Submitted by: Victor Sales via Submit a Kludge!
Favorite Comment: Fixer Chris says, “This has organ donor written all over it.”
-
-
Copy & paste this:
« Previous Colorful Cooling Solution | The Mirror Dimension Has Breached The Hull! Next »
A New Line In The Towing Industry
» 67 Kludgers Kludging
Leave a Reply
-
Jury Riggers Unite!
John on How It’s Made: Wooden La… Sarge on How It’s Made: Wooden La… Tom on How It’s Made: Wooden La… eurocrap on Moving Priorites Sandflyer on Hungarian Heating Triklops on Softcover Collectors Pay No… Juro Maia on How It’s Made: Wooden La… Juro Maia on How It’s Made: Wooden La… Vaelin on Spin Spin Spin Spin Spin… Will on Softcover Collectors Pay No…
Object in mirror is more stupid than it appears. Or maybe Spidermans costume is still at the cleaners, and his Spideyscooter would not start.
Damn! Beat me to the spideyscooter reference!
Too bad Spidey’s senses didn’t start tingling BEFORE the car sideswiped him…
Stupid is an understatement. If this guy thinks emergency braking situations only happen in somebody else’s life, well that’s exactly what it is:”somebody else” is driving the tow-car in front.
Back in my dirt bike days, we often had to tow a big bore to get it to start. We quickly learned not to securely tie the bike, as it presented an unhooking problem. Best practice is to loop it around something near the center of the bars and pinch the end between the grip and your hand. That way when you wanted / needed loose, you just let the end go.
I’ve heard this tip somewhere before and each time i think “I must remember that”…. all the same my death will probably come trying to bump-start a bike this way and forgetting the handheld rope thing.
Wouldn’t work for the scooter of course – the automatic transmission is designed to freewheel. So it’s not what they’re after doing here, unless they’ve badly misunderstood, and have been running for a mile so far with the rider shouting “keep going! it’ll catch eventually!”. Which explains the lack of all the usual gear – they only meant to pull it up to the top of the driveway, originally.
Dr Emmet Brown, the early years. “Now all I need is for my assistant in the car to tow me up to 88 mph!”
No, no! You’ve got it all wrong – the car isn’t towing the scooter. That’s a Toyota, and the scooter is trying to stop the car!
Not sure I’ve seen any Toyota vehicles that look like that.
I prefer to use an Army tank to pull my Toyota to a stop, using bungee cords, then jerk the car backwards, over the top of the tank, in a reverse-slingshot action. That way, the insurance company declares the car totaled, I get a bigger check, and I can then use it to pay cash on a Smart Car.
No? Looks a bit like an Avensis to me, or maybe how the next Prius will be styled.
Then again it could be a Chrysler or something, not too good with the american iron.
It’s a Ford Fusion. 2008 or 2009 model, before they changed the tail lights to the second most hideous tail lights installed in the last 30 years. (The worst tail lights in the last 30 years belonging to the US version 1988 Ford Mustang GT.)
If the driver hits the brakes these will be the worst. Brain splatter corrodes plastic.
Correct! The car is actually empty, and is itself being towed – the scooter has been roped behind it to provide braking.
ohhh… and that makes it … better??
The Sedan is my tow-truck, I shall not want.
It leadeth me toward my safe apartment,
It pulleth me beside the darkened strip malls,
Yea, though I roll through the San Fernando Valley of death, I fear no evil.
Still, this little psalm has made me realize how much I don’t want my obituary to someday read, “died in front of a strip mall.”
Nah, yours probably will read “died in front of a stripper.”
This setup appears to be working because the situation is ideal. I just imagine the car slamming on the brakes to avoid a little old lady with a bag of groceries crossing the street. The car stops in time, the scooter slams into the back of the car, the guy flies over top of the car and tackles the little old lady. Her groceries spill onto the ground, and there are horrified looks from other nearby pedestrians.
Clearly this has already happened, based on the broken taillight.
broken, or just oversaturating the ccd because of the slow shutter speed? look at the signs in the background, are they also broken? hmm.
…just like GalacticCowboy’s spirit is now. hmm.
Don’t underestimate little old ladies. The horrified looks from the crowd continue as she gets up, dusts herself off, and kicks this guy in the teeth. Then she rips a parking meter from the sidewalk, and starts in on the car with it. That’s how the taillight gets broken.
The last 3 have all been Darwin Award candidates. Airbag injected Nokia phone, Ice-pop condensation induced electro-therapy, and this guy, no helmet, t-shirt and jeans, pulling behind a car on a scooter.
These aren’t kludges, they’re suicide attempts.
I was thinking much the same thing…… maybe if the rope was somewhat longer, with one of those little warning flags halfway up. He’d at least have a decent chance of evading or braking then, instead of flying 100ft through the air and dying in a bloodied, facially unrecognisable heap.
Certainly if I had to do something like this to rescue my own bike, after some prankster had stolen the key, helmet, gloves etc (and I’d broken the steering lock, of course), I’d not want to be going fast enough to get all that motion blur. About the same speed as what’s possible with a pedal cycle on level ground would be enough… we’d still get home.
With the hand-held quick-release rope in case the car driver decided to go all Goonies on us, too, instead of what appears to be several lengths of washing line attached between the wing mirrors and the front forks.
“These aren’t kludges, they’re suicide attempts.” Total Win!
I think that should become a tag for photos on this site. Or some kind of contest.
They should probably just put it up on the masthead:
THERE I FIXED IT
Epic Kludges + Jury Rigs
Not just kludges, but cries for help.
good thing he’s not hooked up to a toyota.
Scooter break-downs suck, and sometimes you just don’t have access to a pick-up truck.
Or a trunk mounted bike rack.
In this case, access to a working brain was also conspicuously absent
I’ve done this when I was about 14. Car slows down rope hooks handlebar down you go Dad drags you on gravel road about a quarter mile. Feels great
A quarter mile? Dude, he wasn’t trying to take you back home. Plus, why did you continue to hang on? This smells of industrial-strength stupidity.
Looks like one of the tail lights is broken perhaps by a previous towing incident. So maybe someone thinks stopping quick while towing a scooter is just good fun. “Watch Jim’s expression when he impacts the rear widow it’s hilarious!”
I’ve actually done this! I did have the quick release recommended. If you’re out in the middle of “tween El Paso and Van Horn, you’ll do it to get into town for repairs.
No helmet: check
No liscence: check
Dewy bike: check
No insurance: check
No brains: check
Owes child support: check
Dawin Award: Priceless
No spell check: check
Sorry: check
Errors in connection between keyboard and chair: check!
No connectivity problems, only a checkered past.
Spider man, spider man, does a couple things a spider can but not really that many.
Wait a minute. You said you’d tow me for $50, no strings attached.
This poor guy is obviously at the end of his rope.
I think his towing plan is starting to come unraveled.
Clearly recorded for all posterity, the fates of man and machine were closely intertwined.
Just think of the verbal lashing he will get if he survives.
You’re right. He should just sever all his ties to this plan before it’s too late.
He should have never allowed himself to be roped- in to such a scheme.
that’s gotta be worth one E-Cookie, right there.
Thar she blows!!! With this many lines, the elusive Tiburon won’t get away this time!!!
We just past Hooters….
Next stop: Emergency Room!!!
It was the Oysters, wasn’t it. I know, I know…
Rider needs a Kludge helmet (safety first).
I like the FSU license plate!
Spider Cycle: GO!
This has organ donor written all over it
Corneas? check
Kidneys? check
Liver? check
Lungs? a little car exhaust, but still in good shape, so check
Heart? check
Brain? “Sorry, Doctor, the patient came in without one.”
Unfortunately, organs have to be in good condition to transplant, and I don’t think any of them would meet that requirement.
The strings really concern me. If I was insane enough to ever do something like this, I’d at least use a decent half-inch rope.
The all new car-a-pult will instantly fly you to you’re desired destination!
All you have to do is have a friend in the car Break the speed limit, and hit the brakes!
results may vary, we are not responsible for injury.
Oh dood, that is not going to end well.
At least that green bit of tarp will help keep the seat clean when he loses control of his bowels.
2 hours earlier this guy was daydreaming of the “Wells Fargo” days and how it would felt like to sit on the stagecoach managing some wild horsepowers.
With the super hero industry down Spider man must diversify.
That looks like a Terminator on a budget.
whole new meaning to the phrase..’rope a dope’
Just don’t let him drive with sissaudieors
The best part of this joker’s costume is his polo shirt and shades.
seems that even spiderman is having trouble paying for gas these days
Fear the relentless attack of my silly string arsenal!!!