Posted on 04/07/2014 7:59:52 PM PDT by artichokegrower
San Francisco police are investigating an unusual crime spree after four people who live in and around Bernal Heights awakened Monday morning to find their Smart microcars had been rolled over by groups of vandals.
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I recall a similar sized vehicle (Iseta? Not sure of the spelling but I remember it was a small Italian car).
Anyway, one of my fellow employees owned one and it made for a lot of fun stuff during our lunch hours. We lifted it up and set it on a few cement blocks, wheels just off the ground. Driver of course got in but car would not move. The thing opened from the front, no side doors. Another time we pushed it up against a building, with the front against the building. Being creative, the driver just slide down through the opening in the roof, backed the car up and drove away. He had the last laugh. All of us, including the owner had fun with that car, we never did anything to cause damage either. Guess people today have no respect for anyone or anything.
You know? I actually did that too. In 1960. I biked right behind the fogger and got all up in it. Kids do some really stupid stuff, don’t they?
This sounds like white vandalism to me. College students’ “prank”?
I blame the SmartCar owners. They should fold them up and stick them in their pockets, and stuff like this wouldn’t happen......
Wait'll those Visigoths get there !
Just what is so smart about those deathtraps?If you collided with a little red wagon it would probably cause a fatality for the driver of the “smartcar”.
I like smaller cars not only for gas mileage but especially for parking. Its so easy.
I hate trying to park big cars.
Still, I'd rather not have a car that gets tossed around like a beach ball at a Jimmy Buffett concert.
Now we're talking
Tip that!
I once saw one on the front grill of a Kenworth......At first I thought it was a June bug........
Here’s a better option for gas mileage when they come out next year. http://www.eliomotors.com
They have a bigger foot print with crumple zones around the driver and passenger. (But people will still probably tip them over.)
The jerks doing the tipping, who were students.
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Did you have to sign a ‘waiver’ when you bought it?
Lol. Sure did. Had to sign my name in blood too.
55 years ago we used to stand VWs on their nose against a parking meter and their backends in the air against a utility pole.
The Mexicans learned well from the Germans. They make their own excellent beer now.
The Oompa music is as corny as the German Oompa music. I never did care for it.
My mother had a 52 Packard, used of course, for about five years. This was in the mid-60's. It was HUGE and had no power steering. I never drove it because it was EXHAUSTING trying to park it.
I bought little cars, VW, because that's all I could afford. With urban parking it was/is the smarter thing to do...or spend WAY too much time looking for parking OR paying an arm and a leg at parking lots.
Hobart’s funnies
Same thing on a Peugeot 404.
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