This last weekend we were heading down to Louisiana to visit relatives , family all packed in, roof rack loaded down with luggage , 120 gal of fuel in the bed tank, ready to roll. Heading down interstate 30 and there's some kind of accident or breakdown on the shoulder with the police there and this total dip**** in this little compact car in the lane next to me pulls over into the left lanein front of me, fine, then he locks up his friggen brakes so he can rubberneck at whatever is going on. 
I've got near 8000 lbs of steel about to turn this jackasses kids into hamburger at 45-50 mph ( we're talking a little tiny white compact car with a trunk only about a foot long, My engine would have wound up in their front seat ). 6" shy of contact with noplace left to go, I turned it off into the median and it was wild ride time. Nailed a few good size saplings and was airborne a few times but got it back up on the road clean. naturally the jerk took off ( I sure hope the cops got his plates that's illegal in this state, there was a semi behind me and he wound up halfway jacknifed)
Stopped down the road for a damage check and unbelievably , the only damage I could find was a chunk of paint out of the bumper where I nailed one of the trees and a bunch of weeds hung up in the undercarrage.
We were amazed and thoroughly relieved . My wife was getting together with her sister to play a show for the first time in 19 years, if we had had to cancel it would have been a disaster, but the old gal pulled through for us, and I'm not at all set up for offroading, this is a highway queen, the thing sits pretty darn low. When I installed my brownie, I never invisioned that kind of operation...skid plates are in the planning stages even though there were no signs of contact on this round.
I just hope someday that jerks kids run across this so they realize that someone else cares more about them than their father does.
I've got near 8000 lbs of steel about to turn this jackasses kids into hamburger at 45-50 mph ( we're talking a little tiny white compact car with a trunk only about a foot long, My engine would have wound up in their front seat ). 6" shy of contact with noplace left to go, I turned it off into the median and it was wild ride time. Nailed a few good size saplings and was airborne a few times but got it back up on the road clean. naturally the jerk took off ( I sure hope the cops got his plates that's illegal in this state, there was a semi behind me and he wound up halfway jacknifed)
Stopped down the road for a damage check and unbelievably , the only damage I could find was a chunk of paint out of the bumper where I nailed one of the trees and a bunch of weeds hung up in the undercarrage.
We were amazed and thoroughly relieved . My wife was getting together with her sister to play a show for the first time in 19 years, if we had had to cancel it would have been a disaster, but the old gal pulled through for us, and I'm not at all set up for offroading, this is a highway queen, the thing sits pretty darn low. When I installed my brownie, I never invisioned that kind of operation...skid plates are in the planning stages even though there were no signs of contact on this round.
I just hope someday that jerks kids run across this so they realize that someone else cares more about them than their father does.
So I hammer it and get to work safely... Looked under the truck at work about 30 minutes later thinking maybe this really didn't happen like I thought.... Found plenty of smashed iceplant everywhere... That stuff turns into slipperly wattery goo. No traction. Ask Towcat about some of his recoveries here. You can only walk on it once before it breaks up. The next trip and your probably on your but in the mess.....
