{"id":687,"date":"2010-07-21T23:43:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T03:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=687"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:31:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:31:28","slug":"redneck-car-wash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/redneck-car-wash\/","title":{"rendered":"Redneck Car Wash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We witnessed this while at a public park in North Carolina today.\u00a0 There was a boat ramp nearby and I saw this man drive right up and back his pickup truck right down the ramp and into the water with no boat trailer.\u00a0 The rear wheels were totally submerged and the front wheels were probably just a little bit in the water.\u00a0 We found out later that the guy was trying to rinse out the bed of his truck.\u00a0 Well, needless to say, he got stuck there.\u00a0 After maybe 10 minutes, someone drove up and backed their SUV up to his truck in an apparent attempt to help him get his truck out.\u00a0 I got distracted for a minute and when I looked back, the man&#8217;s half submerged truck was completely gone.\u00a0 Yes, it was no longer there.\u00a0 It had somehow rolled completely into the lake and was totally submerged.\u00a0 A couple of hours, two fire trucks, four police cars, two tow trucks, and one fire rescue unit later, I was able to record the following video of the rescue crew pulling the submerged truck out of the lake.\u00a0 Enjoy.\u00a0 I just hope the guy who owns the pickup will be able to laugh about this experience later.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i_h3eSm8qSU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/i_h3eSm8qSU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i_h3eSm8qSU\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-692\" title=\"redneck_car_wash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/redneck_car_wash.bmp\" alt=\"redneck_car_wash\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We witnessed this while at a public park in North Carolina today.\u00a0 There was a boat ramp nearby and I saw this man drive right up and back his pickup truck right down the ramp and into the water with no boat trailer.\u00a0 The rear wheels were totally submerged and the front wheels were probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[110,107,111],"tags":[339,380,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}