When someone is in deep water, it means they’re in a heap of trouble, and there’s no easy way for them to get out. Well, now you can imagine the genesis of the phrase. The two bystanders are unable to do anything other than hunkering down on the bank and watching their machine sink.
How does one even go about getting such a heavy piece of machinery out of what appears to be a river or at least a deep pond? If they’re lucky, it won’t sink any deeper, but even then, what do you do? You can’t use another tractor to dig it out – then you would have two tractors in trouble.
What Do You Mean “I'm Stuck Too?”
Not one, not two, but THREE tractors all seem to be stuck in the mud here. There's yet another machine, mostly off-screen, that is trying to dig them out, and most likely, the driver is being careful not to get too close. This is the kind of thing that farmers have to deal with sometimes – after the rain; those fields can turn from hard-packed dirt into mud that will get you stuck for hours.
This can turn what was supposed to be a productive day into one that's full of frustrations. We hope that these three were all the tractors that got stuck that day. Otherwise, they'll have to call in the Air Force to yank those machines out.
Stuck on the Stairs
Stairs really aren't for everybody. Specifically, they aren't for people who think they can get a tractor down them and around a mid-flight corner. Maybe if it was a straight-to-the-ground staircase, then it could have been done, but this clearly isn't.
We don't even want to THINK about how hard it was for this thing to get unstuck – though shouldn't those responsible just have been able to put it in reverse and go back up the steps? Maybe the way the tractor is wedged makes it impossible, or maybe it just doesn't have enough juice to back up a grade.
Getting Things Clean
There's no oopsie here, but there is a fun bit of history. What you're looking at is an old version of a street cleaner. Before we had the big contraptions that rinse, soap, and scrub the streets, some places used tractors with a big, whirling collection of brooms set up on the back to brush the street clean of dust and debris.
No doubt the streets didn't stay all that clean, but it's just like vacuuming – feels good to do, even if it doesn't last long. Based on how fast it looks like those brushes are going, we hope everybody knew not to be standing on the right side of the street, or they were going to get a face full of road.
How Does This Keep Happening?
Tractors are big, and they're heavy, and yet SOMEHOW, people are still finding ways to get them upside-down. You have to have very specific knowledge and skill to drive them, so you'd think that those in control would know how to keep them in control. Of course, there is always the possibility that the person behind the wheel was NOT in control.
But the person responsible here was going fast enough to get this tractor with its nose buried in the dirt. Is the driver still in there? No, likely not – there would probably be many more people milling around, as well as emergency personnel.