I love that picture. Wish I could make it larger and frame it. First thing you see when you walk in my house. When I look at it the phrase "shit is fixin' to get real" comes to mind.
I actually did a variation of the backhoe trick. A buddy and I were clearing some property along with another dude we didn't care for. Lazy bastard, showed up, left early, didn't do much of anything but expected to get a full paycheck.
He knocked off early one evening and went drinking with some friends, leaving his truck at the job site. Called in sick (hung over)the next morning and took the day off. We picked the truck up with a reach lift and piled dirt where is was parked. Got the height of the mound just right so that when we sat the truck back down in the same spot the tires were juuuuussssttt touching the ground. On casual observation it looked normal. He showed up just as we were leaving at the end of the job and hauling all the equipment off. We pulled out, he was all alone a couple of miles from anything and no cell phone. Had to walk to a phone to call someone to drag him off the pile. Not as drastic as the photo but just as immobile and a pain in the ass to retrieve the truck.:frusty:
Oh, and yep, never piss off anyone running equipment. I had this bitch nosey neighbor that I had a long running battle with in my old neighborhood. After Ivan destroyed my house I was spending time over there demo-ing it and moving the debris up to the main road for pickup. All weekend she would run errands, come home and park at the end of my driveway, essentially blocking me from my debris pile. I would have to shut down, crawl out of the loader, go next door and tell her to move the damned thing. She would smart off and say it didn't matter, I didn't need the driveway anymore. Finally one last time she did it so after she went in the house I picked the back of her truck up by the trailer hitch, and moved it over to the next block. When she came out and found it missing I told her I had no idea where it was. She finally found it but couldn't prove a thing. But she knew and that was the important thing.layball: