How Could I Be So Stupid/Careless?

Busted radiator, out in the sticks what to do.
Pinch as many tubes off as you can, and load every container up with water, for the 3 hr drive home thru the mountains.
Did not work out too good. We made it around 30 minutes at best, arrived at a pretty cool place called Cool Springs WV, kinda tourist attraction, general store, food grill.
But anyways we bought bondo and oatmeal.
Bondo to hopefully stop the leak, and the oatmeal to at least clog the leak from the inside.
Did not work worth a crap, too steep of hills comming out, ended up hooking a chain to his already compromised bumper and pulling it the last 2.5 hrs or so with my Ramcharger.
Pulling was no problem, but my Einstein buddy did not bring his top for his Jeep with him on this camping adventure. It was getting dark, and cold in the mountains.
So what does my buddy do, he flashed his light, I stopped. Hi and his passengers get out their sleeping bags, slide down in them, and we resume speed in the mountains.
This works really good for about an hr or so, he has pointed his fog lights down, so he could steer the old battered Jeep.
Well we were about a 1/2 hr from his house all is going smooth, dark as can be, they are comphy in their sleeping bags riding in the battered topless jeep.....
And a darn dog runs out in the road in front of me, well all I can recall is jerking the steering wheel to miss this real pretty coon dog.
The compromised bumper on the beat Jeep, with his driving lights decided to evacuate. I actually remember seeing the lights still lit up skidding down the pavement, until coming un-hooked from the jeep.
I slowed down, totally forgetting my buddy was in a sleeping bag, and could not hit the brakes.
So my Ramcharger was his brakes.
Hooked the chain back up, throwed what was left of his lights and bumper in the back of my Ramcharger and got him the rest of the way home.
Anybody says old 6cyl Jeeps are not tough, he drove the Jeep for over a week to work, with no radiator in it, nobody had a used one, and the parts store was a week getting him a new one.