F150 vs. stupidity

Not sure if this is fake or not, being in the printing industry and having a couple of Adobe suites I'm not sure it was touched, here's another image I found, looks to bend in the same manner;

Why 5 foot beds should be eliminated.

I join the "fake" club.

The tan-colored trim along the bottom of the truck does not make a straight line at the point just behind the back door where the "bend" is supposed to occur. The rear part of the trim is higher than the front part. It's been Photoshopped.

Chit happens..

The funny thing is,we have forum members here that are way more overloaded than this picture especially if that TC is empty..

I am not sure how many here have used a 1/2 ton truck with a truck camper..I know Burningman has but the fact is,a 1/2 ton rated truck can haul a truck camper just fine and without issue..I have done it three times with 8 and 8.5 truck campers on 1/2 ton trucks and they road just fine without any issues..

This example above is about how long the TC is,not the weight of it because that pickup can easily haul the weight of that TC if it was all within the bed just as the many 3/4 tons here hauling over 1000# above there GVWR...

markowwes wrote:
Are there no cops arount to see this ****, guy should be thrown in Jail for being so stupid!

There's absolutely nothing illegal about what he's doing. As long as he's not speeding, running red lights, swerving out of his lane, committing any "moving violation" the cops can't stop him.

"Overloaded" doesn't come into play until you're commercial and the DOT gets involved. Patrol officers aren't DOT, and can only stop for moving violations. Not that they can't nit pick and come up with something but what's better, letting that mess get off the road ASAP, or pulling it over and having it there disrupting traffic for hours?

Lends absolutely ZERO credibility to the picture...

As quoted,it gives others view of what happened from Reddit which would be exactly the same as views from this forum..

Just opinions just like here huh...

"The Drive" being a reputable, respected news outlet and all...

Back as early as grade school the English teacher would show us a picture and tell us to write a story about it. This "The Drive" story sounds like something from one of those exercises. No names, no details, just a "story" that could be easily written by simply looking at the picture and drawing your own conclusions.

Lends absolutely ZERO credibility to the picture...

It made the news unlike the F-350 DRW that had the exact same thing happen..Seems like an anti-1/2 ton crowd without do process without showing the F-350 DRW with the exact same issue..(laughing)

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Just because someone can pass their driver's test it doesn't mean they should be trusted on public roads. Such is the case with this Ford F-150 owner who decided to sit an entirely-too-large camper shell on the back of their pickup, bending the bed and nearly snapping the frame in half. As we know, when something like that happens, you wind up here. On the internet.

This poor, victimized truck is an 11th-generation F-150 in King Ranch trim, made between 2004 and 2008. At the time, it was cream of the crop: saddle leather seats, a power sunroof, and even a Sony surround sound system. It came standard with a 5.4-liter V-8 making 300 horsepower and 365-pound-feet, proving it to be an exceptional performer in the towing and hauling departments.

Still, though, this slide-in camper is too much. First, it's clearly intended for a long-bed truck and this—as you can see—is a short-bed model. Secondly, a quick Google search shows that the topper weighs around 2,800 pounds; this particular F-150 only touts a payload capacity of around 2,000 pounds in crew cab, four-wheel-drive configuration.

This is a recipe for disaster as one Reddit user pointed out on the original thread.

“That camper weight is probably dry. Once you add passenger, liquids, and luggage, that truck is toast," said one commenter.

Others think that while the bed is clearly toast, and the frame itself may be OK.

“It’s probably just bed damage and not the frame but still,” mentioned one user.

“You can see the straight frame below it in the shadows. There are a handful of bed bolts between this and catastrophe,” added another.

The teensy strap that's been lobbed from one side of the bed to the other isn't doing much for load security, either.

Hopefully, the driver knew better than to hit the road once they parked and saw the damage to their truck. Then again, who would think they'd ever see something like this in public to start with?

Clearly, this is the ONLY way to get every last drop to drain from the holding tanks. DUH!