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Tree Removal Fail


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» 464 Failures in Communication

  1. - says:

    FAIL Blog RSS FAIL. I don’t get an in-flight movie fail.

  2. This guy over here says:

    No need to rush guys. He’s probably okay.

  3. Otto says:

    Wow. He really didn’t think that one through, did he?

  4. C says:

    They should expect this to happen >_>

  5. jay says:

    HAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHA THAT IS SOOOOO FUNNY AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA FAILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

  6. UTme says:

    Is that a FENCE in front of the truck? Did they honestly not expect the tree to fall right on top? What in the hell?

    • dcdude says:

      Yeah I know. I was wondering why the truck wasn’t moving forward as the tree was falling.

      I love how they all stand there like they expected it.

      • Jenaroo says:

        There is only one explanation: Insurance fraud.

        Imagine the claims adjuster’s face when they’re giving the explanation of what happened.

        Adjuster: “I’m sorry, we don’t give checks to the mentally retarded. Company policy.”

  7. Giuliano says:

    Heh, the tree preloaded itself…now just drive it away.

  8. WOOTS!! says:

    FIRST!!!!!!!! O YA

  9. wimple says:

    Actually – it isn’t a tree removal fail. The tree WAS removed.

    Candidate for Darwin award?

  10. Mookie says:

    That clip needs to be edited down to like 20 seconds.

  11. lolol says:

    I bet the tree’s laughing at him. I know I would be.

  12. jophno says:

    I think failblog hates me, where are my comments?

  13. Sir VG says:

    Yeah, saw that one coming.

  14. CarmenT says:

    I kept waiting for the tree to “snap” back and hit the building. Ah well, some property damage for the idjit with the truck works too.

  15. G86 says:

    Wait a moment, the last few minutes shows that the truck was blocked in by a fence of some sorts. It looks like they attached the rope to the tree and figured that they would not need to move the truck swiftly in order to avoid the falling tree. The best part of this all is that no one at the scene of fail runs to the person in the truck to check if he is injured.

  16. Mary says:

    GAWD. Who didn’t see that coming before it happened?!

    Idiocracy is here now!

  17. Behe says:

    That’s almost up for a Darwin award..

    • jophno says:

      If only driver and co. had been somehow removed from the gene pool.

      Sadly no, idiots still live among us no matter how willing we are to reward them for removing their genes.

  18. Mike says:

    FIRST hetero commenter

  19. asdf says:

    Hey!
    It’s a tree removal win!
    With an inteligence fail!!!

  20. mejrm says:

    and a saftey fail i said! god! no one lessons!

  21. James says:

    What, did they think gravity was going to be kind to them?
    Bloody idiots.

  22. Sludge says:

    Dear Palm Tree Removal Dude,

    Your insurance claim is denied.

  23. mejrm says:

    and thats not intelligence…that just requires common sence…wich they dont seem to have

  24. Marius says:

    Revenge! Tree bonsai man!

  25. buba says:

    buba thinks the truck is borked but repairable.

    just change the doors, glasses and rectify the body with a hammer, and that should be ok.

  26. Twinkle says:

    Puff the magic

  27. JJ says:

    Ha, everyone here is missing the point of the work. Really they were trying to use the truck to push the fence over, but didn’t want the truck to drive too far past the fence, hence they tethered it. Unfortunately the cable was too short. Measurement skill fail.

  28. Wes says:

    I missed the part where the driver of the truck looked aghast as he held up a sign that said, “IN HEAVEN’S NAME, WHAT AM I DOING?”

  29. Fred says:

    What is the next step.. put the Christmas tree in the house?

  30. cec says:

    How could they possibly have thought that was going to end any other way? XD

    • AliCat says:

      Ditto. Hell, the whole time I’m watching, I know what’s going to happen; how could they be “thinking” through this and not?

  31. CarmenT says:

    land called honalee

  32. Blue Jay says:

    What the biscuit…………..

  33. DariusMDeV says:

    When are people going to realize that 100% of all videos showing trees falling on to things are completely staged, and stop giving them notoriety?

    • Sergeant Semantics says:

      Agreed. You can totally see the pixelation where they Photoshopped that truck into the video.

    • jake says:

      youd be suprised at the average american’s propensity to fail.

      many of these are not staged, just performed by people who can not form complete sentences. [rednecks, beaners][no offense, its only racist if you are.]

      • Lunchbox says:

        Well done, genius. How many right-hand drive pickups do you know of in the U.S.? Stupidity is universal, we Americans don’t have the patent on it. In fact, look around the internet and you’ll find idiots abound outside of North America. Better yet, go look in the mirror. I bet you’ll find one right away!

      • Mookie says:

        “Beaner” isn’t racist??? Wow…

      • Marius says:

        youd? Jake you’re an idiot (no offense, it’s only insulting if you are).

      • ErickB says:

        I am not surprised at the average idiots propensity to make ignorant statements while being unable to properly capitalize words, not once but repeatedly. [No offense, your only stupid if you are.]

      • Vernunft says:

        Whoops, you’re an idiot. Are you American? If not…uh oh, every non-American is stupid! /anti-American logic

  34. Kristian says:

    Was that a part of the plan? :P

    Otherwise I can’t see why they would even do that.

  35. Xentaros says:

    Weeeell, I figured that since it was on here, something like the cord snapping and the truck going top speed into the fence and the neighbors yard would’ve been what happened. Alas, only gravity happened.

  36. scotteh says:

    Did anyone else notice that there was a movie playing in the truck that showed a tree falling on a truck?? DID YOU!?!??!!?

    well… it would have been great if there was.

    And I STILL want to know what that inflight movie was. Grrrr!!

  37. Zep says:

    Honestly they didnt see that coming?
    FAIL

  38. ... says:

    and then, man invented the axe.

  39. Hazzytje says:

    Oh come on… who didnt see that one coming?

  40. Elborba says:

    Obviously they are from some strange and mysterious country that does not have the deadly “Palm Tree” as an indiginous predator . .

  41. Padfo says:

    The driver guy really should get a Darwin awards special mention for “good effort”. If that would have been a european car he would have his head smashed in. And he would have deserved it.

    I can not grasp how four people can be involved in that, and not one of them realize that exactly that would happen. Stupid people like that really needs to get their genes off this planet more often.

    • jake says:

      revokes superfluous ‘s’

      …indeed.

    • Hell Hath No Fury says:

      You didn’t even need to see the end to know, really KNOW this was going to happen. yes, instead of any other direction…let’s pull it towards the truck, while we all stand and watch and not realize that tree>distance between tree and truck.

    • jophno says:

      proper identification of left and right FAIL
      it IS a european truck

    • sabremeister says:

      Specificity fail. Most cars made for Britain (ie. with right-hand drive) are made in Europe, or by European firms. Whereas left-hand drive cars are not only sold in continental Europe.

      (And, yes, I know, pedantry win)

    • Lunchbox ® says:

      Did you not pay attention? It IS a ‘european’ vehicle- it’s right-hand drive.

    • Stuart van Onselen says:

      Yeah – South Africa. (hangs head in shame.)

    • Phillip J. Fry says:

      Well, Darwin Awards are only for those who dies. You could clearly see that the driver (the man with the white hat) comes out at the other side.

  42. Cloral says:

    Well duh. Where’d he expect the tree to go?

  43. Angell says:

    yeah its gets a big fat DUH!

    you could have seen that coming (except he didn’t as he was in his pickup at the time!)

  44. Elvis says:

    Didn’t see that one coming

  45. simsim says:

    Seems like a set-up. No attempt to avoid the falling tree and a lack of surprise at the result. Plus, who films a tree removal? Maybe they were trying to win some type of stupid stunt video prize.

  46. Fwee. says:

    How could they expect anything else to happen? x)

  47. stu says:

    Someone never watched Roadrunner cartoons as a kid.

  48. superstrikertwo says:

    If a tree falls on a truck does it make a sound?

  49. noobaxce says:

    what kind of idiots are they.. pulling down the tree towards the car… lol seriously… kind of sad

  50. ben says:

    tree: from-the-grave!

  51. Zombii says:

    The trees was getting revenge.

  52. Thepook says:

    That guy has engineer written all over him.

  53. Achi says:

    I’m sure it’s already been said but….what a bunch of dumb***es. I don’t know which is worse, the fact that the guy with the truck couldn’t figure out in a minute thirty what I saw in 3 seconds, or the fact that a whole GROUP of people weren’t smart enough to figure out how stupid of an idea that was. That’s the kind of thing drunk people do. Or maybe they all wanted to see the guy with the truck kill himself. They get together for Thanksgiving and find out that cousin Al has a will with the whole family included. So they all covince him that his Datsun pick-up can pull down that pesky palm tree in the front. Chainsaw? We don’t need no chainsaw, we have a Datsun with a ladder rack and a come-a-long.

    And how is it that we are so high up on the food chain? I guess stupid does eventually kill so I’ll take heart in that.

  54. amused says:

    Ugh. Not being on windows, windows viruses still manage to affect you…

    (ubuntu, if you’re curious)

  55. Bgirl says:

    Uh, What did he THINK was going to happen?

  56. turk says:

    I predicted this. Does that make me a palm reader?

  57. j-roll says:

    foresight fail

  58. Molly says:

    Um, did no one there notice in the first 2 minutes that the tree was taller than the distance to the truck? You could see that coming from the first second…

  59. BrightEyes says:

    I guess someone failed Physics 101 and Intro to Trigonometry…

  60. Hitler says:

    Ze Deutsche do not Feil!

    • Grumpy Curmudgeon says:

      Nope. Afrikaners.

      (Afrikaans is kinda like a simplified Dutch, which is kinda like a simplified German. Kinda.)

  61. yasure says:

    This exact same thing happened to me. And when I say “me” I mean my Aunt. Ad when I say “exact” I mean I had lunch at Denny’s.

  62. Slash says:

    Uh-oh. Better get Maaco!

  63. Fheighl says:

    What an R-Tard.

  64. Neb says:

    Apparently all of those people slept through math/geometry class. I’m terrible at math, but I could trace the arc from the top of the tree to the front of the truck and see what was about to happen. Cripes.

    • Disturbed says:

      jesus i know. being that this was a fail site, i knew imeediately thr tree was gonna land on the truck…..

      And I doubt any of them went to math class AT ALL.

  65. Disturbed says:

    …where else would the freakin’ tree have landed?

  66. PointsOutTheObvious says:

    Ok… Video fail. 13 seconds in it greys and pops up the repeat button. Still, even a still picture would show the inevitable fail. I’ll just consider it a double fail.

  67. Dragonwriter says:

    *leaves a plate of cookies and a glass of wine for the Admiral, who predicted he was going to have a bad day today*

    *also leaves a photographed self-portrait in new Freudian corset along with directions to the lair*

  68. larwick says:

    Physics anyone?

  69. Moises says:

    hahahahah, never mess with A.T.W.A

  70. ethana2 says:

    I don’t suppose anyone would go through the trouble of sparing us unix users from dire warnings about windows security problems via browser useragents?

  71. andy says:

    palm tree win

    truck idea fail

  72. Wormulon says:

    what. an. idiot.

  73. Chantel says:

    Was the guy….. okay….?!

    • Phillip J. Fry says:

      Yes, it seems like that. You see the man with the white hat getting out of the car and coming around on the front…

  74. gringo says:

    Welcome to episode #2384756 of: “How did they not see that coming?”.

    • JenJen says:

      Hahaha – ironically, one of the spectators says afterwards, “Ek het dit nie verwag nie” (translated = “I didn’t expect that”). Obvious (double) fail.

  75. Carl says:

    What a total dumbass!!

    How did civilisation ever get to this point with mongs like that among us?

  76. thepowerofblue says:

    George, George, George’s Tree Removal
    Strong as we can be!

  77. glenstar says:

    The gene pool could use a little chlorine

  78. Soulcrun says:

    Are they really that dumb to not foresee this…?

  79. Beantown says:

    I just realized that theres a fence blocking the trucks way from moving! That’s just unheard of stupidity. At first, I had thought maybe he just didn’t keep driving like he had planned to do, but he couldn’t because there was a fence in the way. I can’t even fathom that kind of stupidity.

    Agreement with previous poster. Its sad these four will still contribute to the gene pool. God help mankind.

  80. schism says:

    omg this guys are such idiots :)

  81. Ron Fields says:

    That’s what you get for being stupid.

  82. Caio says:

    This is the very first time I actually see a science fail.

  83. Moron says:

    What did he EXPECT would happen? Unless he is Dyslexic, which would mean at least ONE of the following two are true:

    1. He read Newton’s law of Motion as, “To every action there is an equal but opposite reaction…except for trees. And tow cables.”

    2. He never even LEARNED how to read, and therefore was not informed of Newton’s law of motion…

  84. chanh55 says:

    What were they expecting?

  85. MEARLE says:

    I seriously want to know what he expected?

  86. Hunter says:

    That truck only had two weeks left ’til retirement. ):

  87. Roybatty says:

    Hey, least it didn’t fall on the house, right? LOL

  88. Captain Quizno says:

    That sounded like a Mazda REPU.
    Poor little rotary truck…

  89. Mike says:

    It’s like straight out of idiocracy. It’s not just the tree removal guy, it’s the other people who are standing around like zombies.

  90. Ryan says:

    Might has well get crushed, they prolly burned the clutch out in it by then anyway

  91. SM0k3 says:

    If you’re going to fail THAT’S how you do it. LOL

  92. Grangoire says:

    More like tree removal success, but common sense fail.

  93. Paul says:

    ‘n Boer Maak ‘n Plan!

  94. Brass Shadow says:

    Truck fail!

    Darwin win!

  95. Preston says:

    and no one standing ther saw that coming?

  96. Easterbunny says:

    I can has ficus insurance?

  97. D a l e B r o wn says:

    OK trucks loaded up now, go ahead and pull on out.

  98. Matthew deGroot says:

    Nou daar is a boer wat kan a boom verstaan. As die boom is in die wag, kry net ‘n bakkie en fock die kak op. ‘N Boer maak ‘n plan. South-Africans, gotta love ‘em.

  99. Javi says:

    That was stupid

  100. Daniel says:

    That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

  101. Steve says:

    Don’t bother rushing to check to see if the driver is ok…

  102. Dorque says:

    And what exactly did they think was going to happen?

  103. Dangger says:

    Who said it was a fail? These people seemed to look for that outcome, or else, why did they do that?

  104. colormekev says:

    Not everyone rush at once to check on the guy! lol, what did they expect was gonna happen?

  105. sniDer says:

    THAT IS NOT A TREE. PALMS ARE NOT TREES.

    ASTRONOMICAL FAIL

  106. Hanii Puppy says:

    It was kinda obvious …

  107. EFG says:

    1:20 + “NED” = current situation.

  108. mmeeemme says:

    the rope was way to short… you could see it coming :P

  109. vtpaul says:

    Re-title: Tree Removal Win!
    Tree is down AND ready for transport!

  110. Jasper von Sillyputty says:

    My God, between the 4 of them they don’t have one working brain.

  111. funnehkat says:

    This video was filmed in Georgia!

    lol i mean really USE SOME DAMN LOGIC.

  112. MT says:

    what else could have happened?? Must be a bunch of retarded people.. still funny tho :)

  113. the car is totaled=FAIL :D 

  114. Dave says:

    That’s how you take the tree down and get it loaded up in your truck at the same time.

  115. Paula says:

    I laughed out loud. What a moron! :)


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