This is Scary

What is interesting to me is that that rig looks like a very easrly fifth wheel that they have put a regular trailer hitch on and the hitch bent and dropped the trailer on the roof of the truck.
I wish that I could find the video of the Volkswagon Beetle with the fifth wheel hitch on the roof or the one of the older Ford Explorer hanging off the bridge still hooked to the trailer.

poppin_fresh wrote:

Dont get me wrong, it's hilarious, but as someone who has worked with photo editors for over 20 years, I'm going to stick by my hunch. I believe the truck image might be real, but not with a camper attached.

What a load of BS.

You're saying the OP is lying and you lay down this nonsense?
You obviously don't work with Photoshop, I do.
That picture in clean, untouched.
There are so many elements in that image you would be able to pick out any editing.

Firstly, I don't think it's photo shopped. I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary in the photo.
Secondly, I have a little different take on the problem. Looks to me like the Tongue on the trailer broke or bent, causing the downward push of the camper forcing more weight at the hitch. JMHP.

Hawk7 wrote:

poppin_fresh wrote:

Hawk7 wrote:
I can't believe I just witnessed this.

+10 for the bad Photoshop image.

Poppin_fresh, I can assure you that this is NOT photo shopped as you think. My husband took this photo with his cellphone. I am not into drama and wouldn't post fake pictures.

Dont get me wrong, it's hilarious, but as someone who has worked with photo editors for over 20 years, I'm going to stick by my hunch. I believe the truck image might be real, but not with a camper attached.

Reasons why:
1) Look at the bunk on top of the camper and where it meets the truck cap. It's a perfectly crisp edge yet is embedded into the cap?

2) Notice how you can see almost half of the back of the TV. Is that camper only two feet wide? Maybe the TV and camper are angled? If that's the case, to see that much of the tailgate, the front of the TV would have to be pointed at the Walmart with the camper's rear also pointed at the Walmart. When you look at the back of the camper it is clearly showing an angle NOT pointed to the Walmart, but rather away.This would mean the front of the camper should actually be hiding more of the back of the TV from our view.

3) Look at the roof line of the camper. It is clearly headed upwards on the right side of the sign, but if you continue the roofs plane past the sign, the back appears to be much lower than it should be.

4) Why is the camper so much whiter than everything else in the photo? I would like to know how the owner of a camper that old has managed to keep it so white. It's significantly whiter than the clouds even though the TV is filthy? Did they just paint it in the parking lot?

Bird Freak wrote:
Sport trac frame does not look bent to me. Cab to bed gap looks the same as mine but it is way way overloaded.

Good point. It looked bent to me at first. But, now that you made me look closer the cab to bed gap looks OK, as you said. It's not bent it's just over loaded.

Not sure why though. That trailer, empty, shouldn't be that heavy. That's one of the older ones designed to be pulled by a station wagon.

Sport trac frame does not look bent to me. Cab to bed gap looks the same as mine but it is way way overloaded.

Playtime II wrote:
Sport trac sits on a Ranger frame and not the explore frame. Mine was rated 5500 4x4 with the 4.0. Cant recall the payload but it was a nice truck for boat towing.

Ditto for my 05. Even pulled my car trailer a couple of times for short distance.

They should have a Jeep. A Jeep can pull anything.


17,000# boat plus hydraulic trailer. Note...tow was only a few miles over mostly flat ground at less than 20mph.

poppin_fresh wrote:

Hawk7 wrote:
I can't believe I just witnessed this.

+10 for the bad Photoshop image.

Poppin_fresh, I can assure you that this is NOT photo shopped as you think. My husband took this photo with his cellphone. I am not into drama and wouldn't post fake pictures.

Photoshopped