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Hybrid vehicle attacks petrol station

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by Don-RI, Mar 12, 2007.

  1. Don-RI

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    <div align="left">"Hybrid vehicle attacks petrol station</div> <div align="left">'I could not stop the car', admits shaken victim</div> ...The driver of a Toyota Prius had a narrow escape recently when his vehicle decided to do away with its human master by ploughing into a Tacoma petrol station "narrowly missing a clerk and sparking a fire"."
    Entire story: http://www.theregister.com/2007/03/12/kamikaze_prius/

    No mention of driver error. Pick up of the story should be pretty good among the usual doomsayers... But, maybe there's hope. Interesting comments on Technocrat.net dismissing The Register per se... http://technocrat.net/d/2007/3/12/15943
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rainydysandmondys @ Mar 12 2007, 01:04 PM) [snapback]404342[/snapback]</div>
    Easy to visualize!
     
  5. tripp

    tripp Which it's a 'ybrid, ain't it?

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    Ha, the Richmond Mall! I lived in Augusta for a few years when I was a kid.

    I wouldn't really call it a rampage. He seemed to be driving at reasonable speeds and he had his headlights on. At least it wasn't crowded with shoppers.

    If I still lived in GA I'd probably go on a rampage too! :lol:
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Don-RI @ Mar 12 2007, 01:19 PM) [snapback]404319[/snapback]</div>
    <div align="left">'I could not stop the car', admits shaken victim</div> ...The driver of a Toyota Prius had a narrow escape recently when his vehicle decided to do away with its human master by ploughing into a Tacoma petrol station "narrowly missing a clerk and sparking a fire"."
    Entire story: http://www.theregister.com/2007/03/12/kamikaze_prius/

    No mention of driver error. Pick up of the story should be pretty good among the usual doomsayers... But, maybe there's hope. Interesting comments on Technocrat.net dismissing The Register per se... http://technocrat.net/d/2007/3/12/15943
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    This one is really getting around. Isn't it the same story about a Prius running into a gas station and starting a fire?

    http://priuschat.com/Gas-Station-Fire-blam...kes-t30361.html

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    tripp Which it's a 'ybrid, ain't it?

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dmckinstry @ Mar 13 2007, 08:41 PM) [snapback]405132[/snapback]</div>
    Nope, It's a dude in an SUV joy riding inside a mall in Augusta, GA. The topic title is wrong, though, which is causing the confusion.
     
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    Ah the art of the PR spin...

    "Hybrid vehicle attacks gas station" Wow. They want you to think that hybrids are bad because they attack things :eek: ! The irony is that the prius lessens our dependence on foreign oil, and lowers the proffits of the oil industry. So i guess it is actualy "attacking" the gas station, just not litteraly.

    I think that this the same article that says "you need to get out of there! Thats a hybrid car!" :eek: Oh noes! A hybrid car? How horrible! As if the driver didn't know that he owned a hybrid.

    *sigh*
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Clay Suttner @ Mar 15 2007, 05:35 PM) [snapback]406425[/snapback]</div>

    ... there was a "B" film called the "The Blob"; the original article sounds like that film's script with "hybrid" used in place of "Blob"
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nicos @ Mar 15 2007, 07:07 PM) [snapback]406483[/snapback]</div>
    How can you call a wonderful classic like the "Blob" a "B" fill. I was in high school when that came out. Who starred in it? Steve McQueen? I'm not sure now.

    Dave M.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dmckinstry @ Mar 16 2007, 06:35 PM) [snapback]406990[/snapback]</div>
    Steve McQueen, yep. Although now this thread is sort of making me want to see a Prius splatter film, maybe called Who did the electric car kill? :D