Driver reverses off tow away truck

Driver reverses off tow away truck

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Collectingbrass

Original Poster:

2,198 posts

194 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dri...

That's one way to avoid the impound fees...

Laurel Green

30,770 posts

231 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Blimey! Very lucky to have completed such a maneuver without damaging the car.

irocfan

40,153 posts

189 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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WOW! What a knob!

Slidingpillar

761 posts

135 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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He could easily have bent something - and probably has. I had a lesser drop in competiton and bent one of the front stub axles and the steering box. Neither were immediately obvious on a casual inspection.

Retroman

961 posts

132 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Looks like the sump took the brunt of it.

surveyor

17,768 posts

183 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Laurel Green said:
Blimey! Very lucky to have completed such a maneuver without damaging the car.
The version I saw he driving away rattling like a tin can, and the car definitely dropped a lot of fluid from the front.

Mobsy

80 posts

222 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Probably couldn't afford for the car to get to the pound, not with the body still in the boot. wink

Fartomatic5000

558 posts

154 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Very odd that the police are no longer involved. That would imply that the car is registered to someone, taxed and insured and with a valid MOT.

It also implies that the police are turning a blind eye to a seriously dangerous bit of driving. Not sure I feel happy about sharing the road with people and cars like that.

V8forweekends

2,481 posts

123 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Fartomatic5000 said:
Very odd that the police are no longer involved. That would imply that the car is registered to someone, taxed and insured and with a valid MOT.

It also implies that the police are turning a blind eye to a seriously dangerous bit of driving. Not sure I feel happy about sharing the road with people and cars like that.
Agreed - I know you shouldn't believe everything you read in the paper, but it seems a bit poor of the Police if true.

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Mobsy said:
Probably couldn't afford for the car to get to the pound, not with the body still in the boot. wink
Vauxhall, was it? Usually at least two bodies in those.

Denis O

2,141 posts

242 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Breadvan72 said:
Vauxhall, was it? Usually at least two bodies in those.
Both of whom were previous drivers who died of boredom perchance.

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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... or embarrassment.

CMYKguru

3,017 posts

174 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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sebhaque

6,402 posts

180 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Topic still looks very open to me.

I saw the same video without the voiceover and you can hear the exhaust scraping along the floor as he drives away. All-in-all he's probably done more £ of damage to the car by driving off the truck than the fine he'd have to pay.

KFC

3,687 posts

129 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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sebhaque said:
Topic still looks very open to me.

I saw the same video without the voiceover and you can hear the exhaust scraping along the floor as he drives away. All-in-all he's probably done more £ of damage to the car by driving off the truck than the fine he'd have to pay.
I guess the car was being taken for something that was going to result in him not getting it back? Presumably he's just thinking he has nothing to lose?

MrBarry123

6,025 posts

120 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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CMYKguru said:
TOPIC CLOSED
Or not...

GTIR

24,741 posts

265 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Will someone think of the children. rolleyes

That's ace. Real Hollywood st right there man. bounce

StuntmanMike

11,671 posts

150 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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Wow, that's like Transporter on a budget.

Hol

8,360 posts

199 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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StuntmanMike said:
Wow, that's like Transporter on a budget.
Is Jason Statham a company director?

He has all the other PH attributes.


edgyedgy

474 posts

126 months

Thursday 18th September 2014
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I have seen someone do similar in hackney east London except he hit lamp post as he drove off.