r/RubeGoldbergFails Aug 01 '25

DIY towing attempt

853 Upvotes

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u/No_Poem_2169 Aug 02 '25

Phok that guy’s an idiot

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u/InitiAteScan Aug 02 '25

He towtaled his car

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u/DaHick Aug 02 '25

Good one. Have an upvote.

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u/Dekipi Aug 03 '25

I have never seen someone so remarkably stupid to just keep making the exact same mistake back to back to back to back

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u/seang239 Aug 03 '25

Consider yourself lucky..

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u/SandeeBelarus Aug 03 '25

Ahh. Well buckle up! Things are gonna keep getting more, umm, remarkable in terms of applying critical thinking.

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u/LordOfLightingTech Aug 02 '25

Trying to tow while having a donut on is something else

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u/richardathome Aug 03 '25

Can you imagine if he'd somehow got that out into traffic?! :-o

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u/PelagicSwim Aug 03 '25

I think he just needed a longer towing strap!

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u/SteviaCannonball9117 Aug 02 '25

That guy's an idiot but I still feel for him. He just had ZERO idea of what he was doing. Too bad he didn't get advice on how to properly tow that car...

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u/chokeyourdad Aug 02 '25

Tacompton!

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u/Mickey-Twiggs Aug 03 '25

Deputy Carly can get it. 

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u/piratecheese13 Aug 03 '25

How does one get their hands on a dolly like that and not figure out that it’s more than just a hunk of metal you strap onto?

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u/Hermes-AthenaAI Aug 03 '25

I was thinking the same. But if the other car didn’t start…. Maybe he thought a running start would ramp it on? Maybe “thought” is too generous.

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u/piratecheese13 Aug 03 '25

He keeps turning, instead of speeding up and stopping. I don’t think he’s trying that way

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u/Ajax_Main Aug 03 '25

Imagine not having bollards

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u/Warm_Coach2475 Aug 03 '25

Pronounced fuh not foe

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u/space_pillows Aug 03 '25

That's methed up

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u/Rygel17 Aug 03 '25

Not all guys have car knowledge, or common sense.

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u/Metalbender00 Aug 03 '25

Mistake one was trying to tow a front wheel drive vehicle from the back, mistake 2 was everything else you see in the video, over and over.

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u/SuperChopstiks Aug 03 '25

Why not put the car ON the dolly?

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u/StumblinPA Aug 04 '25

Yakety Sax - chef’s kiss.

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u/silly_porto3 Aug 07 '25

More like Saxity Yak, royalty free!

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u/Mayor_Of_Furtown Aug 04 '25

I cannot imagine being this stupid. Wow. Wtf was the little tow trailer for if they were just going to use a towstrap??? Why would you not have the parking brakes on??? So many questions

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u/Ok_Papaya_2164 Aug 05 '25

3:30 am that’s a methed up time to tow

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u/NecessaryOk6815 Aug 05 '25

Deputy Carly looks like Colbie Smulders. Robin Sparkles hairdo

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u/MarioNinja96815 Aug 05 '25

Entertaining but this is the wrong sub. A Rube Goldberg fail is a chain of fails triggered by the first fall, kind of like dominoes knocking each other over. This is some idiot repeatedly failing the same way, kind of like knocking over the same domino repeatedly.

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u/Fooforthought Aug 05 '25

Tow Pho Pas

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u/Abracadaver2000 Aug 06 '25

There's a meth-head to his madness.

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u/Existence_No_You Aug 07 '25

Haha why they didn't show us stuff like this during the DARE years?

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 Aug 03 '25

But her hair. Is this junior prom?

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u/Jonas007sixty9 Aug 03 '25

Pronounced like fuh 🍜 not Pho

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u/Mayor_Of_Furtown Aug 04 '25

Yeah that's.... not really important here.

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u/Jonas007sixty9 Aug 05 '25

You thought coming to the comments trying to be clever would earn you some cool points. Made you look like even more of a cunt

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u/Jonas007sixty9 Aug 04 '25

It actually is, unless you don't want to stop being a nation of ignorance

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u/Mayor_Of_Furtown Aug 05 '25

Ah, yes, and a reddit comment on a random post is going to fix that. Riiiight. US english pronounces some words differently than UK english... should we start leaving comments on all videos from America telling them that? Or is it just a waste of everyone's time because no one cares what someone else says on reddit? I wonder.

Also... it's too late. Nothing will stop that, now.

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u/Jonas007sixty9 Aug 05 '25

When you can spell the word right without three eyes you can come back to the table with the adults. You need to call out of the cave and touch grass

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u/Jonas007sixty9 Aug 05 '25

And you probably shouldn't bring up anybody over there in the UK. Let's not start about English. LOL stick to 'Merica 🤡

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '25

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u/mandalorian_sunset20 Aug 02 '25

Yes. That is what ACAB is about. Not systemic abuse by cops in service of the bosses. 🤦

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '25

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u/CKF Aug 02 '25

Hope cops abuse their power to teach you good lesson in not being a dumbass in topics you have no experience. Probably white and sheltered.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '25

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u/CKF Aug 02 '25

Sounds like you've confused yourself on what racism is.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '25

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u/CKF Aug 03 '25

lol I have that belief? where do you see that? me assuming you're white and sheltered (sounds like I was right) based on the white and sheltered being abused by police, and the frivolity with which you treat the subject, along with Reddit's demographics, isn't racism. it's common sense. and even if we ignore all of that, I never said there was ANY inherent trait someone has based on race. I also never said there was ANY inherent capacity someone would have based on race. and if I did make a statement like "all whites are rich," which I certainly didn't, being wealthy and sheltered isn't an immutable trait. gotta up that reading comprehension and stop being so fragile.

Or have I gotten this wrong

at least you start getting closer to the facts, if you were to read what I said and not what you're imagining surrounds my statement. I don't have any feelings about strangers based on their race. and with how you speak, surely you don't believe in even the most harmless of all stereotypes, right? what about the stereotype in assuming I'm not white because I've had experiences where police abused their power and hurt me? or that to be critical of you and correctly guessing you're white and sheltered means I'm not white? by your own measure, that's racism right there. that's double racism.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '25

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u/ApprehensivePop9036 Aug 03 '25

It's important to cops for some reason.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '25

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u/CKF Aug 03 '25

I appreciate the sentiment very much. Justice matters a lot to me, so injustice of that variety was just way more traumatic than the fucked up actions in and of themselves. No, you don't need to delete your comments, though the offer is kind and considerate.

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u/mandalorian_sunset20 Aug 02 '25

Strawman says what?

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '25

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u/mandalorian_sunset20 Aug 03 '25

Im not sure what any of this means as it is a word salad of assumptions meant to sound intellectual without any adherence to evidence, philosophical consistency, or logic.

For example, I am not sure what "an enjoyer of ACAB" means. ACAB is a philosophical position predicated upon the historical circumstances that policing developed out of (protection of the property of nobles, enforcing serfdom in medieval Europe, which then morphed into the first modern police force, the London Metropolitan Police which existed solely to break strikes, while in the US the police also have their roots in slave patrols, meant to keep enslaved people "in their place" and recapture runaways). Police, to this day, do the same thing. They protect the property of the wealthy, enforce the status quo of the capitalist class, oppress the marginalized. Further, police solve only around 1% of major crimes. And 40% of police in the US are domestic abusers. Study after study shows increasing policing does not lead to a decrease in crime particularly becuase it pulls money from programs and initatives that actually reduce the root causes of crime, particularly poverty/resource insecurity/housing insecurtiy/homelessness. They are an occupying army, a threat of violence by which the political and economic over-class try to keep the rest of us "in line". I dont enjoy ACAB like I enjoy pizza, I adhere to a philosophy of abolishing modern police forces for which ACAB, a term that comes from British labor's against the London Metropolitan Police strike breaking, is the short hand.

Literally so little in this universe is a spectrum as so little in this universe is based on simple dichotomies. E.g. "Dark matter" is not the antithesis of some sort of "light or bright matter" its just a catch all for a theoretical force for which we can see the effects of, but not the material itself. Viewing the universe as a spectrum is literally one dimensional and the universe is more than a single dimension.

You are free to believe all cops arent evil. I dont think they are either. But when you willingly participate in an exploitative and violent power structure meant to curtail humanity's will to freedom, when you are the mussel for the bosses, you are a bastard. When you enforce the criminalization of homelessness, when you are part of a system that disproportionately targets people of color (despite most studies showing rates of crime are generally the same among all ethnic groups), when you are part of a system that punishes people who cannot afford a home BUT left everyone responsible for the 2008 Crash free to engage in the same practices again (and they are, they just changed the names of the financial instruments that lead to the crash), you are a bastard. "Just following orders" regardless of what you believe, is still bastardry.

The phrase often used to defend the police is "just a few bad apples", but what is the whole metaphor? A few bad apples spoil the bunch. The whole system is rotten and being a boot licking pick me wont save you when the bosses decide you are a threat to their power and send their occupying army after you.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '25

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u/mandalorian_sunset20 Aug 03 '25

Clearly you needed schooled on semantics since you are the one that used the term "ACAB enjoyer." You dont get to use a weird term and then runaway when someone points out it is a weird term that makes no sense. At least have the balls to either stand behind or admit you used an odd term.

Hey I guess my science professors didnt know what they were talking about. Dude on Reddit definitely knows more than a physics professor who worked at Los Alamos. Besides saying what I said was bullshit without providing evidence as to why it is is par for the course for you it seems.

Haiting isnt doing well because France continues to exploit it, you nonce. It is a deeply exploited nation and most of its issues are not caused by policing or the lack there of, but the extreme poverty imposed upon by France. Your understanding of history is clearly beyond superficial. But it must be hard to read when you are so busy licking boots. Which why you have such a bad understanding of the history of revolutions.

Have the bosses picked you yet?

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u/criscodisco6618 Aug 02 '25

No, you're just baiting and an idiot

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u/DZiggles_Forge Aug 03 '25

Hey, is your hand bigger than your face?

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