Someone in Wyoming Tried Strapping a Snowmobile to the Roof of a Nissan Altima; Guess How That Went?
Someone in Wyoming tried to secure a snowmobile to the roof of a Nissan Altima using ratchet straps stretched through the open front and back windows. It went about as well as one might expect.
Gillette resident Twila Mundschenk captured the bizarre scene involving the Nissan Altima as she and her husband were traveling between Casper and Shoshoni. Upon seeing the white sedan stopped on the side of U.S. Highway 26, they simply had to take a picture.
“I’ve seen a lot in my lifetime, but I have never seen anything like that,” she told Cowboy State Daily. “My husband said, ‘Turn this truck around. I want to get pictures.'”
First of all, there is no roof rack on the Nissan Altima, so that’s strike one. Second, even if there were, the Polaris snowmobile, depending on the model, weighs over 400 pounds – more if snow is still packed onto it and it contains any fuel. Strike two. And finally, as Mundschenk pointed out, there was a yellow sticker on the side of the Polaris and on the Altima. That means the driver had abandoned it there long enough for the Wyoming Highway Patrol to notice.
“There was a yellow sticker on the car and the snowmobile. That’s usually what the Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers put on a vehicle when it’s been there too long,” she said.
“It was about as backwoods redneck as you can get,” Mundschenk added.
She wasn’t the only one to see the snowmobile on top of the Nissan Altima
Marcia McBeath told Cowboy State Daily that she saw it too. She and her husband spotted it while driving into Casper. Six hours later, on their return trip home, it was still there.
“We both said, ‘We didn’t actually see that, did we?’” she said. “So, I told my husband that if it was still there on the way back, I was getting a picture, because nobody’s going to believe this.”
Making the sight even stranger is that the plates were from Wyoming, Natrona County, to be specific. So it wasn’t just some stupid tourist who came up with this plan.
Mundschenk, like many others who saw the Altima, wondered “how they got that on the roof?” As Mandy Fabel, a recreational snowmobiler and a Polaris ambassador, said when she saw the photo, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Right up until there isn’t.”
