One of the dumbest things I saw was a truck driving down a mountain highway about 10 feet ahead of an old single axle Terry holiday trailer that was no longer attached and obviously had no safety chains or trailer brakes. I was visiting with my sister as I was hooking my truck up to the trailer and I didn't push the little ball lock thingy down nor did I hook up the safety chains. We got going down the highway and hit a railroad crossing at 50 mph. I watched in the mirror and saw the trailer bounce up in the air and immediately recognized it had come unhooked. I calmly said to my wife "we just lost our trailer". She didn't believe me so I said " no really its chasing us down the highway". The kids thought it was great fun but when my wife saw I wasn't joking she started beating on me calling me an idiot. We crossed a bridge which had a curb at the edge of the road. The road was crowned in the middle so the trailer started to veer to the right. It bounced off the curb and headed to the left I was about ready to slam on the brakes to let it pile into my truck as there was on coming traffic but the crown in the road was enough to send back to the right again. It bounced again off the curb and eventually after crossing the bridge it went off into the ditch. I hooked on to the back bumper with a tow strap and pulled it back onto the road and by this time a couple other vehicles stopped to help. The wires were pulled out of the plug and the jack was damaged but other than that it was only my pride that was hurt. We had enough help to manually lift it up onto the ball hitch and after reattaching the wires we were on our way.
