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Old Sat 08 March 2008, 00:02
Gerald D
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Cape Town
South Africa
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.
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Old Sat 08 March 2008, 06:09
Marc Shlaes
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Cleveland, OH
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Unbelieveable! What did he think was going to happen? With all those additional people around, no one said: "Wait one second here!"
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Old Sat 08 March 2008, 07:18
Greg J
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Hagerman, New Mexico
United States of America
Thank You Gerald,

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

I'm afraid people all over the world are like that.
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Old Sat 08 March 2008, 07:38
Marc Shlaes
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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.
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Old Sat 08 March 2008, 09:26
normand blais
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montreal
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here these stunts are call jackass ,here at least
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Old Sat 08 March 2008, 09:37
Bill McGuire
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Weiser, Idaho
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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....
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Old Sat 08 March 2008, 14:54
Gerald D
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Cape Town
South Africa
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.
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Old Sat 08 March 2008, 19:10
Greg J
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Hagerman, New Mexico
United States of America
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.
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Old Sat 08 March 2008, 23:08
Gerald D
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Cape Town
South Africa
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!
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Old Sun 09 March 2008, 07:56
Art
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Lancaster,Texas
United States of America
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.
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Old Sun 09 March 2008, 09:00
Marc Shlaes
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Cleveland, OH
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You can bring a few here. I have about 80cm of snow.
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Old Sun 09 March 2008, 15:21
domino11
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Cornwall, Ontario
Canada
Marc,
We just got 50 or more centimeters of snow yesterday and today as well.

Heath
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Old Mon 10 March 2008, 23:40
Gerald D
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Cape Town
South Africa
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"
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Old Wed 16 April 2008, 13:50
ekdenton
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Alamogordo, NM
United States of America
I don't know the story on this one, it came in an email. I hope noone was inside the car.
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Old Wed 16 April 2008, 15:41
Robert M
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Lac-Brome, Qc
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I’d call this an extreme case of a « tree hugger » !!
Ya, hoping none were injured ?
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