Don’t park here! Bizarre moment men use a DIGGER and plank of wood to shunt parked car out of their way
- Video recorded in Birmingham shows the digger pushing a grey Ford Mondeo
- Large wooden plank is positioned between the digger scoop and car wheel
- Crowd of spectators cheer as a police car drives past the car being moved
Two men decided on an unusual method of moving a parked car out of their way – harnessing the power of a digger and a big piece of wood.
Footage, recorded by a spectator on Alum Rock Road, Birmingham, shows a man in a blue jumper lining up a thick wooden plank between the scoop of a digger and the back-left wheel of a grey Ford Mondeo.
The car appears to be partially parked across a dropped kerb and on double yellow lines, though the road markings are not clearly visible in the footage.
A man wearing a blue jumper is seen positioning a plank of wood between the scoop of a digger and the back-left wheel of a grey Ford Mondeo on Alum Rock Road, Birmingham, to move it out of the way
The digger begins pushing and the grey Ford starts to spin round into the road away from the pavement
In the dramatic clip the digger pushes the plank of wood into the wheel of the Ford to spin the back end of the car out of the way and into the road.
At one point the wooden plank slips away from the wheel with a loud crack as someone in the crowd of people watching tells the man wearing blue to be careful.
One man is heard yelling: ‘No damage!’
Another person responds and says: ‘More damage, smash it!’
The two men as reposition the wood against the car’s wheel and start pushing with the digger again.
At one point the wooden plank snaps and falls away from the car with a loud crack. Someone in the crowd calls out: ‘No damage!’
The man in the blue jumper positions the plank of wood between the digger and car again so the other man driving the digger can continue moving the car out of the way
A police car drives past bizarre scene and the crowd cheer and laugh as it passes by.
The plank bends under the pressure and a large crack is heard as the wood snaps and falls to the floor causing the car to shake in the middle of the road.
The footage ends without any sign of the car’s owner, whose reaction to the incident is not known.
However, viewers of the footage, which was shared on social media on June 9, gave a mixed reaction.
Ian Griggs commented: ‘Yeah very funny I think a lot of people would laugh about this until it was done to them.’
Ricky Allen said: ‘No reason to do this. There was room to get in and out around the back of the car.’
MailOnline has approached West Midlands police for comment.