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Standing outside Supermarket near home today when I noticed a guy trying to fit a double clothes rail into an old Renault 4. After deciding that it wouldn't fit he stood the rail by the drivers door, climbed in through the passenger door and opened the drivers door window. Can you guess where this is going ------ I kid you not he stuck out his left hand, grabbed the rail and drove off. Sorry about the quality of the photos - taken quickly on a cheap mobile phone.   . 
My girlfriend thinks I'm a stalker...
Well, she's not actually my girlfriend yet.
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Classic, some of the best ones I've seen are mattresses on top of the car doubled in half while flying down the road. And plywood/osb board lying on top of the car and two "handymen"  with an arm out each window holding on. People watching can be fun !
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Oh no, absolutely not only in France. In fact, American rednecks do much, much worse than that...
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Yep, I can remember seeing a mid-80's T-bird cruising down Hwy 81 in Anderson South Carolina with one of those trailer hitch mounted racks (for carrying coolers and stuff on the hitch) LOADED with books. They were stacked 3 feet high, and piled all the way up the back trunk to the rear window, and the back seat was piled roof high inside as well. Needless to say the rear suspension was COMPETELY bottomed out, and the hitch rack was maybe a couple inches off of the pavement! I still don't know how all of those books were staying put, since there weren't a bunch of ropes. Perhaps all of the book covers were glued together! 
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Yep, lots of "creativity" here in the states as well. Why get a pickup to haul your bike when you can improvise... 
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Yep, I can remember seeing a mid-80's T-bird cruising down Hwy 81 in Anderson South Carolina with one of those trailer hitch mounted racks (for carrying coolers and stuff on the hitch) LOADED with books. They were stacked 3 feet high, and piled all the way up the back trunk to the rear window, and the back seat was piled roof high inside as well. Needless to say the rear suspension was COMPETELY bottomed out, and the hitch rack was maybe a couple inches off of the pavement! I still don't know how all of those books were staying put, since there weren't a bunch of ropes. Perhaps all of the book covers were glued together!
A load of book? In South Carolina? Hmmm... No doubt there was a book burning that day cause they ain't big readers 
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Yep, lots of "creativity" here in the states as well. Why get a pickup to haul your bike when you can improvise...
Hopefully when they drilled holes for drainage they were carefull to skirt the gas tank.
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Sometimes when I go to Lowes I will hang around for a few minutes just to watch somebody with a swamp cooler, BBQ or an equal sized & not thought out purchase... just to watch what I call a "Laurel & Hardy" rerun. People are fun that have a tape measure gene missing.
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Yep, I can remember seeing a mid-80's T-bird cruising down Hwy 81 in Anderson South Carolina with one of those trailer hitch mounted racks (for carrying coolers and stuff on the hitch) LOADED with books. They were stacked 3 feet high, and piled all the way up the back trunk to the rear window, and the back seat was piled roof high inside as well. Needless to say the rear suspension was COMPETELY bottomed out, and the hitch rack was maybe a couple inches off of the pavement! I still don't know how all of those books were staying put, since there weren't a bunch of ropes. Perhaps all of the book covers were glued together!
A load of book? In South Carolina? Hmmm... No doubt there was a book burning that day cause they ain't big readers
Yeah, now that you say that, I think they were just passing through....
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Yep, I can remember seeing a mid-80's T-bird cruising down Hwy 81 in Anderson South Carolina with one of those trailer hitch mounted racks (for carrying coolers and stuff on the hitch) LOADED with books. They were stacked 3 feet high, and piled all the way up the back trunk to the rear window, and the back seat was piled roof high inside as well. Needless to say the rear suspension was COMPETELY bottomed out, and the hitch rack was maybe a couple inches off of the pavement! I still don't know how all of those books were staying put, since there weren't a bunch of ropes. Perhaps all of the book covers were glued together!
So THAT'S why there are no books in South Carolina.
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Yep, I can remember seeing a mid-80's T-bird cruising down Hwy 81 in Anderson South Carolina with one of those trailer hitch mounted racks (for carrying coolers and stuff on the hitch) LOADED with books. They were stacked 3 feet high, and piled all the way up the back trunk to the rear window, and the back seat was piled roof high inside as well. Needless to say the rear suspension was COMPETELY bottomed out, and the hitch rack was maybe a couple inches off of the pavement! I still don't know how all of those books were staying put, since there weren't a bunch of ropes. Perhaps all of the book covers were glued together!
So THAT'S why there are no books in South Carolina.
Probably someone from North Carolina stealing them. That load probably doubled the number in North Carolina! 
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