The people of Delcambre!

[Finfeatherfur]

Well, once again, I was reminded today of why I love to live in south LA. The wife and I were trying to miss the Lafayette traffic on the way to Bayou Dularge this afternoon pulling the new boat in the new truck. My dad has been on some serious trout so we wanted to smoke some before Santa Claus.

We left Crowley later than we wanted due to a funeral I had to attend, but now worries, we could fish tomorrow. All was well and we made it through Abbeville w/o any incident and was glad to avoid Lafayette. All that changed in Delcambre!

Approaching the red light on Hwy 14, we felt a big "bump" like someone rear ended me. I stopped and looked, didn't see anyone, so I proceeded to pull forward and get to the shoulder to see what the hell happened. That's when my day went to crap! Apparently, the pin holding my reciever hitch either broke or came out. The bump was the hitch sliding forward until it hit the bumper, once I pulled forward, it came out the reciever - then the tounge went to the roadway, then I hit the brakes, then the boat hit the tailgate. All of this happened in about 1.4 seconds. Luckily, the damage was a minor "whiskey dent" to my tailgate, no damage to boat or trailer.

The great news was the poeple around me! Withing 30 seconds, I had 5-8 people wanting to help. Within 1 minute, a guy pulls up with a floor jack, and we got another guy to get his truck under my trailer. I would bet we had the roadway blocked for less than 3 minutes!!! To top it off, we had a guy show up from the local feed shop along Hwy 14 and gave me another pin so I could get my hitch back together. Didn't get any names, but I can honestly say it made me proud to be from south LA today! If anyone on here sees this and was out there today, post a reply and I can give you a better "thanks". Kudos to all involved and I am very happy this happened in Delcambre!