Oops

[El Stiemo]

I offer the first person who can tell me how this happened 100 Points.

Tips: It happened in Namibia and no, they did not collide with each other. The towbar on the sand Defender is for attachment to the salvage vehicle, it wasn't towed by the other (blue) one.

No one died.

[Madoobri]

An elephant sat on it? :eek:

[V8-110]

I offer the first person who can tell me how this happened 100 Points.

Tips: It happened in Namibia and no, they did not collide with each other. The towbar on the sand Defender is for attachment to the salvage vehicle, it wasn't towed by the other (blue) one.

No one died.


twister???

[El Stiemo]

Nope

[V8-110]

I offer the first person who can tell me how this happened 100 Points.

Tips: It happened in Namibia and no, they did not collide with each other. The towbar on the sand Defender is for attachment to the salvage vehicle, it wasn't towed by the other (blue) one.

No one died.


an internal explosion of some sort??? to do witht he heat???

[El Stiemo]

nope

[V8-110]

I offer the first person who can tell me how this happened 100 Points.

Tips: It happened in Namibia and no, they did not collide with each other. The towbar on the sand Defender is for attachment to the salvage vehicle, it wasn't towed by the other (blue) one.

No one died.

fallen telegraph pole, water tower, wind vane/mill thingy???

[Madoobri]

Elephant flatulence? :eek:

[Sir Lostalot]

Dropped form a plane. Landed Upside down.:D

I'll get me hat...:(

[El Stiemo]

Please remember that both vehicles were involved in this incident.

[Madoobri]

Elephant stampede? :eek:

[El Stiemo]

Hahaa, no.

[Sir Lostalot]

Right.The Sand colored one was so well camouflage that the blue one thought is was a sand dune atempted to drive over it.:D

[V8-110]

Hahaa, no.


both got caught in a shamal (sand storm/slide) like in the mummy?:D

[El Stiemo]

Right.The Sand colored one was so well camouflage that the blue one thought is was a sand dune atempted to drive over it.:D

:D :D :D

No.

[V8-110]

i give up......:rolleyes:

[Sir Lostalot]

A Nambian Landrover matting ritual gone bad?:eek: :D

[Storm]

Off roading at high speed (one following the other) and they flipped?

[Storm]

P*ssed of ben grim (thing), or the hulk?

[El Stiemo]

Ok I will give you one more tip.


The vehicles were stationary when it happened and the same thing happened to both Landies, it's just that the sand one took a "turn for the worse"...

[Storm]

Failed the auditions for the part of the General Lee?:D

[El Stiemo]

Come on storm, Pakistan is a mostly dry country, no? This should be possible over at your side as well...

[buzz]

Strong winds blew them over.

[Storm]

Come on storm, Pakistan is a mostly dry country, no? This should be possible over at your side as well...

Aaaaah,......... strong curry + Elephant = :D

[buzz]

Strong winds blew them over.

Can't have turned over the snorkle is still intact?

[Storm]

Can't have turned over the snorkle is still intact?

It's plastic,... probably bent over and then bent back,.... (like some of the members on this forum):D

[buzz]

It's plastic,... probably bent over and then bent back,.... (like some of the members on this forum):D

....so still could be the wind.

[buzz]

Aaaaah,......... strong curry + Elephant = :D


:D :D :D Now I know what you mean by that, hehe

[El Stiemo]

Not wind.


I like the theory with the elephant and the curry...:D

But no.

[Storm]

Sand dune must have shifted,... due to an elephant + curry:D

[V8-110]

come on put us me out of my misery....what happened?:rolleyes:

[El Stiemo]

I will solve it this afternoon if nobody gets it. You will not believe it. These people were very, very lucky.

[El Stiemo]

Nobody? Last tip: It happened in a desert area...

[El Stiemo]

They were washed away in a flash flood in the desert. No kidding.

Herewith the full story from the "flamingo magazine":

"If all of us had been sleeping in tents, some would certainly have drowned." Ralf T shakes his head as if to banish the thought. The images of that starlit night in the sandy bed of the seasonal Hoarusib River in north - western Namibia have come alive again.

Sunday, March 21, 2004. Ralf and his wife Isabel, who live in Windhoek, are on a ten-day trip through Kaokoveld with their four children, ages 13, 8, 6 and 4 and their friends Mike P and Sarah M from Johannesburg. They are travelling in two Land Rovers, equipped with GPS, camping gear, provisions and water. "North of Purros we were looking for a track to Orupembe, as an alternative to the corrugated standard route. It was rather late when we found it, so we decided to camp in the Hoarusib." Ralf pauses, and then continues with emphasis, "We are experienced campers. We know very well that you should not camp in a riverbed. But somehow we never thought of it that evening. We were tired and just wanted to get some sleep to leave early in the morning." It was a clear starry night. None of the group remembers the clouds they saw the day before, far to the north, in the river's cathment area.

"Mike and Sarah were in the tent" Ralf explains, "We however, had made our beds in the open. We simply couldn't be bothered with pitching the tents." This probably saved their lives. "Suddenly I was wide awake" Ralf recounts, "My hand felt water. It must have been between 04h00 and 05h00 in the morning. I jumped up and shouted 'Water, Water, we need to move quickly!' Isabel and the children rushed off immediately and Mike and Sarah crawled out of their tent. I grabbed my camping bed and waded to the river bank." Then he went back in the water and retrieved the table and camping box. There was nothing else to save. Water lapped over the bonnet of Ralf's Land Rover, Mike's was already disappearing in the floods.

And so, four grown ups and children in pyjamas stood at the Hoarusib in pitch dark, marvelling at the force of the raging waters. When daylight came, they decided that Ralf and his eldest son would go and look for help. It was about 20 km to Purros, they reckoned. "We were barefoot" Ralf recalls, "and my underpants were all I had on. Luckily I had rescued a tablecloth. I wrapped it around my hips and around my head." The ground became hotter and hotter during the day, and there were thorns everywhere. "We tore the headscarf into strips to bandage our feet." When they were thirsty, they drank the brownish water from the river.

They reched Purros, were able to radio for help and saved by two planes that were dispatched up there to get them.

Herewith more pics (the first one is the sand Defender overturned in the mud, the others are the blue / green one):

[Sir Lostalot]

Darn! That was my next guess.:D

[Storm]

Ahhh that's what you meant buy "it could happen here",.... D'OH!!!:banghead2 :banghead2