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    Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    The pedal on the left isn't supposed to be the brake
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    03/17/09

    @FurtiveParsnip: .


    God dammit.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    Wait. It's the pedal on the left? Which left?
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    Prior to the moment of impact, the BMW was heard telling the wall, "You'll only feel a slight prick..."
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    Ironically, the impact through the brick wall activated the turn signal for the first time ever.
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    Mmh, solid building material. I thought only L.A. buildings were real life movie sets.
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    Image of Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    So, any given Texan driving a BMW. This was pretty much bound to happen sooner or later.


    My experiences driving in Houston have me assuming that everyone there is overly aggressive, yet rock-stupid. Add universal X5-driver idiocy, and you have a recipe for disaster. She (I assume) is likely retarded, and is lucky not to have killed anyone else, but unfortunately lived through this.

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    Image of Miscellanea Miscellanea
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    Is this the new block wall surfacing that is replacing Bangle's infamous flame surfacing?
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    I think this event clearly shows that the Zeitgiest demands ritual automotive sacrifice, in our time of dread Carpocalypse. This driver was merely bowing to the will of forces beyond her control. She should be rewarded for her selfless actions.
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    Image of Bumblebee Bumblebee
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    Pretty awesome no one was hurt.


    If this had happened with a 20-year-old car, I wonder if the same would be true?

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    Image of Ash78, cube farmer Ash78, cube farmer
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    Investigators on the scene have profiled the offender as a potentially dangerous member of a violent female Greek gang known locally as "Chi Omega," and have deduced that her whereabouts could be somewhere on South Padre Island or perhaps at a Dave Matthews Band concert. She could also be known by the street alias "Daddy's Little Princess" or "Obama"
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    I'd say the driver was trying to "fix" the Bangle design, but this is clearly head first.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    You could say that it was a break-through performance.
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    Image of More Ron More Ron
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    I'll take a gander at what happened: that lady was driving.


    These fuckin' people, I swear. When you're trying to stop, but start going forward real fast, that's the wrong pedal. Stop pressing it. I'll cop to making the same sort of mistake before, foot slips off the pedal, happens to everyone. But fuckin' A, take your foot OFF the gas and put it back on the brake, don't just keep going through a wall.


    These people are useless.

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    Image of wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx
    03/17/09

    @More Ron: You get a heart for that. I hate stupid people.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    Sadly, another taxi driver is robbed of a customer this fine St. Patrick's day.
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    03/17/09

    In reply to Houston BMW X5 Driver Slams Car Through Parking Garage Wall
    What happened immediately before the accident? Someone said "hold my beer, I'm gonna try somethin"
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