You’ve probably heard of “Stupid Pet Tricks”, a segment that has been a part of David Letterman’s “Late Night” television program for nearly 30 years. This week’s Video of the Week features what could be called “Stupid Heavy Machinery Tricks”.
In this video — which was posted on YouTube and apparently was shot in Tedirdag, Turkey, at least according to the commentators — an excavator has been loaded onto the back of a flatbed truck. But the truck seems to have run out of gas. So the operator of the excavator uses the vehicle’s extendable arm to push the truck down the highway as a befuddled bicyclist and other pedestrians look on in surprise.
While you have to applaud the excavator operator’s inventiveness, one has to wonder why he simply didn’t siphon the fuel from the excavator to the truck so the flatbed could have been driven to a gas station!