U-FailFiled Under: Articles, Shameless Self-Promotion
Apparently I just became internet famous. This is a little weird. My friend, Nate was stumbling and came across the picture above on this website. After a little Googling, I found it again here. The weird thing is that the only place I have this picture posted is on Facebook.
Someone must have ripped it from there, added a little text, and submitted it to the fail blog. I wonder who it was. I figured I’d repost it here so that I get a little credit for the picture. Here’s what happened:
So there we were, driving through the middle of nowhere, Wyoming, when out of nowhere we got ambushed by a rogue wind. The back end started to slide right, I calmly said, “Here we go,” and turned the wheel to correct, it slid back left, and I suddenly remembered the 18-wheeler we passed not too long ago that was sure to be barreling toward us. I saw the edge of the road and decided that’s where I wanted to be. Off we slid, I pumped the brake once, the back end swung right, off the road, and behind us, and next thing I knew, we were perched 5 feet in the air.
We were going maybe 25 mph, more likely less when it happened, no tickets were issued, and there was absolutely no damage whatsoever to the car. We followed the tow truck towing the trailer to the nearest Uhaul, stayed the night, and swapped out the trailer the next day. It was relatively painless since I bought the insurance on the trailer, although I did have to completely repack it. The only major damage done was to a Wal-Mart particle board entertainment center, but the entire contents was covered by the insurance.
It took 2 tow trucks to un-perch us from the trailer. Luckily, I had my video camera with me.
It was crazy, after getting un-stuck, we sat on the freeway for like 5 hours waiting for them to clear all the toppled semis and wrecked cars off the freeway. Apparently they closed the freeway right after we passed the last closing point. Just too much wind on a snowy day. Hooray for failing!
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September 21st, 2008 at 10:28 am
So funny that I ran across this on FailBlog today. I was like “hey wait a sec.. thats Luke's car!” Wonderful to know you are internet famous for your move to NY.
September 21st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
So funny that I ran across this on FailBlog today. I was like “hey wait a sec.. thats Luke's car!” Wonderful to know you are internet famous for your move to NY.
September 21st, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Hahaha! They've posted that picture twice now. Not only is that my car, but my mom is in the car in that picture!
September 21st, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Hahaha! They've posted that picture twice now. Not only is that my car, but my mom is in the car in that picture!
October 31st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
nice pic, driving through the middle of nowhere, Wyoming, when out of nowhere we got ambushed by a rogue wind.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
nice pic, driving through the middle of nowhere, Wyoming, when out of nowhere we got ambushed by a rogue wind.
January 20th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Hi Luke,
I'm a FAIL Blog moderator, and don't know any better way of contacting you.
We're putting together a book of the best FAIL Blog photos and wanted to know if you'd be interested in having your photo included in the book. This is one of the best photos we've had on the site, and I'd love to have it in the book.
If you let us use the photo, you'd be given a credit in the book as the photographer.
If you're interested, could you please send an email to failpictures+book@gmail.com and I'll email you a 1 page permission form you can fax/email/pigeon back to us.
Cheers
Sonya
FAIL Blog Moderator
January 20th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Hi Luke,
I'm a FAIL Blog moderator, and don't know any better way of contacting you.
We're putting together a book of the best FAIL Blog photos and wanted to know if you'd be interested in having your photo included in the book. This is one of the best photos we've had on the site, and I'd love to have it in the book.
If you let us use the photo, you'd be given a credit in the book as the photographer.
If you're interested, could you please send an email to failpictures+book@gmail.com and I'll email you a 1 page permission form you can fax/email/pigeon back to us.
Cheers
Sonya
FAIL Blog Moderator
January 20th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Hi Luke,
I'm a FAIL Blog moderator, and don't know any better way of contacting you.
We're putting together a book of the best FAIL Blog photos and wanted to know if you'd be interested in having your photo included in the book. This is one of the best photos we've had on the site, and I'd love to have it in the book.
If you let us use the photo, you'd be given a credit in the book as the photographer.
If you're interested, could you please send an email to failpictures+book@gmail.com and I'll email you a 1 page permission form you can fax/email/pigeon back to us.
Cheers
Sonya
FAIL Blog Moderator