Its a weird mix of the type of people who slow down to gawp at a motorway accident, blokes with tiny cocks who drive landrovers with straight through exhausts trying to impress the aforementioned people who still live with their parents and label themselves as "youtubers" and just plain stupid people who try and take normal cars through 3ft of water. I'm not surprised locals are pissed...
Funnily enough, I had a conversation with a work colleague over this event in 2015
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/photographs-tell-story-floods-wales-10654795
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/flooding-closes-a5-a55-north-10652546
We worked on Anglesey, and were driving back after a night shift. That area of road is unlit, and the national speed limit. We used that stretch of road daily, and it flooded within a matter of hours.
So imagine 5am, travelling at 70 and hitting that. The car lights just didn't pick up the floodwater.
That was a long morning. My friends Alfa (6months old) was totalled.
We take my son to Rufford Park every now and then as we live close-ish by. He likes to watch the cars and vans go through the water but this is when it's warmer and the water levels are normal. Would take no pleasure seeing drivers wreck their cars and trucks even if they were stupid in trying to drive through it. I think there was a youtube clip a while ago where quite a large truck got stuck due to water through the air intake.
Just up road from me - it's a very clever you tube idea.
Minimum effort.
That ford has been a problem for idiots for years.
The blue defender was a bit of a knob. You've finally found a use for your vehicle but playing with it when someone else is stuck aint on.
The rest seem to be victims of their own stupidity.
Those coming form filmer's right have a very obvious neon yellow depth marker. Not sure what filmer's left have apart from a road sign.
TBH if it’s the bloke complaining about being filmed, it seems a fair enough comment.
Why? Public place you can film anyone
Do these wannabe ship masters claim on their insurance for damage to the car in these cases? - if so we are all paying for this lunacy with higher insurance premiums.....not to mention the environmental impact... still makes for entertaining viewing though.
Why? Public place you can film anyone
'Tis true.
But what you do with the footage can become a problem. Though in most cases what are you going to do?
So many stupid people, don't they know to take your shoes and socks off first before going into the water, then you have something dry to put on afterwards.
@andybrad
Full Memberthat guy in the blue landy wants a kicking for creating those bow waves like that.
You'll be pleased to find out that he borks his engine in the latest instalment. "Buy a smart car mate" 😁
My rural journey to work crosses a couple of rivers that get a bit floody at various points of the year. I always detour, even if I'm in our Discovery, as you're never quite sure what's been washed onto the road you can't see. I don't fancy dragging the bumper off for the sake of an additional five minutes.
One of crossing points rarely floods more than a couple of inches. The issue is, when it does you can't see the road's edge, as one lady in a Merc discovered last winter. She panicked half-way across, attempted a three point turn and ended up driving into a submerged four foot ditch. The water on the road was ankle deep.
**** that! I wont even cycle through one on my ti winter bike. My mate did, slipped and broke his pelvis
I'm guessing even if the engine is ok, stuff like wheel bearings and cv joints aren't designed to keep water out if they are fully submerged, especially at speed.
You’ll be pleased to find out that he borks his engine in the latest instalment.
So I assume it's not supposed to sound like that, even allowing for aftermarket 'improvements'.
That was disappointing, I was hoping to see the actual cause...hahaha
It is annoyingly addictive tv to watch, but the kids with the Landies don't really seem to have any regard for the ford or the feeder stream...aware it is probably the most offroad they are able to go in that area (without paying some entrance fee or other), but it does seem unimpressive the amount of 'support crew' needed for those things.
I'm impressed at seeing the normal cars making it through the deep water...that is far more impressive than watching something with some power and a snorkel giving it some beans to cause a big splash.
Right grumble over, no doubt I'll be watching more later on this evening!
If I lived there I’d be extremely pissed off with those gimps parking on the footpath and revving their stinking diesel *boxes right outside my house. Bunch of *s
I only skim-watched the rastafarmerian video because he was boring the tits off me, was he really complaining that the bloke upstream had made the crossing safer?
If I lived there I’d be extremely pissed off with those gimps parking on the footpath and revving their stinking diesel *boxes right outside my house. Bunch of *s
Reminded me of living in London with people revving scooters around and about. And the odd complete a**se who'd rag some offensively loud car up the road at 3am.
I'm glad I don't live there any more.
They could do with a nutter turning up with an automatic weapon and making themselves useful really, what a bunch of ****s.
Those Landie types appear to be grade 1 bellends.
oh how i feel for him
If I lived there I’d be extremely pissed off with those gimps parking on the footpath and revving their stinking diesel ****boxes right outside my house.
This. We have a level crossing that shuts four times an hour and stays closed due to the length of trains exceeding the platform. The number of drivers who sit with their foot on the brake blinding people or don't turn off their engines is ridiculous.
I take little pleasure in watching people who don't really know any better destroying their vehicles. With that sort of failure rate, it's a systems failure rather than a driver failure. Not sure why it isn't signed as closed and blocked for passage.
My mate did, slipped and broke his pelvis
NEVER ride through a ford, the surface is ultraslippy and a recipe for falling.
Those Landie types appear to be grade 1 bellends
£50k+ car and £5 gray trackies says it all
NEVER ride through a ford, the surface is ultraslippy and a recipe for falling.
Mwah ha ha!
Can we assume that most of the cars will be leased?
Once they’re written off, they’ll just be replaced. FOC.
You’ll be pleased to find out that he borks his engine in the latest instalment
I can almost smell the unburnt diesel, giving themselves, their mates and anyone unfortunate enough to follow them on the road a dose of carcinogenic shite. I really hate diesel, especially old dirty ones.
You can only hope that these drivers have kept their fishing permits up to date.
They’re bound to land a few ‘brown trout’ when they see the garage bill😢
kayak23
Mwah ha ha!
Amateur...
(posted in the full knowledge I'll be quickly one-upped myself!)
Right grumble over, no doubt I’ll be watching more later on this evening!
Missus away out was she?
What's actually up with the landy there? Looks mostly like a bad injector...
I drowned my old mondeo, there's a thread about it somewhere... Mad floods on the way back home from a bike race, A84 flooded just above Callendar, was a pretty long wade Would have been fine except for some total bellend in a truck coming the other way, his bow wave went right over the roof of my car and damn nearly washed it off the road. Got it home, dried it out (conveniently the exhaust rusted through just then and let all the water out), drove it for another few years but it did smell like sweaty balls any time it got wet from then on.
Driving through the flood felt completely awesome right up til it didn't 😛
The car lights just didn’t pick up the floodwater
Try dipping them 😉
The floodwits don't think about the petro-chemicals that float into the environment and kill things.
Gates are stupid-expensive, £65,000 in 2019! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-50621415
😂
I'm probably on one of the clips doing a three point turn after seeing how deep it was.
That video makes me feel even sorrier for the poor residents.
I’m probably on one of the clips doing a three point turn after seeing how deep it was.
Unless it ended up being a 10038338 point turn I doubt they bother uploading anyone being sane.
Those 4x4 people really are throbbers. Can see why the locals get upset with muppets just ragging through there.
Surprised the farmer when dredging the rest didnt accidently dig a nice deep pit in that side section.
Isnt there somewhere they can go to actually demonstrate some skill driving as opposed to just a high air intake?
Wonder how many also have jetskis although it is a tad far from the coast.
How are they paying for those Land Rovers if they spend their days driving them through fords, then standing around looking at them and generally making weapons grade prats of themselves?
What a bunch of ****wits.
Damming the river, opening the road after it's been closed and opening sluices.
All for the lolz
*slow clap*
Damming the river, opening the road after it’s been closed and opening sluices.
Crazy, and a possible criminal offence of Obstructing the Highway if the police were minded to do anything about it.
‘Obstruction’ includes anything that prevents passing and re-passing along the highway.
What’s actually up with the landy there? Looks mostly like a bad injector…
Sounds like a bent con-rod to me, having bent one when a head gasket failed - high speed run on a motorway back when it was tollerated no doubt caused a head gasket failure, parked up and the coolant leaked into the cylinder, started the engine and heard a crack, it ran just like that. The piston on the bent rod doesn't rise enough to give enough compression to light the fuel. Taking the head off showed two level pistons and two out of synch.
God, fancy having those idiots outside your house day after day !
Wonder how smart they would feel if you parked an excavator or tractor and trailer on the ford when they were away playing down the river?
Who the hell actually risks driving through anything near door height, never mind 2 foot or more ? Certainly not headlamp level - they aren't that waterroof. It's the water you'll get in the soft furnishings that will kill the car.
My boss once wrote off a big Volvo saloon - drove into a flooded road. Went to collect his stuff a week later after recovery, and the interior was mouldy in addition to the farked engine. On arrival of his replacement BMW 5 series 9company car), I got him a BMW Assist package, mop, bucket and a few rubber ducks. He didn't see the funny side.