The car in the picture is a VW CrossFox, not a Smart car. Accident occurred in Brazil. Yes, it was fatal to the car driver. More pictures and discussion of this accident here:
Posted on 08/16/2009 6:39:22 PM PDT by kingattax
EDMONTON–Owners of pint-sized Smart cars aren't laughing about reports that vandals may be targeting the tiny vehicles in a 21st-century take on tipping cows over.
The Internet and blogosphere are abuzz with media reports that pranksters may have pushed several of the tiny vehicles into canals in Amsterdam.
And now a man in his 40s is charged with mischief for allegedly tipping a Smart car onto its side along Edmonton's Whyte Avenue, a trendy bar-and-boutique strip that sometimes attracts rowdy drinkers.
Windows, exterior mirrors and panelling on the car were damaged, and despite the outrage of owner Kevin Spaans, amused bystanders posed with the flipped car and snapped photos with their cellphone cameras.
Police are seeking other suspects, but one official said it appears to have been an isolated occurrence.
Ken Lust, sales manager at David Morris Fine Cars, which sells the popular car, says goofing around with it isn't a harmless prank but rather a brazen act of property damage.
Lust has himself been a victim. Three years ago, he went outside one morning on a property he owns northeast of Edmonton to find that somebody had tipped his Smart car over during the night.
"The first reaction is shock and disbelief. The second reaction is anger because your car has been vandalized. It's the same feeling, I guess, if you walked out and saw your paint all scratched up or your windows smashed in," he said.
No one was ever arrested. Lust believes it was the work of several fellows who probably had too much to drink that night.
The sales manager spent several hundred dollars repairing smashed windows and a bent gas cap.
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We had a broad flight of marble stairs leading up to the main doors of my high school, and I remember when a bunch of boys carried the principal’s Beetle up the steps and placed it right in front of the doors. Beetles were considered minuscule in the early 60s, which was still the huge car era.
I missed the part where they got it down, but it wasn’t there when we came out so obviously somebody had managed it somehow.
Canadians tip them, Dutch dunk them, French (sort of) barbecue them.
I’m surprised such a small car did so much damage to the semi. I would have expected the semi to be pretty much untouched. Heck, I’ve seen a picture of a crash between a Hummer and a school bus that didn’t look that much less surviveable.
Mass always wins out in the long run, but for such a small car, I have to say, they seem to have done a pretty good job, all else considered.
Sure that wasn't '69? According to Wikipedia the 850 was produced between 1964 and 1973.
A friend of mine had an 850 sedan in the late 60's.
You mean like sideways in a Univ. of Toledo dorm parking lot space between a Chevy and a Buick. The perps who remain nameless, left the poor guy about two inches clearance on each end. Of course, I claim no firsthand knowledge of this, I was told this story by a witness...
It took the guy about 45 minutes of jockying back and forth to get it out of there, but he managed it without hitting the Chev or the Buick..
One guy’s Bug was carried into a dorm lobby.
Actually that was an MG. The owner came off the elevator and found it in the lobby. Don't know how that happened either. Got the story from the same source as above...
Took four guys to get it in there. No one would help him get it out. He drove it up the steps, across the atrium, out the front door, down the steps and into the parking lot..
The car in the picture is a VW CrossFox, not a Smart car. Accident occurred in Brazil. Yes, it was fatal to the car driver. More pictures and discussion of this accident here:
My cousin and I — we were about 15 at the time — turned my aunt’s VW bug sideways in mom’s driveway. Since it was at the bottom of a downhill slope, it was really difficult for her to get it turned around so she could leave. We laughed for hours about that.
In a Yugo...
[giggling]
I always knew you were a bad man. :-)
LOL! Did you like your Aunt? :-)
That’s “Pious Driver.”
With his foot, I presume.
Well he didn’t get a ticket for that. LOL
When I was in school, at the USNA, we moved complete A-4 aircraft up steps and onto the front of Bancroft Hall. It was easy with a bunch of guys under it. It took a crane to get it off..great fun.
Heck yeah, she’s my favorite aunt and I THINK I’m her favorite niece ... LOL!! (She laughed about it later, too.)
Just got this in an email the other day:
Still think you want a Smart Car?
Below is a photo of a wreck in Jefferson Parish, LA (near New Orleans ) between two trucks and a Smart Car.
Not sure if it's a real snapshot, but it does give you something to think about.
That thing looks like it acted as an airbag for the red truck’s benefit.
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