Breaking New: The Truck Carrying Your Household Goods Just Drove Off a Cliff

LTC Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:51:02 -0500

MAJ Private RallyPoint Member I thought of you when I read this.

DENVER, Colo. — In holding with the rest of your dogshit life, the tractor and trailer carrying your household goods unceremoniously and unsurprisingly careened off a cliff and exploded in a spectacular fireball yesterday outside Denver, sources confirmed.

Now, like your recently terminated marriage, your keepsakes are a mangled, shapeless heap of twisted metal and broken dreams.

Other than the acrid smoke now clogging the motorway, witnesses report it was a picture-perfect day in the Rocky Mountains, as meteorologists also confirmed it was sunny, 75 degrees, with no clouds in the sky. There was a sublime peacefulness in the Arapaho National Forest, but all of that was ruined by the thunderclap of 80,000 pounds of fiery banality hitting the valley floor at near-terminal velocity.

Along with your hopes of a fresh start at a new duty station, sources confirm that everything you own is burned beyond recognition. Your Millennium Falcon beanbag chair, 72″ LCD TV, single place setting, and even your kitchen table — the one you caught your road-whore of an ex-wife defiling with your O-4 aviator neighbor — were all charred to a crisp at the bottom of a craggy ravine.

In order to get reimbursed for your loss, sources said you will need to enter your entire bill of lading manually into the Defense Personal Property System (DPS). DPS personnel would normally do that, but all of their representatives are currently tied-up cataloging Chuck Hagel’s 2.4 million pairs of designer socks for his upcoming move.

You will also need to enter the value of every item so a self-righteous GS-13 who despises you can argue the depreciable value of a jizz-stained futon and tattered “Don’t Tread On Me” flag.

Only adding to your disdain for living, you will be extremely enraged to know the mullet-ed, gelatinous humanoid driving the truck, Dale Pouncey, survived the accident. He credits his daily recreational drug use and horribly atrophied muscles with allowing him to remain perfectly relaxed during the crash. Pouncey plans to reflect on this miracle while collecting 100 percent disability for a sprained penis he suffered while escaping the inferno and definitely not from masturbating while trying to catch a glimpse of a woman’s vagina in his side-view mirror before crashing through the freeway guardrail at 90 mph.

Currently on your block leave from your most recent deployment to Afghanistan, you will not find out until after a week at your new duty station because the movers misspelled your name on all accompanying paperwork and boxes.

UPDATE: At press time, two boxes had been recovered from the wreckage: One contained your rancid trash from your point of origin and the other contained your ex’s broken Pottery Barn lamp that had been packed with your finishing hammer.

Read more: http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/01/breaking-truck-carrying-your-household-goods-just-drove-off-a-cliff/#ixzz3RaMmaZcv

BREAKING: The Truck Carrying Your Household Goods Just Drove Off A Cliff

I wish it would have been me instead of my household goods.

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Feb 12 at 2015 8:54 PM

SFC Mark Merino — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:54:28 -0500

My Milennium Falcon chair was irreplaceable!

Response by 1LT Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 12 at 2015 8:56 PM

1LT Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:56:57 -0500

Wat?

Response by LCDR Rabbah Rona Matlow made Feb 12 at 2015 9:05 PM

LCDR Rabbah Rona Matlow — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:05:30 -0500

Reminds me of the fire on Oahu where lots of HHG shipments went up in smoke . I don't remember what year that was though. ..

Response by SSG V. Michelle Woods made Feb 13 at 2015 11:17 PM

SSG V. Michelle Woods — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 23:17:51 -0500

Dangit!!! I thought this was real! I was like "oh dang, I hope they're alright!" haha! Good one :P

Response by CSM Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 14 at 2015 1:54 AM

CSM Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 01:54:01 -0500

When I PCSd to Hawaii the movers damaged and "stole" some of my belongings. I was sitting in the claims office waiting to be seen and I looked over to this woman sitting next to me with a huge stack of papers on her lap and on the floor. We started talking and she told me their entire crate of household goods fell off the ship and was sitting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. From then on I always do a partial DITY and carry all the important/heirloom things.

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 14 at 2015 9:29 AM

CPT Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 09:29:04 -0500

I am almost convinced that my last move with Eagle must have suffered a similar fate with the amount of claims I had to file and the fact that they had NO idea where my stuff was for about 3 days.

Response by SGT Jim Z. made Feb 15 at 2015 10:20 AM

SGT Jim Z. — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:20:29 -0500

Although Duffleblog is satirical I can so see this happening and I would hate to be the claims clerk at transportation dealing with one pissed off service member and family.

Response by MAJ Hugh Blanchard made Jul 25 at 2021 2:33 PM

MAJ Hugh Blanchard — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 14:33:59 -0400

When our HHG arrived at Ft Huachuca Arizona, our movers turned out to be three felony convicts from the Missouri State Penitentiary. They all had girlfriends in California, so they just wanted to literally dump our stuff and drive off to CA. We had to call in the post housing folks to tell them they would not get paid if they did not unload our goods properly. To say they did their duties grudgingly would be a kind way to put things. They whined about everything and there were veiled threats to "...come back and finish things later.." if we didn't just let them dump and go. Fun stuff.

Response by Maj Wayne Crist made Jul 25 at 2021 6:05 PM

Maj Wayne Crist — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 18:05:52 -0400

Having departed the Philippines with what my wife , 3 year old daughter and I could carry - waiting 6 months for our house hold shipment and car to arrive in the states after Mt Pinatubo blew I feel your pain. After the wait the car was totaled at port (should never have been shipped they said) and although we got our shipment most boxes had been opened and our goods replaced with trash.