I was at Tarr Steps a few years ago and a guy in a 4×4 turns up. He got out surveyed the ford, deemed it doable then went through the water.
You could tell by his smirk that he thought he was some adventurer god.
Meanwhile there is an old skoda parked with it’s bonnet up. An AA transit appears on the other side of the river,drives through, hitches up dead skoda and tows it back through the water and away.
Shortly after mr 4×4 returns for another epic adventure through the water.
Instead of an adoring fan club he is confronted by an audience who thought he was a total knob.
i did something similar once with a mate. we wanted to visit some roman ruin in Kent. there was a ford with a little humped-back bridge next to it and a pub, full of people as it was a sunday.
there was a queue on the bridge caused by people trying to get into the pub carpark.
rather than wait i thought i’d plough through the ford in my dad’s Rover 414. needless to say we didn’t make it across. the car clapped out half-way through in about 2ft of water. the car started filling up. a crowd gathered on the bank. i had to crawl out of a window and wade through the water, walk past the by-standers and ask at the pub for a tow.
we got pulled out to a cheer and had to wait 2 hours for the RAC. when we got dropped off at home and the car lowered off the truck even more water came spilling out.
it took three weeks until the car could be driven again.
oh how the old man laughed…!