Best Sabotage Story

[Dev]

While it's all still fresh in your head, let's hear your best sabotage story. Giving, Receiving, Watching, we love 'em all.

I heard about a cart that ended up on a roof of a garage. Anyone know that story?

[Justin Gorson]

I was alone (Deadliest Catch) as my team went into the bar....thought I would make friends with the nearby teams...up comes the Friday 13th team, soaked me in blood, restrained me from my cart and then zipped tied to the fence. So my team returned to me covered in blood, with a tied up cart...pretty funny.

[Pee Wee]

Kudos to the team that bike locked Chairy to the fence in front of all my team mates while I was getting us registered at Empty Bottle. Apparently my team didn't take to heart my motto of "Guard the cart like your testicles" They were kind enough to release it with a little Makers Mark but I gave Pee-Wee and the gang a tongue lashing like no other!

Also, I have to apologize to the poor guy who took our broom-slash-flag pole. I didn't mean to break it in half over your body after I chased you down. You seemed nice enough! Hope your rib's and face are ok?!?

[Buffalo Milledge]

Some sort of Team USA (cart bedecked with a flag) decided that Darkroom was just too cool to be missed, so they left their cart next to a bench in the alley between Darkroom and the neighbors' place. There were about 18 groups in the alley, so it didn't take long to find the answer for the equation (deserted and empty cart)+(bench)+(10 foot high roof)+(fat gutters) = ?. The groups then sat, many well past their checkout time, waiting for Team USA to show back up, but apparently someone official caught wind and had it pulled down before they could even come out and say 'where the hell is it?'

The best part was that even after it was taken down, the girl whose cart it was couldn't find it- it had been moved about 10 feet from its original location. Guess the roof was a bit superfluous.

I have pictures of the cart on the roof and being taken down, will post them later.

At that same stop there was a kiddie cart that was also abandoned... I took care of lashing that one to the nearby garbage cans (rope and zip ties), and their cooler was summarily pillaged for the ample (and exceedingly cold) supply of beer. Plus a few cans of food. I'd like to hear whose cart that was, as there was not a stitch of decoration or team spirit on the cart.

I want to hear what the Best in Sabotage team pulled off, as I hear it netted them a good cache of superbonus eggs as well. Couldn't manage to pilfer but one already broken egg.

[Joseph]

My team Just ruined peoples cart wheels with a Blow Torch and Sledge Hammer!

[Emerald]

We got super glittered with sparkles . . not sure how that was sabotage. Also got the 'blood' in our face from some team, which then caused my team mate to have an allergic reaction to. Not fun.

[Spinal Tap]

Pee Wee, while my face and back are continuing to recoop from the lashings I was dealt only blocks from the final checkpoint, my pride has yet to be restored.

After innocently swiping what i thought was the remains of a fallen cart nearing the end of its lifeline, I was quickly thrust into a situation where I feared not only for my life, but those of my teamates as well. An epic yet terrifying 8 block sprint ensued, at which point I decided that I needed to give back the flag as my pursuant (pee wee) was clearly tireless, not to mention that I had just recently spewed beer across the floor of bar # 5 so my body could go no further.

Handing back the flag in utter humiliation, I was immediately slammed with a baseball swing of the broom straight to the cheek...bristles first. I am not sure the Chidid rules on steroids, but I think that we may have a case of A-Rod proportions on our hands needing investigation. Regardless, the home run swing was followed with a brief apology that I assume was meant only to inspire false feelings of security. As I dusted myself off in astounishment, I assured her that I was fine...before I could finish my sentence however I took another lashing over the back that fractured the broom. Retreating back to her camp victoriously I never saw Pee Wee again, though I wish i had if only to congratulate her on a fight well fought. Your apology is accepted...though unnecessarry. See you next year.



Pee Wee said:

Kudos to the team that bike locked Chairy to the fence in front of all my team mates while I was getting us registered at Empty Bottle. Apparently my team didn't take to heart my motto of "Guard the cart like your testicles" They were kind enough to release it with a little Makers Mark but I gave Pee-Wee and the gang a tongue lashing like no other!

Also, I have to apologize to the poor guy who took our broom-slash-flag pole. I didn't mean to break it in half over your body after I chased you down. You seemed nice enough! Hope your rib's and face are ok?!?

[DiZzMonster]

While manning the inside of the phone booth, I heard some noise behind me. So I walked out of the phone booth to see someone wrapping all sorts of wire around our wheels and stuff. The person was surprised to see me, but I said, “don’t worry, continue with what you are doing.” So I let the person continue with the sabotage while we discussed how good natured sabotage was fun and how intellectual sabotage was the real challenge.

Once the person finished, I pulled out my wire snips and started going for the wire. The person saw my snips and just took them from me and proceeded to cut the wire himself. After that we parted ways.

Later that day at the Cobra lounge, the entire team had to go inside and do the skit. We just said, “oh well we’ve made it this far with the booth at least.” Thinking that was the last we were going to see it in one piece. When we came outside, we found a chain bolted to the handle bars with a busted cinder block next to it. We figured we must have missed something good and continued.

Later that night I bumped into the person that busted the cider block for us. It was the person that wrapped the wire around our cart. He said, “you were the only team that didn’t get upset when I was sabotaging your cart, so I figured I would help you out.”

[Derek Wallace]

At the beginning of the race, I tied a 50-foot length of rope to the fence and then snaked it through the crowd. My plan was to pull it tight when the race started, creating a barrier that everyone behind wouldn't be able to get past (LOGJAM)! As I waited to tie it off, I felt a tap on my shoulder. When I turned around, I saw one of the Alice in Wonderland kids (I think it was them) had cut my rope - they had sabotaged my sabotage! We shared a beer and a laugh together, it was great!

I still think the fake maps thing was BRILLIANT!

[Buffalo Milledge]

As promised, here are some pics of the ol' cart on the roof...

[Wintess]

Now that I have safely traveled back to Alabama, I will go ahead and take credit for the cart on rooftop sabotage. We actually knew the people whose cart it was but whatever its fair game. We (the Auburn team) grabbed the cart about the same time as a few of the clowns, I shared the idea, they approved and we got it up there. Shout out to them for the help was some good teamwork. Too bad they took it down before my buddies had a chance to see it. Being that it was my first Chiditarod i figured i would bite my tongue to avoid any repercussions for the event. Thanks for a great time see you next year!

[Emerald]

Derek Wallace said:

At the beginning of the race, I tied a 50-foot length of rope to the fence and then snaked it through the crowd. My plan was to pull it tight when the race started, creating a barrier that everyone behind wouldn't be able to get past (LOGJAM)! As I waited to tie it off, I felt a tap on my shoulder. When I turned around, I saw one of the Alice in Wonderland kids (I think it was them) had cut my rope - they had sabotaged my sabotage! We shared a beer and a laugh together, it was great!

I still think the fake maps thing was BRILLIANT!

That would have been my "Wolf" teammate Mairin who cut your rope. Wasilla Wranglers didn't want to get caught up in it, and felt horrible when we realized we would have just missed it and all agreed a conciliatory Old Style was in order.

[Rigoli]

I was part of the team dubbed team Hobo and while our sabotage was not the ole chain and block we did help throw a cart over a 8 foot brick wall. And our Sabotage was creative, we had grappling hooks, tangle wire to throw under carts as the run, and a giant slingshot that shot soiled underwear. I used the grappling hooks (made of bent forks duct tape and twine) by chasing after carts tossing them into the carriage and then yanking as hard as possible. Unfortunately after about two the twine carved away the skin of my hand, I have no regrets tho! I was amazed at how aggressive teams were this year, and I hope it goes down the same next year. Great job everyone