South Africa's bright people . . . . . .
 

There is a video on this webpage:

http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Video/0,...281235,00.html

The repeated words of the guy at the end are: Ek het dit nie verwag nie - I did not expect that.

Unbelieveable! What did he think was going to happen? With all those additional people around, no one said: "Wait one second here!"

Thank You Gerald,

I haven't laughed that good and hard in a while. :D

I'm afraid people all over the world are like that.

Agreed. People like that are everywhere! In the US, we try to keep them in one place so we can keep an eye on them. We have a name for it. We call it Congress. :p:mad::(:eek:

here these stunts are call jackass ,here at least

Funny...
Kinda reminds me of the hunter in Colorado who shot a mule tail deer off a cliff. He, unfortunately, was standing at the bottom of the cliff when it fell... directly on top of him. Neither survived....

Those spectators actually stood further and further back - they sensed something was going to happen. But the real laughing moment was to see he had his "bakkie" (pickup) wedged behind a wall before he even started.

Ah geeez, my wife and I watched the video again. I'm still in tears from laughing.

You would think when the cable cut loose, that would have been a "wake up call". Thank goodness no one was hurt.

Another crazy thing is that those palm trees are in big demand by property developers. A professional tree removal company (example) would have paid them to remove their tree for them!

Not the dumbest
 

See http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007.html
the Darwin awards are dedicated to those that improve the gene pool by removing their genes from the pool.

You can bring a few here. I have about 80cm of snow.

Marc,
We just got 50 or more centimeters of snow yesterday and today as well. :(

Heath

They found the people involved:

http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afr...284263,00.html

The driver is on the right.

The gist of the story is that he was trying to do his brother-in-law (left in pic) a favour by removing the problem tree that had outgrown the garden. The tree was shedding leaves and had attracted many bird's nests.

"I was completely wrong in what I thought of the palm tree's porous wood"

I don't know the story on this one, it came in an email. I hope noone was inside the car.

I’d call this an extreme case of a « tree hugger » !!;)
Ya, hoping none were injured ?