Sep 4, 2022 8:13 AM
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#idiot #fail
RelentlessDevastation
Even if it didn't crush the car, how did he think he would get it back down?
ICannotStressThisEnoughBut
The way the forklift driver just noped out of there was hilarious
FeeltheFX
Everything will be fine. The pallet will hold it.
Drix1942
Things morons are willing to do to save a few bucks on moving services.
honk7
FrankTheCube
Subtilico
everyone.gif
Nalimias
That's literally my car. Guess I know what I'm not trying...
IliveIdyeIliveagain
Should install a H steel bar inside to support first
Evillairforrent
Rollcage built with spare steel from the Empire State building
DeakVanNyke
is this some kind of suicide-booth ?
changeofscenery
We can hope. Wash that shit out the gene pool.
BorkasonBork
Fake. https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/vclqu0/ton_of_sand_vs_car_roof/icfkco2/
egyptian316
I worked in a lumber yard for many years, and believe me there are far stupider people than this guy.
knittaz4life
When the customer says do it this way. Then gets pissed because you listened. Then charge them to do it again. You can put a price on stupid
cbale2000
Or just refuse to do it this way in the first place? To begin with, this looks like it's BEGGING for liability a lawsuit.
HandoB4Javert
Is this a Brexit?
MapleSyrupMafia
Hope they made him sign a waiver before...
Sidewaysgts
Thats a 1 tonne bag of sand.
TheAziz
You guys really underestimate some people's ideas
amismenow
I love that it looks like the same car with two different loads. Tell me this is your car!?
No, but it most likely is the same car, caught few times. Here, by the police.
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
For a job, I tied down a chest freezer onto the roof of a SUV. That car was RUINED! He had the option of paying for deliv. what a fool.
Marine0311
A chest freezer might be big and bulky, but it really doesn't weight that much, even a large one. Standard roof can handle 200 lbs or so.
It was the ratcheting clamps that did all the damage. We really cinched it down tight. The belts wrapped the freezer around the windows
Mr21782Man
What TV show is this from?
LookingForWorkInColorado
Something obviously fake yet almost nobody here picked it up.... Weird....
backrideup9
In my shipping experience, container bags like that are used to carry powdery materials. Whatever that is was never getting out of the lot.
4vie
Ooooor it would have left the lot. Some of it at least. To be recovered with a broom and bucket.
Raeilgunne
bags like that can hold anywhere from 1000 to 3000 pounds of material. that one looks small ish, maybe 1500?
deetatron
YOUR ITEM HAS BEEN DELIVERED! Thank you
cactus512
Oh, my days.
VibratingNipples
I’m surprised the roof didn’t cave in
Storm315
Videos that end too soon...
dobroweigh
*Didn't cave in so far*
yesyoucancancan
Assuming it held, how was he planning on driving anywhere without it falling off?
Fargus57
Silly. He will perform the time-tested ritual of slapping it 3 times and chanting "that's not going anywhere."
thundermoe79
I don’t understand how that forklift operator thinks that is a good idea. I’d tell that guy that I’m not doing it.
sysaphiswaits
“Oh my days.”
Bugguts1957
Even if he got it home, how the hell was he planning to get it off there?
JimboTCB
Assuming that even worked, what was his plan? Just drive all the way home with it balancing on top? Would have come off at the first corner.
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
You mean, how did this totally not fake scenario play out ... ??
carlsagansghost
Just hold it with his arm out the window. The weight would help keep it down.
SunBrolem
I think we can safely say he isn't really capable of planning ahead in any coherent way.
IHaveAPlanIJustNeedMoney
Then get home and take it off the roof how? If he doesn’t have a truck or equipment to put it up there, no way he has it to get it down.
Although I suppose he could have done a sharp turn into the driveway
agonarch
Is it dirt/sand or some kind of aggregate or something? Punch a hole and drive along where you need it! Cartoon engineering!
trickflo
I assume the plan was to tie it down once it was in place
Abi53
What did he put on top of the car?
Steed
Probably gravel
Type17
Looks like a ton (ie: 1,000kg) of sand in a bag. Max load on a typical car like that: 70-75kg.
Ah, thank you sir
invalidated
Okay. I thought the forklift driver was Sacha Baron Cohen and this was a bit from a film. It’s getting hard to differentiate parody…
and reality.
Coltaine
Max roof load for a car like that would normally be around 70 kg. I think that might have been just a little bit more than that.
Sm9yCg
That's usually the permitted load for dynamic loads. But even if his roof could handle that load, inertia would just topple it over.
Well I doubt they were using his car roof as storage..
Obnoxious
Slightly. On the other side, 70kg is dynamic load, static load is much higher otherwise roof tents wouldn't exist.
Well he probably wasn't going to be parked there forever.
Slugsie
The Ford Fiesta van variant has a maximum total load of around 500kg. The hatchback will be lower. That's a 1 ton (1000kg) bag.
Yeah, but you can't put all of it on the roof regardless.
Yes, I know, my point was the maximum total load couldn't even cope with that bag, never mind just the roof.
benc85
Given the accents, this is England. so that bag is a tonne, 850kg. Not that it makes a blind bit of difference to that poor fecking car :)
Mithi
A ton is a ton. And a ton is 1000kg.
Hm.. well i'll be, EH Smith screws me again
JohnThatcher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton
BubblesTheFish
Imagine he gets in the car and starts driving before it finally totally caves in. Dude would be hyper dead.
HairyChairstepper
Seems more likely to be in agony both physically and mentally while waiting for the fork truck and jaws of life to save him.
pritolus
The wheel arches were probably resting on the wheels, that boy ain't going nowhere
stenli
just imagined that and cringed... it would have happened on the first bump/pothole on the road. Yaikes..
faethorferenc
Forklift driver did a good job. And customer is always king (atleast they think they are).
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
The customer is always right in matters of taste. For everything else, there's mastercard.
ChickenLips2000
The customer is almost never right, otherwise they wouldn't need the experts that have actual experience, flt driver was dumb af for this.
swephisto
No. In this situation forklifter should have declined and put it on the ground or a trailer. Point is, no one is happy when their car breaks
ihateimgurffs
I bet he declined, the guy said do it anyway, and they made him sign a waiver.
76000BatteryLlamas
I'm happy I got to watch it
ProphetofEntropy
"sir what is the load rating of your roof rack? im not going to help you break the law with an unsecured load."
PutItInNeutral
Force someone to sign a waiver before you load up a car like this. CYA
It's likely that the forklifters employer will be forced to reimburse the stupid customer
Imnotafuckingrobotimgur
I mean the forklifter/company should have the training to say this is a bad idea and refuse to do it.
DocWino
The fork driver should absolutely have refused.
0570
Why is this likely, if there's proof that the customer demanded this action?
HedonistBeard
Well in the US it's likely because they're assholes to workers. Elsewhere it's likely because he'd have broken a ton of rules doing this.
That video does in no way prove that customer demanded anything.
Have been in similar situations where customer just pleaded ignorance arguing "you should have known better"
batteryforeverlow
Carried a pallet of paver stones in the bed of a 4 cylinder Nissan Frontier once. The whole way home I kept waiting for the springs to pop.
Hey wait, let me contribute my OWN tale of being really really stupid, too.
zHurk777
A Frontier Is A Pickup Truck !!! - ha ha.
ImaginaryMamboNumber5
Did that with paving slabs and an Alfa 156 Sportwagon. The springs and the lovely 2.5l v6 took everything in their stride but it put...
...years of wear on the clutch with only a couple of trips. And it wouldn't be an Alfa if the heating didn't randomly turn up to max too.
About a month ago, I stuffed a '02 MINI Cooper S engine and transmission in the back of my Prius and drove 900 km back home. The rear was>
handling... differently. I probably shortened the life of the shocks tho.
Put a 1 ton bag in the back of my chevy C1500 , leafsprings wern't happy, but she held , had that car for almost 11 years
Closest I've come was splitting a yard of wet sand between the bed of my '12 Colorado and a small flatbed trailer. Was within spec... barely
thorinc
Given that a yard of wet sand weighs around 3000lb and a small flatbed weighs at least 500lb, you likely exceeded both your RGAWR and GCWR.
https://www.carindigo.com/chevrolet/colorado-2012/towing-capacity 1421 lbs payload for the truck. Trailer was rated at 1500 lbs.
Did you have the regular cab 2wd 2.9L? Or bigger cab / bigger motor / 4wd?
It was the 2wd 2.9L work truck with 6ft bed. So, I suppose technically it was a 1440 payload limit, not 1421.
RelentlessDevastation
Even if it didn't crush the car, how did he think he would get it back down?
ICannotStressThisEnoughBut
The way the forklift driver just noped out of there was hilarious
FeeltheFX
Everything will be fine. The pallet will hold it.
Drix1942
Things morons are willing to do to save a few bucks on moving services.
honk7
FrankTheCube
Subtilico
everyone.gif
Nalimias
That's literally my car. Guess I know what I'm not trying...
IliveIdyeIliveagain
Should install a H steel bar inside to support first
Evillairforrent
Rollcage built with spare steel from the Empire State building
DeakVanNyke
is this some kind of suicide-booth ?
changeofscenery
We can hope. Wash that shit out the gene pool.
BorkasonBork
Fake. https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/vclqu0/ton_of_sand_vs_car_roof/icfkco2/
egyptian316
I worked in a lumber yard for many years, and believe me there are far stupider people than this guy.
knittaz4life
When the customer says do it this way. Then gets pissed because you listened. Then charge them to do it again. You can put a price on stupid
cbale2000
Or just refuse to do it this way in the first place? To begin with, this looks like it's BEGGING for liability a lawsuit.
HandoB4Javert
Is this a Brexit?
BorkasonBork
Fake. https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/vclqu0/ton_of_sand_vs_car_roof/icfkco2/
MapleSyrupMafia
Hope they made him sign a waiver before...
Sidewaysgts
Thats a 1 tonne bag of sand.
TheAziz
You guys really underestimate some people's ideas
TheAziz
amismenow
I love that it looks like the same car with two different loads. Tell me this is your car!?
TheAziz
No, but it most likely is the same car, caught few times. Here, by the police.
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
For a job, I tied down a chest freezer onto the roof of a SUV. That car was RUINED! He had the option of paying for deliv. what a fool.
Marine0311
A chest freezer might be big and bulky, but it really doesn't weight that much, even a large one. Standard roof can handle 200 lbs or so.
giveittomestraightlikeapearcidermadefrom100percentpears
It was the ratcheting clamps that did all the damage. We really cinched it down tight. The belts wrapped the freezer around the windows
Mr21782Man
What TV show is this from?
LookingForWorkInColorado
Something obviously fake yet almost nobody here picked it up.... Weird....
backrideup9
In my shipping experience, container bags like that are used to carry powdery materials. Whatever that is was never getting out of the lot.
4vie
Ooooor it would have left the lot. Some of it at least. To be recovered with a broom and bucket.
Raeilgunne
bags like that can hold anywhere from 1000 to 3000 pounds of material. that one looks small ish, maybe 1500?
deetatron
YOUR ITEM HAS BEEN DELIVERED! Thank you
cactus512
Oh, my days.
VibratingNipples
I’m surprised the roof didn’t cave in
Storm315
Videos that end too soon...
dobroweigh
*Didn't cave in so far*
yesyoucancancan
Assuming it held, how was he planning on driving anywhere without it falling off?
Fargus57
Silly. He will perform the time-tested ritual of slapping it 3 times and chanting "that's not going anywhere."
thundermoe79
I don’t understand how that forklift operator thinks that is a good idea. I’d tell that guy that I’m not doing it.
sysaphiswaits
“Oh my days.”
Bugguts1957
Even if he got it home, how the hell was he planning to get it off there?
JimboTCB
Assuming that even worked, what was his plan? Just drive all the way home with it balancing on top? Would have come off at the first corner.
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
You mean, how did this totally not fake scenario play out ... ??
carlsagansghost
Just hold it with his arm out the window. The weight would help keep it down.
SunBrolem
I think we can safely say he isn't really capable of planning ahead in any coherent way.
IHaveAPlanIJustNeedMoney
Then get home and take it off the roof how? If he doesn’t have a truck or equipment to put it up there, no way he has it to get it down.
IHaveAPlanIJustNeedMoney
Although I suppose he could have done a sharp turn into the driveway
agonarch
Is it dirt/sand or some kind of aggregate or something? Punch a hole and drive along where you need it! Cartoon engineering!
trickflo
I assume the plan was to tie it down once it was in place
Abi53
What did he put on top of the car?
Steed
Probably gravel
Type17
Looks like a ton (ie: 1,000kg) of sand in a bag. Max load on a typical car like that: 70-75kg.
Abi53
Ah, thank you sir
invalidated
Okay. I thought the forklift driver was Sacha Baron Cohen and this was a bit from a film. It’s getting hard to differentiate parody…
invalidated
and reality.
Coltaine
Max roof load for a car like that would normally be around 70 kg. I think that might have been just a little bit more than that.
Sm9yCg
That's usually the permitted load for dynamic loads. But even if his roof could handle that load, inertia would just topple it over.
Coltaine
Well I doubt they were using his car roof as storage..
Obnoxious
Slightly. On the other side, 70kg is dynamic load, static load is much higher otherwise roof tents wouldn't exist.
Coltaine
Well he probably wasn't going to be parked there forever.
Slugsie
The Ford Fiesta van variant has a maximum total load of around 500kg. The hatchback will be lower. That's a 1 ton (1000kg) bag.
Coltaine
Yeah, but you can't put all of it on the roof regardless.
Slugsie
Yes, I know, my point was the maximum total load couldn't even cope with that bag, never mind just the roof.
benc85
Given the accents, this is England. so that bag is a tonne, 850kg. Not that it makes a blind bit of difference to that poor fecking car :)
Mithi
A ton is a ton. And a ton is 1000kg.
benc85
Hm.. well i'll be, EH Smith screws me again
JohnThatcher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton
BubblesTheFish
Imagine he gets in the car and starts driving before it finally totally caves in. Dude would be hyper dead.
HairyChairstepper
Seems more likely to be in agony both physically and mentally while waiting for the fork truck and jaws of life to save him.
pritolus
The wheel arches were probably resting on the wheels, that boy ain't going nowhere
stenli
just imagined that and cringed... it would have happened on the first bump/pothole on the road. Yaikes..
faethorferenc
Forklift driver did a good job. And customer is always king (atleast they think they are).
nevergoingtogiveyouupnevergoingtoletyoudown
The customer is always right in matters of taste. For everything else, there's mastercard.
ChickenLips2000
The customer is almost never right, otherwise they wouldn't need the experts that have actual experience, flt driver was dumb af for this.
swephisto
No. In this situation forklifter should have declined and put it on the ground or a trailer. Point is, no one is happy when their car breaks
ihateimgurffs
I bet he declined, the guy said do it anyway, and they made him sign a waiver.
76000BatteryLlamas
I'm happy I got to watch it
ProphetofEntropy
"sir what is the load rating of your roof rack? im not going to help you break the law with an unsecured load."
PutItInNeutral
Force someone to sign a waiver before you load up a car like this. CYA
swephisto
It's likely that the forklifters employer will be forced to reimburse the stupid customer
Imnotafuckingrobotimgur
I mean the forklifter/company should have the training to say this is a bad idea and refuse to do it.
DocWino
The fork driver should absolutely have refused.
0570
Why is this likely, if there's proof that the customer demanded this action?
HedonistBeard
Well in the US it's likely because they're assholes to workers. Elsewhere it's likely because he'd have broken a ton of rules doing this.
swephisto
That video does in no way prove that customer demanded anything.
swephisto
Have been in similar situations where customer just pleaded ignorance arguing "you should have known better"
batteryforeverlow
Carried a pallet of paver stones in the bed of a 4 cylinder Nissan Frontier once. The whole way home I kept waiting for the springs to pop.
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
Hey wait, let me contribute my OWN tale of being really really stupid, too.
zHurk777
A Frontier Is A Pickup Truck !!! - ha ha.
ImaginaryMamboNumber5
Did that with paving slabs and an Alfa 156 Sportwagon. The springs and the lovely 2.5l v6 took everything in their stride but it put...
ImaginaryMamboNumber5
...years of wear on the clutch with only a couple of trips. And it wouldn't be an Alfa if the heating didn't randomly turn up to max too.
MapleSyrupMafia
About a month ago, I stuffed a '02 MINI Cooper S engine and transmission in the back of my Prius and drove 900 km back home. The rear was>
MapleSyrupMafia
handling... differently. I probably shortened the life of the shocks tho.
Evillairforrent
Put a 1 ton bag in the back of my chevy C1500 , leafsprings wern't happy, but she held , had that car for almost 11 years
JohnThatcher
Closest I've come was splitting a yard of wet sand between the bed of my '12 Colorado and a small flatbed trailer. Was within spec... barely
thorinc
Given that a yard of wet sand weighs around 3000lb and a small flatbed weighs at least 500lb, you likely exceeded both your RGAWR and GCWR.
JohnThatcher
https://www.carindigo.com/chevrolet/colorado-2012/towing-capacity 1421 lbs payload for the truck. Trailer was rated at 1500 lbs.
thorinc
Did you have the regular cab 2wd 2.9L? Or bigger cab / bigger motor / 4wd?
JohnThatcher
It was the 2wd 2.9L work truck with 6ft bed. So, I suppose technically it was a 1440 payload limit, not 1421.