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Toyota: Runaway Prius Guy Jim Sikes Is Balloon-Boy 2
Business Insider ^ | March 15, 2010 | Henry Blodget

Posted on 03/15/2010 11:57:14 PM PDT by hamboy

The appropriate word here would probably be "busted."

"My Prius went wild!" guy Jim Sikes apparently didn't realize his car carried the equivalent of an airliner's Black Box.

Ah, well.  Live and learn, Jim.  In the Big House.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: baloon; jamessikes; prius; runawayprius; sikes; toyota; warontoyota
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1 posted on 03/15/2010 11:57:14 PM PDT by hamboy
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To: hamboy

Another 15-minuter


2 posted on 03/15/2010 11:59:18 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: hamboy

All new cars carry a “black box” in them. I think the Prius has one in them.


3 posted on 03/16/2010 12:00:42 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
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To: americanophile

He should have dressed better for that 15...


4 posted on 03/16/2010 12:01:43 AM PDT by Irenic
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To: Irenic

...we’ll see him again...in orange.


5 posted on 03/16/2010 12:03:40 AM PDT by americanophile
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To: hamboy

“Mr. Waltz said data captured by the car indicated that the brakes and accelerator were depressed about 250 different times during the incident.”

Sounds like the guy tried the break — I don’t think this is evidence that he was lying.


6 posted on 03/16/2010 12:05:05 AM PDT by SmartInsight
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To: hamboy

“Mr. Waltz said data captured by the car indicated that the brakes and accelerator were depressed about 250 different times during the incident.”

Sounds like the guy tried the break — I don’t think this is evidence that he was lying.


7 posted on 03/16/2010 12:05:54 AM PDT by SmartInsight
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8 posted on 03/16/2010 12:06:34 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
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To: SmartInsight

Please! He’s a grifter and a fraud. Probably planning to file a big fat lawsuit until he got ratted out. I knew this was bogus the minute I read the details. To prison at once with him.


9 posted on 03/16/2010 12:08:06 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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Comment #10 Removed by Moderator

Remember the Chili Finger Lady ?


11 posted on 03/16/2010 12:10:38 AM PDT by sanjoaquinvalley (Long Time Lady Lurker)
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To: F15Eagle

It would be easy to disable to black box(if you knew where to look).


12 posted on 03/16/2010 12:12:33 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
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To: ccmay

That is exactly the point, he is NOT planning to file a lawsuit, he is not appearing on TV, he has nothing to gain. On the other hand, TOYOTA has a lot to lose.

The balloon boy hoax WAS perpertrated for financial gain.


13 posted on 03/16/2010 12:14:34 AM PDT by SmartInsight
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To: F15Eagle

I know that you can have a focused EMP beam.


15 posted on 03/16/2010 12:21:27 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
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To: hamboy

I didn’t think that the black box reveled anything, because there was no collision.


16 posted on 03/16/2010 12:31:15 AM PDT by Gator113 (I do not want Obama IMPEACHED... I want him IMPRISONED. Are we there yet? 2010-2012)
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To: Gator113

reveled=revealed


17 posted on 03/16/2010 12:39:29 AM PDT by Gator113 (I do not want Obama IMPEACHED... I want him IMPRISONED. Are we there yet? 2010-2012)
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To: hamboy

Geeez Arch, where’s Edith???


18 posted on 03/16/2010 12:42:32 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: Gator113
"brakes and accelerator were depressed about 250 different times during the incident.”

These so called Black Boxes are likely just data stored within the multitudinous microprocessors on board. Since there are two brake systems and two propulsion sources and various combinations of which ones are in use, it's possible that some combination of rapid inputs could confuse the complex hardware operation. The new inexpensive memory chips could easily hold data from the last hour or more.

19 posted on 03/16/2010 12:50:24 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SmartInsight

You damn betcha he was planning a lawsuit for the first 24 hours or so after he got out of the car. He is not planning a lawsuit NOW, because all the ambulance chasers looked over his flimsy bogus case and told him to get lost.

The one and only thing that lawyers care about is stuffing their pockets with money, and there ain’t a nickel in this pathetic payasada. This did not turn out at all as he had anticipated.


20 posted on 03/16/2010 1:08:45 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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