Clueless Tow Truck Driver Ruins Wrangler
Awesome Jeep had seen better days prior to this bumbling tow truck driver, and now it’ll likely be crushed instead of crushing Moab.
We all fear the worst when we put our Wranglers in other people’s care. Are our beloved Jeeps going to be in the good hands of Dennis Haysbert, or will Ryan O’Reilly unleash his mayhem all over our hard work?
Alas, for this awesome Wrangler that could have been so much more, mayhem played his hand. The Daily Mail says a bumbling tow truck driver decided to take this Wrangler onto the back of his truck, only to make things worse.
The pain began at a salvage yard in Oak Harbor, Washington, located nearly 50 miles northwest of Seattle on Whidbey Island. All the driver had to do was load the Wrangler onto the back of the truck, then haul it away. Apparently, there wasn’t a forklift available to gently lift, carry, and set the Jeep down (or the driver didn’t have any patience to wait for one), and there wasn’t room for the driver’s truck to back in, so there’s was only one option: drive the broken Wrangler onto his truck himself.
This being a salvaged Wrangler, the yard’s owners warned the driver that the brakes were gone, and that it was unsafe to drive. Did he listen? Nope! He just drove the brakeless Jeep up the bed as if someone was asked to hold his beer. What did he think was going to happen?
Certainly not this. The brakeless Wrangler rolls back off the bed and over an embankment, breaking a natural gas meter on the side of the building, releasing lots of natural gas. One of the yard owners said it best: “We have no idea what he was thinking trying to drive it up the ramp.” Sadly, he wasn’t, and now a Wrangler that had no brakes and needed suspension work will likely now be parted out before dumped into the crusher, all because of one dumb tow truck driver.
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