Driver of damaged car pretends nothing is wrong

Every chance,
every chance that I take
I take it on the road
Those kilometres and the red lights
I was always looking left and right
Oh, but I’m always crashing
in the same car

Jasmine, I saw you peeping
As I pushed my foot down to the floor
I was going round and round the hotel garage
Must have been touching close to 94
Oh, but I’m always crashing
in the same car

Well THERE’S yer problem!

sn’t tht Jhn McCn nd Srh Pln n th cr? Rcng twrd th Wht Hs?

#7 – Oops. I see great minds think alike.

oh, and aeiou and sometimes y.

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a couple cars on COPS catch on fire after doing the exact same thing.

SLUGGO@53: Thanks. It was just too apropos wasn’t it? I couldn’t resist.

Staged, of course; camera crews don’t show up that conveniently. Which means they probably knew exactly what they were doing and what they could get away with, and there may have been more alterations to the vehicle than the obvious crash damage.

I hope they paid the city for chewing up the road surface.

Yeah, I know, I’m a grump. But I’m underimpressed.

This is probably in france, the guys filming were french that’s sure…anyway there must be some insider info on this because I don’t believe someone is actually stupid enough to drive this mess…probably a joke or something…

A good Mercedes will surround the driver in a shell of quiet perfection, such that road noise, engine noise, frame scraping the ground, etc.. are unnoticeable. In my experience they are also magnets for expensive collision damage, especially while parked or otherwise in proximity to lesser vehicles.

he was just waiting for that favourite song on the radio to finish before pulling over.

That car out-handles mine with 25% less wheels.

No biggie, it was a rental..

I have seen this phenomenom before. Woke up at 3 AM to the sound of a devil shrieking. Went out on the balcony and Volvo was pulling over in front of our building. His rear tire was shredded, and he’d been scraping all the way down the block. He got out, examined it, spotted the trouble, took a piss, and wandered off. A few minutes later he came back and screeched off, gouging tracks in the street. White smoke billowed out from under his hood and enveloped the whole block. You could hear him six blocks away. Obviously it was an ugly divorce and the wife was getting the car.

It doesn’t have a smashed front end, it’s just pining for the fjords.

heh! did I ever tell my highway sparks and frozen mask story?

Il est juste une égratignure.

My old man is a television repairman, he’s got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.

could that be dangerous?

Wow — didn’t get a chance to see the footage til now, that’s a lot worse than I imagined.

A few years ago my brother and I encountered a guy at a gas station who was driving around on one tire and three bare rims. We tried to point out how incredibly dangerous this was, but due to his poor English and/or impairment all he gave us in response was “okay, thank you, bye bye”, and, scraping sparks past the gas pumps, he pulled out onto the street like Bambi on ice. We followed him through Carytown, stopping at one point to ask a parked cop to have this guy pulled over before he kills someone (yes — we had to ask). By the time we caught up with the driver again he’d plowed into some parked cars and had a trooper’s Maglite shining in his face.

But gosh, right up til that point, you sure had to admire the guy’s optimism. :-/

Hey, Enormo and Phikus, have you forgotten that shots at presidential (and VP) candidate are off-limits outside of explicit presidential candidate threads?

I guess I’m just more suspicious than average — my first thought was “someone’s sure determined to make tracks away from the other vehicle they hit”. :(

Oops, I didn’t know there was a restriction on candidate posts in non-election topics. Sorry.

Still funny though. ;)

@18 AVRAM
Conveniently, yes.

classic homer simpson!

@57 You’re kidding right? Camera crew? Underimpressed is a pretty cool word too.

I’ve seen this before, but it was just the blown out rear tire on a FWD. The guy had sparks flying everywhere, which was even more a spectacle at night. There was an empty two car distance around this guy in every direction thankfully, but this was in the age before cell phones so everyone was just hoping the person on the off ramp was headed to a phone.

people respond differently to trauma. Some big babies throw themselves on the ground after only a small calibre bullet wound, some go sniveling off to the hospital with a minor compound fracture. Quite likely this was some weakling nonagenarian, dazed from the initial impact of accident and contemptibly unable to accept the fact of a few splintered bones, driving on pretending it didn’t happen. You know the type.

Whoa. Internet researchers, please tell me that this person is in jail. Driving a car that impaired is hugely negligent.

I’m going with something like road rage. I guess it’s a good thing for him that it’s a RWD car. Too bad if he needed to swerve right to avoid something, though. But then, again left turns don’t seem to work out for this guy, either.

The cameraman did exactly the right thing, though, by filming it and uploading it to YouTube

“Exactly”? I’m not convinced. Or are you being sarcastic?

A person continuing to drive after having had a collision severe enough to cause damage like that is clearly a menace and an enormous hazard. Driving anywhere near that vehicle while it’s in motion is a bad idea and driving in formation like that is just asking to be the next victim.

And to that, the camera operator compounds the danger by shooting out of an open door.

“Exactly the right thing” would be to phone the police to report the driver, and possibly trail the vehicle at a safe distance (at least several seconds behind) to provide updated position reports should the police have trouble finding them.

Sorry if I missed some attempt at a joke here; I admit, when it comes to highway safety, I don’t have much of a sense of humor. There’s too much inherent danger ignored by far too many drivers (including all the principals in this video) for something like this to be funny.

I thought Merc’s had magnesium wheels? That would have made the clip if the wheels themselves lit up with a blue-white flame.

Still, it held its alignment rather nicely.

Looks like the good old UK to me, it’s a dual carriageway, lights and plates look British, dunno bout the French? maybe it’s a dirty conspiracy designed to besmirch our world renowned driving expertise.

MerK..

Not old, sheltered.

Saw this video on English Russia yesterday…

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2110

Apparently, the people in the Mercedes are from Chechnya.

Want a new car? Just pull in front of him and come to a complete stop in a reasonable manner.

it’s hard to tell, but it looks like the hazard lights are on. the driver obviously has the situation well in hand.

Does that car come in red? I just want to brag to my friends my mpg is worse than a Hummer H2.

Fleeing the scene of a hit and run?

Seems likely given the sort of damage and the fact that they just keep driving and causing more and more damage.

You’ve either got to be dumber than a box of handicapped rocks, inebriated beyond comprehension, or running scared to do that kind of thing… at least to a car you own and will have to fix.

’tis just a flesh wound.

I think there should be a guy in the car. And that guy is smiling and giving the thumbs up. And the car has it’s wheel smashed but the smashed wheel is just a metaphor for someone related to the guy who is causing him problems… but the guy is ignoring the problems and driving forward like nothing is wrong. Let’s see who can that guy and other person be?

Ben Bernanke? I’m pretty sure he’s of the “just drive faster and it’ll all work out” school of thought.

I must be old, because a “Merc” to me is a Mercury.

Are you pronouncing it murk, to rhyme with jerk, or murse, like nurse?

That’s german engineering for ya!

Why was #7 disemvowelled?

Also – it seems to me that the people in the car driving alongside doing the filming were pretty nuts themselves. I would not want to be anywhere NEAR that Merc. I mean – if a corner came up, and the guy tried to turn, who knows what is going to happen at that speed? Anyone who is alongside is going to get wiped out too. Crazy people, without the ability to imagine what distorted metal does to human flesh.