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Thread Author: Robin O'Reliant	Replies: 39

New Wed 22 Dec 10 12:16   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Robin O'Reliant

You'd go a long way to beat this bimbo - www.liveleak.com/view?i=5eb_1292710094 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 12:22   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - diddy1234

I was about to giver her the benefit of doubt (could be the husbands car etc) but after leaving it in gear and pushing the car then hitting the house, sorry no sympathy. Definite idiot ! Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 12:37   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Tooslow

Dumb! But who was videoing this rather than helping? John Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 12:24   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Netsur

Looks like the new Princess Catherine. Still she doesn't know BMWs are not FWD. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 12:36   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Skoda

What gonad films that when someone's clearly struggling. The biggest tool of the lot is the one holding the camera and that nippy sweetie babbling in the background isn't much better. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 13:12   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Armel Coussine

I agree with tooslow and Skoda. So much of our population has been trained by our despicable tabloid media into a bunch of heartless, selfish, sniggering dog turds. Of course it couldn't happen if they were properly brought up or properly educated. We are three quarters of the way down the toilet. And it's a difficult climb back. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Wed 22 Dec 10 13:29   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - CGNorwich

So fair to say you are not entirely enamoured with modern society AC? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 13:42   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Mike Hannon

>>So fair to say you are not entirely enamoured with modern society AC?<< And quite right too... A two-second snigger is the most important thing in the world, apparently. And even the Telegraph copies The Screws now. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 13:50   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Robin O'Reliant

I think we could agree that as it appears to be the camera man's house that was hit, there was some poetic justice served. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 13:54   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - rtj70

I agree there may have been some poetic justice if their house was damaged. All he had to do was shout out the window he was coming to help and then pushed her car when she was in it. She obviously did not realise the car was rear wheel drive. But how stupid to push it when in gear - she must have thought she had time to hop in. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 14:25   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Armel Coussine

>> fair to say you are not entirely enamoured with modern society AC? Yes, very fair. But I admit to being hard to please in these matters. 'He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.' Would that I had Cassius's lean and hungry look as well. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Wed 22 Dec 10 15:14   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - CGNorwich

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 15:39   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Tigger

>> So much of our population has been trained by our despicable tabloid media into a >> bunch of heartless, selfish, sniggering dog turds. Of course it couldn't happen if they were >> properly brought up or properly educated. With about 5 neighbours we dug the snow out of our close - the people in the remaining 12 houses just sat at their windows and watched. And they're not disabled or elderley. My father used to say there are two types of people in society - givers and takers. It was very obvious who was in which category! Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 15:57   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Old Navy

>>>> With about 5 neighbours we dug the snow out of our close - the people >> in the remaining 12 houses just sat at their windows and watched. >> I hope the were 12 drives blocked with the shifted snow. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 14:40   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - ....

I think this lost must come pretty close. www.liveleak.com/view?i=caf_1175645826 You wouldn't want them helping you move house, also goes a long way to explain why there is no rear end NCAP test. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 14:48   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Tooslow

Occasionally, idiocy gets it's reward! John Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 18:08   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Cliff Pope

I don't get it. She left it in gear with the engine running, and got out? In that case the engine would have been idling, so the slipping wheel would have been rotating very slowly. At idling speed the car would have crept along at walking speed - not entirely daft, if only she had thought about where the steering was pointing. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 18:32   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - henry k

>>At idling speed the car would have crept along at walking speed >>- not entirely daft, if only she had thought about where the steering was pointing. >> She would still have to run on the soft stuff to get going fast enought to leap in or grab the handbrake or key. Last edited by: henry k on Wed 22 Dec 10 at 18:33 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 18:40   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Zero

>> At idling speed the car would have crept along at walking speed - And lo and behold, thats exactly what it did. Into the house. As for digging your drive out the pavement in front of your house? I didnt touch mine, Its all gone now - melted. Those who did now have large lumps of snow like cairns outside their houses and on the sides of their drives. Now tell me, whos daft? Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 21:05   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Old Navy

>> Now tell me, who's daft? >> >> If I had not dug out my drive my car would still be snowed in and unusable, I have five foot high piles of snow each side of my drive and a few JCB buckets full on the wide part of the drive. These piles of snow are not bothering anyone, they don't move about or make a noise. The road was snow ploughed and gritted again today, so I had to shift the snow left across my drive by the snowplough. Why am I daft ? Last edited by: Old Navy on Wed 22 Dec 10 at 21:07 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 21:13   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - -

Why is it daft to clear your driveway? I clear ours and put salt down, our driveway is steep and if we expect to receive post and parcels then the least i can do is make it safe for them, and SWM would struggle to get her FWD car out...people are bone idle now. Also clear and salt the path for our lovely elderly neighbour. What happened to real men. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 21:15   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Zero

They manage to drive over the snow, thats what real men do. I dont have an elderly neigbour, just a builder. He can do his own Last edited by: Zero on Wed 22 Dec 10 at 21:15 Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 21:19   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Old Navy

>> They manage to drive over the snow, thats what real men do. >> My car won't get far in two feet of snow, and neither would yours. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 21:21   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - -

>> They manage to drive over the snow, thats what real men do. If i didn't clear it we'd have a drive full of stuck delivery vans and injured postie's. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 23 Dec 10 09:51   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Dog

>>What happened to real men<< I'ma real men gordon - spent 3 flipping hours clearing snow from my drive (it's 5 cars long!) + the front & rear pathways, then I used a whole £4 bag of rock salt on the long sloping drive. I felt a certain pride as I put dusty bin out this morning at 7-30am (with 4 tins of GK IPA) and didn't have to think about slipping & fractures etc., etc., etc. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 18:43   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - R.P.

pointing down-camber and towards a house so it seems. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 20:08   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Alastairw

Something similar happened locally. One of the ex Mrs Ws neighbours reached into her Clio to start it to warm up. She forgot it was in gear, so it drove itself forward and half demolished a lamp post at the end of the cul-de-sac. I'm hoping the council claim for the repairs on her insurance. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 22:15   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - legacylad

Please help me stop crying with laughter..that second video link is the funniest thing I have seen in months. Reply to this message | Report message

New Wed 22 Dec 10 22:59   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Armel Coussine

Really that poor woman in the original clip, who must have been pressed to get somewhere, was fairly lucky. Modern cars' engine management causes them to drive at an ostensible idle quite lustily once the clutch is fully engaged. They will idle up a slope in first or even second gear in a way that few carburetted cars would. And a car with wheels spinning, even slowly, at either end, with some lock applied, in deepish snow slippery underneath, is unpredictable even with someone at the wheel. She could have hurt herself. My car has traction control but it isn't much use. It works best at an idle. Any foot makes the light flash and the wheels spin, just as they do in a car without traction control. It has though sort of worked a couple of times. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 23 Dec 10 08:39   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Cliff Pope

>> Really that poor woman in the original clip, who must have been pressed to get >> somewhere, was fairly lucky.>> She was I think coming back from a journey and was trying to park in the drive. She kept trying to go forwards with the wheels on left lock, and knew they were pointing that way because she got out and kicked the wheel to try and clear snow build-up. The engine seemed to have a rather fast idling speed, as judged by the spinning wheel just before it went out of view. Perhaps she had put her bag on the accelerator? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 23 Dec 10 08:50   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Pat

Or like many You Tube clips, perhaps the whole thing was staged? Pat Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 23 Dec 10 09:16   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - hobby

Tend to agree Pat, after all how many people would just sit there and watch and not go down to help her... Though knowing todays society perhaps i may be wrong! Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 23 Dec 10 09:40   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - madf

If you listened to the video, it sounded like the photographer was related .. they called her "mother" unless my hearing is going the way of my gray cells... Last edited by: madf on Thu 23 Dec 10 at 09:41 Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 23 Dec 10 12:07   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - movilogo

I still find it quite confusing. Even though modern cars crawl when in 1st gear, with the resistance of snow, it should have stalled. Or it was an auto? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 23 Dec 10 13:00   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - spamcan61

>> I still find it quite confusing. >> >> Even though modern cars crawl when in 1st gear, with the resistance of snow, it >> should have stalled. >> >> Or it was an auto? >> me too.must've been an auto I think. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 23 Dec 10 13:05   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Iffy

...with the resistance of snow, it should have stalled... It's rwd, there's no grip at the back because of the snow she's polished to ice, so the wheels spin. Isn't it a bit like jacking up the rear end? Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 23 Dec 10 13:18   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Tooslow

Try it. You'll find that your car ticks over gently but strongly enough to move steadily, even up a gradient. I thought only diesels did this, due to their high torque, but I have found that my wife's (petrol) Golf does it too. It's a very good way of moving the car as gently as possible, ideal in snow. John Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 23 Dec 10 13:38   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Iffy

My diesel Ford has an anti-stall function which makes the engine 'fight back' against stalling when your foot is off the throttle. If that BMW has something similar, it is even more likely the engine would have carried on running after the rear wheels found some grip. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 23 Dec 10 13:40   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Old Navy

All the diesels that I have owned have applied power to maintain idle speed if forced below that speed. Reply to this message | Report message

New Thu 23 Dec 10 16:05   The Darwin Motoring Awards Winter Special - Robin O'Reliant

>> Or it was an auto? >> I believe it was, because at one point the rear wheels stop turning. Reply to this message | Report message