OMG, this is a GREAT accident! *PIC*

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Zenmervolt

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Originally posted by: glugglug
Looks photochopped to me.

The boat has to weigh a lot less than the truck, or it wouldn't float.
The boat itself is leaning several feet off the edge, its center of gravity is pretty close to that edge.
There's no way it would stay balanced like that.unless the road is actually tilted away from the cliff making the cliff look steeper than it is due to an odd angle. And the people standing around that don't look like they are leaning towards the ledge debunks that theory. For the picture to be un-photochopped with the boat in that position it would have to be an action shot, where the boat goes over the cliff within the next couple seconds.

Also the children on the right side of the pic don't have shadows at the angle that everything else does. And consider the position of the "photographer".
Uh, no the boat doesn't have to be lighter. It just has to displace a volume of water equal to its weight, judging from the size of that boat, it weighs at least 4,500 pounds.
The trailer is jammed into the rocks, and the center of gravity for a boat trailer is almost always immediately above the axles, not towards the front.
It would stay that way if the trailer were jammed into the rocks as it appears to be.

ZV
 

WinkOsmosis

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The boat's weight has nothing to do with whether it is holding the truck up. Even if it weighed as much as ten Oprahs, the trailer would not hold up the truck... because the trailer has wheels. The truck appears to be resting on an outcrop of rock. All the trailer is doing is providing some leverage so that the truck doesn't tip and fall over.
 

ElFenix

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i always knew that trucks pulling trailers were dangerous
 

de9ali

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Originally posted by: Sluggo
Thats the day you hope you didnt buy the cheap hitch.

Thats the day you mess up your clean underwear, he probably pooped his pants.