Inventive ways to tow a car

Friday, 14 August 2020

Sometimes there just isn’t a tow truck around when you need it. Then you have to get inventive like the people in these videos did.

Two videos recently popped up on our favourite place to laugh at stupid people doing dumb things in cars – Reddit’s r/IdiotsInCars subreddit – both highlighting two very different approaches to towing a car.

The first was posted by user u/Alph_x and shows a truck towing a car along a multi-lane highway… on its roof.

To be fair, that one probably didn’t start out as an attempt at towing the car, but was rather an attempt to move a car on the back of the flatbed truck that went catastrophically wrong.

Although quite how the driver didn’t actually notice what was going on and stop remains something of a mystery.

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However, one commenter suggested a possible reason for the roof drag: “You clearly don’t understand just how expensive tyres are… have to preserve them!”

The second video, posted by u/mr_rosh, shows quite a different approach to moving a stranded car. This one has a bit of a lead in, but stick with it because the payoff is worth it.

It looks like just an ordinary day at a busy intersection when a chap casually strolls into frame at around the twelve-second mark pulling what appears to be a pallet jack in place of the car’s right front wheel.

I mean, it’s quite ingenious, right? As one commenter quite rightly asked “If it's stupid but it works, is it really stupid?”

We just hope there’s no downhill sections between there and where he is headed though.