Wisconsin trooper stops driver hauling snowmobile atop sedan

Robert59

Robert59

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OMG!! What an idiot! And to think, there are many more like this guy out there who have a driver's license.
 

As always, the devil is in the details. The problem is not that there was a snowmobile on the roof of a car. Lots of people transport things on the roof of their car without incident.

The problem here is that the car was too small for the load, and that it was oriented such that the car/snowmobile combination was twice as wide as the car itself.
 
I know some are thinking what idiot would try to transport a snowmobile on the roof of a car? Er, I would. But I think 'raybar' is right. The snowmobile wasn't oriented right on the car. If the snowmobile was correctly oriented, and if it was sufficiently secured to the car,, maybe?
 
Robert59 said:
At my local Lowes store I saw a guy with 4 sheets of plywood on top of his Honda Civic car two years ago. It must have crushed the roof.
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LOL!

Your story, Robert, reminds me of a sight I used to see often when I was a kid, a guy driving a car with his arm stuck out the window holding onto a 2x4 or other miscellaneous piece of lumber up against the doors of the car, and usually as long as the car.
 
I've seen people loading all sorts of stuff on their cars, or in the bed of their pickups which look like a accident just waiting to happen. One things for sure....when I see something like this, I either pass them quickly, at the first opportunity, or stay waaay back, in case the "item" breaks loose.
 
raybar said:
As always, the devil is in the details. The problem is not that there was a snowmobile on the roof of a car. Lots of people transport things on the roof of their car without incident.

The problem here is that the car was too small for the load, and that it was oriented such that the car/snowmobile combination was twice as wide as the car itself.
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I see it much differently.

If the same (like size car) were to have a head-on with the vehicle topped with a snowmobile, the snowmobile is going to tear free of any/all security devices and catapult through the front windshield of the other vehicle, resulting in certain death to the occupants of the other vehicle.

When I was younger, even into my teens, we rode in the backs of pickup trucks, and yes, I survived, but some didn't.

We can talk freely of "without incident", but without incident isn't the concern here, the concern is, what if.

Crippling penalties and fines should be imposed upon drivers as the one in the OP article.
 
If I tied something to the top of a car, there would be zero chance for it to "tear loose" in a collision at any legal speed. And, as I said above, the car shown in the article was too small to carry the snowmobile. With an appropriate car, and with the load properly secured, and with cautious driving, there wouldn't be a problem.
 
Aunt Marg said:
LOL!

Your story, Robert, reminds me of a sight I used to see often when I was a kid, a guy driving a car with his arm stuck out the window holding onto a 2x4 or other miscellaneous piece of lumber up against the doors of the car, and usually as long as the car.
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We have done this 😂
 
Since this story of stupidity made the news, did the higher ups in the State Police reprimand the officer for just giving this idiot a warning & no ticket for not transferring the car ownership from a different state.
 

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