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December 17, 2008
Here's Why You Should Never Run Over a Mattress
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
The owner of this vehicle came in complaining of a “shimmy” at high speeds. I guess 60 pounds of wire wrapped around the driveshaft will do that. More pics after the jump!
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Feb 3, 2009 at 4:27 am
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Dreyfus Fardnegga
Jan 30, 2009 at 7:25 pm
that mattress was obviously on special, its been heavily reduced lol, but what happened to the dude sleeping on it ??? musta been a wirey customer aye bro !!! why some joker would set up camp on a road is nuts !!!
Scooby_Doop
Jan 29, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Some poor beaner lost his BBQ grill.
Mike
Jan 1, 2009 at 4:03 pm
OH MY GOD YO!!! You didnt notice the mattress that you hit? like WTF!! If I ran over a pine cone I would make sure that it wasnt under there! Holy crap you are freaking stupid! Not to mention the fact of the people honking and flashing their lights at you probably letting you know something is wrong! You obviously dont deserve a drivers license and honestly deserve to be shot on sight! I cant believe there are people like you who have a license. What ever happened to the old habit of checking your ride before you got in it or after you drove it!?!??! I mean come on!!! My car would drive better on its own than you can! You should surrender your license and just become a monk or something! all I can say about this is WOW! Your an idiot!
zerodrift
Dec 23, 2008 at 8:18 am
must of been a blond lol
Boris
Dec 22, 2008 at 9:56 am
dude…id pull over after running over a plastic grocery bag if it doesn’t appear in my rear view mirror just to make sure it didnt melt onto my exhaust but a mattress??????? come on…lol
Rob
Dec 22, 2008 at 5:18 am
Stupid….
Darkside
Dec 21, 2008 at 5:57 pm
If only it was a Memory Foam Mattress they wouldn’t have had this problem.
chris
Dec 20, 2008 at 7:54 pm
how do you not see a mattress while driving, thats what i want to know…..and if the driver couldnt avoid it, he abviously kept driving, theres no way it would get wound up like that……
Santa
Dec 19, 2008 at 8:52 pm
this shows how much the driver was payin attention to the road
trevor
Dec 19, 2008 at 1:35 pm
did anyone notice that noone in that picture is smileing :p lmfao i thought it was funny dude that sucks tho… like how dose that happen?
LMAO REALLY
Dec 19, 2008 at 11:36 am
“Only at Mattress Giant… Oohh Aaww” lol
jxb
Dec 19, 2008 at 9:20 am
Was this the new Knight rider car with Kit deciding to sleep rather than drunk driving?
Ron Oliver
Dec 19, 2008 at 7:52 am
Mattress 1…
Drive Shaft 0
matty
Dec 19, 2008 at 3:52 am
I’d be pissed if I were his mechanic man! haha, FAWK
cavaliers rule the scene
Dec 18, 2008 at 9:53 pm
whats your sleep number? 60lbs
Hekii
Dec 18, 2008 at 7:32 pm
nice “truck-bed.”
XTZTwinTurbo
Dec 18, 2008 at 6:09 pm
what tard wouldnt figure out that the noise might be a direct result of running over something as large as a mattress. Derrrr
Brandon
Dec 18, 2008 at 5:59 pm
to bad it wasnt tempurpedic…hahaa
RJ Walker
Dec 18, 2008 at 2:05 pm
i ran over a bag of powdered sugar once… at least i hope it was powdered sugar.. yeah, it took FOREVER to get all that white crap off of the underneath of my car hahahaha. as for this guy… i simply don’t know what to say… who woulda thought that in a Mattress VS. Car battle, the mattress does pretty well. haha
BASHLINE
Dec 18, 2008 at 1:20 pm
i dought thats the shimmy problem. must have lost a wheel weight. te he
Keith Ta
Dec 18, 2008 at 11:24 am
First time i’ve seen. DAmm..
rey
Dec 18, 2008 at 10:34 am
I bet thier are some sheep that know what happened.
Derrick
Dec 18, 2008 at 8:12 am
Guess this Jeep’s a real sleeper!
01cavifreak
Dec 18, 2008 at 6:43 am
WTF!
teamtc06
Dec 18, 2008 at 6:03 am
dam how could that happen …………………….
djez016
Dec 17, 2008 at 10:37 pm
wow lol jus wow
Rich
Dec 17, 2008 at 10:13 pm
wow….. Just Wow!!!!!!!!!!
Is that even Humanly Possible? Nay Physically Possible?
Sheesh, well better get the tin Snips ready…. and some ICY-HOT for the wrist
Jake
Dec 17, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Oh…my…god… 0_o
7urtle
Dec 17, 2008 at 7:43 pm
yea i had too hitt the shouldr to swerve this summer from one
melville248
Dec 17, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Did the driver not know he ran over a mattress? That’s just crazy.
GTwildfire
Dec 17, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Probably best to pull the driveshaft and replace it. There’s no way I’d run the same driveshaft after that. Would make cleanup go a lot easier, too.
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When I see this I think someone was careless with his pickup’s cargo.
EAT_SLEEP_JDM
Dec 17, 2008 at 11:38 am
See if it was a memory foam mattress then that wouldn’t have happened.
Chris
Dec 17, 2008 at 9:54 am
Damn that’s nuts. Gotta be a PITA to rip all of that out
Russ
Dec 17, 2008 at 9:38 am
Hard to believe that the only complaint was a shimmy a high speeds, dosen’t say much for how it drove without the 60 lbs of mattress wire I guess!
Probably makes a decent street sweeper though!
Steve
Dec 17, 2008 at 8:10 am
Anyone fancy some steel and wool candy?
Maffew
Dec 17, 2008 at 4:56 am
HOLY CRAP!
bravenrace
Dec 17, 2008 at 4:18 am
In 1984 my Mother was on the freeway behind a truck when a mattress fell off the back of the truck. She couldn’t avoid it and drove over it. It got caught in the rear axle of her 1978 Pinto. She pulled over and got out. As she was looking the car over, the catalytic converter apparently lit the mattress on fire. The car burned to the ground, and without being hit from behind!