Posted on 12/19/2004 4:59:46 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
IT was car maintenance Basil Fawlty style. An Adelaide man has been quizzed by police after taking to his own car with a sledgehammer when it refused to start.
A police spokesman said patrols attended a house at suburban Salisbury Heights yesterday after reports of a man damaging a car.
When they arrived they found the car with extensive damage, but were somewhat dumbfounded to be told it was the man's own vehicle.
"The man stated he became frustrated when the car wouldn't start," the spokesman said.
In an episode of the popular British comedy Fawlty Towers, irascible hotel owner Basil Fawlty gives his own car a thrashing with a tree branch when it breaks down.
"I've laid it on the line for you time and time again!"
LOL! You gotta love it!
One of the very few shows I miss with no TV...by choice.
FMCDH(BITS)
?Que?
What you need is a Siberian Hampster!
One of the very few shows I miss with no TV...by choice.
Well then, here you go. I have this set. Still funny as hell.
BASIL!
Man, that Jack Nicholson never learns.
Manuel!
I can remember back in Detroit around 1936 when my great-uncle Bob came over in his early Model A Ford [I believe],headlights on top of the fender, which had to be started with a crank. The car wasn't starting and Uncle Bob kept on getting madder and madder and peeling off layer after layer of clothng. He finally got down to his shirt sleeves and said, Get cantankerous with me will you. Damn you, I'll blind you."
Having said this he pulled out the crank and knocked out both of the headlights.
Your Uncle Bob is surely worthy of some sort of award from the UN!
Oh, you named him Basil did you?
Is not a rat. Is Siberian hampster!
My all time favorite............."The Germans".
I know nothing.
C'mon START!
Right!!!
It happens. I was 19. The 1954 Mercury was given me by someone who did not want it. Car buffs know that was the first year of Ford's OHV V8 engine..a real turkey.
The car embarassed me on a date. Next morning, downtown, in public, it failed to start. I snapped and went berserk, kicked in its windows, and jumped up and down, caving in the roof and hood in places.
It started. Went home, drove it into a field, went indoors and called the junkyard.
Removed the oil drain plug, got it going, and threw a cinderblock onto the accelerator.
It ran a surprisingly long time! The blue smoke cloud had not dispersed when the wrecker arrived to take it away. I suppose it was good mosquito control...
Cars, especially first model years! They can do that to people, really.
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