April 15, 2026 ⢠20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So this happened in Montgomery County, which if I were
behind what happened, I cracked my pants. Official said that
hold on official said that a car that was being
towed this is yesterday, fell off, causing an accident in
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Montgomery County. The crash happened at Frederick Road and Krogan Lane.
According to police, the car that was being towed after
coming off, hit a second vehicle after it fell off
the toe.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Police have asked drivers to find different routes and said
to expect delays in the area. Was it just being
like was it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
On like not on a flatbed like a tow truck,
So it's running on its back wheels or was.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It I don't know. Was it running on its back wheels?
Was it on a flatbed tow truck? Was it just
being towed by another car? Was it on one of
those big haulers? Dude, there's no wets, not being towed. No,
that's being shipped. Yeah, how is it being towed?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I'm with you though, the panic.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
If I saw a car come off of a toe,
forget it brick pants immediately and it did it hit
another car?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Is everyone okay?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah? I believe so I believe so. I mean, obviously
there's some damage.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, oh okay, the car might not be okay, but
no one had to.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Do no, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It's pretty lucky.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
No injuries according to MCPD. Okay, how is it being.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Towed and what is your thought when you're driving the
vehicle that is towing it?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Not as bad as the one that just saw it come.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Off the car glance up in the rear view, that
view changed.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It had to, although you know what, I bet that's
also a bad feeling. If you're towing the car and
it comes loose, Yes, that's a bad feeling. Not as
bad as I'm behind it and here it comes. But
watching it go has because you know you're responsible, I
guess in some way.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But the difference is the perspective I'm gonna die or
they're gonna die. True, and luckily, like you said, no
one got hurt. Do you envision it being sort of
a one off type toe though I don't. I don't
picture a tow truck, or maybe I picture like a
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U haul with the car attached to it. Okay, that's fair,
like something that is not right.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's not a professional that all the time, although I bet,
I bet, I bet on professional tow trucks when they
come loose.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Maybe the folks at the towyard have some stories. Of
course they pitched a little differently.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, but they still come loose.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Have you ever had a to a car to a car? Yeah?
Not not have someone come out to tow it. Have
you ever driven a car that's attached to another vehicle?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And how did that go for you?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
We did? All right?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Who set it up? Like? When was this?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh this goes way? He can somebody move or something?
That's exactly what I was doing. Yeah, we were helping. No,
well twice now that I think about it, because once
we I sat in the car being towed because that
card broke. It wasn't my car, but a card broken down,
and so they were towing it and I sat in
that put it in neutral, yeah exactly, and then with
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the car.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And hoped that nothing went wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I would break if the car in front of me
would break. I've done that, but yeah, I've been in
a car that's toad. Didn't it isn't it against the now?
Isn't it against like say, for example, you have an
RV or you haul it's illegal to have somebody.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
In the car, is it. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I think it's illegal to have I think you can
have an animal in there, but I don't think you
can have a person in there.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh you mean like something that's in a crate. Yeah,
not like a dog.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
With the Yeah. No, no, no. I think like if
you're if you're if you're in a in a U haul,
in your in you're towing a car, I think you
can have an animal in the car, but you can't
have a human. But now that I think about it,
you're probably right. Although I bet there are professional towers
that lose vehicles, but I bet normal but non professional
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people lose cars all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And not in some sort of Remember that video we
saw No Just Come was out of Texas where they
were towing a car with like a long chain. Yes,
it was a disaster, Like from the get go they
had a problem. You're talking about somebody.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I set this up. I know what I'm doing. I
got the hitch, I got I even hooked up the.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Lights, and something's gone wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
What the hall feels lighter?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Man? I got this weight distribution perfectly. I can't feel
a thing.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Wait, where am I going line too. Hi Elliott the morning.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Hello, Yeah, Hi, who's this Hi?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Miss Ellen. I have a friend who had just got
this BMW. He was all proud of it, and they
got a flat tire and the tow truck driver you know,
came to pick him up to him to take him
to get his tire repaired, and his car on fire.
It was completely demolished and like the tow truck company
wouldn't even like take with ability, like he didn't get
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a new.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Car out of it, Like no, okay, So that car
didn't come loose, but it caught on fire.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It caught on fire like I'm.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Happened.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
It was like a new driver and.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
He hooked something up wrong, I guess, and like it
just caught on fire, like and he didn't even truy
damn it.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Hey, your phone games up? Hould on one second, keep driving,
I'll get you into a new tower.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I guess there are different types of mishaps.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I also imagine, like I feel like, and this is
probably the wrong perspective to have. Where'd I say this
was Montgomery County? And so I listen, I get that
Frederick Road could be busy. I feel like it's better
to lose that car on Frederick Road than on two seventy.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
On the Beltway. Yeah, I mean sure, it's all right
about more lanes for me to move out of the
way on two seventy than on Frederick Road. I'm trying
to pull up the intersection to see what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Line six.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Hi Ellie in the morning, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Hey, I'm doing great. What can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Yeah? You guys are talking about towing things, so, uh, yeah,
I'm an active duty service member and the Abrams main
battle tank I was towing one behind and then the
oh bar snapped when I was going down a hill.
So then I saw about eighty one tons of freedom
barreling down this hill and I had to use my
tank to get in front of it and try to
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stop it. You know, man, it was it was kind
of a mess.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So that's one of those caravans that I see on
the road where I'm like, God, damn, look at those vehicles.
And that thing came loose.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Oh no, it broke the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Staff.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yeah, so it was just free floating down the hill,
and uh, the bunker factor, the fucker factor was real.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Did it hit anything. No, right, Well you said you
used your tank to stop it.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Yes, yes, I used my tank to stop it. And
yeah it was uh, it was definitely terrified as soon
as I heard that loud.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Oh no wow, wow that's a good one. All right,
very good, Thank you, sir, Thank you, my friend. I
need hi Ellie in the morning. Hey, yeah, Hi, who's this.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Hey it's Dan Richmond.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Yes, sir, Hey buddy, I want to let you know,
down in the Richmond area, we got you don't see
all the time, but every now and then you'll see
like a pickup truck oh with chain looked up to
another car, and that will be looked up to another car.
Basically be three cars going down the road, but seen
one down in the Richmond area actually lose a stard
vehicle and flip off into the shoulder. It's probably about
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maybe a year ago.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Wow, wow, come and loose? Is so like doesn't it?
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Two other cars? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, don't they call that like the double bar?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Where like I want to say that. I want to
say it's illegal in some states, but it would be
like let's say you you're you're you you're you're an
RV or but you still have a car, and like
when you park the RV for six weeks or whatever. Yeah,
and so they'll pull two cars. I've seen that.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I don't think I ever.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I think it's against the law in some states.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Sounds like that, but you can.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
So you would have you would have one car attached
to the r V and then another car attached to
the car that's attached to the r V. But like,
for example, Diane, you're renting a U haul and you
want to tow your car? Would you would you know
how to hook that up?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
So you just watch it. You just watch a YouTube
video and it would you know how to do it?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I'm in the same boat as Diane, which we also
need to actually tow a boat.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Hi, Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
What's that boat on the side by Magruder High School?
That's just oh wait.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That I I swear to God that thing has been
there forever. It looks like it because when I used
to I used to live over by there.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
I feel like I know it.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
The second you said that, I knew exactly what you're
talking it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Like when we talk about people would just abandon them.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
The I don't think it's abandoned. It's in the Yeah,
it's just sitting there.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It's right by the road.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And I think there was a van next to it too.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I don't remember the band, but the second you said,
I know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It looks like, Yeah, it's been a staple of forever
ive for decades.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Hi Elliott in the morning?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Hey class, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Hey good? Who's this?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
My name miss Crash?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Okay? Yes, what could I do for you?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
And I used to work for you all back in
the day, and you would not believe on how many
people don't know how to hook up a toe dollie
or a car trailer whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And how many of those would you have to go
retrieve the car off the side of the road.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I've only had stories of cars coming off to Dollie's
going down eighty one or sixty six or ninety five,
But I have never had to retrieve a car off
the side of the road ever.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
All right, very good, thank you, sir. Could you imagine
just you know what, just move you know what it's
moving weekend attack yep, and there goes my car.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So I pulled up the intersection where this happened yesterday.
They got lucky because it's not what you think of
Frederick Road possibly being it's more rural than anything. Oh
it's at this point, it's two it's two lanes, one
going one way, the other gonna you.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Know what, I don't want a two lane street. I'd
rather be a four lanes. I can't go anywhere like
like if I'm going that way, I'm into a guard
rail or I'm up on the grass.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Okay, But I'm just saying the number of cars that
could have been involved.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yes, my escape routes are very limited.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I didn't think of that. You could go into them.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And that's what I care about. As the as the
car has come loose and is barreling towards me.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It does look like there's decent slope.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Oh so that thing's gonna pick up speed, like like
that one tank that came loose.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Which is I wonder if because it's right down the
street from the Hyattstown Volunteer Fire Department, I wonder if
they were involved.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
What did that guy say, nine hundred tons of freedom?
Hi Elliott in the morning, I see Dustin's ass crack?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
What we like low rise?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I don't know I'm looking out the window and he
was ben over doing sudden. I saw a pencil holder. No, yeah, shave, shave,
he wears a belt. Yeah, and his pants are down. Stop,
I'm telling you he over. I don't believe you here,
he just did it. Tell tell Dustin to come here. Hey,
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line six, bear with me?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Up to mock Elliott Like he was talking to somebody
and then he pulled up.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, where's Dustin? Yeah, will you do me a favor?
Will you do me a favor? Turn around?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
What?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Turn around? No? Don't no, don't do anything. Bend over
and touch your toes.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Please, got riffed?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, no, I saw your ass crack. Whatever you were
doing over there was installing the new air condition. Well
you weren't picking up a bit? I know that?
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Is that all?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah? Yeah? No, But nobody believed me. But I was like,
I just on Dust's ass crack. Yeah all right? Line six,
Hi elliot in the morning. Wait, hold on one second?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yes, Like, so, were you seeing hair, you know, on
the on the lower back?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
No, I saw like patch the No, it was like
somebody said, hey, it's the hair growing out of Dustin's
ass crack. Let's look and he spread his cheeks and
all the hair was growing out.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
He didn't spread what positions was over if you bend
over your cheeks open, but like his feet were apart.
This is how a catcher sets up at home plate.
And then he went to fix the air conditioner.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
No, but if you're like this and just bend over
my ass that way.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But how spread for his legs he was.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I don't know he was lifting. I don't know what
he was doing. I know is it doesn't matter. He
got a hairy ass craft. That's all all right. I
lost line six. I'll go to line five. Hi, Elliot
in the morning.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Hey, ellyeah, what's up?
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Man?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Hey, what's going on? Dude?
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Hey, dude. So this is Ian from Charleston. I was
moving down here and I the U haul uh, and
the ball that like connects the trailer to my car, right,
the nut that it's the nut that attached that to
the toe hitch was gone. And I didn't know it
until me and my boy Jason were unloading the trailer
having driven from Northern Virginia to Charleston, and the whole
thing slipped up. So I was driving with it just
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like kind of hooked in there.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And it never so it was I know, and I
know exactly what you're talking about. But the thing never
came loose.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Never came loose, but I was. It was a wing
and a prayer and about what an inch of steel
holding it?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Wow, dude, you are so lucky because that You're right,
I think could have come completely loose.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Then then I had to drive it back to downtown
Charleston to return it with uh and the trailer.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I feel like that'll hold all right, very good, Thank you.
How's life in Charleston? How's life in Charleston?
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Hey, it's good man. Let me rock one of those hoodies.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Oh, I had no problem, no problem. Hold on one second,
Hold on one second. And does everybody remember what is
my favorite what's my favorite place to uh public bathroom
to take a dump into Charleston Bennett the Bennett Hotel.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Absolutely, I was not familiar with the subreddit that Donna
just sent over idiots towing things. It's just my.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Jesus God, picture is.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
A video of idiots towing things. But wouldn't you if
you see somebody's out.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
If you saw any of that on the road, wouldn't
you wouldn't you panic?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
There's something that looks secure bumping. That video is called
trailer tippy taps.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
That's like, that's frightening. I gotta watched. Oh, there goes
a boat. There goes a boat that came loose. Watch it.
Then the driveway nine hundred tons of freedom just came
loose and it's going, oh you know what, Oh damn.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Right into the girl of that car.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Where am I going?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Before?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
That's it called again idiot's towing thing? Idiot's towing things?
You know what? My afternoon is? Where am i? Where
am I going? Kristen Line two? Hi, Elliot in the morning?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Oh man line too? Did I make it?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You did?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Who is this morning?
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
It's Jessica from seven Good morning class.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Hey Jessica, how are you?
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You know, live in the dream nightmares or dreams too.
By the reason I'm calling in is I have been
dating my auto mechanic boyfriend when I was fifteen. And
if anything that you learn out of that is you're
getting heated in cars to be toted. You're, you know,
behind whatever he's working on as a side job, and
you're just going down whatever street he needs to take
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the car to. So I've had some fun in the
back of vehicles with no power, no power steering, and
it's like, all right, we're just going to say a
prayer and hang on, let's go.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Oh my god, Oh my god. Yeah, that doesn't sound
right at all. All right, very good, very good, Thank you, ma'am,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes, Tyler, Oh yeah, this guy is telling a refrigerator,
but he just attached it to the back of his
sedan and is letting it drag away on.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
A dolly dragging.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Actually the trunk is up, so it is kind of
oh yeah, trump, absolutely, that's good. Oh my goodness. You
can spend a whole day there goes.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You know what my fear is is that at no, no,
it's gonna flip the drive vehicle. So you just got
a break.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
In this video, they're not towing a car, they're just
towing swing a trailer.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah yeah, and the trailer comes loose and it's wiggling
from like you know what that's like when you lose
a car and you're fishtailing, but you're going all like
you can't get control and you're just fishtailing from side
to side.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
This will scare you if I'm ever wanting a driver's license.
There are some idiots will make you.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
It'll make you think twice about driving.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Things on the road.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Um mine two. I gotta go quick, hi Ellie in
the morning.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Hey Elliott, real quick.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
So when I was sixteen, my car broke down and
my dad came to toe me back to our house
and had a toe strap on my car. And what
I didn't know at sixteen is that you have to
have the key turned on while the vehicles in neutral
to be towed, otherwise the steering wheel will lock.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, the steering wheel locks up.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
So we're going like sixty miles an hour down the
highway and we finally decided to turn off on the
rural road like toward our house.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Well, your dad, did we make this?
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Yeah, we make this right hand turn and everything is
good except I keep making the right hand turn because
my wheel was locked and my car ended up in
a ditch.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Love it all right, very good, thank you, sir, Real quick, Yes,
toddlerm Lorie.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I shut down the key bridge once. Oh no, I
had a couch on a trailer and flipped out the
back off of the trailer shut the entire bridge down.
The toll facility came up and told me I could
not put it back on myself.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Had to do it
So this happened in Montgomery County, which if I were
behind what happened, I cracked my pants. Official said that
hold on official said that a car that was being
towed this is yesterday, fell off, causing an accident in
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Montgomery County. The crash happened at Frederick Road and Krogan Lane.
According to police, the car that was being towed after
coming off, hit a second vehicle after it fell off
the toe.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Police have asked drivers to find different routes and said
to expect delays in the area. Was it just being
like was it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
On like not on a flatbed like a tow truck,
So it's running on its back wheels or was.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It I don't know. Was it running on its back wheels?
Was it on a flatbed tow truck? Was it just
being towed by another car? Was it on one of
those big haulers? Dude, there's no wets, not being towed. No,
that's being shipped. Yeah, how is it being towed?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I'm with you though, the panic.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
If I saw a car come off of a toe,
forget it brick pants immediately and it did it hit
another car?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Is everyone okay?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah? I believe so I believe so. I mean, obviously
there's some damage.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, oh okay, the car might not be okay, but
no one had to.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Do no, no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It's pretty lucky.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
No injuries according to MCPD. Okay, how is it being.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Towed and what is your thought when you're driving the
vehicle that is towing it?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Not as bad as the one that just saw it come.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Off the car glance up in the rear view, that
view changed.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It had to, although you know what, I bet that's
also a bad feeling. If you're towing the car and
it comes loose, Yes, that's a bad feeling. Not as
bad as I'm behind it and here it comes. But
watching it go has because you know you're responsible, I
guess in some way.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
But the difference is the perspective I'm gonna die or
they're gonna die. True, and luckily, like you said, no
one got hurt. Do you envision it being sort of
a one off type toe though I don't. I don't
picture a tow truck, or maybe I picture like a
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U haul with the car attached to it. Okay, that's fair,
like something that is not right.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's not a professional that all the time, although I bet,
I bet, I bet on professional tow trucks when they
come loose.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Maybe the folks at the towyard have some stories. Of
course they pitched a little differently.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, but they still come loose.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Have you ever had a to a car to a car? Yeah?
Not not have someone come out to tow it. Have
you ever driven a car that's attached to another vehicle?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And how did that go for you?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
We did? All right?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Who set it up? Like? When was this?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh this goes way? He can somebody move or something?
That's exactly what I was doing. Yeah, we were helping. No,
well twice now that I think about it, because once
we I sat in the car being towed because that
card broke. It wasn't my car, but a card broken down,
and so they were towing it and I sat in
that put it in neutral, yeah exactly, and then with
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the car.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And hoped that nothing went wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I would break if the car in front of me
would break. I've done that, but yeah, I've been in
a car that's toad. Didn't it isn't it against the now?
Isn't it against like say, for example, you have an
RV or you haul it's illegal to have somebody.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
In the car, is it. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I think it's illegal to have I think you can
have an animal in there, but I don't think you
can have a person in there.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh you mean like something that's in a crate. Yeah,
not like a dog.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
With the Yeah. No, no, no. I think like if
you're if you're if you're in a in a U haul,
in your in you're towing a car, I think you
can have an animal in the car, but you can't
have a human. But now that I think about it,
you're probably right. Although I bet there are professional towers
that lose vehicles, but I bet normal but non professional
(04:27):
people lose cars all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And not in some sort of Remember that video we
saw No Just Come was out of Texas where they
were towing a car with like a long chain. Yes,
it was a disaster, Like from the get go they
had a problem. You're talking about somebody.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I set this up. I know what I'm doing. I
got the hitch, I got I even hooked up the.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Lights, and something's gone wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
What the hall feels lighter?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Man? I got this weight distribution perfectly. I can't feel
a thing.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Wait, where am I going line too. Hi Elliott the morning.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Hello, Yeah, Hi, who's this Hi?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Miss Ellen. I have a friend who had just got
this BMW. He was all proud of it, and they
got a flat tire and the tow truck driver you know,
came to pick him up to him to take him
to get his tire repaired, and his car on fire.
It was completely demolished and like the tow truck company
wouldn't even like take with ability, like he didn't get
(05:33):
a new.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Car out of it, Like no, okay, So that car
didn't come loose, but it caught on fire.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It caught on fire like I'm.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Happened.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
It was like a new driver and.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
He hooked something up wrong, I guess, and like it
just caught on fire, like and he didn't even truy
damn it.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Hey, your phone games up? Hould on one second, keep driving,
I'll get you into a new tower.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I guess there are different types of mishaps.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I also imagine, like I feel like, and this is
probably the wrong perspective to have. Where'd I say this
was Montgomery County? And so I listen, I get that
Frederick Road could be busy. I feel like it's better
to lose that car on Frederick Road than on two seventy.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
On the Beltway. Yeah, I mean sure, it's all right
about more lanes for me to move out of the
way on two seventy than on Frederick Road. I'm trying
to pull up the intersection to see what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Line six.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Hi Ellie in the morning, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Hey, I'm doing great. What can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Yeah? You guys are talking about towing things, so, uh, yeah,
I'm an active duty service member and the Abrams main
battle tank I was towing one behind and then the
oh bar snapped when I was going down a hill.
So then I saw about eighty one tons of freedom
barreling down this hill and I had to use my
tank to get in front of it and try to
(07:11):
stop it. You know, man, it was it was kind
of a mess.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So that's one of those caravans that I see on
the road where I'm like, God, damn, look at those vehicles.
And that thing came loose.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Oh no, it broke the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Staff.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yeah, so it was just free floating down the hill,
and uh, the bunker factor, the fucker factor was real.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Did it hit anything. No, right, Well you said you
used your tank to stop it.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Yes, yes, I used my tank to stop it. And
yeah it was uh, it was definitely terrified as soon
as I heard that loud.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Oh no wow, wow that's a good one. All right,
very good, Thank you, sir, Thank you, my friend. I
need hi Ellie in the morning. Hey, yeah, Hi, who's this.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Hey it's Dan Richmond.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Yes, sir, Hey buddy, I want to let you know,
down in the Richmond area, we got you don't see
all the time, but every now and then you'll see
like a pickup truck oh with chain looked up to
another car, and that will be looked up to another car.
Basically be three cars going down the road, but seen
one down in the Richmond area actually lose a stard
vehicle and flip off into the shoulder. It's probably about
(08:25):
maybe a year ago.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Wow, wow, come and loose? Is so like doesn't it?
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Two other cars? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, don't they call that like the double bar?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Where like I want to say that. I want to
say it's illegal in some states, but it would be
like let's say you you're you're you you're you're an
RV or but you still have a car, and like
when you park the RV for six weeks or whatever. Yeah,
and so they'll pull two cars. I've seen that.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I don't think I ever.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I think it's against the law in some states.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Sounds like that, but you can.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
So you would have you would have one car attached
to the r V and then another car attached to
the car that's attached to the r V. But like,
for example, Diane, you're renting a U haul and you
want to tow your car? Would you would you know
how to hook that up?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
So you just watch it. You just watch a YouTube
video and it would you know how to do it?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I'm in the same boat as Diane, which we also
need to actually tow a boat.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Hi, Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
What's that boat on the side by Magruder High School?
That's just oh wait.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
That I I swear to God that thing has been
there forever. It looks like it because when I used
to I used to live over by there.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
I feel like I know it.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
The second you said that, I knew exactly what you're
talking it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Like when we talk about people would just abandon them.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
The I don't think it's abandoned. It's in the Yeah,
it's just sitting there.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It's right by the road.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
And I think there was a van next to it too.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I don't remember the band, but the second you said,
I know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It looks like, Yeah, it's been a staple of forever
ive for decades.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Hi Elliott in the morning?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Hey class, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Hey good? Who's this?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
My name miss Crash?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Okay? Yes, what could I do for you?
Speaker 5 (10:18):
And I used to work for you all back in
the day, and you would not believe on how many
people don't know how to hook up a toe dollie
or a car trailer whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And how many of those would you have to go
retrieve the car off the side of the road.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I've only had stories of cars coming off to Dollie's
going down eighty one or sixty six or ninety five,
But I have never had to retrieve a car off
the side of the road ever.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
All right, very good, thank you, sir. Could you imagine
just you know what, just move you know what it's
moving weekend attack yep, and there goes my car.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So I pulled up the intersection where this happened yesterday.
They got lucky because it's not what you think of
Frederick Road possibly being it's more rural than anything. Oh
it's at this point, it's two it's two lanes, one
going one way, the other gonna you.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Know what, I don't want a two lane street. I'd
rather be a four lanes. I can't go anywhere like
like if I'm going that way, I'm into a guard
rail or I'm up on the grass.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Okay, But I'm just saying the number of cars that
could have been involved.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yes, my escape routes are very limited.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I didn't think of that. You could go into them.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And that's what I care about. As the as the
car has come loose and is barreling towards me.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
It does look like there's decent slope.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Oh so that thing's gonna pick up speed, like like
that one tank that came loose.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Which is I wonder if because it's right down the
street from the Hyattstown Volunteer Fire Department, I wonder if
they were involved.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
What did that guy say, nine hundred tons of freedom?
Hi Elliott in the morning, I see Dustin's ass crack?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
What we like low rise?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I don't know I'm looking out the window and he
was ben over doing sudden. I saw a pencil holder. No, yeah, shave, shave,
he wears a belt. Yeah, and his pants are down. Stop,
I'm telling you he over. I don't believe you here,
he just did it. Tell tell Dustin to come here. Hey,
(12:31):
line six, bear with me?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Up to mock Elliott Like he was talking to somebody
and then he pulled up.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yeah, where's Dustin? Yeah, will you do me a favor?
Will you do me a favor? Turn around?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
What?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Turn around? No? Don't no, don't do anything. Bend over
and touch your toes.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Please, got riffed?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah, no, I saw your ass crack. Whatever you were
doing over there was installing the new air condition. Well
you weren't picking up a bit? I know that?
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Is that all?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah? Yeah? No, But nobody believed me. But I was like,
I just on Dust's ass crack. Yeah all right? Line six,
Hi elliot in the morning. Wait, hold on one second?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yes, Like, so, were you seeing hair, you know, on
the on the lower back?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
No, I saw like patch the No, it was like
somebody said, hey, it's the hair growing out of Dustin's
ass crack. Let's look and he spread his cheeks and
all the hair was growing out.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
He didn't spread what positions was over if you bend
over your cheeks open, but like his feet were apart.
This is how a catcher sets up at home plate.
And then he went to fix the air conditioner.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
No, but if you're like this and just bend over
my ass that way.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But how spread for his legs he was.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I don't know he was lifting. I don't know what
he was doing. I know is it doesn't matter. He
got a hairy ass craft. That's all all right. I
lost line six. I'll go to line five. Hi, Elliot
in the morning.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Hey, ellyeah, what's up?
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Man?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Hey, what's going on? Dude?
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Hey, dude. So this is Ian from Charleston. I was
moving down here and I the U haul uh, and
the ball that like connects the trailer to my car, right,
the nut that it's the nut that attached that to
the toe hitch was gone. And I didn't know it
until me and my boy Jason were unloading the trailer
having driven from Northern Virginia to Charleston, and the whole
thing slipped up. So I was driving with it just
(14:39):
like kind of hooked in there.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And it never so it was I know, and I
know exactly what you're talking about. But the thing never
came loose.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Never came loose, but I was. It was a wing
and a prayer and about what an inch of steel
holding it?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Wow, dude, you are so lucky because that You're right,
I think could have come completely loose.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
Then then I had to drive it back to downtown
Charleston to return it with uh and the trailer.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I feel like that'll hold all right, very good, Thank you.
How's life in Charleston? How's life in Charleston?
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Hey, it's good man. Let me rock one of those hoodies.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Oh, I had no problem, no problem. Hold on one second,
Hold on one second. And does everybody remember what is
my favorite what's my favorite place to uh public bathroom
to take a dump into Charleston Bennett the Bennett Hotel.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Absolutely, I was not familiar with the subreddit that Donna
just sent over idiots towing things. It's just my.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Jesus God, picture is.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
A video of idiots towing things. But wouldn't you if
you see somebody's out.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
If you saw any of that on the road, wouldn't
you wouldn't you panic?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
There's something that looks secure bumping. That video is called
trailer tippy taps.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
That's like, that's frightening. I gotta watched. Oh, there goes
a boat. There goes a boat that came loose. Watch it.
Then the driveway nine hundred tons of freedom just came
loose and it's going, oh you know what, Oh damn.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Right into the girl of that car.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Where am I going?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Before?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
That's it called again idiot's towing thing? Idiot's towing things?
You know what? My afternoon is? Where am i? Where
am I going? Kristen Line two? Hi, Elliot in the morning?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Oh man line too? Did I make it?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You did?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Who is this morning?
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
It's Jessica from seven Good morning class.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Hey Jessica, how are you?
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You know, live in the dream nightmares or dreams too.
By the reason I'm calling in is I have been
dating my auto mechanic boyfriend when I was fifteen. And
if anything that you learn out of that is you're
getting heated in cars to be toted. You're, you know,
behind whatever he's working on as a side job, and
you're just going down whatever street he needs to take
(17:13):
the car to. So I've had some fun in the
back of vehicles with no power, no power steering, and
it's like, all right, we're just going to say a
prayer and hang on, let's go.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Oh my god, Oh my god. Yeah, that doesn't sound
right at all. All right, very good, very good, Thank you, ma'am,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes, Tyler, Oh yeah, this guy is telling a refrigerator,
but he just attached it to the back of his
sedan and is letting it drag away on.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
A dolly dragging.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Actually the trunk is up, so it is kind of
oh yeah, trump, absolutely, that's good. Oh my goodness. You
can spend a whole day there goes.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
You know what my fear is is that at no, no,
it's gonna flip the drive vehicle. So you just got
a break.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
In this video, they're not towing a car, they're just
towing swing a trailer.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah yeah, and the trailer comes loose and it's wiggling
from like you know what that's like when you lose
a car and you're fishtailing, but you're going all like
you can't get control and you're just fishtailing from side
to side.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
This will scare you if I'm ever wanting a driver's license.
There are some idiots will make you.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
It'll make you think twice about driving.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Things on the road.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Um mine two. I gotta go quick, hi Ellie in
the morning.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Hey Elliott, real quick.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
So when I was sixteen, my car broke down and
my dad came to toe me back to our house
and had a toe strap on my car. And what
I didn't know at sixteen is that you have to
have the key turned on while the vehicles in neutral
to be towed, otherwise the steering wheel will lock.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, the steering wheel locks up.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
So we're going like sixty miles an hour down the
highway and we finally decided to turn off on the
rural road like toward our house.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Well, your dad, did we make this?
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Yeah, we make this right hand turn and everything is
good except I keep making the right hand turn because
my wheel was locked and my car ended up in
a ditch.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Love it all right, very good, thank you, sir, Real quick, Yes,
toddlerm Lorie.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I shut down the key bridge once. Oh no, I
had a couch on a trailer and flipped out the
back off of the trailer shut the entire bridge down.
The toll facility came up and told me I could
not put it back on myself.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Had to do it
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