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Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 1:33 pm
by Fairportfan
My son-in-law drove a Bradley over an illegally parked Mustang without noticing it during training.
New York City delivery trucks might not be quite so large or tough as a Bradley, but...
In true New Yorker fashion, truck driver ‘didn’t see nothing’, as he crushed Ferrari FF
Peter Braun/DigitalTrends wrote:
Are you having a bad day? Well buck up because two people in New York had a worse one.
A delivery driver managed to back into – and then over – $300,000 Ferrari FF. Apparently, the FF’s sleek sexy Italian lines worked against it, as NBC reports that the truck driver “didn’t see nothing.”
Good news is that delivery company’s insurance provider probably won’t miss the repair bill because its going to cover several pages. Fortunately, no one was injured but the owner and car lovers everywhere are likely to need years of therapy to get over the horrific image of a Ferrari FF doorstop.
From the looks of it, not only is the bodywork smashed beyond recognition but the front suspension is crushed.
That would be bad on any car. Unfortunately, bad doesn’t even begin to cover it on the FF. This Ferrari has a four-wheel drive system by Rube Goldberg. What do I mean? It has an extra transmission going to the front! Yeah! My guess is that the extra gearbox doesn’t react well to truck bumpers. Call it an educated guess.
Apparently a paid driver was helming the FF when it was hit by the land equivalent of an iceberg. I don’t know if it would be worse to sit in your precious baby as it is slowly crushed like its in the garbage compactor on the Death Star or to be the employee with visions of being disemboweled by an enraged employer.
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 3:09 pm
by Jabberwonky
The downside to owning a car like that. I'd have to have homicide insurance...
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 4:58 pm
by Atomic
Looks like the truck is missing it's
Mansfield Bar, but possibly an exception because of the lift gate mechanism.
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 6:50 pm
by jwhouk
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 10:06 pm
by Jabberwonky
I think the truck was double-parked on top of the Ferrari...
Ba-dum tish!
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 4:01 am
by MerchManDan
Jabberwonky wrote:
I think the truck was double-parked on top of the Ferrari...
Ba-dum tish!
Definitely gives a new meaning to that phrase, that's for sure.
Still, it's true what they say: Give a man an inch, and he'll try to park his car in it.
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 5:11 am
by shadowinthelight
I am so schadenfreuding at this. Don't look at me funny, it's estimated
20% of English verbs started as nouns so I'm just following established tradition of expanding the language.
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 5:54 am
by Fairportfan
shadowinthelight wrote:I am so schadenfreuding at this. Don't look at me funny, it's estimated
20% of English verbs started as nouns so I'm just following established tradition of expanding the language.
But they started as
English nouns.
M brother said that his Romance language translators hate his habit of verbing nouns and coining new words.
His German translator just slaps a few words together in a big lump...
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 8:17 am
by Jabberwonky
Fairportfan wrote:His German translator just slaps a few words together in a big lump...
I've heard this about German...
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 10:26 am
by Leak
Also, Ferrari just now got trounced again by Red Bull in Abu Dhabi...
Then again, a truck backing up into a can of Red Bull wouldn't be exactly newsworthy.
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 1:33 pm
by Atomic
Jabberwonky wrote:Fairportfan wrote:His German translator just slaps a few words together in a big lump...
I've heard this about German...
Mark Twain supposedly told a story about reading a book in German, but somebody tore off the last page, so all the verbs were missing.
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:52 am
by MerchManDan
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 5:32 am
by Jabberwonky
Atomic wrote:Jabberwonky wrote:Fairportfan wrote:His German translator just slaps a few words together in a big lump...
I've heard this about German...
Mark Twain supposedly told a story about reading a book in German, but somebody tore off the last page, so all the verbs were missing.
"I want you to London, Hugh Crummond send..."
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:11 am
by DinkyInky
Leak wrote:Also, Ferrari just now got trounced again by Red Bull in Abu Dhabi...
That's because Nermal racked up an impressive number of frequent flyer miles...and rented a jet for it's fuel cache.
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 5:04 pm
by Bookworm
Atomic wrote:Jabberwonky wrote:Fairportfan wrote:His German translator just slaps a few words together in a big lump...
I've heard this about German...
Mark Twain supposedly told a story about reading a book in German, but somebody tore off the last page, so all the verbs were missing.
The Awful German Language -
http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:23 am
by Julie
Yeah I saw this on the news last week.
It was the "light-hearted" end to the run through of the top news stories on GMA...and apparently the crew on set were all very pleased to hear that the Ferrari had gotten a ticket (as if the getting-run-over-by-a-truck thing wasn't enough pain and suffering for a person with money to spare).
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 5:08 pm
by bmonk
I was thinking of a
Liberty Mutual ad (about 0:31)
when I found this
video
Re: Two drivers having a Very Bad Day
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 5:11 pm
by bmonk
Atomic wrote:Jabberwonky wrote:Fairportfan wrote:His German translator just slaps a few words together in a big lump...
I've heard this about German...
Mark Twain supposedly told a story about reading a book in German, but somebody tore off the last page, so all the verbs were missing.
Then there was the German Theologian who was working on his magnum opus, summarizing all of theology.
Unfortunately, he died after publishing 11 of the 12 volumes, which made it useless, since all the verbs . . .