DON'T do road rage with a crane shovel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RKP5637]

[Renew Deal]

1. lol

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Too funny!

I'd love to know what's the story behind it all.

[RKP5637]

3. Yep, same here. Maybe it was a standing dispute or something ... n/t

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Why were those guys beating up the shovel driver?

Just road rage? Seems like an extreme reaction.

I feel lke I'm missing something here.

[RKP5637]

10. Yeah, same here. Looks more like a standing argument over the road or something. n/t

[tblue37]

31. Maybe it's staged. Looks that way to me. nt

[2naSalit]

5. Oh...

the times I wished I could have done that with the shovel!

[colorado_ufo]

6. Stupid is as stupid does.

What a terrible waste. That car was nicer than anything my father ever owned. He was a World War II vet who worked so hard all his life.

Or it could have been sold or donated to a worthy organization.

People with tempers that bad are dangerous.

[NNadir]

8. Agreed. n/t

[MrModerate]

20. Cranes don't kill cars; people kill cars, using cranes. n/t

[colorado_ufo]

21. R.I.P. A.U.T.O

[shanny]

7. How convenient to have someone sitting there with a camera

recording the entire incident...from even before anything remarkable occurred.

[Ptah]

9. Probably a crossing guard.

[IronLionZion]

13. Either that escalated quickly

or we didn't see what happened before the video started.

There are many crazy videos from Russia. People go at it with baseball bats if they feel insulted.

[kag]

14. Yup. Very convenient!

[Lucky Luciano]

16. Everyone in Russia puts cameras in their cars...

...because otherwise you will be screwed over in the event of an accident when the other person lies like tr@&p. That is also why tge big meteor was filmed a few years ago in Siberia- people have cameras in their cars!



...it does seem like a joke though.

[shanny]

19. I know that. But this guy was just sitting there, apparrently,

at the perfect distance. He also seemed to be holding the camera (i.e. not the usual dash cam), since the perspective changed when he got out and then back in. Also his presence/action was enough to distract the two guys, which was just long enough for the other guy to wreck their car.

Also, the assailants' reaction to the destruction of their car was...hmmm...cartoonish, a cliche.

Sorry. Looks and feels staged to me.

[Lucky Luciano]

22. ...I did say it seemed like a joke.... nt

[shanny]

27. sorry, I missed that...mea culpa

[rurallib]

25. that was apparently Russia. Seems all Russians have vehicle cameras

because of the Wild West type driving over there.

go to you tube and look up Russian driving videos - and be prepared to take a wild ride.

[shanny]

26. I know; I've seen them. This one looks fake to me--that's all.

Too clear, too well-framed, too theatrical etc (see post #19).

It's not a big deal, in fact it's hilarious, and something I've longed to do on occasion...despite never having operated anything like that. Just looks like some guys trying to be famous.

[rurallib]

28. misunderstood - Lordy that was funny

oh how many times I wish...........

[Downtown Hound]

12. Feel good video of the day right here. LOL.

[Nitram]

15. My money says it was staged.

No one got beat up, the green car was purchased at a junkyard for $50. The videographer "happened" to be in exactly the right place and "happened" to start videotaping before the "dispute" even started. Still, it's hilarious.

[Quixote1818]

17. Agree

[RKP5637]

18. Yeah, that's what I've been thinking too. As you say, "Still, it's hilarious."

[PufPuf23]

23. That is not a crane, it is an excavator.

Excavator https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=excavator&FORM=HDRSC2

Crane https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=crane&FORM=HDRSC2

Rubber tired forked log loader https://shopcaterpillar.com/1-50-988k-w-millyard-arrangement.html

Backs in the 1970s I lived in a remote town where telephone was from a microwave repeater on the mountain that beaned to a satellite dish affair that fed a land line system of at most 300 accounts. The main local economic activity was logging and associated work.

One night someone stole a rubber tired forked log loader from a logging job on the mountain and drove it 20 or so miles into the small village where the telephone dish receiver was on top a small building that had the guts of the technology to distribute the calls to the land lines. The telephone system was assaulted with the log loader. The log loader was then driven about 1/2 mile away and parked in a friend's driveway with the engine running, abandoned.

The friend had his sleep disturbed and finally got up to see what was all the racket. By the time he dressed and went outside, authorities had arrived and he was immediately arrested. It took some time to convince the law enforcement he was not the culprit. The culprit was never identified. The phone company rebuilt the phone system with a cinder block building surrounded by cyclone fence topped by razor wire.

Edit to add

Here are images of crane shovels, note the difference:

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=crane%20shovel&qs=n&form=QBIR&sp=-1&pq=crane%20shovel&sc=3-12&sk=&cvid=4BC3E580295A4B2AA571F353B003D79B

[RKP5637]

24. Thanks very much for the clarification and links!!! The name I had just didn't seem right, yep,

exactly, an excavator. That's an interesting story about what happened. I can't imagine anyone doing that, but must have had their reasons! That would be a shocker, wake up and find that and the cops in your driveway. Thanks again!

[PufPuf23]

29. I must admit I found the distruction amusing at the time and all these

years later still find the event amusing and not all that malicious (but it would be interesting to know the motive).

Humans do weird stuff.

[tblue37]

30. Funny--but probably staged. nt