a 16yr olds blazer quit, he is from here (early 80s 4X4) so a couple kids off a near by farm one is 15 and ones 16 yrs old (in a late 90s or early 00 ford F250 4X4 P/U with a flatbed on it) stopped to help him. they decided to tow it to town (prob 3 or 4 miles). so after looking it over, they decided there was no place on the front of he blazer to hook the chain, so they hooked it on the rear receiver hitch of the P/U & Blazer. well they locked the steering wheel on the blazer and all 3 jumped in the P/U and started out (this was on the hwy, not a real heavy used hwy ) right out of the gate was a hill/canyon to go down and the blazer started whipping and came around on one side of the P/U scraping the rear side of the blazer down the flatbed P/U and tearing the side up, then it whipped around the other side and slammed the blazer tailgate into the rear of the flatbed P/U tearing up the blazer tailgate and buckling the blazer rear 1/4 panel. I drove by the station where the blazers sitting, and looks like both the rear 1/4 panels & the tailgate and the rear axle and the rear wheel is bent, maybe the frame too. it was dark when I stoped to see it, so I could of missed something. (I'm not sure how they finally got it to town) someone coming down the hwy or the kids doing this could of been killed. I would of thought growing up on a farm they would know better, at 14 we were steering cars being pulled by a chain. I did not have the camera with or I would of took pics.................





Mustangsaly

oops!!! What else can you say? When we were young we used to make a tow bar out of a chain and the spare tire. Let a bit of air out of the tire and chain the two vehicles together with the spare tire in between and pull the vehicles tight together and chain them up. Worked then but I don't think I would do it now.

I guess the blazer was whipping from ditch to ditch to a point they could of went into the ditch & a canyon on both sides (20' + deep on each side). this could of easily killed the kids or on coming traffic.






Mustangsaly

Surely one of them has watched a farm wagon sawing back and forth behind a pickup. They all had a collective brain fart or something.

Just imagining how that Blazer was acting going down that hill, attacking and bouncing off at various angles, is scary. They need to get their imaginations working and think about what ~can~ go wrong with their plans instead of assuming the universe will fall into the best case scenario for their benefit.

Were they lucky enough to just need a change of clothes and a body shop?

yup, not sure the ole blazer is worth a rear end, the tailate probably won't work with out a body shop visit. both rear 1/4s are tore up and ones buckled.









Mustangsaly