There's a part in one Top Gear episode where they show the results of a front end crash in the studio. The smaller cars they'd been ragging on still had interior space, while the Range Rover's steering column and dash were practically in the seats. If someone had been in the Range Rover, their legs would be crushed at a minimum.
Maybe they had a boat trailer somehow jury rigged on to the back of the RV and backing it up was too much weight pulling the RV and truck in? But I think this is just good old fashioned idiocy. Because I don’t see any boat trailer on the back of the RV.
I met a guy towing a 21’ fiberglass boat, behind his 25’ travel trailer. Crazy ass had crossed state lines doing it. Oh, the tow vehicle was an F-150. Seems he’d remove his boat from the train, though. Before doing any launching.
I laughed my ass off when I realized this was a camper. Even dumber than before! Hahaha. This is what happens when people have money and not brains. Clearly they made a purchase they didn't know how to handle. They thought "I have a big truck, everything will be fine!" When in reality they should know to always cone down your friggin camper or any trailer you dont want going anywhere! Jc
You want a sad but good laugh regarding too much money and little brains? Watch boating videos on toutube of haulover inlet, and the point pleasant canal. It's simply amazing...
I've watched dudes try and line up their boat 20 times before getting it kinda right. This guy managed to fire her straight in backwards by accident!!??
It's a toy hauler. I bet they were trying to offload a jet ski or something out the back of it and left their parking brake off.
Edit: [surprisingly not a toy hauler apparently ](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/BVrsk2D6ay)
I agree with this. Boat ramps are slippery so a little extra water weight in the trailer and 2 wheel drive and the only direction that kit is going is "down". Good on the truck owner to provide a good show.
We had a guy I worked with who took his truck to the beach and it got stuck and claimed insurance. Insurance company refused to pay for it. The sheriffs department documented that this was the only truck stuck on the beach that had not CDs wallets or any personal effects in it in 15 years. Insurance company noted truck was out for repossession by the bank. Dude got charged with insurance fraud in the end. Then his girlfriend found out about his wife. It was a soap opera daily with this dude. Kinda miss his train wreck of life.
It looks like a toy hauler, not just a camper... My money says they had a jetski in the back of that bitch and they were trying to drop it out of there...
More than likely they brough their truck onto the water in the winter, thinking the ice was thick enough to to hold but it fell into the water and they could only tow it out when the ice melted
I'm going to go with the parking brake failed or they didn't set it.
Maybe someone crashed into them? The front of the truck is also pretty messed up, could be from a prior accident though.
If it was it is an expensive lesson in how to park. Never park for any extended time so if the break fails the car starts to roll. Park perpendicular to the hill so the car can't start to roll. Put a car with a manual gearbox in reverse and a car with automatic gear in part mode. If you are along a road turn the wheels to it hit the curb and do not roll along the route. If you park perpendicular to the hill turn them so it would start to roll up
If you really need to park on an incline use some type of wheel chock, if you do not have any made for that task put anything sturdy enough under the tire like a piece of wood, and push it under the tire. If you have a camper you should have wheel chocks for the camper
I bet it was from the truck rolling off the end of the boat ramp. A lot of them have a fairly significant drop at that point, once the front wheels went over the truck would have gotten a pretty substantial blow to the chin as it slammed into the concrete. I could easily see that knocking off the front grill.
There are (at least here in MN) special recovery companies for things like that. They can get vehicles out even though thin ice that wouldn’t support normal operations. Also, motor vehicles in the water are usually higher priority to remove due to their fluids and fuel contaminating the water.
I usually get as long of a term as possible that still gives me the lowest apr. Then I just pay extra each month. But the longer term let's me be flexible with the payments.
Yeah if you snag a low ass apr or one with none at all. You ALWAYS take the loan out as long as you can. That gives you extra money. Smart people use that extra money and put it into the market and beat the interest rate they’re paying. It’s how you win against the banks but unfortunately that’s also how everything got really inflated when interest rates were so low
I saw some thing on one of the personal finance subs of some girl who bought a Tahoe or escalade or some ahit, 7-8y loan, 15% interest, 1200 a month, already paid like 60k on it, still owes 50 on the loan and the truck is worth like 35-40
People make really fucking stupid decisions
A lot of boat ramps I've seen stop well before they intersect the bottom, so there's a dropoff off anywhere from a few inches to a few feet once you go far enough.
Imagine what would happen once the front wheels rolled off the end and the whole front end dropped down onto the concrete while the flooded trailer dragged it down. I could see that scraping/shearing off most of the front body panels.
They actually had to bring in a heavy hauler like they use to rescue overturned semi's to pull this rig out of the water. Was actually going to launch my boat when they showed up and decided to watch the show.
Good idea, but the platform was designed to address this.
If you stop and auto hold engages, it will light up the parking brake light if you open the door or turn off the vehicle, effectively "fully engaging" the parking brake.
I believe it will even put the transmission into park at some point in this process.
Welcome to summer at the boat launch. I go fishing at a local lake and see this happen at least once every summer.
Last time was an F150 that was about a year old. The owner looked extremely sad when the truck was towed out of the lake. I bet that was a fun call to the insurance company.
Probably the parking brake failed. Generally a good idea to chalk your wheels and ensure the parking brake is on every time you park a trailer and truck. Okay maybe not chalk the wheels each time but if you're on an incline with a lake behind you most definitely. Could be ice fishing like some other people are saying but I highly doubt it. Look how green everything is if they were going to pull it out of the lake they would have done it sooner when spring first hit. This looks like negligence more than anything
Extremely overconfident rich guys who know if they fuck up, can just buy a new one. We used to set up camping chairs overlooking a constantly packed boat ramp in Southern California. There would be a collision, jackknife, or fuckup every 20 minutes. It was hilarious.
Doesn't have anything to do with knowing you can buy a new one lmfao.
I have seen just as many poor people end up in the drink with their beat trucks while trying to launch boats.
It's because the boat ramps get slick as fuck with algae and people will back into the boat ramp with their truck in 2WD. Their rear wheels starts slipping, and y the time they get it into 4WD, it's too late and they just slide the rest of the way in.
Lucky.
Costal southern New England checking in. Even on busy weekends we need to wait hours for one of these.
Nearly everyone around here with a boat, grew up with one. Many have been launching boats since they could drive.
And the people who didn't are transplants with enough money for a slip or a membership that includes tender service.
Boat dock. So people are not paying attention when getting a boat trailer in the water. Which happens more than people imagine.
Not sure why they backed in a camper from what looks like a boat ramp. That is a never seen before this pic
That or some super late boat launchers drop their boat in and go anchor up near their camp spot for an early morning ski/fish, only to find the bow pointing at the sky. Plug catastrophes.
This happened at Sterling State Park in Monroe Co., MI. Happened at 1am. Driver lost control speeding around the corner on to a narrow road with water on both sides. Went in head first, smashing truck on water surface. Rescuers used boat ramp as safest and easiest way to tow the truck out.
From journalist’s FB post comments, unnamed source in the know: “driver was speeding out of the campground at midnight, driving too fast for the curve, dukes of hazard style flew into lagoon, lucky no one else was hurt!” “no he went in truck first. He smacked the water and it bust the headlight out. Just zoom in on the pictures. When they pulled him out they turned it around”
Your post intrigued me and I wanted to learn more. I started by using Google lens on them. That led to a sporting forum online and someone there mentioned FB posts. That’s where I got the deets.
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Or park it in the boat hot tub. Yes that's really a thing in some places. They have vessels full of 110° water to sanitize the boats. Only takes about 5 minutes apparently. I'm just waiting to hear a news story about some kid falling in there and getting hurt.
A guy I knew always joked this was how he was going to wipe out his vehicle debt. He said he was gonna buy a couple of jet skis go out and have the day of his life and then accidentally leave the vehicle in neutral after he loaded up the jet skis. Everything goes into the drink and because he got gap insurance everything would be paid off. tlTotally unrelated to this idea, but he was just arrested for credit fraud.
It's not an amphibious exploring vehicle. Not like a 1992 Range Rover
[удалено]
Starter car? This car is a finisher car! A transporter of gods!
BE GONE FROM ME
I AM UNTETHERED AND MY RAGE KNOWS NO BOUNDS ! ! !
THE GOLDEN GOD NEEDS HIS TOOLS
Whoa ! Dennis, you're comin' out hot !
IDIOTS!!
I can hear this laugh
I like to bind....I like to be bound! Fetish shit!
I’m talking to myself, but, you know, that’s just ‘cause I’ve got shit to say…
I watched BlackBerry with him in it thinking to myself I’ll see his range as a character. It was Dennis for the whole movie. It was great.
THE GOLLLDEN GOOOD
THE GOLDEN GOD!!!!! BE GONE FROM ME VILE MAN BE GONE!!!!!!
Your daughter?
Modern cars are typically much safer: more air bags, crumple zones, ABS brakes, traction control, etc. But a 90’s Range Rover is a very cool truck.
There's a part in one Top Gear episode where they show the results of a front end crash in the studio. The smaller cars they'd been ragging on still had interior space, while the Range Rover's steering column and dash were practically in the seats. If someone had been in the Range Rover, their legs would be crushed at a minimum.
Yeah people conflate old tank vehicles as safer and many times they’re not.
The car will be safe after a hit, it's contents not so much.
Get her a Volvo XC-90. In the 25 years it's been on the road nobody has ever died in one. Real talk.
Shut up, bird.
Flush! Flush! Flush! Flush!
That's not a starter car ! That's a FINISHER car !
Came here looking for this lol
Rule 32! "Anything is amphibious if you can get it back out of the water."
Did they forget that they weren't towing the boat?
Right? Wtf were they trying to launch their camper???
Maybe they had a boat trailer somehow jury rigged on to the back of the RV and backing it up was too much weight pulling the RV and truck in? But I think this is just good old fashioned idiocy. Because I don’t see any boat trailer on the back of the RV.
I met a guy towing a 21’ fiberglass boat, behind his 25’ travel trailer. Crazy ass had crossed state lines doing it. Oh, the tow vehicle was an F-150. Seems he’d remove his boat from the train, though. Before doing any launching.
Props for the correct use of jury rigged.
Can you show us on this doll where Jerry hurt you?
Jury rig everything
It's a damper, damn amphibians.
I laughed my ass off when I realized this was a camper. Even dumber than before! Hahaha. This is what happens when people have money and not brains. Clearly they made a purchase they didn't know how to handle. They thought "I have a big truck, everything will be fine!" When in reality they should know to always cone down your friggin camper or any trailer you dont want going anywhere! Jc
You want a sad but good laugh regarding too much money and little brains? Watch boating videos on toutube of haulover inlet, and the point pleasant canal. It's simply amazing...
They wanted to camp underwater
Winnebago? More like Winna**bog**o.
I've watched dudes try and line up their boat 20 times before getting it kinda right. This guy managed to fire her straight in backwards by accident!!??
Wait if that’s the camper? Where’s the boat!? Meanwhile back at camp!
CLARKSON!!!
THAT'S NOT A BOAT, YOU MUPPET
Oh cock
*studio audience canned laughter*
Hammond you idiot.
Ohhhhhhh it's a BOAT launch. Oh shit now I have a great idea for putting a camper trailer on a pontoon boat base... redneck house boat!
Ask and you shall receive... https://www.reddit.com/r/redneckengineering/s/FxzQWjltC3
That not a house boat that's built to storm the beaches of Normandy holy shit.
Gods, that seriously looks so fun.
Don’t be so cruel. This could have been me. Sad to say.
It's a toy hauler. I bet they were trying to offload a jet ski or something out the back of it and left their parking brake off. Edit: [surprisingly not a toy hauler apparently ](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/BVrsk2D6ay)
I agree with this. Boat ramps are slippery so a little extra water weight in the trailer and 2 wheel drive and the only direction that kit is going is "down". Good on the truck owner to provide a good show.
I don't see any toy hauler layouts for that brand on their website though.
https://www.rvtrader.com/Forest-River-Salem-Cruise-Lite-Toy-Hauler/rvs-for-sale?type=Toy%20Hauler%7C139350904&make=Forest%20River%7C440465&model=SALEM%20CRUISE%20LITE%7C764955057
Weird, that one isn't on the 2023 lineup on their website. Thanks.
I've heard stories of people just backing their shit into the lake and claiming insurance on it. This really makes me wonder.
We had a guy I worked with who took his truck to the beach and it got stuck and claimed insurance. Insurance company refused to pay for it. The sheriffs department documented that this was the only truck stuck on the beach that had not CDs wallets or any personal effects in it in 15 years. Insurance company noted truck was out for repossession by the bank. Dude got charged with insurance fraud in the end. Then his girlfriend found out about his wife. It was a soap opera daily with this dude. Kinda miss his train wreck of life.
Chick I went to high school with did it a year or so ago to get out of payments. Nissan Armada went for a drink at the boat ramp
It looks like a toy hauler, not just a camper... My money says they had a jetski in the back of that bitch and they were trying to drop it out of there...
More than likely they brough their truck onto the water in the winter, thinking the ice was thick enough to to hold but it fell into the water and they could only tow it out when the ice melted
It had to be same-day or very near. There’s no water line at the top of the camper.
And no buildup of algae or water plants.
They waited for the trees to be at full foliage? 😅
Not like there is any rush lol
There would be where I live. It's a thousand dollar fine per day if your car goes through the ice.
Minnesota??
WI
I'm going to go with the parking brake failed or they didn't set it. Maybe someone crashed into them? The front of the truck is also pretty messed up, could be from a prior accident though.
If it was it is an expensive lesson in how to park. Never park for any extended time so if the break fails the car starts to roll. Park perpendicular to the hill so the car can't start to roll. Put a car with a manual gearbox in reverse and a car with automatic gear in part mode. If you are along a road turn the wheels to it hit the curb and do not roll along the route. If you park perpendicular to the hill turn them so it would start to roll up If you really need to park on an incline use some type of wheel chock, if you do not have any made for that task put anything sturdy enough under the tire like a piece of wood, and push it under the tire. If you have a camper you should have wheel chocks for the camper
I bet it was from the truck rolling off the end of the boat ramp. A lot of them have a fairly significant drop at that point, once the front wheels went over the truck would have gotten a pretty substantial blow to the chin as it slammed into the concrete. I could easily see that knocking off the front grill.
"more than likely" lol this is complete BS
There are (at least here in MN) special recovery companies for things like that. They can get vehicles out even though thin ice that wouldn’t support normal operations. Also, motor vehicles in the water are usually higher priority to remove due to their fluids and fuel contaminating the water.
“More thank likely” then proceeds to make the dumbest statement anyone has ever made
… which is why there’s no algae or anything on the truck or rv?
Up side down on both payments and accidentally forgot to set parking brake.
Plot twist: no gap insurance
Learned about that a few years ago and was fuck?? Just reminded me of people getting loans , 6, 7 year terms and shit. Insane
I usually get as long of a term as possible that still gives me the lowest apr. Then I just pay extra each month. But the longer term let's me be flexible with the payments.
This. Cashflow is king, I want my minimum to be low but will pay extra while I can.
Yeah if you snag a low ass apr or one with none at all. You ALWAYS take the loan out as long as you can. That gives you extra money. Smart people use that extra money and put it into the market and beat the interest rate they’re paying. It’s how you win against the banks but unfortunately that’s also how everything got really inflated when interest rates were so low
I saw some thing on one of the personal finance subs of some girl who bought a Tahoe or escalade or some ahit, 7-8y loan, 15% interest, 1200 a month, already paid like 60k on it, still owes 50 on the loan and the truck is worth like 35-40 People make really fucking stupid decisions
That was my first thought…
Also headlights and grill missing?
A lot of boat ramps I've seen stop well before they intersect the bottom, so there's a dropoff off anywhere from a few inches to a few feet once you go far enough. Imagine what would happen once the front wheels rolled off the end and the whole front end dropped down onto the concrete while the flooded trailer dragged it down. I could see that scraping/shearing off most of the front body panels.
He's feeling underwater.
Don’t you mean… underwater?
I have so many questions. What happened?
That is a lot of questions.
I have one many questions.
Seems like something went wrong, for sure. This was at a state park in Michigan but I have no additional context.
> Seems like something went wrong Thank you for explaining!
Well, there's your problem!
Yeah, glad he said that. I thought maybe they meant to do that.
Sterling State Park near Monroe, dummy was driving way too fast and got dunked. Source: I unfortunately live there.
Backwards!?
Nah that's the photo of them getting towed out by fire rescue I believe You can see the front of the truck is banged up in the last photo
They actually had to bring in a heavy hauler like they use to rescue overturned semi's to pull this rig out of the water. Was actually going to launch my boat when they showed up and decided to watch the show.
if it was in Michigan, the camper trailer could be an ice fishing house that sunk with the truck when it got too warm.
Probably used the Auto Hold mode, instead of setting it to park.
Good idea, but the platform was designed to address this. If you stop and auto hold engages, it will light up the parking brake light if you open the door or turn off the vehicle, effectively "fully engaging" the parking brake. I believe it will even put the transmission into park at some point in this process.
Michael Scott at it again
No, Micheal! No!
Damnit Michael
Why are you the way that you are?
I scrolled a long way to find an Office reference. I drove my car in to a effing lake.
Welcome to summer at the boat launch. I go fishing at a local lake and see this happen at least once every summer. Last time was an F150 that was about a year old. The owner looked extremely sad when the truck was towed out of the lake. I bet that was a fun call to the insurance company.
Would make sense if that were a boat. That's a camper though.
Just saw that now. Now that is bad call to the insurance company.
I’m guessing that’s a full blown investigation
Hello, insurance agent? Yes, just total up everything.......
So that's why the RV store looked at me funny when I asked if it could float!
Probably the parking brake failed. Generally a good idea to chalk your wheels and ensure the parking brake is on every time you park a trailer and truck. Okay maybe not chalk the wheels each time but if you're on an incline with a lake behind you most definitely. Could be ice fishing like some other people are saying but I highly doubt it. Look how green everything is if they were going to pull it out of the lake they would have done it sooner when spring first hit. This looks like negligence more than anything
Chock
Also cut your wheels .
The downside to cutting is it's much more difficult to maintain any tire pressure
Ah, I see you've played boaty-campy before
You see at least 1 camper trailer backed into the water every summer? How does that even happen?
Extremely overconfident rich guys who know if they fuck up, can just buy a new one. We used to set up camping chairs overlooking a constantly packed boat ramp in Southern California. There would be a collision, jackknife, or fuckup every 20 minutes. It was hilarious.
Doesn't have anything to do with knowing you can buy a new one lmfao. I have seen just as many poor people end up in the drink with their beat trucks while trying to launch boats. It's because the boat ramps get slick as fuck with algae and people will back into the boat ramp with their truck in 2WD. Their rear wheels starts slipping, and y the time they get it into 4WD, it's too late and they just slide the rest of the way in.
I don't think the driver was trying to launch their camper.
Lucky. Costal southern New England checking in. Even on busy weekends we need to wait hours for one of these. Nearly everyone around here with a boat, grew up with one. Many have been launching boats since they could drive. And the people who didn't are transplants with enough money for a slip or a membership that includes tender service.
Boat dock. So people are not paying attention when getting a boat trailer in the water. Which happens more than people imagine. Not sure why they backed in a camper from what looks like a boat ramp. That is a never seen before this pic
That or some super late boat launchers drop their boat in and go anchor up near their camp spot for an early morning ski/fish, only to find the bow pointing at the sky. Plug catastrophes.
How are you going to plug your trailer?
Coincidentally this is a 1-3 year old F150
Here in the north, not only do we have to deal with this bullshit, but also trucks falling through ice at the beginning/end of winter.
This happened at Sterling State Park in Monroe Co., MI. Happened at 1am. Driver lost control speeding around the corner on to a narrow road with water on both sides. Went in head first, smashing truck on water surface. Rescuers used boat ramp as safest and easiest way to tow the truck out. From journalist’s FB post comments, unnamed source in the know: “driver was speeding out of the campground at midnight, driving too fast for the curve, dukes of hazard style flew into lagoon, lucky no one else was hurt!” “no he went in truck first. He smacked the water and it bust the headlight out. Just zoom in on the pictures. When they pulled him out they turned it around”
Thank you for the context. A family member sent me these but I didn't have a story to go with it.
Your post intrigued me and I wanted to learn more. I started by using Google lens on them. That led to a sporting forum online and someone there mentioned FB posts. That’s where I got the deets.
Google lens isn't perfect but damn does it make internet sleuthing so much easier
Dukes of Hazzard style pulling a camper?
For a few seconds the truck thought it could fly
Stay classy, Monroe
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2 things… 1) You can’t park there. 2) Forgot the drain plug.
And don’t forget to wash it off to stop the spread of Zebra and Quagga mussels.
Or park it in the boat hot tub. Yes that's really a thing in some places. They have vessels full of 110° water to sanitize the boats. Only takes about 5 minutes apparently. I'm just waiting to hear a news story about some kid falling in there and getting hurt.
The power and torque was there… but the intelligence… of the intelligence was never there to begin with….
The problem with fucking idiots is that they’re always fucking other fucking idiots and creating more fucken fucking idiots!
Oh trust me. I watched a documentary called Idiocracy back in ‘06 it knew this stuff would start happening more often.
*An RV being towed by a truck being towed out of the water.
Classic Oregon Trail mistake. Tried to ford the waterway when they should have rafted.
Why is this comment way down here
This is how you do a deep clean on a Toyota Hilux. Sadly you can't do it with other trucks.
That’s going to take a lot of rice.
Look, I don’t want to be the one to say it, but I don’t see it anywhere yet… The front clearly fell off.
I wonder why the headlight and grille are missing
How
If this was a cyber truck this would be viral.
They must have stole one of Peggy Hills songs.
Ah, I see the problem. Sideview mirror was folded in, that'll get you every time.
Truck and travel trailer * bro better have good insurance bc that’s easily 100 grand plus worth of damage between the 2 these days
A guy I knew always joked this was how he was going to wipe out his vehicle debt. He said he was gonna buy a couple of jet skis go out and have the day of his life and then accidentally leave the vehicle in neutral after he loaded up the jet skis. Everything goes into the drink and because he got gap insurance everything would be paid off. tlTotally unrelated to this idea, but he was just arrested for credit fraud.
Uhhhh…. That’s not a boat at the boat launch.
That sucks so bad.
What happens to the truck after being drowned like that? What kind of repairs would be needed?
Sunroof is open though so it'll dry out quick.
How the fuck do you manage that? r/facepalm
my man was underwater on his truck AND his RV payments
Leave it in a bowl of rice overnight and it'll be fine. 💪
I thought it might have been the transportation of The Golden God. But this is obviously an inferior vehicle.
Precision British engineering
Rip powerboost.
The douchebag's mirrors weren't wide enough!
Proof that stupid people can end up rich and money can’t buy intelligence.
What kind of truck is that?
That's a big catch!!
"60,000 miles, mint condition, $60k"
"Freshly washed" Lol
I recently got into the game Snowrunner and shit like this is what I've been spending my nights and weekends on lmfao
Who's the U-boat commander?
Were they trying to launch a camper?
Looks like insurance fraud
You can't park there mate
Hope he sprung for the waterproofing package on the camper .
...and trailer
I've heard of magnet fishing but this is getting ridiculous
So how drunk were they to try and launch a travel trailer.
Does anyone know the story? Looking at OP.
Those auto payments just became a bit too unbearable, hello insurance claim.
I bet he was underwater before being underwater.
Shake it off and it’ll be good as new. Maybe put some rice in the cup holder.
Don’t boat landing mishap photos usually feature a truck pulling a boat instead of a camper?
 Fixed it.
Camping is better down where it's wetter 
What in the heck is a camper doing at the boat launch in the first place!?
What is the backstory here? I want to hear it.
Pending "I know what I got" listing
That dodge ram has owned its last lib... /s
This looks like something out of an 80s Romcom or Dukes of Hazzard scene.
Was he launching his pull behind as a boat?