Like said above, I’ve seen shit like this and a ton of other craziness at mud fest and similar events for decades. Things I saw happen in lesterville mo back in the late 70’s - early 80’s to the last time they did events in the early 2000’s was insane. Saw a guy die one year there where this guy was shitfaced with a bunch of other shit faced people riding in the bed of a Ford truck lifted high off the ground with huge tractor tires under it and big radical engine in it. Driver blipped the throttle and we watched this drunk guy flip out of the bed directly onto his skull and lights out. I drove up closer as we were following them and wanted to get around them. We stopped and a bunch of people run up to this guy and you could see gray matter mixed with red leaching out around his skull. I heard later he died.
One mud fest I went to that used to be held locally to me I used to go to regularly. I donated a compact track loader to their event every time they had one. I’d go with a cooler of beer, a video camera and my meat wagon (I had several of these through the years from an old Isuzu 4x4 truck to Toyotas to now a 99 check tracker - mostly stock rigs I use to get around on our farm with for work and hunting)
This one event, I was over at this shallow (12” deep give or take) large mud pit area hanging out with friends watching the craziness go on. This huge old school Ford truck on rockwells setting on gigantic AG tires was parked in the pit near where we were standing on the bank. Out in the pit comes this brand new silver/gray Ram crew cab Cummins SRW long bed stock truck slipping and sliding trying to do donuts in the mud pit. Driver was running this truck hard and everyone on the bank is yelling and yahooing at him to drive harder. Finally he’s moving too fast and try’s to whip it around to do another donut but instead his truck just does a lazy turn right into the huge AG tire of the monster ford truck just parked there not even running. New Ram trucks driver side door is smashed in now. Naturally, we’re all on the bank laughing our fawking asses off not believing what we just saw happen. Then, out of nowhere next to our crowd, some small fat chick comes out yelling her ass off at the driver and us bitching that it’s her husband and he just trashed their new truck they haven’t even made their first payment on. Well, we all gave her the reaction she didn’t want to see as we were all in the ground laughing so hard our sides were hurting. Yaknow a bunch of these on the bank
This short fat chick wearing shorts and cowboy boots works her way out to the truck were her husband is trying to get the door open. The big ford monster truck fired up and backed away from them.
Mud fest are insane entertainment but one thing that’s for sure if you go to one, you’ll miss a lot of stuff happening because the craziness is happening all over the whole mud fest area. We used to have several people out videoing along with just strangers donating video feeds that one of our off road club members would stitch together into a dvd movie.
I miss the local one as it was only around a 45 min drive from home. Only one I know of that’s going on in Missouri now that I hear about is bricks off road park which is near Arkansas I believe. I’ve never been to it and highly doubt I’ll ever go to it.