200 20v ripped open by backhoe!!

Horace K. Sawyer firestream at mindspring.com
Sun Dec 17 22:45:41 EST 2000


We had a roadtrip to south Georgia this weekend. I mean, way south. 
Allright, allright, hold it down, already!
This goofy Ford dealer comes on TV for a commercial. Couldn't quite catch 
the name and location, but I believe it was a South Carolina dealer, and 
the city may have been Bluffton(?). His son or somebody is on a backhoe. 
Camera pans over the lot. Excursions, and what not. Then there is this 
beautiful, shining, waxed, bright red 200 on the car lot, just sitting 
there peaceably. The goob on the backhoe revs the diesel up and takes a 
claw at the roof of the 200!!!! While the announcer is whining, "We rip the 
roof of prices . . . " The teeth on the bucket crash through the back glass 
of the 200 and the operator pulls it toward him. The poor roof tries to 
hold, but is crumpled in an instant and mashed up to the hood, along with 
most of the interior. A 200 20v convertible. Uh, make that no convertible, 
its a permanent roofless. Goob son is sitting there on the backhoe with 
this crazy idiot look on his face cackling away, kinda like, "Huck, huck, 
huck . . ." My mouth drops open and I start yelling for my wife to run in 
from the kitchen and look at this crap. My little two year old daughter was 
sitting in my lap and looked up at me, she knew I was upset. She says, "It 
broken, Dadddy, he broken." I just started at the TV screen dumbfounded.
HK
This is not b.s.




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