15 May 2009 - 11:00
It’s raining cash…
This week's Important Lesson in Car Stupidity comes from Hannover in Germany. It's a good one. Get ready.
A 23-year-old man turns up at an Audi dealership in Lower Saxony, intending to buy a new A3 Convertible. He is carrying with him €23,000 in cash. In an open envelope.
Our hero - described as ‘an inexperienced convertible driver' - asks if he can have a test drive in said cabriolet. The salesman agrees. Our hero drops the roof on the A3 and puts his €23,000 in cash on the back seat. Alarm bells ringing yet?
He takes the A3 out onto the motorway. The A2 motorway, to be precise, between Garbsen and Hannover-Herrenhausen. He eases up to motorway speeds and - yep, you've guessed what's going to happen here, haven't you? - the €23,000 in cash swirls merrily into the sky before raining down on the motorway. Oops.
At least there's a happy ending of sorts. After closing the motorway for a full half-hour, the police manage to recover almost €20,000 of the notes. It's not clear, however, whether our red-faced hero decided to buy the A3 cabrio.
Anyone got any similarly embarrassing cabrio stories to share with us? Anything as bad as this?
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Expensive test drive...
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To be fair i'd rather throw away 23000Euros than buy an A3 cabrio
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i agree why not have a good-looking car that is a proper convertible (two seats)
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If road tripper people drove through there at that time my God they'd of been happy and had a laugh.
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wat an idiot, ddnt he even cover or close that envelope, ddnt he have a brain, i bet that guy is a retard
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I've seen a woman driving back from the pub in a Jag XK. In torrential rain. With the roof down. I suspect she was drunk. =S
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Well at least he didn't have ?1,000,000 with him to test the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport...
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* (= 1,000,000. How come it doesn't understand a Euro sign?
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I heard a story - can't vouch for it - about a well-to-do couple in a Mercedes convertible who pulled up at traffic lights beside a truck carrying a load of cattle to the stock sales. Now they pack cattle in these trucks sideways. One of the cattle decided to, er, relieve itself in a full manner. Into the Merc. Onto the people. Urk.
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^ Epic Fail! That would be YouTube gold.
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Cattle on a truck is always nervous, obviously. If you're in for a penny... : )
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Hristo commented on this article
15 May 2009
I've seen a simular thing at the motorway to Burgas/i'm from Bulgaria/ the car infront of us was a Reno 19 :) convirtable there was a opened handbag in the back seat and some teners flew away
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