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October 23, 2007
How not to move a Maserati with a forklift
"A building worker in Sydney, Australia, found a dark blue Maserati sports car parked in a construction zone and decided to move it with the help of a forklift. The construction employee hoisted the car two metres into the air before it flipped off the forks and crashed on its roof."
[via Gerard Vlemming's The Presurfer and Arbroath]
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this reminds me of the scene in the movie "What's up Doc" where the parked VW Bus gets so pummeled on one side during a car chase (you have to see the movie to understand), that when it's owner shows up and grabs the door handle to get in, the now 1/2 as wide bus just topples over into the street.
Would give LOTS of money to see the owner showing up to find this mess...
And my sympathies to the fork-lift operator: seems like he was doing everything in good spirit, but boy did it turn out badly...
PS: Maserati should license this footage and come up with a way to make a very funny add with it!
Posted by: stephen bove | Oct 24, 2007 4:41:20 PM
And how many people have been killed by engineered products like Maserati? What is an engineer, anyway? Hooey? When I was a kid, the interior of cars were made from steel, the better to hit your head against in an accident. Why did it take engineers so long to realize that cars' interiors needed to be SOFT? I've been in six accidents and survived. My wife saw six accidents on her way to and from Wilmington on the Jersey Turnpike this weekend. She said the people were weaving in and out of traffic like GTA. Forty thousand fatalities a year is a lot just so we can be MOBILe. I mean aren't cars, bombs, even without an explosive device? Before there were autos, what was terrorism? Don't even get me started on those fancy Italian handguns at 30K deaths per year.
Posted by: teg | Oct 23, 2007 9:01:56 PM
clifty, you're spot on. When I lived in San Francisco some realtor decided to put her "open house" sign *in the street*, and a narrow street, at that.
Took me about a femtosecond before I just plowed right over it with my truck.
Wish I'd seen her face...
Posted by: jim` | Oct 23, 2007 5:01:04 PM
There is something satisfying about taking away the self-imposed privilege some people think they have in a very expensive sort of way.
Sorta like the time my ex poured out all my gin. She seems rather enamored with herself after this...
Posted by: clifyt | Oct 23, 2007 1:41:04 PM
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