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@LandofMinos, is punching Prius people for pleasure: You forgot several important details :
-dodgy HSV sticker somewhere, possibly even an attempt to be fake HSV
- oversized girlfriend with muffin-top hanging over jeans texting on pink phone
- drivers seat reclined to touch rear seat
- obligatory lighting up of inside rear wheel at all turns, intersections, traffic lights, roundabouts, McDonalds drive-thru, etc. Not difficult with 185 series tyres, open diff and live axle.
- one rim replaced with spare tyre due to ill-judged drifting accident #australia
@brc is never late, because of his v8: Your last two points reminded me of when I was out at Penrith visiting a friend one evening years ago. We heard the distinct noise of a V8 revving up, spinning tyres and then a weird crack.
We went outside and as was met by the sight of a maroon VP SS sitting at an odd angle over the gutter in front of my friends house. It's rear driver-side wheel collapsed almost under the car.
We could tell what happened from the fish-tailing black marks on the road from the car back to a roundabout 100 metres (330ft) away. The P plater (back when P platers could drive V8's) had exited the roundabout, sunk his right boot and we guess was unprepared for the instant torque those old 5.0L Holden motors produced and ended up fish tailing sideways into the gutter back wheel first.
The rozzers turned up not long after that and wrote the idiot kid a couple of tickets. #australia
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@Murilee Martin: No. In the Northern Hemisphere, objects moving across or above the surface of the Earth tend to turn to the right because of the Coriolis effect. So, the vehicle would land on its right side.
This reminds me of a wreck a couple years ago that ended with a Chevy Silverado plowing into the side of my buddy's house about 10 ft. from the ground. He lives along a main road with a posted speed of 45MPH. Around 2:00AM one morning a fine young chap with a BAC of .24 was cruising along at triple digit speeds with his girlfriend and another dude in the cab with him and another girl and dude in the bed. He crested a minor rise in the road which apparently unsettled the truck just enough that he veered off to the left just at the point the guardrail was tapered making it a perfect ramp. The truck hit the rail and flew a considerable distance (150 ft. if memory serves) and rotated before nailing the side of the house and falling to the ground on its roof. The folks that were in the bed were found on the back porch roof and in the yard on the opposite side of the house. The folks in the cab were all unrestrained. Naturally, the only survivor was the driver. Darwin must have been busy that night. #australia
"Honey? Did you just hear something?"
"Like what?"
"I don't know. Sound's like something's on the roof."
"FFS. It's probably another damn Holden." #australia
@jaylake: From today's paper "TWO young Sydney men have done their best impersonation of the Dukes of Hazzard following a high-speed accident, launching their car 15 metres into the air and somersaulting into a Sydney home's roof." #australia
On a Sunday morning rooftop,
I'm wishing, Lord, that I wasn't stoned.
'Cause there's something in a Sunday
That makes a hoon feel really boned.
And there's nothing short a' dying
That's half as lonesome as the sound
Of the sleeping Sydney rooftop
And a Holden coming down. #australia
Wow, I usually only account for possibility of the "average large person", i.e. someone weighing 1kN, to safely walk on a non-accessible roof, when designing buildings.
I guess I have to reconsider that, by a factor of 20x. #australia
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10/18/09
Commodore drivers are gaining (if not gained) a reputation for being hoons in Oz and NZ.
I'm not deriding all Commodore drivers, the hoon ones are easy to spot...
-Mostly 88' to 97' vintage (VN - VX)
-5 Litre V8 (sometimes 3.8L Buick V6 if 'P' plater)
-Typical mods like paint-tin sized exhaust tip, darker than legal tint, ill-fitting body cladding.
-Jim Beam or Jack Daniels sticker on rear window. #australia
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-dodgy HSV sticker somewhere, possibly even an attempt to be fake HSV
- oversized girlfriend with muffin-top hanging over jeans texting on pink phone
- drivers seat reclined to touch rear seat
- obligatory lighting up of inside rear wheel at all turns, intersections, traffic lights, roundabouts, McDonalds drive-thru, etc. Not difficult with 185 series tyres, open diff and live axle.
- one rim replaced with spare tyre due to ill-judged drifting accident #australia
10/19/09
We went outside and as was met by the sight of a maroon VP SS sitting at an odd angle over the gutter in front of my friends house. It's rear driver-side wheel collapsed almost under the car.
We could tell what happened from the fish-tailing black marks on the road from the car back to a roundabout 100 metres (330ft) away. The P plater (back when P platers could drive V8's) had exited the roundabout, sunk his right boot and we guess was unprepared for the instant torque those old 5.0L Holden motors produced and ended up fish tailing sideways into the gutter back wheel first.
The rozzers turned up not long after that and wrote the idiot kid a couple of tickets. #australia
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Is this a contest? #australia
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"Like what?"
"I don't know. Sound's like something's on the roof."
"FFS. It's probably another damn Holden." #australia
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@jaylake: From today's paper "TWO young Sydney men have done their best impersonation of the Dukes of Hazzard following a high-speed accident, launching their car 15 metres into the air and somersaulting into a Sydney home's roof." #australia
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I suppose those boyos won't get any props for sticking the landing. Looks like a 9.7 from here. #australia
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I'm wishing, Lord, that I wasn't stoned.
'Cause there's something in a Sunday
That makes a hoon feel really boned.
And there's nothing short a' dying
That's half as lonesome as the sound
Of the sleeping Sydney rooftop
And a Holden coming down. #australia
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And there's nothing short of flying
That a Holden cannot do... #australia
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I guess I have to reconsider that, by a factor of 20x. #australia
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