Most jeep owners would not have a clue driving off road. they just get them for the look.
But I have to admit, I have driven a jeep on the road every day for years and it never seen off road.
But it was a 2wd mail truck. 
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Well the angry look scared the Germans anyway. I really had never considered this before until we were looking at cars and one of the criteria of my wife was that the car had to have a happy face. Thinking of the Edsel and the oh no face or fish mouth.
Those ‘angry eyes’ are aftermarket plastic add-ons.
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Is that unusual for SUV owners? Have you ever seen a Honda Pilot or a Nissan Murano get dirty?
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No, I’ll admit I haven’t.
But Jeeps have this reputation for being “rugged”, off-road, adventure vehicles. Yet around 90% of them aren’t used for that, apparently.
I’m just the opposite, I have driven many of my FWD cars off the beaten path as well as crossed creeks with a couple inches of running water (any deeper and it might have come in the door jams… lol
I also used to love taken the old Power Wagon out 4 wheeling and jump ditches and stuff, even took my Mom out 4 wheeling and she said there id a ditch slow down, I floored it and jumped, she screamed and asked me not to jump it with her in the truck anymore… lol…
I’ve never owned a vehicle for any kind of status symbol, and I will drive them anywhere I want to go with in reason… Vehicles are meant to be driven… Some people like video games, some like to drive, I for one have NEVER like playing video games of any kind…
But again to each their own… 
I like those old Power Wagons. Super tough trucks.
lol … I (inadvertently, got lost) drove my VW Rabbit over the Sierra Nevada mountain range on a jeep trail … forded creeks, inaccurate map, lost most of the time, had to stop and move big rocks out of the way many times, definitely a memorable trip. By the end I was very thirsty. Fortunately the end of the trail was a pub parking lot.
As a registered tree hugger and Greenie, I oppose damaging creeks and forest grounds by driving into/onto them.
How much damage to nature did your show-offing cause?
Hmm… 2 ways to look at it. yours or others.
the tires till the ground so new plant life can grow.
The tires cause small ruts in the river gravel so fish can hide or can be an area to spawn. 
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Can’t speak to @davesmopar 's 4wd experiences, but in Colorado we’d 4wd that sort of stuff routinely, legal on national forest , national park, BMW lands as long as you keep to signed established trails. Wouldn’t just drive off the road, for one reason, too dangerous, might go over a 200 foot cliff. Environmental damage was mostly the result of folks camping and not carefully cleaning up their campsite. We always held to the Boy Scout method, leave the campsite cleaner than when you find it.
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Would be nice if such benefits outweigh the damages.
In Yellowstone National Park we are not allowed to step off trails or boardwalks and cause damage to the grounds.
Buthe buffalo do.
An acquaintance knows of a young man who intentionally went off the trails.
He fell into a hot pool.
Dissolved by the acidic waters he made himself a part of Yellowstone!
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As a kid dad would deliver groceries on Saturday mornings and I’d help. He used an old ww2 type 4 wd Jeep with a plywood cab. Didn’t matter how deep the snow was, that thing would go through anything. No roads were harmed in the process. I can still smell the aroma from the cab and crates. Made me appreciate the shut ins that couldn’t get out.
A) You have no idea what you speak of much less where I was when I was driving through the creek… The creak(s) was a creek driven through daily out in the country on a family farm and NO FISH were harmed, or I knew the landscape very well… besides that, if a Fish was to stupid to get out of the way then it wasn’t long for this world anyway…
B) I was always on private land and I knew the land like the back of my hands… None of the Deer, Rabbits, Turkeys or many of the other wildlife ever seemed to care, they stuck around till hunting season, then magically disappeared until it was over… lol
might have aimed for a few of the Rattle snakes and Copperheads though…
C) I’m not showing off when I am alone or with a few friends that are DOING THE SAMETHING!!!
BTW, If you want to save the trees STOP building new Subdivisions were Farm land used to be…
D) As a oil loving gas burner, the Power Wagon was partly meant to tick off the registered tree hugger and Greenies of the world… Guess it worked… You would love my 80-90 miles to a 13 gal tank of 93 octane hot rod BTW…
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And if you want to save the trees from fire, clear out the under brush, remove fallen logs, and let loggers in to to thin the forest. We’ve got a fire in the boundary waters now, when tornados came through and knocked trees down, they refused to clean the logs out so now all the dead dry timber is laying on the ground just waiting to burn.
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Years ago we started a controlled fire that burned a few hundred acres to burn/clear out all the overgrown underbrush on our land and surrounding land… Peter Rabbit may have been a little upset but it allowed a lot more wildlife to flourish and new trees to grow…
There are public roads that have shallow creek crossings where bridges are not required. My GPS has sent me down such roads. Rare, but they are still present.
I hope you’re joking. Leave the snakes alone. They eat the vermin we don’t want damaging our homes and cabins. We had a copperhead in our front yard for a while. I talked to a friend who was the head herpetologist at the Smithsonian at the time. He said to leave it alone and it would go away on its own after it ate all the mice and chipmunks in that area of the yard.
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Cottonmouth snakes (water moccasins) and rattle snakes we killed due to safety, copperheads only killed if they became dangerous…BUT never went out deep in the woods looking for them… I am not afraid of snakes and love very large constrictor snakes… But enough other types of snakes around so never had many mice issues…
In Colorado some folks would kill rattlesnakes if they saw them, thinking rattlesnakes are too dangerous near public trails. Me, I’d leave them be. Rattlesnakes are the most common snake in the San Jose foothills, used to see them routinely on mt. bike rides. One day I was riding up a trail, saw a rattlesnake crossing, so I stopped to let it pass. It was in no hurry, but neither was I… Meanwhile a couple of pedestrians, younger man and woman, are also walking up the trail. They seem to be co-workers by their conversation, but are flirting w/each other so intensely, they don’t notice the rattlesnake … as they start to get close I say to them “watch out for the snake”, they see it. woman screams, and man jumps! … snake unperturbed … lol …
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I’ve had the same experience, albeit with non-venomous snakes. While hiking on one of the trails around Lake Carnegie, I wanted to prevent an Eastern Ribbon Snake from being trampled by two approaching women, so I gave them a warning similar to the one that you uttered.
They apparently didn’t hear me and seemed to be heading right for the snake, so I picked up the little reptile and moved him a few feet away.
The women screamed, and I think that one of them came very close to passing out when they saw me picking up the snake. They thanked me for “saving them”, and I took the time to explain that I was simply rescuing the snake.
As I’m sure you know, many (most?) people have an unnatural fear of snakes.
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