200 20v ripped open by backhoe!!

[Lawrence C Leung]

Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Somebody Bomb the place! (the dealer). Or at least
shoot the backhoe (operator AND his boss!)!

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:45:41 -0500 "Horace K. Sawyer"
<firestream at mindspring.com> writes:
>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.
>