Western States Love School Bus Demolition Derbies

Great states like Wyoming and Alabama LOVE demolition derbies.

States that don't have them are boring.

However, after years of traditional derbies these states need something more. Why just use cars?

Have you ever seen a demolition derby using old SCHOOL buses?

Now that's something you won't have to drag your kids to.

They will be a little disappointed that the buses getting smashed up out there are not the same ones that take them to school.

Sorry kids, you'll still have to be in class on Monday.

The video above is a little different.

This is a figure 8 race track.

Like a regular race track, but the vehicles must cross in the middle.

Fans get disappointed each time they miss crashing into each other and the crowd goes wild when they collide.

The video below is a straight-up WRECK EM DERBY!

I think the kids would love it if they had to ride in the lone survivor to school.

Why stop at school buses?

As long as we are wrecking old vehicles before we take them off to be stripped and recycled, lets have some fun with

FARM EQUIPMENT!

Again, you'll never see this in some city.

Cities are boring.

Let's start this story with a proper, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?"

But I say that in the most enthusiastic and exciting way.

The first time I saw a demolition derby was in Gillette, Wyoming, and they were using cars just like you would expect.

A demolition derby using COMBINES?

THIS IS THE GREATEST IDEA EVER!

Why isn't this a national sport on the level of baseball and football?

These are old combines in states like Nebraska and Kansas and Iowa.

They were heading to the scrap yard to be stripped for parts and the rest recycled.

But before they go, let's have some fun.

WHOAH HOLD ON. Looks like the guy in this next photo is rolling over.

If you look, these guys don't have much protection.

It's a lot of fun to see how they decorated their combines for destruction. Watch any of these videos and you'll find fun paint jobs and weird and wild wording written on the sides.

People in the big cities make fun of country folk.

But people in the big cities don't know how to have fun like this.

You really need to see this next video.

It's from the driver's point of view.

It might look like they are not going very fast but these machines are powerful and will do a lot of damage.

These guys used to work in the hot sun on these machines.

Makes you wonder if they can't wait to wreck them or are, in some way, sorry to see them go.

Probably a little of both.

Not only did I not know that combine derbies were a thing, I had no idea that Youtube would be filled with so many videos of these events.

You could literally sit for hours watching one video after the next.

So, now we have to ask, who's idea was this? I just want to know because I want to shake his hand.

If I find a combine derby in our area I'll let you know.