From the Daily Telegraph:
WHEN you borrow a brand new, $300,000 convertible Maserati to test drive, it would be wise to close the roof on when it rains.
One Sydney journalist found out for himself last week, the considerable amount of damage that can be done when a luxury car is left outside a Kings Cross nightclub in heavy rain.Brand new to the country, the black Maserati Spyder had only been driven by one other journalist and is believed to have suffered “significant, if not irrepairable” damage, according to one source.
Taken from the Register article:
Two people have been hospitalised after a flying BMW inexplicably left the A30 in Basingstoke, Hants, and impacted with the first floor of a nearby house.
The incident - described by a neighbour as “just absolutely incredible” - left a gaping hole in a bedroom wall of Joe and Joyce Harman’s house but, as the couple were asleep in another room at the time of the crash, they escaped unscathed.
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Joyce Harman told the BBC: “It was just horrendous. My husband thought the dog had knocked something over downstairs but as he got to the bedroom door he could see the hole in the wall and all the furniture moved. That’s when we came downstairs and saw the car there.”
Police are trying to work out exactly how the vehicle came to acquire aerobatic capabilities after the driver apparently lost control on a bend of the A30, hit the kerb and “launched through the air, colliding with the first floor of a house in Rainbow Close”, as a Hampshire Police spokeswoman put it.
Straight from this Tampa Tribune.
LAUDERDALE-BY-THE-SEA - A man with car trouble is in trouble after shooting his 1994 Chrysler LeBaron.
John McGivney, 64, pumped five rounds from a .380-caliber semiautomatic into the hood, Broward County sheriff’s deputies said Tuesday.
When the property manager at his apartment complex asked what he was doing, McGivney said, “I’m putting my car out of its misery.” He tucked his gun in a pocket and went back inside.
Deputies responding to a report of gunshots April 15 ordered McGivney to come out of his apartment and arrested him on a misdemeanor charge of discharging a firearm in public. He posted $100 bail.
McGivney said the car has been giving him trouble for years and has “outlived its usefulness.” He called the shooting “dumb” and worries he will be evicted. He doesn’t regret it, though.