Photo: Crews try to get a backhoe and a tow truck out of the sand as a car sits half-buried at the beach of Port Royal Sound on Tuesday afternoon. The backhoe and tow truck became stuck when trying to reach the car. Jonathan Dyer/The Island Packet
Posted on 10/05/2005 6:57:58 AM PDT by SquirrelKing
The tide literally turned Tuesday on workers hoping to rescue a Honda Accord that had been lodged in a Port Royal Sound beach since Monday night.
By 7 p.m. Tuesday night, the ocean had not only engulfed the Honda, but it also was rising over a Mid-Island Auto tow truck and a John Deere 310E backhoe owned by Hargray that workers had hoped would free the vehicles from the ocean.
Photo: Crews try to get a backhoe and a tow truck out of the sand as a car sits half-buried at the beach of Port Royal Sound on Tuesday afternoon. The backhoe and tow truck became stuck when trying to reach the car. Jonathan Dyer/The Island Packet
A series of high tides helped to partially bury the Honda in sand, and threatened to do the same to the tow truck and backhoe.
As the evening wore on, workers continued to try to retrieve the three vehicles while the tide threatened a fourth: a second backhoe was lodged at the very back end of the beach not far from The Spa on Port Royal Sound.
The backhoes are estimated to be worth more than $50,000 apiece, according to the John Deere Web site.
Photo: A crew of workers try one final attempt at digging out the tow truck late Tuesday afternoon. Jonathan Dyer/The Island Packet
Mike Hall, 42, who stays at a condominium facing the beach, said he first saw the Honda on the beach when he returned from a fishing trip around 5 p.m. Monday.
He said at that time he saw a man and a woman, both naked, emerge from the car onto the beach after he approached it to snap a picture.
A Sheriff's Office deputy who asked not to be named said a report charging the man with driving on the beach was filed Monday night.
Photo: A crew tries to get at least one of the vehicles out of the way of the rising tide. Jonathan Dyer/The Island Packet
Hee Hee! Local hijinx. I love living on the beach!
PS: This is NOT my car...
SC Ping...
Dumb and dumber.
Dumb and dumber and dumberer....3 stuck vehicles...
Here's something you don't see every day.
Apparently neither the ho' nor the backhoe could help him. (At least with the car.)
Too bad about the backhoe. I wonder if insurance covers this sort of thing.
The Honda looks like a wreck. No way I would have taken a HEAVIER vehicle out to it. In the south we'd pull a winch cable out to it and winch it in. Rule of thumb, "There is a reason the vehicle is stuck. Don't drive out to it for a second opinion."
It looks like they ripped the rear bumper and a fender off that Honda while they were trying to pull it out.
Hell, man -- you don't need to be in the south to think of that one....
Rule of thumb, "There is a reason the vehicle is stuck. Don't drive out to it for a second opinion."
LOL! Excellent.
"Rule of thumb, "There is a reason the vehicle is stuck. Don't drive out to it for a second opinion.""
Yup. And the corollary to that is:
Owning a 4WD vehicle only means you have to walk farther after you get stuck.
I used to mud buggy and 4X4 off road a lot. Common sense saves a lot of trouble. Dang I want a mud buggy again. Do you want to buy my 2002 Boston Whaler 130 sport, worth $7200 I'll let it go for $5500. I could by a nice mud buggy.
Never get more than 200 feet from the nearest big tree.
"Never get more than 200 feet from the nearest big tree."
Well, there is that. Myself, though...I prefer a wench in the truck to a winch on the truck.
It is best to have a wench and a winch. Get struck in mud, enjoy wench, employ winch, go home and rest.
stuck vehicle ping.
Which is a good thing.
First he pumped, then she pumped, then they got out and fixed the tire...
There is the old joke that ends "dis is what I wrench ma monkey wif!"
A 4x4 w/o winch will get stuck.
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