33 Replies to “Russian Tow Truck”

  1. If he’s not doing that on orders from a mafia boss, I can guarantee you the driver/crane operator is floating down the bottom of the Volga right now.

  2. Parking in the FSB spots in Moscow is always unwise. Wonder what happened to the drivers.

  3. Is this the penalty for something like adding coloring to margarine and passing it off as butter?

  4. WTF? tell me this is not a car theft in action ! Tell me that this is not a mafia car theft ring in russia. I know i know but the part’s are still worth alot of friken money .
    If anyone knows the TRUE story behind this i would love to know this is crazy if it is a real tow truck.
    Paul in calgary

  5. Off-topic, but since you mentioned Russia:
    Now that the Russkis have banned grain exports, what is the Canada Wheat Board doing? Can we assume that they will announce lower prices for farmers as a result?

  6. Looks like 2 cars were parked illegally, probably blocking an entrance of some sort, or parked in the spots of guys with big giant brass balls … cars removed, problem solved.
    Gotta love it!

  7. that is awsome if that is true i watched the video again and i see the cars do look liek they are parked right across a lane of sort’s
    Paul in calgary.

  8. Look at the silver car’s roof. There is heavy damage there on the driver’s side, *before* the claws were brought out to grab it.
    Both cars are Mazdas.
    I think it was a dealer disposing of Insurance write-offs.

  9. “I think it was a dealer disposing of Insurance write-offs.”
    ?
    I didn’t know russians had insurance. will wonders never cease.
    nah, this is just proof of the russkies’ version of ‘cash for clunkers’

  10. “Ludmilla, I tink you look up wrong number! I tell for you to call AAA, …not AA! …Dehrmo!!”

  11. My first Mazda is laying at the bottom of the ocean after being lost off the deck of a cargo ship.
    At the dealership, we had to wait for a while because the replacement ship carrying hundreds of new Mazdas sank!

  12. Gosh…I can hardly wait until someone adopting this “towing” technique decides to tow my lexus…apparently I may be in for more repair costs than originally anticipated.
    Although, the “tow truck operator” would undoubedtly find himself in a shallow grave…just kidding…sort of…

  13. I would sure like to have a truck like that.
    Wondering how many of those honking Harley Davidsons I could pack in, rider and all.

  14. It’s obviously from a Mazda dealership. Notice the guys walking around with Mazda decals on their jackets at the 0:36 and 4:01 marks.

  15. You can pick up your car at the compound just outside of town. You must pay the towing fee.

  16. In Israel they have fork lift tow trucks. Cars park everywhere and the operators just pick them straight up and then plop them on flatbed.
    Really fast.

  17. He’d never get away with that in Dalton’s Ontario, I mean, the operator wasn’t even wearing a hard-hat! Imagine.

  18. Would they have to tarp that load in Russia to make sure nothing falls onto the roads or onto a pedestrian?

  19. Now that the Russkis have banned grain exports, what is the Canada Wheat Board doing? Can we assume that they will announce lower prices for farmers as a result?
    Posted by: KevinB at August 5, 2010 9:52 PM
    Chances are the Russians will be looking to buy from us. It is their wheat production, in Russia, that is banned from going any place.
    Seems they are having one bad ass drought and heat wave there.

  20. Drought in Russia, the world’s second largest wheat producing nation, obviously the Canadian Wheat Board will be -lowering- payouts in anticipation of lower international prices. When prices jump, the Board will announce that this was “unexpected”.
    Because that’s what bureaucrats do, the dumbest thing you can imagine, every single time.

  21. After just checking todays (Friday) markets…wheat is down the limit.
    Ontario 2010 contracts @ 233$ (rounded off) a metric tonne.
    Ontario 2011 contracts @ 268$ (rounded off) a metric tonne.
    How’s this compare to Western producers and what the CWB is offering?

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