Body-builders pluck stranded car from ditch

[Pylon]

Talk about functional strength.....



BERLIN (Reuters) - A group of 10 body-builders from a German gym took a break from their normal training routine to help a driver whose car was stuck in a ditch, police said on Monday.
The men were training at the Explosives fitness studio in Bad Zwischenahn near the western city of Oldenburg when the 38-year-old driver lost control of his vehicle, veered into a meadow and plunged the front of his car into the two-meter (6 feet) deep ditch.
"They dropped their sweat towels and water bottles and ran over the road to the crash site," a police spokesman told Reuters. "They then heaved the car out. It only took them a few minutes."
The grateful driver joined the men at the fitness studio bar and treated them to a round of energy drinks, the police spokesman said.

 

[Irons77]

And people think we are all a bunch of roid rageing meanie

 

[DOMS]

I'm surprised that this made the news. There's no gloom and doom in it.

 

[tucker01]

I'm surprised that this made the news. There's no gloom and doom in it.

The guy had a sign pole through his shoulder.

 

[Little Wing]

yea and every time i shop i walk past Planet Fitness and their "No Bodybuilders" policy. assholes.

 

[maniclion]

I wonder what kind of car it was? Because 6 of my friends lifted our other friends VW Bug back then front over and over until it was right in front of his porch, about 15 feet altogether. It must've been a huge SUV or something to need 10 hulking guys....

 

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They say the gym owners ran out to tell them not to slam the car on the floor, for fear it may scare off the other gym members.