Another one taken by the tide!

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4X4s are all terrain vehicles - until you find they aren't then they're self anchoring.

I'd like to know how it got there. Did the owner drive into the harbour? If so we need the equivalent of the Darwin Awards for spectacular stupidity leading to the removal of the vehicle from our roads
 

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4X4s are all terrain vehicles - until you find they aren't then they're self anchoring.

I'd like to know how it got there. Did the owner drive into the harbour? If so we need the equivalent of the Darwin Awards for spectacular stupidity leading to the removal of the vehicle from our roads
Misleading satnav? Didn't read: "Now take the ferry..."?
 

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4X4s are all terrain vehicles - until you find they aren't then they're self anchoring.

I'd like to know how it got there. Did the owner drive into the harbour? If so we need the equivalent of the Darwin Awards for spectacular stupidity leading to the removal of the vehicle from our roads
Maybe a joy ride by someone who doesn't understand PWCs?
Or a domestic disagreement similar to this one wrt a yacht in Dartmouth: Estranged husband scuttles his £40,000 boat to spite wife
(I remember that incident because I happened to be in Dartmouth at the time:
 

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Doesn't seem to have a trailer attached, unless removed before pictures taken, so I have to wonder what it was doing there.

Most 4x4 vehicles are seriously limited by their tyre choice. Low profile road tyres on a 4x4 makes it little better than a 2wd saloon in these situations. 4wd is part of the equation, but proper off road tyres provide the majority of the vehicles off road capabilities.

Having said that, drive into soft mud and almost anything will get stuck.
 

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Why were the coasties involved? No life at risk and no danger to navigation = not their concern. The risk of pollution makes it the harbourmaster's business perhaps.
 

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Doesn't seem to have a trailer attached, unless removed before pictures taken, so I have to wonder what it was doing there.

Most 4x4 vehicles are seriously limited by their tyre choice. Low profile road tyres on a 4x4 makes it little better than a 2wd saloon in these situations. 4wd is part of the equation, but proper off road tyres provide the majority of the vehicles off road capabilities.

Having said that, drive into soft mud and almost anything will get stuck.


"We are the peatbog soldiers...."


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4X4s are all terrain vehicles - until you find they aren't then they're self anchoring.

I'd like to know how it got there. Did the owner drive into the harbour? If so we need the equivalent of the Darwin Awards for spectacular stupidity leading to the removal of the vehicle from our roads
I wonder if the owner has started making up a story for drafting the insurance claim...
 
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