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Old Jan 8, 2013 | 08:59 PM
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I was driving by and saw this idk how this is even possible ? The car was on the fire hydrant!
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Old Jan 8, 2013 | 09:02 PM
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yeah, heres the explanation

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Old Jan 8, 2013 | 09:02 PM
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did you look on the other side? This has to be a prank and they lifted the car onto the fire hydrant
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Old Jan 9, 2013 | 06:07 AM
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A flood lifted the vehicle?
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Old Jan 9, 2013 | 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by ISFPOWER
yeah, heres the explanation
Not sure what you are getting at. I don't see how those girls had anything to do with it. And even the three of them together (probably) wouldn't have had the strength to lift a car of that size up.
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Originally Posted by Outrage
A flood lifted the vehicle?
Possibly. But I don't see many, if any other signs of flood-damage around it. And there would have probably been more damage to the car's paint-job, which still looks almost pristine.

Another possibility, IMO, is the rear-end of the car being lifted up by a tow-truck driver, and then an error or slip-up allowing the rear end to go sideways and get hung-up on the hydrant. Of course, Ford Fusions, being FWD/AWD, are supposed to be towed with the front end up (or on a flat-bed), not the rear-end...but an idiot tow-truck driver may not have known that...or cared.

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Old Jan 9, 2013 | 09:20 AM
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Not done by a tow truck driver.
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Old Jan 9, 2013 | 06:51 PM
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Not done by a tow truck driver.
Well, then, what's your suggestion? I agree we can't say for sure if it was a tow-truck driver, but I don't see how we can rule it out.
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Old Jan 9, 2013 | 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by mmarshall
Not sure what you are getting at. I don't see how those girls had anything to do with it. And even the three of them together (probably) wouldn't have had the strength to lift a car of that size up.
he is implying that women can't drive.
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Old Jan 9, 2013 | 08:35 PM
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lol, hopefully he was being sarcastic.
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Old Jan 9, 2013 | 09:01 PM
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Looks like there is condensation inside the windows which indicate flood damage.
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Old Jan 10, 2013 | 07:27 AM
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The car has New York plates. Like others have said it was lifted by Hurricane Sandy. Its probably on this airstrip now, waiting to be auctioned off with other 15,000 flooded cars.

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Old Jan 10, 2013 | 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by vedro
The car has New York plates. Like others have said it was lifted by Hurricane Sandy. Its probably on this airstrip now, waiting to be auctioned off with other 15,000 flooded cars.

Damn that's a lot of cars :0 good point it was after hurricane sandy but I didn't think water could do that
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Old Jan 10, 2013 | 12:43 PM
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Damn that's a lot of cars :0 good point it was after hurricane sandy but I didn't think water could do that
Water is one of, if not THE, most powerful forces on earth.
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look at the side of the house
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