Maybe they should have worn seat belts...?

This article appeared in the St. Paul Pioneer Press earlier this week and really struck my fancy:

A late-night couch-towing stunt in Hartland Township, Wis., led to the hospitalization of three men Sunday.

Joseph M. Schoeder, 23, of Beldenville, Wis., was in a Chevy pickup pulling a couch through a pasture about 1:30 a.m. - with three other guys on the sofa, authorities said.

It's unclear what went wrong, but...

The article goes on, but let's stop there. Unclear? I think I've got a pretty good idea what went wrong. They were towing a couch...behind their pickup...through a pasture...with three passengers. What, were the cows already tipped?

And what's better, it turns out that this was an annual event for the group in celebration of the fishing opener. A follow-up article states, "The incident remained under investigation Monday, and the sheriff said she could not yet say whether drinking was involved, if any laws were broken, or where the group got the couch."