This weeks darwin Award goes to...

[jasonu]

These cunts.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11738746

[Madness]

Second place must go to the reporter who wrote "Nissan Pajero", shirley?

[Jeff Sichoe]

you need to die to be eligible for the Darwin award...

[Tazz]

Not uncommon and the tide isn't fast enough to be a real 'Darwin' threat :bleh:

Now rivers on the other hand.....:sweatdrop

[TheDemonLord]

you need to die to be eligible for the Darwin award...

I think this would qualify as an Honorable Mention.

[EJK]

Stupid is as stupid does.

But that Nissan Pajero... :facepalm:

[ellipsis]

...half of the 4WDs in the country are shopping baskets...a quarter of them belong to drivers who shouldn't have one and the rest are dinged and beaten, farm or shooting or crazed mud and horrible terrain vehicles...statistically this is common occurrence that happened on a no news, slow news day...

...quite some time back, my mate and I were having a well earned jug at a pub on top of a hill...someone walked into the pub and asked for assistance...the publican asked me and friend if we could go and see what the dilemma was, before we had another jug...three 4WDs could not get up a stock track...we had just come up the same track...we towed them around the 'impossible corner', and drove back up the track to the pub in our HQ Station Wagon and awaited the intrepid off roaders to come and fill our jugs...

[awa355]

Used to be a number of 4 x 4's getting stuck in the days when noobs didn't realize you had to lock the front hubs by hand, before venturing off road.

[Laava]

If you own a 4wd though, you need to get it stuck at least once otherwise there was no point buying it in the first place. My Bighorn I got stuck the same day I bought it, then the Hilux a week in but I had an xt400 on the back to add some towing power. That was just a huge rooster tail of muck all over the front of the cab and was completely bogged in a ditch with one wheel off the ground. Third 4wd I had stuck on a dead flat peat paddock, so greasy the only way out was low ratio, diff lock on and plow straight ahead until we hit some thicker grass. Goddamn hikurangi swamp!

[R650R]

Been following this guys channel for ages, he tows heaps of morons off beaches and has some knarly tricks up his sleeve at times :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU5HWkW6y-I

[Akzle]

Not uncommon and the tide isn't fast enough to be a real 'Darwin' threat :bleh:

Now rivers on the other hand.....:sweatdrop

hahahahaha. zat chu got the impromptu swimming lesson in the waimak :D

[Akzle]

Second place must go to the reporter who wrote "Nissan Pajero", shirley?

mighty mitsi wins the day :first:


(though I have a sneaky suspicion it was actually a nissen pootroll)

[JimO]

i would have thought it would go to the guy who rode his R1 into the side of a car

[george formby]

hahahahaha. zat chu got the impromptu swimming lesson in the waimak :D

Kaching, first, well, second thing that sprang to mind for me, too. Saved by jet boat.... Has a nice ring to it.

[george formby]

If you own a 4wd though, you need to get it stuck at least once otherwise there was no point buying it in the first place. My Bighorn I got stuck the same day I bought it, then the Hilux a week in but I had an xt400 on the back to add some towing power. That was just a huge rooster tail of muck all over the front of the cab and was completely bogged in a ditch with one wheel off the ground. Third 4wd I had stuck on a dead flat peat paddock, so greasy the only way out was low ratio, diff lock on and plow straight ahead until we hit some thicker grass. Goddamn hikurangi swamp!

I agree. I have limited 4x4 experience but a lot of experience with 2wd in snow. Which is useless oop here. I've managed to get all my 4x4's stuck in sand dunes, bellied is my preferred method of stopping.

Off with the running boards and in with a chain and shovel. I've since found out a tow strop and sack work well as a poor mans winch.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mHyHlLTlP4A" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[Moi]

I agree. I have limited 4x4 experience but a lot of experience with 2wd in snow. Which is useless oop here...

I think you need more than 2wd...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6acPX_00M9Q

[george formby]

I think you need more than 2wd...


Long ago I was off on a ski trip and we got snow bound in the rental van on the Drummochter pass in Scotland, with a host of other vehicles. The powers that be sent a rescue train into the pass the next afternoon with a plough on the front. The double blade was nearly as high as the top of the train. We could hear it punching through snow drifts a long time before it reached us. Boom, reverse, boom, rinse and repeat. An unbelievable sight seeing that train come into view firing snow 15 mtrs into the air.
The vehicles stayed buried for two weeks........


2wd is fine if the snow is not too deep. Fiat Pandas can do amazing things in reverse.. If you do get stuck it's easy to jump out and spin it around 180o.

As for the muppets in the op. D'oh. Technology still cannot trump stupidity.

[Tazz]

hahahahaha. zat chu got the impromptu swimming lesson in the waimak :D

Yeah sadly I am not immune to the occasional bit of stupidity either :facepalm:

Life is fun!

[george formby]

Yeah sadly I am not immune to the occasional bit of stupidity either :facepalm:

Life is fun!

Indeed. I've only ever drowned bikes but came very close to drowning my van in a flash flood a couple of years ago. It got bellied on some uplifted tar seal leaving me to ponder how far the water would rise up the doors. A bit bum puckering truth be told.

[F5 Dave]

Fucking stupid things. The get stuck and grind deep grooves up dirt tracks making it a drag for dirtbikes which don't cause that damage and its uncomfortable and wastes time. A pox on them.

And quads.

[R650R]

Don't know if anyone saw the news footage but all looked like 4wok reel Wrivers.....

Anyway I think this guy tried to out do them.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3898492/Hair-raising-moment-motorbike-narrowly-avoids-smashing-car-rider-failed-stop-crossroads.html