Another Breakaway Pole vs. Pickup Truck

By Steve McCollum; posted June 29, 2009

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This is the verbatim text from the picture as it was forwarded to me:

Now here's a hard core drinker and one tough Dodge truck. The driver hit the left turn light and sheared off the light post at the base, and then kept driving on about 2 miles to Squires Four Pub, where he stopped for more beer!!

How impaired do you have to be NOT to notice that you are carrying a stop light? I wonder if the light was green?

The truck was towed about 2.5 miles to the towing yard, with the light still pinched between the two tow hooks, and the bumper bent around it. It took several good hard pulls with a backhoe to get the pole free.

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