Poor Guy Bounces Snowmobile Off the Roof of His Super Duty
Super Duty has a deck that can carry two snowmobiles. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a roof rack…and really needs one.
The footage that home exterior surveillance cameras are supposed to shoot isn’t meant to be a TV channel, but if it was, that station would be a total snooze fest. “Amazon Prime Package Delivery? I’ve seen this one before. Larry Passing By the Camera On His Way Home from the Office, season five? It was just like seasons one through four!” Those cameras usually only capture mundane nothingness, but every now and then they’re rolling during an event that can help solve a crime…or when somebody goofs and drops a snowmobile onto the roof of their truck.
The folks who run the popular Ford-focused alumiduty Instagram account got ahold of this doozy of a video.
It shows a driveway filled with a pair of Blue Oval vehicles. A white Fusion is closest to the camera and a white aluminum-bodied Super Duty is to its right. One of the people who lives at the house apparently has plans to zoom around on the snow the next morning.
They seem to be well prepared to do that. It may be a little hard to make everything out because this all takes place at night, but if you look hard, you’ll see the Super Duty’s bed has a deck above it designed to hold adult outdoor toys. This particular deck already has a snowmobile loaded onto its right side. To the left, a ramp extends from right above the tailgate to the concrete either right in front of or inside the garage. All that’s separating the person in the video from ripping through fresh powder and drinking hot chocolate is a quick trip on the second snowmobile to the top of the loading platform.
The problem is that the snowmobiler’s trip up is too quick. They get almost to the top of the ramp without incident, but then, for some reason, they apply waaaaaay too much throttle.
Both rider and rig launch into the sky. Halfway over the back edge of the Super Duty’s cab, the snowmobile drops out of the air and its underbody comes down on the back left corner of the truck’s roof.
Amazingly, the impact doesn’t appear to absolutely ruin the aluminum body work or shatter any glass. One thing it does do is bounce the rider off the snowmobile‘s seat and onto the rear window of the Fusion. They slide down the glass, off the trunk lid and onto to their feet in one astonishingly smooth movement.
Once they’re standing, they seem to look around them for a couple of seconds in total shock at the fact that they’re OK. It probably took even less time for them to remember what happened just before their slide and feel a chill – and not the kind you get from having fun in the snow.
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