Why bus towing car is not a brilliant idea | video

These geniuses in Russia's Saint Petersburg obviously thought they were onto a winner and probably getting a bit tired after their attempts to jump start their broken down vehicle. So why not let the bus do all the hard work? With the driver busy collecting passengers surely no one would even notice a small car attached by rope.

What happens next becomes fairly predictable when you realise there's no one in the car to steer or use brakes as the bus starts pulling… The attempts to stop the car are reminiscent of what Jerry Seinfeld calls "classic male idiot super-hero thinking". You know the type of situation where a mattress on the roof of a car is held together with an arm out the window...

And even with the only logical explanation for this being... vodka, it's worth noticing the police response times in Russia are fantastic.

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