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Posted on 02/11/2008 4:23:10 PM PST by EveningStar
A group of 10 body-builders from a German gym took a break from their normal training routine to help a driver whose car was stuck in a ditch, police said on Monday...
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Sounds to me like a Mentos commercial...
We do this all the time in Alaska. Maybe there are body builders and maybe not, but usually three is enough.
Well, things are bigger in Alaska. :)
There are some extraordinaily large people in Alaska. That is true.
When my Dad was a kid the and the rest of the basketball team picked up(actually they bounced it) some guys little Citroen and placed it strategically between two trees in the park so he could neither pull forward or back up.
They laughed like crazy when the poor fellow discovered his plight then they moved it back out for him. :0) Wise acres!
Our high school principle drove an English Ford. He never knew where it would be when he needed it. He should have chained it to a tree, LOL
:0)
One of those ford Anglia’s? cool little car
"We are here to lift . . . you out!"
The men were training at the Explosives fitness studio in Bad Zwischenahn near the western city of Oldenburg when the 38-year-old driver lost control of his vehicle, veered into a meadow and plunged the front of his car into the two-meter (6 feet) deep ditch.
“They dropped their sweat towels and water bottles and ran over the road to the crash site,” a police spokesman told Reuters. “They then heaved the car out. It only took them a few minutes.”
The grateful driver joined the men at the fitness studio bar and treated them to a round of energy drinks, the police spokesman said.
Ich bin ein Burly-lifter.
Back in the 50s, don’t know the model. The rear end was light enough that I could snatch it off the ground myself. It would sit on wet grass and get stuck, the wheels would just spin. It sure was fun to carry around, LOL
I guess he figured that if we weren’t messing with his car we would come up with something worse, like hanging a typewriter out the window on a venetian blind cord, for example. The freshmen liked that one.
Ya just cant have fun like that anymore.
Best line of the article. lol :)
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