Norfolk County is mostly rural (largest centre is Simcoe - population about 14k).  Used to be primarily tobacco country.  I would pretty much guarantee this guy bought the trailer for use as storage and was just looking at the cheapest way of getting it home.   Most days he would likely have gotten away with it, but…

“A man who could figure out how to get a 53-foot semi-trailer across town using only a plasma torch, some scrap metal, and a Chevy Silverado.”

As a Russian, I appreciate the Soviet levels of ingenuity that went into this setup. Quality work right there.

That’s a trailer, not a semi-trailer. The difference is that a trailer is capable of rolling on its own; a semi trailer does not have enough tires to do so. It could be a semi-trailer with a dolly under it, but then that makes it a trailer. Kind of like the difference between a two wheeled wheel-barrow and a wagon.…

While I would never condone this for obvious reasons, the reality is that the trailer isn’t actually that heavy and the Silverado is more than capable; the lack of brakes and the overall size being the exceptions. I am assuming it is a V8 or diesel, of course. But purely from a mass perspective, it’s not a big deal,…

Norfolk County is just a ways west of Buffalo - doesn’t that make it the Florida of Canada? Or would that be Windsor?

I mostly find myself infuriated by the facebook post’s grammar. “Wait? What!” You’ve gone and switched the punctuation, idiots.

air brakes are positive release so he’s got them hooked up to something otherwise it wouldn’t move at all. that's probably what the air tank is for.  

Wait! What?

Edit: Nvm

If there was any reasonable load in that trailer then this is some next level stupid. If it was empty, really isn’t all that dangerous. Although I do appreciate the fact that he even bothered to use the safety chains, because those little fellas are certainly gonna disintegrate if that hitch pin breaks.

Dial it back there, chief, it’s a valid complaint when a headline is objectively wrong. I don’t have to be any more or less disgusted by a statistic just because I expect someone not to inflate or downplay it.

Do we know the same guy?

BS. They use the exact same databases for driver screening.

Wow. The same thing happened to my best friend’s cousin’s little brother. 

Sure, but that’s not the number of any of the facts and you want to compare the actual stats to that of an airplane right?  Perhaps Uber decided “99.9998" sounded pedantic in a PR comment.

That is a good anecdote.

9 in 2018, 19 in both years studied combine. I apologize for the confusion. The headline has been corrected.

5,500 incidents out of 1.3 billion rides is actually quite low. 

I’d like to know how those numbers compare with simply going outside on a daily basis. I’d wager a guess that you’re still far safer calling for an Uber after dark than walking home alone.