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Ford Truck Saved my Life! A Deer hit me head on at 70 MPH-How I walked away.

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Video by Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

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This video provides a personal account of the harrowing experience of hitting a deer at high speed while towing a heavy trailer. It details the immediate aftermath, the extent of the truck's damage, the importance of properly secured cargo, and even a subsequent towing mishap where the damaged truck further impacted the tow truck. The narrative emphasizes quick thinking, reliance on vehicle safety features, and the unexpected challenges of being stranded, all while delivering crucial safety advice.

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with a piece in my bloodshot eyes I walk to the waterfall alas goodbye he begs some nuts a crappy mom and I saw a deer in the woods it was like a magnet to the front of my trucks right so he said when he healed on the keys all over I head I lives is that Griffin out Hitler happy here oh this is where it gets good Frankie when we're towing my busted up truck there the chains flat loose and the truck smashes into the back of the tow truck [Music] and lucky I got a headache rack because we would have had one heck of a headache guys some of you younger viewers don't watch this this is not gonna be pretty you guys alright guys sometimes life is way stranger than fiction and if I wasn't there on this journey I would have never believed it and luckily I had my camera the story starts out I was just driving a trailer full of attachments up to northern Minnesota up by Canada and everything kind of went south from there so without wasting more time let's get into that body by the riverbank called a moose a pickup liked it are you guys all of this has to go back up to almost Canada I've got a five hour drive one way everything is strapped down tight as a drum alright you guys last night was not fun I was driving down the road and I saw a deer in the woods and it was running it was like a magnet to the front of my truck I'm flashing my lights honking my horn I'm swerving slamming on the brakes and this thing ran right into my truck if I was sitting still and not moving at all this deer would have still probably smacked directly into me I don't there was no way I was going to escape this deer and it made sure of it because as I'm driving down the road the deer comes out and then aims at me so I steer over and the deer moves over the more I'm Hawking and flashing and slamming on the brakes the more the deer starts gunning for me because then I move back over and what does the deer do it moves right over and then at the very last moment I swerved and I remember as i can'ts were very much I've got this trailer full of tools and attachments on in my back of my mind I'm like oh please don't break free oh please don't break free because I knew what would happen if those things went sailing off from that trailer not only would the deer be gone but dirt monkey be gone I think look at this truck I think she might be totaled oh look at a little meat left airbags deflated so I mean I went from 70 miles an hour down to six that's that's fluid fluid fluid that's what happens when you sleep in your truck last night I'm in this parking lot yeah freezing cold look at this thing she just blew up in my face so Frankie was asking me what happened last night so the story goes I hit the deer on this road and I wasn't gonna sleep on the side of the road right the truck fired back up so I turned it around and I seen there was a little town just behind me about a mile south of where I was at so I pulled into town and I found the first parking lot that I could find is the first spot I could pull the truck and trailer over where I wasn't on a road right because I had no radiator fluid the truck was leaking oil all over and I knew I was not driving it anymore and I'm looking for a Reaper so I get on the phone on the last night start looking for a repair shop that can fix it and I realize I'm actually in the parking lot of a repair shop so then I start to and then the name of the repair shop is okay tire and bait not great tire and bait ok tire and Bay so I started looking up reviews on these guys and they got 48 reviews and their average is 4.8 stars out of 5 I'm like I think I found my place let's walk around and see how bad this is it looks like yeah it looks like I'm gonna need a front fender for sure the entire insides are just I got deer here all in here I think she's I don't know how well she's gonna hold up there's deer fur under there you can see hair everywhere so deer did roll underneath here yes there's deer hair all covering my trailer that's deer hair if you look look on the tires that's that's from the deer and I want to show you guys some testimonial to shocks reps I think shocks reps may have saved my life because when I was driving down the road going from 70 to almost a dead stop from colliding with the deer none of this stuff on this trailer moved and this is not light stuff I mean this is this is a stump puller for a skid loader and it's a prototype but this thing's gotta weigh 2,000 pounds right there just this thing right here here's the strap like it I have not touched these straps look at this thing it's still tight as a drum still tight as a drum watch this if those straps had snapped loose that thing what a catapulted and right into the back of my truck and taken me out and in fact that actually did happen to my buddy son he took a truck and it went into a ditch when the unfortunate truth is is he had a TV in the back of his truck and crashing into the ditch didn't end him but when the TV went from the back of the truck through the back of the cab unfortunately he passed away as soon as I collided with that deer and the airbags went off one of the things I noticed is the truck went into this kind of emergency mode the flashers automatically went off the horn started beeping over and over again and the truck instantly slowed down not just from the collision but it seemed like the truck itself just put the brakes on and then it kept running just enough to allow me to get over to the side of the road safely and then I turn the truck off it was like all of a sudden the entire truck just sense that an impact happened and it took over and went into this emergency response mode that I've never experienced before so if you guys have ever seen anything like that or experienced something like that I would love to hear from you to find out now that's on a Ford and I know if some of you guys run dodge Chevy's and gmcs and Toyota's so if you have any experience will you put that in the comments down below because I'd love to hear from you guys the deer well you might see bits of hamburger on the highway yeah that one I'm stand by the way Kristin Tristan yep nice to meet you Tristan you work here at ok tire and bait airbags deployed yeah so you think so just because the airbags deployed yeah they don't like your big stuff yeah they definitely don't do they little yeah ed button yep pretty beta but was he pretty beat up after I got pulled over a semi pulled over in front of me about 10 15 minutes later and he's like did you see what was left of that deer and I'm like yeah I took out the first part of it in the semis like but after I was done hitting it it wasn't even hamburger Wow yeah semi hit it right after me so that thing is there's nothing left of that deer [Applause] and this day just keeps getting more interesting watch the positioning of this truck on the flatbed because when we get to our destination I'm gonna tell you right now the truck is not in this same position oh and then when I'm towing it there oh this is where it gets good Frankie when we're towing my busted up truck there the chains on the chains let loose so it's on a flatbed the chains loose and the truck smashes into the back of the tow truck while we're in it I'm just like just does okay I can't make this stuff up I just can't make it out that's why you want a headache rack you guys we were driving the tow truck down the road and the chains on the truck came loose I don't think my truck is meant to survive this trip I was telling the guy lucky you got a headache rack because we would have had one heck of a headache those tones just loose can't make the truck any worse I'm just waiting for my truck to fall off the back of that thing yes some of you younger viewers don't watch this this is not gonna be pretty you guys this is parts of my truck we're driving over I would love to show you what was left of this deer you guys but it's actually pretty disturbing and I just don't want to upset some of the more sensitive viewers so let me just kind of walk you through what was there it started out as about a hundred seventy pound young buck but what was left was about thirty-five pounds of skin that was it there was no red cake there was no skeleton there was nothing left inside of the deer except for something that you could pick up and put in a five gallon paint can it was it just disintegrated it was gone there was nothing no snow skeleton like the entire skeletal system disappeared just poof as you saying we started the trip with a white truck chained and we finished the trip with a black truck no no no venison hunt is fun so Frankie ended up grabbing the Dodge and coming up and saving my butt I ended up sleeping in the parking lot inside that Ford and say yeah sleeping in a Ford truck is not very comfortable their seats don't lay back and then it got so cold that night and I couldn't turn the truck on so I had no heat right and I'm out in the middle of nowhere so there isn't an uber and I have no clue what's around me I just pulled into a parking lot and there's no heat because the truck basically has no radiator fluid and I don't know if it's got engine oil so I'm not gonna start it and run it and I was freezing my butt off I I was more afraid of freezing at night that I was eventually after I hit the deer so I ended up grabbing my backpack putting it over the top of me and sitting inside of it to conserve yeah oh good times good times I want to hear your guys's stories those are the best stories so tell me your stories of the adventure do you guys have because those things are awesome in the comments down below god bless you guys go get them you enjoyed my story today glad glad I was able to walk away uninjured but while you're here do me a favor check out these videos right here you guys god bless and go get up

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