Land Rover Stuck In Mud Makes Front Page News

[Adz The Rat]

This actually made it to the front page of my local paper

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/8847666....

Complete overkill by the police & newspaper??

They should have just paid a farmer £20 to tow them out!

[Uhura fighter]

"Two helicopters, 26 mountain rescue volunteers and two police patrols had to be deployed after they got lost and stuck."

Trying to DRIVE up Darwen Tower at night. Should have left them to it.


No green lanes there either.

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

Darwen tower?

The irony is strong on this one.

[Corsair7]

Surely the real idiots were the people that ordered the 'rescue'? Hardly a life threatening situation.

[Carrot]

"extreme spots"

I did a bit of green laning a couple of years back. Would hardly call it extreme!

[hairykrishna]

They should be charged the cost of the rescue operation. What a bunch of total numpties.

[JRM Rossi]

If you want to go off roading use a land rover...... if you want to get home use a HUMMER i have towed a landy out of the mud @ 3 in the morning, come on own up are you on here ? lol

[Parrot of Doom]

Dr Doofenshmirtz said:

Darwen tower?

The irony is strong on this one.

Indeed.

[Marlin45]

Bunch of Disco driving plonkers So they really called 999 when they got their vehicles stuck sad wooftie muppets.

Over reaction by the emergency services though and I hope the drivers get prosecuted. Numpties

[Davi]

hairykrishna said:

They should be charged the cost of the rescue operation. What a bunch of total numpties.

too right. Besides of which, they were up the side of a hill in adverse conditions, but they had frikin large warm safe cars to wait in!!!! not exactly going to die from exposure. Soft tts.

[sinizter]

hairykrishna said:

They should be charged the cost of the rescue operation. What a bunch of total numpties.

Which would be fair, except the emergency services seems to have gone 'nuclear' and dispatched everything they could get their hands on. So in this particular case, I definitely don't think the entire cost should be passed on to the idiots - even if it could be.

[GKP]

It's really infuriating when numbnuts such as these go where they're not supposed to. We've lost thousands of miles of drivable lanes over the years due to reactions to idiotic behaviour. It won't be long until there's a blanket ban on such activities and it will all be the fault of these types. The walkers and greenies love this sort news story to further their cause.

The rules are quite simple, if you're not allowed to drive there, then you don't drive there. If you are allowed to drive there but the track is in a poor state, you don't drive there.

[anonymous-user]

JRM Rossi said:

If you want to go off roading use a land rover...... if you want to get home use a HUMMER i have towed a landy out of the mud @ 3 in the morning, come on own up are you on here ? lol

You're joking right?

The H1 is ok offroad but far to wide to be useable in most offroading situation in the UK.
The H2 and H3 aren't offroaders.

[BLUETHUNDER]

champ54321 said:

JRM Rossi said:

If you want to go off roading use a land rover...... if you want to get home use a HUMMER i have towed a landy out of the mud @ 3 in the morning, come on own up are you on here ? lol

You're joking right?

The H1 is ok offroad but far to wide to be useable in most offroading situation in the UK.
The H2 and H3 aren't offroaders.

Shows what you know. Ive used mine off road.Ploughed through thick mud and water,That stopped a Disco.Took steep inclines with ease.And before you say it.Ive owned more Landrovers than i care to name,and still own one now.And the H2 is just as capable.....

[chryslerben]

Hhhmmmmmm H1 Hummer

[wildoliver]

Did you mean if you want to get stuck with a broken axle buy a hummer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Ih0b2JmqY&fea...

One of many broken hummer videos.

If you want to get home use a land cruiser or a Unimog.

[anonymous-user]

God yeah, must be awesome off road with THOSE side steps on..... ;-)

[Zad]

And ON road?

It is all very well being a total monster off road, but a bit of a bugger if you can't actually get to the bottom of your own road because it is the width of a Californian ego.

[pacman1]

Corsair7 said:

Surely the real idiots were the people that ordered the 'rescue'? Hardly a life threatening situation.

Bit of quality hands on training for all involved I'd say. Looks like iphone maps are sheite from the sound of it, should have taken a dedicated handheld GPS.

[BLUETHUNDER]

wildoliver said:

Did you mean if you want to get stuck with a broken axle buy a hummer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Ih0b2JmqY&fea...

One of many broken hummer videos.

If you want to get home use a land cruiser or a Unimog.

Thats a H3 not a H2.There is a fella who races Hummers pretty much standard in the Baja 1000.Does pretty well by all accounts.