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So my friend put his car in a ditch..

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HoneyBadger
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After school we were messin around in the gravel lot behind the school

He comes around the bend and goes right into a ditch with his honda civic.

FWD drifting is a bad idea..

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Efforts to get it out with a truck


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Final damage.. massive dent and crack in the bumper.. flat tire.. probably other problems that we havent found yet. How does he explain to his parents?
Oct 26 2011 4:56PM
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arandomname
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Your friend's an idiot.
Oct 26 2011 5:00PM
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PopsicleStand
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tell his parents to stop spending money on prep school and send him to skip barber
Oct 26 2011 5:02PM
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Dhane
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*parent's car in a ditch
Oct 26 2011 5:05PM
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KrazyistKarl
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for one, you guys don't know how to pull out vehicles worth shit.
Oct 26 2011 5:08PM
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Piste.Off
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I think the pictures should do.
Oct 26 2011 5:09PM
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H8CH
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Is that Justin Bieber....?
Oct 26 2011 5:10PM
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Blurst
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He should tell them that he killed someone. That way when they find out about this they wont care as much.
Oct 26 2011 5:11PM
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HoneyBadger
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we had rope. we tied it to a toe hook. what more could you want?
Oct 26 2011 5:11PM
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howlongcanausern
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fucking city folk....

not pull it STRAIGHT OUT. I would have lined the truck up towards the camera, so it pulled out at an angle where the hill wasn't so steep.
Oct 26 2011 5:13PM
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CatDaddy
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Watched it happen. /claim
Oct 26 2011 5:14PM
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skithesprings
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perhaps not pulling it directly over the sharp angle that you high centered it on. that was pretty fucking stupid.


Oct 26 2011 5:15PM
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arandomname
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Or anything about physics/how things work for that matter.  I can tell just by the picture that it would never work.
Oct 26 2011 5:16PM
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robtheslobonacob
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this makes me miss highschool
Oct 26 2011 5:17PM
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HoneyBadger
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i mean we got it out so whatever:D
Oct 26 2011 5:18PM
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CatDaddy
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We tried, the hill was steep everywhere and his car was too low for it not to bottom out.
Oct 26 2011 5:18PM
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KrazyistKarl
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boom nailed it. Or using a tiny ass rope that easily could have snapped and whipped someone bad
Oct 26 2011 5:19PM
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Caucasian_Asian
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There is no lie that your friend can tell his folks that they won't smell a mile away.

He was being a dumbass, and trying to show off, and he got burned.
Oct 26 2011 5:20PM
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PopsicleStand
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did you leave the tranny on the side of the road?
Oct 26 2011 5:20PM
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HoneyBadger
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apparently you dont see the large concrete structure that the car struck. pulling the car into the concrete would not have worked? and judging by what happened we were too worried about anything else happeneing to the car. more worred about getting out before staff at our school found out..
Oct 26 2011 5:20PM
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HoneyBadger
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we got it out? laws of physics? inb4 teacher?
Oct 26 2011 5:21PM
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KrazyistKarl
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you are still not getting what we are saying, you should have pulled it out at an angle opposite the camera man in the first picture, rather then straight over the sharp angle that easily could have done a lot more damage to the underside of the car
Oct 26 2011 5:26PM
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mehregan15
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same. cute halloween costumes by the way!

oh wait... ;)
Oct 26 2011 5:27PM
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HoneyBadger
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Oct 26 2011 5:27PM
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Brenone
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Nice work captain.
Oct 26 2011 5:28PM
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KrazyistKarl
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you get the fuck out op, you don't know shit
Oct 26 2011 5:29PM
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CatDaddy
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Definitely would have been a lot better and easier. but by the time we realized it was already fucked and stuck on the edge of the hill
Oct 26 2011 5:30PM
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HoneyBadger
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honey badger dont give a shit
Oct 26 2011 5:31PM
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KrazyistKarl
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at least YOU learned something from this, OP is being stubborn
Oct 26 2011 5:31PM
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HoneyBadger
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i learned that drifting in front wheel drive ends poorly
Oct 26 2011 5:33PM
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northeast
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^Skip Barber will teach you how to drive. He's also a really nice guy, my mom worked at Limerock for a while.
Oct 26 2011 5:33PM
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Caucasian_Asian
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Only when you don't know what you're doing.


Oct 26 2011 5:53PM
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POW-WOW
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I've heard it takes a crane to get it out.
Oct 26 2011 6:06PM
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Bro.J.
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Tell him to
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If you do stupid shit you face the consequences.
Oct 26 2011 6:16PM
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SkiThe603
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No an idiot can get it in and out of the ditch. His friend is a fucking retard for driving a fucking civic into a ditch.
Oct 26 2011 6:19PM
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KravtZ
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hahaha yo i got the same exact car in black when i first started driving i tried to drift around this dirt road bad idea similar out come but i didnt crash like 6 inches from a tree hah
Oct 26 2011 6:19PM
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chicken
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haha what a hackjob recovery operation too. No hate intended I have personally done much worse.
Oct 26 2011 6:21PM
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JIBpsy^^
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Just tell your parents you some some black drug dealers smoking pot and you were running away so you didnt get brain damage. They saw you and threw rocks at you so you freaked out and lost control.
Oct 26 2011 6:22PM
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theabortionator
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That's the most exciting thing you've ever seen?



He lightly rolled onto the grass and kind of got stuck on the side of a ditch.


Tell him to crash it better next time
Oct 26 2011 6:27PM
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HoneyBadger
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6100 pound snap minimum. How much does a car weigh? Gtfo
Oct 26 2011 6:27PM
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Bro.J.
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That is extremely dangerous. That car is probably 3500 lbs. General rule of thumb for snatch straps are 2X the weight of what you are pulling. You have to factor in length and inclines also. That rope could have broken and sliced someone in half.
Oct 26 2011 6:30PM
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no_steeze
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a small compact car is generally around 2500 lbs, therefore the 6100 lb test line would be more than double and perfectly suitable for that situation. still not something to fuck with though
Oct 26 2011 6:34PM
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HoneyBadger
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Yeah but it's already done so whatever. I posted this cause I thought it was funny. Didn't think it would provoke critics judging how we pulled it out using resources we already had.
Oct 26 2011 6:38PM
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B-runge
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lol at a bunch of prep kids driving into a ditch
Oct 26 2011 6:41PM
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adamlukowski
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FWD and drift don't belong in the same sentence
Oct 26 2011 6:45PM
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KrazyistKarl
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that's still the snapping point, safe working range will be much lower then that. and that doesn't factor in the extra forces of shock when you pull the vehicle out. Iv done many recoverys, my strap is rated for 30000lbs. I was once hung up on a rut with my front skid plate and rear diff at 3 in the morning in water. me and my buddy managed to get it out by doubling straps length wise so his 2 wheel drive jimmy which is a lot smaller then my truck could jerk me out inch by inch by taking up 2-3 feet of slack in the strap. You STILL don't know shit
Oct 26 2011 6:47PM
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HoneyBadger
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Does it look like I want to be a professional at getting cars out of ditching. What part of WE USED WHAT WE HAD don't you understand?
Oct 26 2011 6:59PM
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Bro.J.
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No it looks like a bunch of preps who don't know shit about anything car related.
Oct 26 2011 7:10PM
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no_steeze
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umm it's the internet?
Oct 26 2011 7:19PM
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KrazyistKarl
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no no I completely understand, why take the time to get proper equipment to do it safely when you can use what you have and risk further damage to the vehicle and persons
Oct 26 2011 7:21PM
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theabortionator
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When's the rumble
Oct 26 2011 7:21PM
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