Pulling Down a Palm Tree

• Sinan Taga
  February 29th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

  Haha, i’ve many stupid people on the internet. But i havr to say that this one is very high on list.

• Thespian24601
  February 29th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

  Wow. What did they think would happen if they pulled a tree at their truck?

• Louise
  February 29th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

  As a mom, all I can say is that I wish there was a website of all these videos of people being stupid. It could be called, “No, Don’t Do That!” Kids could watch it everyday to learn why they shouldn’t do things like play hockey with a burning puck after dousing their hockey gear with lighter fluid. Or skateboard without protective gear. Or hang their bodies out of car windows while attempting to steer with their feet. Or jump off the roof into a pile of ANYTHING. Or try to use their rectum as a bottle-rocket-launcher.

  Or try to pull down a tree that is longer than their truck with said truck.

  It would save parents a lot of lecturing which kids don’t listen to anyway.

• Miss Cellania
  February 29th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

  Louise, Gorilla Mask is full of that sort of thing, but it’s not for children.

• artbot
  February 29th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

  So there was a guy driving the truck, right? WTF? Those losers stand around like nothing happened. Wasn’t the guy crushed?

  Aside from that, this is another good reason to encourage math studies in school, especially geometry.

• Edward
  February 29th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

  “It seemed like a good idea at the time.”

• Tyro
  February 29th, 2008 at 1:01 pm

  What did they think would happen? The tree would hover 20 feet above ground, to be safely dragged away when they felt like it?

• kam00n
  February 29th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

  Come on! Everyone saw that coming from a mile away. What were they expecting would happen?!

• Jason
  February 29th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

  Artbot:

  Right after the tree crushes the truck, you can see the driver exit from the passenger side.

• spittake
  February 29th, 2008 at 2:54 pm

  One word:
  FAIL

• Josh
  February 29th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

  Not only was the truck crushed by the tree, the guy ran into a brick wall.

• grilled
  February 29th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

  Must have been FLA.

• Larry Sheldon
  February 29th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

  I wish I could say “What unique idiots” but I can’t since I have a history that is far worse, trying to lower a tall (100′?) transmitter tower using only a military 6X6 on a windy ridge.

  Good news is it didn’t hit any body or any thing of value.

  100′ an exaggeration? Truth is I have no idea anymore, but there were three or four guy wires at each anchor, and when we hack-sawed up the thing the pieces filled the 6X6.

  And actually, the driver exits the driver’s side door.

  What did I expect to see? Either that, or the broken cable knocking the house down (I assume it wouldn’t have been shown here if the broken cable had beheaded somebody–which is a high likelihood outcome–consider if the cable had broken near the tree. The real idiots are the people standing around, the driver is relatively safe inside the truck.

• R00B0y
  February 29th, 2008 at 5:22 pm

  Dumb as frickin dirt!!! what a load of morons!

• Moshe
  February 29th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

  That’s a palmetto, not a palm tree.

• Sofar
  February 29th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

  Before the palmetto hit the truck, I was thinking, “that can’t be good for the clutch.”

  You know, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a palm tree up close. My travels throughout this grand country have neatly circumvented the areas in which palm trees are common. There are a lot of monkey puzzle trees around here, though.

• andy cochrane
  February 29th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

  thank you for a good laugh! they are really lucky the wire didn’t snap first and take one of the morons standing next to the truck out. and how could they not even flinch or visibly react to a tree falling onto a truck??

• Snappy
  February 29th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

  Man, I was getting so close to another squirrel slingshot reference! Doh!

• Dan
  February 29th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

  It would have cost them about $20 to rent a chainsaw from Home Depot.

  That might have ended up with a funnier video too.

• jenjen
  February 29th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

  That’s just like those Funniest Videos shows. I hate that I love them, but I love them. Everytime they open a shot on a trampoline you just know it’s going to be gold. When will we learn that gravity is NOT our friend.

• NiteWhite
  February 29th, 2008 at 8:29 pm

  Darwin Award goes to…

• ted
  February 29th, 2008 at 8:32 pm

  Gotta be fake. There’s a wall in front of the truck - it wasn’t going anywhere.

• shecky
  February 29th, 2008 at 11:18 pm

  WTF?

• medussa
  March 1st, 2008 at 1:15 pm

  People like this are my job security. I’m a paramedic and as long as people do this kind of stuff, I’ll have a job.

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