Hometown Pride

[mookiemookie]

Oh Houston...

As a lawyer she should have been used to getting out of sticky situations.

But when this woman driver attempted to do a U-turn on a street full of roadworks in Houston, Texas, yesterday, there was no way out.

Houston police said that it received a call at 8:30am from a roadworker reporting that a Lexus had been driven straight into a freshly laid section of road.



http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/17/article-0-0D7784D300000578-333_634x474.jpg


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2027144/Female-lawyer-gets-Lexus-stuck-wet-concrete-Houston-TX.html

[Growler]

BWAHAHAHA!!

Looks like she's still in the car for that picture. Even better.

[Jimbuna]

Oh dear :o

:har:

[Betonov]

If I was a foreman at that site, I'd go on for hours about safety regulations preventing me to give clearance for the tow truck to do it's duty and all the papers that have to be filled to avoid a lawsuit that would get lost 5 times until... the concrete would set :D

[Sledgehammer427]

I'd do that. let her give up the car...then, get a crane, yank the wheels, get a fresh set of them, then, drive my new Lexus home :D:D

[magic452]

This happens far more frequently than you think.
I was working on a freeway when a guy drove almost a quarter of a mile on fresh concrete. He was going about 50 when he pulled onto the fresh lane and he just sank more deeply into it till he came to a stop. He had no idea of what caused his car to keep slowing.

His insurance company was billed for all the damage and a quarter mile of freeway concrete removal and replacement was a pretty hefty sum.

On the same job another guy pulled onto the fresh mud to pass several cars and hit the CMI machine pouring the mud. This one almost got his butt kicked as he was mad as heck for US damaging HIS BMW.

Only in California. :damn:

Magic

[Hottentot]

Stop right there! Don't touch it! Don't do anything! I have a vision!

First: we'll be like nothing happened. Leave the car there, let the asphalt dry up (or whatever it does), continue on your merry way.

Then: remove the car still attached to asphalt. Ship it to some easily accessible location with a big, empty building. Place it into the building and put a sign next to it explaining what happened. Fill the building with similar objects and signs from all around the world (should be easily filled within a day or two).

Call it "Museum of humanity" and charge people appropriate sum for the right to get in, laugh at the objects and feel good knowing they're too smart to ever have anything like that happen to them.

Profit! :D