Yeah I get your point and to be fair I think they thought the same thing whilst watching it all unfold before them. Nobody is perfect I suppose, they might have been tired and couldn't be arsed to unload everything and then load it all back up again time after time. Maybe they thought they were asking enough of the truck driver as it was. Later, on the really big river crossing they actually loaded the 4x4 onto the truck in its entirety.
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't there and I haven't traveled around the world but I have traveled, on foot, by car and by bike for quite long distances and if you travel far enough for long enough it saps your strength and resolve to a point where you do the bare minimum required to get you through. Its not being lazy or lax but your mind isn't working properly sometimes, you're just too tired to think of everything, let alone actually do it.
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coppertop630
19 years ago
I really didnt consider the fact that they were too tired. I just dont know how far that actually goes and if they were that exhausted that they would put so many people's lives in danger then they should have waited till the river rose a little higher. dont get me wrong, they made it through and it was a narrow escape from a watery death but there's tired, then there's TIRED. If it was going to sacrifice someone's safety for a few extra days... it just doesnt seem worth it. and why didnt they make the guy get out, its not like he had steering anyway.
as for the lorry driver, I agree. maybe they felt it would be more imposing on the driver than they wanted it to be and they WERE asking a lot of him but I'm sure the man would have been just as enthusiastic about doing that as he was about helping them out in the first place. and I dont think any of them wanted anyone do die or for any really really shiny and expensive equipment to be lost.
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