Destroying a truck

[Retired_JSO]

Found this article today where these guys buy a truck just to destroy it.
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[rjstractor]

It's pretty impressive that the hydraulic suspension still worked and the truck still drove ok afterward. Also impressive that those spindly looking wheels didn't collapse like paper plates with upwards of 14K on the rear axle.

[ShinerBock]

parker.rowe wrote:

kw/00 wrote:
Well it’s sad to see someone put so much money into a truck just to destroy it... such a wasteful society and or generation. I’m not by any means old.. but grew up poor and had to work for everything that I have.... so what I own I respect and take care of.... some people are just idiots...

Wasteful generation? I agree it is stupid and I didn't bother watching the video...

However destroying expensive things for entertainment of the masses (edit: and to make money) is nothing new to this generation. The technology has just changed.

For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes

Link is an article, not a youtube video.

I still think the Romans have the monopoly on wasting and destroying things just for entertainment. God knows how many animals and people they killed just for entertainment.

Then you have top fuel dragsters who spend millions on engines knowing that the power they put through them will only allow them to last about 12 passes each being 3-4 seconds.

[Hannibal]

Core drill and dynamite would have quickly removed the concrete. :B

[parker_rowe]

kw/00 wrote:
Well it’s sad to see someone put so much money into a truck just to destroy it... such a wasteful society and or generation. I’m not by any means old.. but grew up poor and had to work for everything that I have.... so what I own I respect and take care of.... some people are just idiots...

Wasteful generation? I agree it is stupid and I didn't bother watching the video...

However destroying expensive things for entertainment of the masses (edit: and to make money) is nothing new to this generation. The technology has just changed.

For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes

Link is an article, not a youtube video.

[kw_00]

Well it’s sad to see someone put so much money into a truck just to destroy it... such a wasteful society and or generation. I’m not by any means old.. but grew up poor and had to work for everything that I have.... so what I own I respect and take care of.... some people are just idiots...

[noteven]

So much for me crashing in flames when I overload the rear axle of my Ford by 168lbs. over the sticker.

If theyda hadda dually it would have been way more stable...

[Grit_dog]

I watched about 10 seconds....lol.
Must’ve related to the dill weeds doing the Ram Brodozer pulling contests. Those videos are another good lesson in the stupidity of some and what not to do!

[Lwiddis]

The bachelor on YouTube? I'd avoid that!

[mich800]

ShinerBock wrote:

time2roll wrote:

BobsYourUncle wrote:
More money than brains..... :R

You tube probably pays him $20k+ a month for the air time.

Yep, they probably will make way more money from youtube and facebook than what that truck costs. No different than a movie studio spending millions on some actor and millions more to make a movie all to make millions off of it. Or a football team spending millions on some football player to make millions off of them from the tickets, merchandise, TV deals, and so on. There really is no value out of either of these other than entertainment.

Too many forget youtube in an entertainment source. Want to learn something, search for that. Want to watch something that fits your taste for entertainment, search for that. No different than watching the news or the bachelor on TV. You have a choice.

[rjstractor]

Nv Guy wrote:
That whole thing from start to finish is remarkably stupid.

Agreed, and yet we all watched it from start to finish along with thousands of other people. 🙂 Pure, silly entertainment, just what we need right now!

[Johno02]

I was referred to, and viewed a youtube video on how to repair the door for our dishwasher. Very good demonstration, then following the video, took ours apart and replaced the lock and reassembled. very simple, very quick, and saved an expensive service call. So youtube does have some good uses.

[ppine]

Don't glamorize stupid behavior. Take down the post.

[ShinerBock]

time2roll wrote:

BobsYourUncle wrote:
More money than brains..... :R

You tube probably pays him $20k+ a month for the air time.

Yep, they probably will make way more money from youtube and facebook than what that truck costs. No different than a movie studio spending millions on some actor and millions more to make a movie all to make millions off of it. Or a football team spending millions on some football player to make millions off of them from the tickets, merchandise, TV deals, and so on. There really is no value out of either of these other than entertainment.

[drsteve]

Lynnmor wrote:
Never click on a link that takes you to Youtube unless you really need the information. In other words, don't feed the animals.

Roughly ten percent of YouTube is useful for stuff like finding out how to remove a door panel without wrecking it, or how that weird electrical connector comes apart, or how to fix a water softener.