Escalade -vs- Puma Travel Trailer

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Got to work this morning to discover someone had lost control of their cadillac escalade overnight. They took out a telephone pole, then two small (2' thick) trees, before hitting the Puma trailer, spinning it 360 degrees around and then stopping after hitting a second trailer!

What a flippin mess that was...

Enjoy.

The impact knocked the slide room completely out of the camper. It ripped it off the steel rails it slides out on.

The trailer was on it's side with the truck wedged under it.

 

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Reminds me of a monster truck rally. I take it the Escalade had already been towed away? Wonder what that looked like.

 

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Reminds me of a monster truck rally. I take it the Escalade had already been towed away? Wonder what that looked like.

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the sad thing is it still looks better than my house! LOL

 

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Check out the attachments at the bottom.

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Oh missed those. Its a little fuzzy but looks like the motor is gone. Haha, wonder where that landed.

 

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Holy crap.
Bet the boss wasn't too happy when he saw that. A lot of money lost there. Are the trailers insured against that kind of thing?

 

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Holy crap.
Bet the boss wasn't too happy when he saw that. A lot of money lost there. Are the trailers insured against that kind of thing?

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We have insurance out the yin-yang.... Have too, especially since we have not one, but two 1000 gallon LP Gas tanks right outside our building.

Everytime I am out there filling up a propane tank I think of how big a crater one of those would make..

 

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Jspafford said:

We have insurance out the yin-yang.... Have too, especially since we have not one, but two 1000 gallon LP Gas tanks right outside our building.

Everytime I am out there filling up a propane tank I think of how big a crater one of those would make..

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u also gotta consider, if one of them were togo up, noone would ever find any of ur body

 

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u also gotta consider, if one of them were togo up, noone would ever find any of ur body

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Looks like they used it to film another commercial with Jason Taylor in it.

 

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Let me guess,

The Escalade is insured with Allstate????

 

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Let me guess,

The Escalade is insured with Allstate????

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I have no clue...If so you will have to take a paycut to write the check out.

 

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Well Randy, your in luck... The guy didn't have any insurance so no claims for you!

He came by today and asked us what we did with his truck?!?!

He claims he has a problem with blacking out. I believe he stopped at the light, hit the gas, blacked out, foot went to the floor and about 80mph later with the foot planted to the floor he started hitting stuff.

Idiots!

 

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Some guy wiped out my brothers mailbox--and the other 6 in the group. He blacked out. He was diabetic and hadn't bothered to go to get himself diagnosed until the emergency room did it for him.

 

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Reminds me of a monster truck rally. I take it the Escalade had already been towed away? Wonder what that looked like.

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No, those Top Gear British guys. I saw them on You-Tube jumping a Volvo over some caravans--and not making it. Funny show.

An Escalade without insurance? You expect to pull over any '92 Lumina and find the driver left their insurance card in their other pants, but an Escalade? I figure there's no Escalade, nevermind the year, that doesn't have a lien on it.