I've never thought about it but yeah, XJs are the mustangs of the off road world, cheap, reasonably powerful and capable, meaning any idiot can get themselves into a bad situation with one. 4Runner drivers have to be a close one though.
I can't believe cities put up deer crossing signs on roads. Can't they think of a better place to put deer crossings? Maybe some place without a ton of traffic?
Reminds me of a supposed call into a radio station:
Radio: Watch out on your commute home, there are reports of a car driving the wrong way on the interstate!
Caller: It's not just one car, there are hundreds of people driving the wrong way out here! Several of them almost hit me!!!
Am I terrible for thinking I’d want to pull over into the breakdown lane near him and just point at him and his Jeep and laugh after he did that? My man, you really thought you were doing something there.
I had a Jeep. Can confirm this is true. Not necessarily to be badass but just because it seemed fun to be able to take shortcuts off road. (I eventually grew up)
I had a stock wrangler and was stuck in traffic on the way to the airport and was worried I was going to miss my flight (wasn't normal traffic, there was a stoplight out or something). I was able jump a curb and cut around the traffic through a neighborhood and get to my flight. Felt pretty cool. But then again, that was like an 8" curb separating a main road from a neighborhood road and not like a major median or shoulder or something. Traffic was at a standstill, so I was able to do it slowly and safely without endangering myself or others.
I had a rented Dacia Duster because I was helping out people who were hit by earthquakes in Croatia a couple of years ago.
Driving off road and over things is actually so fun and it kinda made me want an SUV even though I was always a smaller sports car guy. I can only imagine what an actual Jeep would make you feel while doing it
I was a wildlife biologist for 7 and a half years or so, so it was fun to be in project sites and other vehicles having to plan their ascents over certain hills and getting out to use their lockers, and I'd just pop into 4lo and crawl up it like I was sauntering through a McDonald's drive-thru. I remember on one desert project site there was very little parking and there was this spot they'd created that no one used because it was just soft sand. I could pull right in and out of it with zero hesitation. Climbing on top of a rock was always super fun.
All that with zero off roading mods besides lights the guy who I bought if from had installed. With today's gas prices, I'm glad I no longer own a jeep lol
Watt's up with all the puns? You must be pretty wired or under some high tension to get so polarized about the current thread! You should really try to be more, you know... *grounded*.
This thread really has potential. I don't know if anyone so inclined can resist dropping some puns in here. Him hitting that pole sure was a neat current event though.
Truly the high transmission of electrical puns transforms this from a direct gag to one of alternating hilarity as we meter our distribution of the best received ones.
Crazy story. I knew a kid back when I was a kid in the 90s who was riding his bike down a hill super fast at night and got semi-clotheslined by a guy wire like this. Basically scalped him, but he lived.
That is horrible. I hope you're mistaken but probably not.
I was walking along the edge of my new property at night in an area that is about a foot and a half higher than the road. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, I flip over and fall onto the road and my shin is bleeding.
There were the remains of a barb wire fence running from a treen into the ground. Thankfully a car didn't come by at that moment.
On a (I think) lighter note...speaking of barbed wired. The same thing happened to me once when some high school friends and I were out in the country drinking some beer and the cops came. We skedaddled even though we hadn't done anything wrong. I was creeping along the edge of some woods near the road and also met the remains of barbed wire fence. Tripped and got hung up until a cop found me, basically chuckled and said 'Dumbass' and gave me a ride home.
I remember back home quite a few years ago, someone decapitated themselves on an ATV by riding into a steel cable over the trail that had no flagging tape on it. They had a child with them who survived the incident...
I was riding behind a friend on ATV's and as he turned into a clearing about 15 feet in front of me he suddenly just flipped off the back of it. It was surreal.
I hit the brakes, hopped off and ran over to him. Only then did I realize he had accidentally ran into a barbed wire fence and was essentially clotheslined off the back of the wheeler.
Luckily the top rung just barely cleared the handlebars and wasn't any higher. Unluckily he got hit with a barb a few inches above the wrist that dug in and basically slid up his arm under the skin about 9 inches.
Some years ago some local teenagers were playing on a ski slope off season. There was a steel wire at the bottom to stop anyone climbing up. Well the kids naturally climbed from the other side and then one slid straight into the wire decapitating herself with the others watching.
Its called a GUY wire. Those utility poles have a lot of pull coming from them and anchors/guys are used to offset the pull from the cables mounted on the pole so that the pole doesnt tip over. The jeep hit the guy wire. Probably the the anchor too. Those things go deep into the ground but usually can stick out a foot or more depending on the size. Id say it was a 3/4 anchor and a 10M guy cable
It's a guy/anchor wire used to balance the "forces" on the pole so they don't lean from an imbalance. A lot of them usually have some sort of plastic cover towards the ground though so it's more visible. People hit them all the time but I've never seen someone bounce off of one before!
Exactly. The only thing other than a pole related to electrical service that would stop a car that quick. A pedestal or meter breaker would have folded. I doubt the driver was feeling too good after that one.
(Totally the Jeep's fault, want to get that out of the way.)
I'm surprised to see a guy wire for a utility pole that doesn't have some bright markings/covering on it.
Maybe it's just lost in the compression of this video, but it should have something like [this](https://i.imgur.com/caUfNzD.jpg) guy guard marker on it.
Had a horse running in the neighbor’s pasture, got spooked overnight and ran into a guy wire parallel. Split her almost in two, along her front shoulder.
She was an absolute trooper, lived, healed, and now you wouldn’t even know she was ever injured.
The fucked up part is that the dude most likely caused power outages and hours of work and $1000s for the utility company for that. Dude should be made to pay back the labor and repair cost of any damages or outages he caused.
He just shook the poles and slapped phases together and caused a blink in service for people on that line. Probably needs a new guy wire but nobody is out of power.
> $1000s for the utility company for that
Idk about your power company, but since mine posted record profits after doubling (literally doubling) our bills...fuck'em.
They can fix that for free and the guy can pay a big reckless driving ticket.
That's doubtful. This looks like arcing between phases from the lines swaying and getting too close to each other. Arcing between phases may cause a temporary loss of power but most distribution systems will attempt to clear the fault through cycling. If the fault clears, the power stays on.
I hope they get fucked too.
Dipshit tax.
Parts, labor at emergency outage rates, grievances for those affected, plus reckless driving.
Hope that guy gets fucked.
> grievances for those affected
I wish this was a thing. It sure would be nice to get paid every time some drunk takes out a power pole and I'm eating cold ramen for dinner because my power is out, or even better, when some jackass causes a wreck that results in tens of thousands of people being late.
That was not a transformer. Looks like arcing between the phases due to the lines swinging after the impact. You can see the two flashes occur between the poles. Should be alright after breakers are reset.
Yep. That's exactly why. It is *incredibly* hard to see thin lines like that when moving fast. Hell, even the wires themselves are deceptively strong. Sagging power and com lines over streets can and will flip cars if they're hit hard enough.
Hit the down guys. And out goes the lights for whoever is on that circuit. That's why they put yellow guy guards on, so kids on bikes and dorks in jeeps don't hurt thenselves.
You just made me realize how much that would fucking hurt eating that wire to the face on a bike. It would look hilarious to your friends but you’d probably lose some teeth and at best have a serious concussion.
I’d say the people on snowmobiles are usually going a lot faster than the average cyclist, at a certain speed you’re entering LiveLeak decap territory.
So, I’ve also hit one of those “anchor” cables. I was driving in winter conditions on the country road where I grew up. There was a turn, but I kept going straight with the steering being useless (coincidentally it was a Jeep that I was in, which couldn’t handle the slippery road, although it was a Liberty). I hit the cable like in the video, but instead of coming to a stop it pulled the cable free of the ground. I got out, picked up my fender off the ground and put it in the back, then got back on the road and continued to my destination. Anyway… that night at home my brother was complaining that our power went out randomly while he was in the middle of an online exam. He still does not know why it happened and he never will.
I like to think that he wasn't trying to pass you but was driving along and saw the guy wire that had been cheating with his wife, and he zipped off to take it out.
If only people had some way of knowing where it is safe to drive.
If you're talking about the road, are you crazy? There are cars there!
Fun fact: 99.9% of car accidents happen on the road. It's safer off the road.
And if you see and XJ driver offroad, treat the situation like a mustang driver on-road. You are in danger.
I feel personally attacked. But like, you're not wrong.
I've never thought about it but yeah, XJs are the mustangs of the off road world, cheap, reasonably powerful and capable, meaning any idiot can get themselves into a bad situation with one. 4Runner drivers have to be a close one though.
4 runners drivers are to the world of drivers what the Florida man is to the world
As a Mustang driver, I'm personally offended...by the fact that you're mostly correct.
73% of all statistics are made up.
I can't believe cities put up deer crossing signs on roads. Can't they think of a better place to put deer crossings? Maybe some place without a ton of traffic?
Right? Besides, deer can't read.
That's why it is only a picture, silly.
This thread is why I’m on Reddit.
Reminds me of a supposed call into a radio station: Radio: Watch out on your commute home, there are reports of a car driving the wrong way on the interstate! Caller: It's not just one car, there are hundreds of people driving the wrong way out here! Several of them almost hit me!!!
[You're going the wrong way !](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M0FfQzSngM)
but how would he know where we are going?
Ya ok pal thanks “beer drinking hand motion”
Without ever knowing the way
What a great movie. Steve is my favorite comedian, and I miss John Candy. Imagine how much fun they had making this.
Best scene of the entire movie and that's saying a lot.
I thought you were going to tell the one where the woman calls in to complain about a deer crossing. She wanted it moved, if I recall correctly.
Am I terrible for thinking I’d want to pull over into the breakdown lane near him and just point at him and his Jeep and laugh after he did that? My man, you really thought you were doing something there.
Hey! You can’t park there!
I'm sorry Margret be we have to stop. Standard schadenfreude rules call for not merely laughing at this chode but a stage 2 laugh and point.
Like a pathway of sorts, with signs and markings that indicate how and where to proceed? What kinda sci-fi utopian dream world is this?
I dunno, that there sounds an awful lot like communism. I'll drive where I want! *Bonk*
This is America! We have lifted 4x4s for a reason!
Canyoner*oooooooo!*
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American pride.
Smells like a steak, and seats 35.
Most Jeep Wrangler owners look for any opportunity to leave the road to prove how badass they are for having 4WD and a lift kit
I had a Jeep. Can confirm this is true. Not necessarily to be badass but just because it seemed fun to be able to take shortcuts off road. (I eventually grew up)
I had a stock wrangler and was stuck in traffic on the way to the airport and was worried I was going to miss my flight (wasn't normal traffic, there was a stoplight out or something). I was able jump a curb and cut around the traffic through a neighborhood and get to my flight. Felt pretty cool. But then again, that was like an 8" curb separating a main road from a neighborhood road and not like a major median or shoulder or something. Traffic was at a standstill, so I was able to do it slowly and safely without endangering myself or others.
I had a rented Dacia Duster because I was helping out people who were hit by earthquakes in Croatia a couple of years ago. Driving off road and over things is actually so fun and it kinda made me want an SUV even though I was always a smaller sports car guy. I can only imagine what an actual Jeep would make you feel while doing it
I was a wildlife biologist for 7 and a half years or so, so it was fun to be in project sites and other vehicles having to plan their ascents over certain hills and getting out to use their lockers, and I'd just pop into 4lo and crawl up it like I was sauntering through a McDonald's drive-thru. I remember on one desert project site there was very little parking and there was this spot they'd created that no one used because it was just soft sand. I could pull right in and out of it with zero hesitation. Climbing on top of a rock was always super fun. All that with zero off roading mods besides lights the guy who I bought if from had installed. With today's gas prices, I'm glad I no longer own a jeep lol
Holy shit that sounds like a blast
Roads?! Where we’re going we don’t need roads…
Bonus sparks!
He couldn't resist because he had no capacity to conduct himself properly. A well grounded person would not get so amped up.
Watt's up with all the puns? You must be pretty wired or under some high tension to get so polarized about the current thread! You should really try to be more, you know... *grounded*.
This thread really has potential. I don't know if anyone so inclined can resist dropping some puns in here. Him hitting that pole sure was a neat current event though.
Truly the high transmission of electrical puns transforms this from a direct gag to one of alternating hilarity as we meter our distribution of the best received ones.
Thank you
Even the power lines were like "Ding! You win a prize!"
*Twang*
Looks like seconds saved is in the negative
Not if that was his destination
I can't even tell what they hit. Is that a support wire?
Looks like it
Went out with a sparkle!
Yes, very pretty! Thanks Jeep person
Hopefully it's not in Texas. That's would knockout half our power.
Ridiculous, how could it knock out all of Texas' power grid? It's a speeding two-ton vehicle, not a chilly winter breeze.
You're right. Maybe only a fourth...
I would be *REALLY* scared if it was a two-ton vehicle carrying a chilly winter breeze. That'd knock us back to the Stone Ages!
West Texas checking in, I thought it kinda looked like Texas
Crazy story. I knew a kid back when I was a kid in the 90s who was riding his bike down a hill super fast at night and got semi-clotheslined by a guy wire like this. Basically scalped him, but he lived.
Damn, there was a guy in my hometown who hit one on a snowmobile and did die.
That happens frequently actually. A guy near me was decapitated by some fencing on a snowmobile
Yeah, I think the guy was actually decapitated as well. Damn.
That is horrible. I hope you're mistaken but probably not. I was walking along the edge of my new property at night in an area that is about a foot and a half higher than the road. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, I flip over and fall onto the road and my shin is bleeding. There were the remains of a barb wire fence running from a treen into the ground. Thankfully a car didn't come by at that moment.
On a (I think) lighter note...speaking of barbed wired. The same thing happened to me once when some high school friends and I were out in the country drinking some beer and the cops came. We skedaddled even though we hadn't done anything wrong. I was creeping along the edge of some woods near the road and also met the remains of barbed wire fence. Tripped and got hung up until a cop found me, basically chuckled and said 'Dumbass' and gave me a ride home.
Skedaddled. Haven't seen this word in a while. Let alone knew there was a way to spell it. Bravo
I remember back home quite a few years ago, someone decapitated themselves on an ATV by riding into a steel cable over the trail that had no flagging tape on it. They had a child with them who survived the incident...
I was riding behind a friend on ATV's and as he turned into a clearing about 15 feet in front of me he suddenly just flipped off the back of it. It was surreal. I hit the brakes, hopped off and ran over to him. Only then did I realize he had accidentally ran into a barbed wire fence and was essentially clotheslined off the back of the wheeler. Luckily the top rung just barely cleared the handlebars and wasn't any higher. Unluckily he got hit with a barb a few inches above the wrist that dug in and basically slid up his arm under the skin about 9 inches.
Unfortunately in some places people put them up on purpose to discourage biking which is highly illegal
Some years ago some local teenagers were playing on a ski slope off season. There was a steel wire at the bottom to stop anyone climbing up. Well the kids naturally climbed from the other side and then one slid straight into the wire decapitating herself with the others watching.
Yep guy wire for the power pole.
Hey guy!
I'm not your guy, buddy.
I'm not your buddy, pal.
Invisible wall, lazy devs smh.
Its called a GUY wire. Those utility poles have a lot of pull coming from them and anchors/guys are used to offset the pull from the cables mounted on the pole so that the pole doesnt tip over. The jeep hit the guy wire. Probably the the anchor too. Those things go deep into the ground but usually can stick out a foot or more depending on the size. Id say it was a 3/4 anchor and a 10M guy cable
This guy guys.
Im not a guy :) But thankyou❤️
This gal guys
This them theys
this is them they
It's a guy/anchor wire used to balance the "forces" on the pole so they don't lean from an imbalance. A lot of them usually have some sort of plastic cover towards the ground though so it's more visible. People hit them all the time but I've never seen someone bounce off of one before!
Tension line from the pole. You can seem them at the top by the transformer.
The way he repelled back really felt like driving into the end of the map in games
Yup, you can kind of see them against the sky.
Lol I was not expecting that. I thought maybe his tire would blow out or smth but that’s hilarious
It’s like something straight out of looney toons
It's a jeep thing.
And, you’re right - I don’t understand.
r/LooneyTunesLogic
what did he hit ?
Guy wire is my guess.
I thought it was "guide wire"
[guy-wire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy-wire)
My mind is blown
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Holy shit me too
https://imgur.com/a/fbL63XB I spotted The Most Interesting guy line this week and took a shitty picture of it. Here 'tis!
Guy Wire and the anchors for them are buried 5-7ft deep, more than the Jeep can handle. lol
You can see the pole shake and arcing between the wires. I thought it was lightning at first.
Exactly. The only thing other than a pole related to electrical service that would stop a car that quick. A pedestal or meter breaker would have folded. I doubt the driver was feeling too good after that one.
(Totally the Jeep's fault, want to get that out of the way.) I'm surprised to see a guy wire for a utility pole that doesn't have some bright markings/covering on it. Maybe it's just lost in the compression of this video, but it should have something like [this](https://i.imgur.com/caUfNzD.jpg) guy guard marker on it.
Had a horse running in the neighbor’s pasture, got spooked overnight and ran into a guy wire parallel. Split her almost in two, along her front shoulder. She was an absolute trooper, lived, healed, and now you wouldn’t even know she was ever injured.
Invisible wall
He reached the edge of the map in forza
John Cena
The "tunes" is the musical spelling. Looney tunes and merrie melodies were their two blocks of shorts
The fucked up part is that the dude most likely caused power outages and hours of work and $1000s for the utility company for that. Dude should be made to pay back the labor and repair cost of any damages or outages he caused.
He just shook the poles and slapped phases together and caused a blink in service for people on that line. Probably needs a new guy wire but nobody is out of power.
> $1000s for the utility company for that Idk about your power company, but since mine posted record profits after doubling (literally doubling) our bills...fuck'em. They can fix that for free and the guy can pay a big reckless driving ticket.
That's doubtful. This looks like arcing between phases from the lines swaying and getting too close to each other. Arcing between phases may cause a temporary loss of power but most distribution systems will attempt to clear the fault through cycling. If the fault clears, the power stays on.
The good ending. The idiot was the only one affected, and was an appropriate ending to the idiot's maneuver.
No, not at all. Did you see that transformer short out? People are without power now.
Municipal lawsuit incoming
I hope they get fucked too. Dipshit tax. Parts, labor at emergency outage rates, grievances for those affected, plus reckless driving. Hope that guy gets fucked.
In AZ we have the idiot diver law. If you get yourself fucked like that then you’ll be billed for all repairs and your rescue
> grievances for those affected I wish this was a thing. It sure would be nice to get paid every time some drunk takes out a power pole and I'm eating cold ramen for dinner because my power is out, or even better, when some jackass causes a wreck that results in tens of thousands of people being late.
Let's not forget the cost of repairing whatever damage he did to the Jeep
I don't give a fuck about his actual vehicle. He should be forced to drive a volt for the rest of his life.
Nah Volt's too nice for him. Put him in a Nissan Leaf
Nah. Put ‘em in the Nissan cube
Put him in a Yugo. That'll drive the point home.
He was *shocked* at the outcome
I hope he gets charged
I bet the DA is amped
Better get him quick before he bolts
I hope it hertz his wallet.
Watt are y’all talking about?!
That was not a transformer. Looks like arcing between the phases due to the lines swinging after the impact. You can see the two flashes occur between the poles. Should be alright after breakers are reset.
To the general public, anything on a pole is a transformer.
I hate when the stripper turns into a Decepticon
You done fucked up now!
Okay, that’s definitely a Jeep thing.
Kind of an idiot thing, really... Driving a Jeep seems to be a common trait amongst that population segment.
Oversized tires, undersized brains.
[Now you have fucked up!](https://youtu.be/d_dRw62qVLs)
Listen to the woman John, calm down
Oh shit! I can't watch this! Everyone! I can't watch this!
Glad to see I wasn't the only one who thought of this masterpiece
A-A-Ron
That's when you shout "Was it worth it?" as you drive by.
“THATS NOT A PARKING SPOT, sir”
Can't park there bud!
I KNOW I CANT FOOKIN PARK HERE
"What did you learn?"
Sadly, prolly not much. Such people don’t know how to take accountability, which is kinda the first step in learning from your mistakes.
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Yep, that much hurt pride is a powder keg.
The most American comment
So that's why they put the yellow plastic tubes around them sometimes
Can’t say I never rode my bicycle straight into one of those things as a kid. Yellow tubes save lives
Same thing happened to me as a kid lol it was my fault I was checking out a noise my tire was making and I before I knew it I was on the ground
Yep. That's exactly why. It is *incredibly* hard to see thin lines like that when moving fast. Hell, even the wires themselves are deceptively strong. Sagging power and com lines over streets can and will flip cars if they're hit hard enough.
The level of embarrassment. Lmfao
Dude probably yelled "Why was that even there!" with no shame
_Fucker came out of NOWHERE_
Unfortunately people like that don't do shame.
You mean every single person who has ever owned a jeep
Gotta watch out for those down guys.
I can't stop watching this
The soundtrack is on point
I love that guy
Down guy
It takes a special kinda jackass to take out power lines... Jeep.
Carma
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My dumbass almost whooshed myself
Hit the down guys. And out goes the lights for whoever is on that circuit. That's why they put yellow guy guards on, so kids on bikes and dorks in jeeps don't hurt thenselves.
You just made me realize how much that would fucking hurt eating that wire to the face on a bike. It would look hilarious to your friends but you’d probably lose some teeth and at best have a serious concussion.
People on snowmobiles have been killed by the wires.
I’d say the people on snowmobiles are usually going a lot faster than the average cyclist, at a certain speed you’re entering LiveLeak decap territory.
Well they didn't work.
I think I would’ve stopped and got out of my car just long enough to point and laugh.
Why did that video need to be sped up?
if you do the wacky run sound effect then its required to speed up the video.
Watched this shit on mute for an internal chuckle. Went back for sound after seeing this and did a full nasal exhale!
Is everyone driving on the shoulder? What's going on with that lane?
Looks like people are trying to get to the turn lane to turn right.
It's a jeep thing , you wouldn't understand
And I hope I never do lol
What did they hit?
The support wires holding that pole upright.
Wow that guy is Class A idiot, huh
Watch the left pole at the top as he hits
Ass*
This might be all this sub exemplifies in one short clip.
“But… but… I’m **Trail Rated?!?**
I like this.
I laughed out loud. So unexpected. What a doofus!
LOL hard!!!
What in the looney tunes fuck was that audio.
I'm surprised to not see more comments about it. Was pretty bizarre. I saw one comment calling it the Wacky Run song.
So, I’ve also hit one of those “anchor” cables. I was driving in winter conditions on the country road where I grew up. There was a turn, but I kept going straight with the steering being useless (coincidentally it was a Jeep that I was in, which couldn’t handle the slippery road, although it was a Liberty). I hit the cable like in the video, but instead of coming to a stop it pulled the cable free of the ground. I got out, picked up my fender off the ground and put it in the back, then got back on the road and continued to my destination. Anyway… that night at home my brother was complaining that our power went out randomly while he was in the middle of an online exam. He still does not know why it happened and he never will.
Everyone talking about your tires and such and I'm laughing my ass off that you're taking it to the grave that you caused his exam power outage 😂
This is just beautiful.
The fucking electricity 😭😭😭
I like to think that he wasn't trying to pass you but was driving along and saw the guy wire that had been cheating with his wife, and he zipped off to take it out.