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     R. B. Bailey (Rover50987) Senior Member Username: Rover50987 Post Number: 711 Registered: 07-2002 |
I just saw a story on our local (Portland) news cast about a guy who got stuck in his '96 Disco. The guy was lost on a small island near here, (Sauvie's Island) it is filled with farms and old residential areas - nice place. Anyway, evidently it was dark and rainy, and he got off the main road, then off the road period, and ended up 300+ yards out in the middle of what looked like a grazing pasture on private farmland! Needless to say, if you have ever tried to drive on previously un-tracked grass that has been rained on and snowed on without a let-up for over 2 months... well, you need mud tires and probably lockers or you simply will get stuck. They showed his car in the impound lot, had lots of mud on it, but more importantly, it had cheesy street tires. Then they showed the hole he made in the farmer's feild - about 8 inch deep ruts! I was fankly surpised that he made it out as far as it looked like he did... The AAA isn't paying for it because he was on private property and off a marked road. And the tow company is charging $2500.00 because it took them 5 hours, 2 trucks, and one farmer's tractor to get the guy out! The tow company gave the farmer $1000! and that goes onto the driver's bill. ...Probably didn't even know what that extra little shifter knob was for... | ||
| flyor (Flyor) Member Username: Flyor Post Number: 43 Registered: 05-2003 |
Did they find a pair of Italian Driving gloves in the glove box? The kind with the holes in the knuckles. That is usually an indication of a mooron behind the wheel. Of course, that is my own opinion and not that of my fellow D Webers. | ||
| R. B. Bailey (Rover50987) Senior Member Username: Rover50987 Post Number: 712 Registered: 07-2002 |
No, but he did have a nice looking Miami Vice era, GQ suit on... | ||
| Erik Olson (Jon) Senior Member Username: Jon Post Number: 539 Registered: 02-2002 |
I prefer to see a stuck or swamped Land Rover in a paper to what Ford owners get to see in the press all the time - images of rolled Exploders with a caption about how many people died in the wreck. Regular front page fodder out here in the sticks. Always seems to be an Exploder too. Since that tire debacle, I bet we see those images for quite some time still. e | ||
| R. B. Bailey (Rover50987) Senior Member Username: Rover50987 Post Number: 716 Registered: 07-2002 |
That is true - ever wonder why you can't rent a Ford Explorer at most places? And try to rent a trailer from UHaul while driving a Ford Explorer - can't, they won't carry the insurance, so they won't let you drive one of their crappy trailers with an Explorer!! But that said - you should have seen the story - the guy was stupid, deserved every bit of it, but they even named the car several times, "The Land Rover Discovery..." "The Land Rover..." "...his Discovery then got stuck in the mud..." |
