What a dick.

The stupidity of some people is truly unbounded. He must have plenty of money.

What ever happened to ...If it's flooded forget it . How many people have died doing the same thing , quiet a few i would suggest.

He was very lucky.

Blues Man wrote:

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What ever happened to ...If it's flooded forget it . How many people have died doing the same thing , quiet a few i would suggest.

He was very lucky.

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 While the  "If it's flooded,forget it" mantra might make do-gooders feel better,anybody with a modicum of  common sense can study flood water and surrounding areas,and then make a decision on crossing them.During recent floods I had cause to drive a semi about 1km through flood waters that were around 1 metre deep.When I was about 200 metres away from completing the crossing,a small car,maybe Toyota Yaris driven by a young lady,approached the flooded road from the other direction,and,to my utter surprise,slowly drove into the water.Derrr! She got only a short distance before the little car cried "Enough",and stopped dead,with the water up near the windows.Stupid gets what stupid deserves,and I just drove past.If people are too stupid to realise that if the water is up to the top of a semi's wheels,their little Yaris will be waay out of it's depth (pun intended),and simply continue to drive into the flood,they can damned well  stay there,as far as I'm concerned.That attitude may have been borne of an experience I had in Sydney,some years ago,on Paramatta road.It was raining heavily,with lots of surface water,and another young lady had "failed to proceed" from a traffic light.After a few minutes of no movement,I got out in the pouring rain to help her.Eventually I got the car started,with her never leaving the driver's seat,but I was a bit peeved when she then simply drove away.No "Thankyou",no smile,no wave.Just gone,as if I had been lucky to be allowed to help.Cheers

In the early 1980's I was working on a project in Thailand - a multi-purpose dam being built on the River Kwai. The onfamous Thailand-Burma Railway went right through the damsite. In the early times of the project, the access road was very rough and the project had a fleet of petrol LWB Landrovers. Towards the end of the project, the access road had been greatly upgraded, and was sealed all the way. Each vehicle had its own local Thai driver, and they were all very good indeed.

I was temporarily based in Bangkok as liaison officer for the project, and had to go up river each weekend to do my job at Site. One weekend, I arrived on Friday night, did a day's work Saturday and was getting ready to do Sunday's work and pack up and return to Bangkok, but I git a message to get out NOW, because the river was rising rapidly. By this time, the road had been sealed all the way to the Site, but there were still dips in the road which flooded. I was given a LWB Landrover, with another one as an escort to get clear of the flooding area. Earlier that morning, a Toyota Minibus had left with a group of Aussies who wee going to Kanchanaburi (about 150 km downstream) for a fun run. We got about 20 km down the road when we came to a flooded section. The driver carefully drove in the centre of the road and got through OK. Two more flooded sections, and then we saw the Toyota Minibus towing the LWB Landrover coming towards us. We had to turn back - the water was too deep - it killed the Landrover. Naturally, we offloaded the minibus and took the dead Landrover in tow behind my Rover. Meanwhile, the Minibus took off with its load of passengers while we towed the dead Rover. Next flooded section, the minibus had died - the river was rising that fast. So my escort Rover took the minibus in tow and we all got through, but the water at this stage was about 8" up over the base of the windscreen. Remember that the windscreen was about 6" above the bonnet as well 9 there were fresh air flaps un der the screen. Next flooded section, the Rover towing the minibus failed as well, so we had 2 dead Landrovers and 1 dead minibus. While we were hooking up the Rover and minibus behind the dead Rover we were towing, our Rover stopped as well! Then someone pulled out a can of WD40, and we managed to get 3 of the 3 Rovers going again as well as the Toyota, but the original dead Landrover was not going anywhere. We got them all back to the Site OK.

Next morning, They tried again, but by then the locals had come to the party and arranged boats to get across the flooded sections, and pickups to transport to the next flooded section. Eventually, there was a bus which I took to Kanchanaburi, and from there another bus back to Bangkok. No aircon of course in those buses Late Monday night I got back to Bangkok. But those Landrovers - they drove through what I reckoned to be 4 feet of water - albeit still water and only short (200 m maximum) distances. They were horrible shuddering wrecks but they kept on going when a lot of modern 4WD's would have died long before.

Peter_n_Margaret wrote:

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People make mistakes.
There is some reluctance to walk through river crossings in the north because of crocs.
Cheers,
Peter

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Mate attests that that video was made at Cox's River,near Lithgow,and he has a video of himself driving his 80 series through that same river,with water over the bonnet! Cheers