I was talking to a friend yesterday who still works at that ship diesel
place I was telling you the 'funny' stories about..

He told me another good one yesterday.. and it's something everyone who
uses ratchet straps should remember.

My friend had an '85 Mustang that he built up and then hurricane Isabelle
made a tree fall on it. Well, he finally finished stripping it out
completely last week. They used the forklift and put what was left of the
body on the F-650 that's in this picture:
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2dgdu/piston.html
The intent was to go to the scrapyard. The person who decided to drive
the truck strapped down the junker and then instead of securing the leftover
portion of the strap with duct tape or via some other means, threw the
leftover loosely inside the junk car.

He tools off down the road and gets to a stoplight about halfway there (4
miles from the shop or so).... Everything was fine.. until he pulled off
from the light. He heard a horrible screeching noise like someone drove up
under the back... he kept moving and next thing he knew, the junk car was
yanked off the bed sideways. dumb shit... The ratchet strap leftover had
started to flap in the wind and eventually got wrapped around the
driveshaft. The thing just wound up until finally it had no choice but to
pull the car off the bed. There was a wrecker right there and the guy said
he'd pick it up quickly before the cops got there for $75... fortunately, he
didn't have $75. He got a ticket -- as he should have. This is the same
dude I saw almost flip a forklift because he was hotrodding it.

I was working as a valet on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood in front of a
swanky Hotel...David Bowie and girlfriend were waiting in front for their
limo to take them to lunch or somesuch...a flatbed with a ferrari stopped at
the red light by the hotel...as the light turned green, the flatbed gunned
it...well...he had not chained the sports car down...it fell off of the back
of the flatbed...as the flatbed driver realized what had just happened, he
slammed his brakes...the ferrari had enough momentum to bury itself under
the flatbed...Mr Bowie took pictures and I found the "hide a key" to the
ferrari in the street (still have it somewhere)...this is a true story...if
anyone knows Bowie personaly, maybe they can get him to post the
pictures...it was the funniest sight.



"Celica Dude" <shore (AT) noteven (DOT) com> wrote

""Cass"" wrote

Yeah, sure...Cass...whatever you say!

Ian

"shiden_Kai" <violet-lightening-modified (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

I'll called Davey a few minutes ago (him and I go wwwwwaaaaaayyyyyy back)
and he's gunna bump the pics to me after he's done putting on his makeup.

Doc

lol...The story is true though!


""Doc"" <noway (AT) nope (DOT) com> wrote

"Doc"" <noway (AT) nope (DOT) com> wrote

\LOL Doc, you left yourself wide open on that one.


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hank
2004 Chev Z71