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Outback trip in reverse stuns police

by Morphis » Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:14 am

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1756888.htm

What the hell was he thinking?
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Re: Outback trip in reverse stuns police

by Ryan White » Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:21 am

Morphis wrote:http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1756888.htm

What the hell was he thinking?

We should probably look at whether or not he was thinking at all. That can't have been good for the car.
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by Psike81 » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:55 am

as strange as this reply sounds ... be glad Australia that you posses such fine roads that permit such newsmaking stints .

I'll speculate that in many countries ... there's next to no mileage where :
a) it isnt packed with people driving properly
b) other people aren't driving on it at all
c) because its so sparse , that guy could chance it to make a record .
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by Mappy » Sun Oct 08, 2006 5:49 am

That's nothing. They drive worse than that in Italy every day. 8)
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by Bazza » Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:37 am

If my transmission failed in the outback, and all I had was reverse I think I'd do the same as him. Except for the 80kph bit. 8)
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by stormy001 » Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:09 am

So he backended all the way.
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by Psike81 » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:02 pm

I'll add with city driving in Spain tht I've seen ...

some1 reverses their way out of parking to dent into another person's car (which was unoccupied at the time) perpendicularly . Then proceeds to casually drive of .
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by Mappy » Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:31 pm

Yep, that's pretty much the tip of the iceberg, going by what I've heard from Italian friends. 8)
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by Last Exile » Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:09 pm

Athens is a nightmare for driving and traffic. It drove my mum insane when she went to a conference there earlier this year. Thankfully the soundproofed plate-glass windows allowed her to sleep properly.
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