LAST AUTO NEWS – ROVING BANDS OF YOUTH THROWING SMART CARS INTO WATER
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Smart car owners, be warned: don’t esplanade next to water.
The admonishing comes to us from Holland, area a aberrant new trend has popped up. Wired explains, “Dutch pranksters accept taken to throwing the tiny two-seaters into canals throughout Amsterdam, a trend badge anguish may advance to added European cities.” After all, at about 1,600 lbs, the Smart Fortwo weighs even beneath than the first-generation Volkswagen Beetles that pranksters were addicted of acrimonious up and affective in the 1960′s.
Autoblog adds, “Since drivers of the diminutive little burghal runabouts generally accept to aback into parking spots side-by-side in adjustment to save on congestion, it’s reportedly absolutely simple for bashed revelers to lift the foreground of the Fortwo and tip it tail-first appropriate into a canal. As you’d expect, any car that spends the night sleeping with the fishes at the basal of a aqueduct is actual acceptable a absolute loss.”
Police are aggravating to accumulate the fad quiet, for abhorrence of copycats. A Dutch Smart salesman told the U.K.’s Sun, “We’re not declared to allocution about this because the badge don’t wish the chic to advance but we’ve had absolutely a few drowned cars alternate to us.” In the internet era, however, befitting the trend beneath the alarm is not simple to do.
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