Today was just... fucked up.

You ready for a story? Today has been... insane... I dont even know where to start. My friend borrowed his cousins landrover and got it stuck in a pond of North Carolinas infamous red mud while offroading. Some weird ass construction thief stole a backhoe and helped us out. We thought we were fucked twice trying to get that thing out...

Anyway heres the story;

So 3 friends and I were smoking a couple bowls and got kind of fucked up. My friend had his cousins 97 landrover for the weekend, he was borrowing it while his car was broken down. And we decided to go offroading somewhere with it because it's practically made for it.

Anyway we turn into this neighorhood being built, only some couldesacs had concrete, no houses or cars whatsoever. So we turn off onto this hill and were riding around in the mud, climbing ditches, swerving around turns, etc. We turn back onto the main road and before leaving, we see a pond at the back of the neighorhood. Well being stoned as we are were like fuck yeah go for it we'll go around this pond!

We drive up over there and its really steep on one side of the pond, the other was shallow. Were flying around this pond and see a point where the water didn't look steep and both shores were close together. So of course were like "fuck yeah lets go through the water!". Well, we get out of the car, threw a couple logs in the middle to see how deep it was and decide to give it a go.

We get halfway down the hill, and try to rev it before it stops dead in the water. We tried to rev it backwards and forwards and nothing would work. Eventually water a foot high covered the pedals and we climb out the back door. So were sitting there and of course my friends sketching out. He's like were gonna have to call a tow truck, it's gonna cost a whole lot to fix the car, my cousins going to kill me, etc.

So were sitting there searching our contacts looking for anyone who has a truck. No one picked up so we reviewed what had just happened. We took his cousins landrover. We took it offroading in a construction site, got it stuck in a pond a mile from the road, having no idea where in the hell we were. We thought we were thoroughly and utterly fucked.

Then this construction truck comes down the hill from out of nowhere. We walked up to it and this guys like "Bad day huh?". So were like hell yeah we need help getting out of here and we don't know what to do. He told us he would be back in a little bit, that he was "surveying" some land for his job. So after the car had been sittin in the water for an hour, he comes back. He looks at it and tells us were gonna need a backhoe. So he gets my friend to jump on the back of his truck and he takes him up towards the entrance to the neighorhood where my friend said this happened;

This guy puts on some gloves, hops up on a backhoe and tries to start it. He said the engine wasn't connected and he jumps down to a battery box below that has a steel chain and master lock around it. The guy takes a wrench and tries to break the steel chain but instead breaks the fucking wrench . Then he takes a crow bar, puts it in the chain and turns it and snaps the steel masterlock off the chain. Then he opens up the battery box and connects two wires to start the truck. But theres a loud beeper going off signaling that it was being stolen. The guy cuts a wire and the beeper goes off. Then he throws my friend some gloves and says "Were not trying to get any fingerprints anywhere".

We see my friend cruising down this hill in a backhoe and pulls up off the road to where the car is. He's sitting there telling us what happened and we realize this guy didn't follow him down the hill like he said he was. So were sitting there going damn we have a stolen backhoe that NONE of us know how to operate past driving. Our cars in the water, we had a pipe and about 2 grams of weed on us, etc.

Finally 2 minutes later the guy comes down the hill in his truck and jumps up on the backhoe. He tells us he's been driving the things for years and works with CAT. He then told my friend to sit at the entrance of the neighorhood and call us if anyone comes down. So he's over here working this backhoe like a pro. Using the claw to prop himself up on the hill behind the car. Then he grabs a chain and attaches one end to the tooth of the claw and the other to the back of the landrover.

He backs up into a ditch, and it's a miracle... the car slowly is pulled out of the water. The guy was sitting there, pulling it out of the water and goes "Want to roll the blunt before or after?" as a joke. We were being serious though, he ended up being really cool so I asked him if he smoked. He said he used too and that we could pay him back later. It was pretty cool.

He checked the car out a bit, told us we needed oil and not to exceed 2500 rpm's. Then he drove the backhoe back out on the road, told one of my friends to drive it back up to where it was, and he drove away in his truck without another word. Me and my friend got the fuck out of there, picked up our 2 friends up the street and drove to the nearest gas station to get some oil and a car wash.

So were back now, I'm still a little buzzed from smoking our victory bowl an hour ago. And I'm just surprised we didn't get busted by anyone. I got a couple videos and pictures from my phone... and I got the masterlock he broke off of the backhoe so I'll take a picture of that and post it later. No idea on who this guy is, we really think he might steal these things for a living . Oh well, thats about it... sorry for the essay


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Videos:

Friend driving the backhoe
http://www.axcessmypics.com/photos/photo05/54/3c/6198df05d083.3g2

Stranger pulling our car out of the water
http://www.axcessmypics.com/photos/photo05/57/be/ea7e0c0426e9.3g2


http://www.axcessmypics.com/photos/photo05/4c/83/7625cc264fe0.3g2