Gotta be staged, no one is that stupid, are they?
Staged for sure.
I say it's real. I sell this type of stuff and people will want us to try stupid schit like this all of the time.
I'll never forget, about 40 years ago, we had some Harry Homeowner dude that would come in, pop the trunk on his little rice burner and have my guys put a bobcat scoop of gravel in his trunk loose. The bucket was wider than the trunk and was spilling all over his quarter panels. The problem I had was they were spilling gravel all over the place and losing it. He kept coming back over and over. He probably hauled several tons before I put a stop to it. I was losing too much product. He probably did thousands of dollars worth of damage to his car so that he'd save the $50.00 delivery charge.
The most common occurrence is when these people come in here with these little, what we call, "go to hell trailers" made for lawn mowers and want us to put 3 tons on them being pulled by a compact car. Back when I was a kid working in the yard, a guy had one of those things and wanted me to put a full pallet of flagstone on it that probably weighed 3500 lbs. I told him that he didn't want to do that and he got all indignant and pissed off. So I put it on and slid it to the middle. The fenders were on the tires. When he started driving, the first bump he hit the tongue broke in half. He only made it about 100 ft. He never made it out of the yard. Then he was really pissed. Good thing it didn't happen when he was driving down the road at speed.