsons to turn the wheels.
 
MartynK said:
Yip, India. As above, and a couple with four kids on a motorbike (mum sitting sidesaddle at the back), or a guy with two 15 kg gas cylinders slung on each side of his motorbike...you see the same things in some parts of Africa too. Very resourceful people!
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And totally normal in China too
 
Lynton said:
I remember when in cape town going from airport to where we were staying - guy driving one of the little buses.. "Sea Point!. Camps Bay" - no steering wheel but a pair of stilsons to turn the wheels.
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Yip. They're called 'taxis' but the word has different connotations in SA...

Cobra said:
Now that is scary :D
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Very. Just to set the scene, they're licensed - in the sense that the owner bought a license - to carry 12 passengers. 15 or more is common, and I've heard of + 20. The ultimate story has to be the taxi going from Joburg to Cape Town, which is about 1000 miles, without a break. It was stopped by the police in Laingsburg, which is around 700 miles from Jozi and the driver was found to be drunk, using a spanner in place of the steering wheel, and the vehicle's brake pads had been replaced with cardboard and a very heavy right foot. It was reported in the media at the time...
 
The funniest car related thing I have seen was a piano on the roof rack of a little VW Polo. The car was parked at the time but it wouldn't have taken much speed round a corner to make it fall over.

And that strangest thing I have done is deliver a grand piano with a small Transit van. It went in diagonally but most of it was hanging out the back.


Steve.
 
My work is just down the road from where they stopped him, he was only 200 yards away from the scrap yard. So close, yet so far.
 
I sold an old Astra estate to a scrappy years ago, he got a farmer to lift it onto his pickup with his tractor forks,the pickup was already stacked with old fridges and farm gates,it sat there at a rather jaunty angle as he strapped it on and away he went,30 miles to the nearest scrap yard,I assume he made it.
Another time with a different Astra estate,the bloke towed it behind his pickup with a very short rope with his 15 year old grandson driving it,no brakes as I'd had the calipers off it,I expressed my concern but he set away down the hill from my place,nothing on the local news that night about a tragic motor accident so they must have got away with it as well.
 
crofter said:
I sold an old Astra estate to a scrappy years ago, he got a farmer to lift it onto his pickup with his tractor forks,the pickup was already stacked with old fridges and farm gates,it sat there at a rather jaunty angle as he strapped it on and away he went,30 miles to the nearest scrap yard,I assume he made it.
Another time with a different Astra estate,the bloke towed it behind his pickup with a very short rope with his 15 year old grandson driving it,no brakes as I'd had the calipers off it,I expressed my concern but he set away down the hill from my place,nothing on the local news that night about a tragic motor accident so they must have got away with it as well.
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The moral of the story..........don't keep buying Astra's! :LOL:


;)
 
OldCarlos said:
The moral of the story..........don't keep buying Astra's! :LOL:


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I had quite a few,I never paid more than 300 quid and ran them for a couple of years,reliable cars,cheap motoring,when the newer multipoint fuel injected engines came my way they were nowt but trouble, I run a £400 VW now,happy days.
 
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MartynK said:
Yip. They're called 'taxis' but the word has different connotations in SA...

Very. Just to set the scene, they're licensed - in the sense that the owner bought a license - to carry 12 passengers. 15 or more is common, and I've heard of + 20. The ultimate story has to be the taxi going from Joburg to Cape Town, which is about 1000 miles, without a break. It was stopped by the police in Laingsburg, which is around 700 miles from Jozi and the driver was found to be drunk, using a spanner in place of the steering wheel, and the vehicle's brake pads had been replaced with cardboard and a very heavy right foot. It was reported in the media at the time...
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I shouldn't really larff but .....
 
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