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Woman Flips New Merc Within Seconds of Test Drive
Emirates 24/7 ^ | Friday, August 26, 2016

Posted on 08/26/2016 10:12:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A woman climbed behind the wheel of a white Mercedes-Benz SUV at an Arlington, to take it for a test drive.

A woman climbed behind the wheel of a white Mercedes-Benz SUV at an Arlington, to take it for a test drive.

But the fun was over in the virtual blink of an eye when she somehow managed to flip the pricey machine over in the parking lot.

The only explanation reported for what might have happened is that the woman somehow mixed up the gas pedal with the brake.

One of the cars she hit was her own SUV.


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To: TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

Nope. Merc is Mercedes unless you’re a poverton. A Merc is a Merc.


21 posted on 08/26/2016 11:25:05 PM PDT by some tech guy (Stop trying to help, Obama)
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To: nickcarraway; Jack Hydrazine
"My friend’s mother has a 1979 Mercedes. Looks great and runs well."

That's great. Glad to hear she's keeping in shape.

How's the car holding up?

22 posted on 08/26/2016 11:29:33 PM PDT by shibumi (I am the Nexus One I want more life Muthah I ain't done *~)
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To: publius911; boatbums
Hawaii has tons of M-B "Transit" vans hauling tourists around.

Have suspected for some time the whole M-B "thing" in the US was a cleverly devised marketing scheme for the gullible that demanded some sort of elitist "cachet".

23 posted on 08/26/2016 11:36:45 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: sparklite2

At least that was his own freshly PURCHASED vehicle...

The imbecile woman in the OP... was beginning her TEST DRIVE...

One doesn’t accidentally confuse the accelerator for the brake pedal. That is a case of A-1 incompetence reflective of someone who should have her drivers license permanently revoked...

I’m just thankful no-one was standing in the way - they would have been killed!


24 posted on 08/27/2016 12:01:25 AM PDT by TheBattman (A member over 15 years, yet my posts are "submitted for review")
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To: boatbums
And taxi cabs! I couldn’t believe how many there were in Spain and Portugal.

The only car I did NOT see as taxis in Germany, was Porsche. I saw many MB, BMW, and Audi taxis, but never a Porsche.

25 posted on 08/27/2016 12:25:44 AM PDT by Mark17 (The love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong. It shall forevermore endure.)
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To: some tech guy; All
This... Is a Merc... ;-)
26 posted on 08/27/2016 12:26:45 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: KrisKrinkle

Yeah, they have always been Benz’s to me. Merc’s are lead sleds to me.


27 posted on 08/27/2016 12:34:31 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: KrisKrinkle
I hear ya !

a Merc is a Mercury, a Mercedes Benz is a Benz !

28 posted on 08/27/2016 1:08:39 AM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: onona

I submit to the will of the people.

“Merc” has always been Mercedes to me, but I’m from Europe, so I guess it’s different.

C63 AMG REPRESENT!


29 posted on 08/27/2016 1:22:22 AM PDT by some tech guy (Stop trying to help, Obama)
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To: nickcarraway

Who pays for all of this?


30 posted on 08/27/2016 2:53:10 AM PDT by beejaa
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To: nickcarraway
I don't know that I can believe this story.
That kindof vehicular acrobatics usually requires an Asian lady.
And I don't think there's that many of those in the Emirates.

And yeah, what's an Arlington? Was this just outside of DC, maybe?
Plenty of Asian women there. d;^)

31 posted on 08/27/2016 3:12:09 AM PDT by CopperTop
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To: nickcarraway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd1s3i2bXr0


32 posted on 08/27/2016 3:17:36 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Robert DeLong
Yeah, they have always been Benz’s to me. Merc’s are lead sleds to me.

I don't hang around with a lot of MB owners, but the few I know refer to theirs as a "Benz" or a "'Cedes" (rhymes with "raids").

Lead sleds… one of my unfulfilled wishes was to own a chopped, lowered '49 Mercury mild custom like a guy in my hometown owned when I was quite young. If that woman had been driving a customized (or even "kustomized") '49 Merc like that one - it had a lot of "grandpa's body filler" applied - she'd have had her work cut out for her as far as flipping the thing goes.

Mr. niteowl77

33 posted on 08/27/2016 3:32:58 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: nickcarraway

Boy, she didn’t even have enough time behind the wheel to apply her eye makeup or text anybody.

I guess we really do need driverless cars.


34 posted on 08/27/2016 3:46:33 AM PDT by paterfamilias
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To: nickcarraway

It is said a car depreciates as soon as you drive off the lot, but while still on the lot?


35 posted on 08/27/2016 3:48:43 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: nickcarraway

No thank you. I don’t like how it rides.


36 posted on 08/27/2016 4:21:25 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: boatbums

Spent over 30 years working in a truck factory. Some vehicles just seemed jinxed, nothing but problems all the way down the line. I always wondered what happened to them when they got to the dealer and customer.


37 posted on 08/27/2016 4:31:34 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: sparklite2
A friend of mine bought a new pick ‘em truck, and was concentrating on setting radio push buttons on his way home from the dealership. He hit a parked, totaled the pickup.

I worked with a guy from Maine. He had a friend who was a farmer, who went to the dealership to pick up his new 4WD pick up. When he unexpectedly didn't return home hours later, his wife began calling friends. They organized a search party to see if he had gone off the road somewhere on the likeliest route home, but found nothing. One of them figured that if you had a new 4WD pick up would you take the state road or the logging road home. They went looking for him on the logging road.

They found him, safe but shaken, on a bridge in the crushed cab of his new pick up. He had confronted a moose on the bridge, and honked his horn when the moose wouldn't move. The moose responded by climbing up the hood and jumping all over the cab until it was "dead."

38 posted on 08/27/2016 4:42:32 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This space available)
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To: lee martell

In the U.S., all it takes to get a drivers license is the ability to fog a mirror.


39 posted on 08/27/2016 4:47:19 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: nickcarraway

Did she get the selfie?


40 posted on 08/27/2016 4:48:31 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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