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DTR's 'Wrench thrower...' And he aims for the gusto...
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 2,668
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From: Smith Valley, NV (sometimes Redwood City, CA)
mad,
I even look for problems before posting to avoid that. Hmmm, missed it.
But I got a fail! Now Lary has even more reason to get on my case. 
I even look for problems before posting to avoid that. Hmmm, missed it.
But I got a fail! Now Lary has even more reason to get on my case.
Administrator/Jarhead
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 14,991
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From: Jonesborough, TN
Come on, Lary? Get on someone's case?
Rick, if we still had the reputation points, I would have just given you a thousand points for that... !!!!!
It's my pot and I'll stir it if I want to. If you're not careful, I'll stir your's as well!
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 3,264
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From: Central Mexico.
This is in a Toronto newspaper today. Maybe someone with more computer savvy than me can clean up all the garbage and just show the security video.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/video...79/?view=picks
Update:
Globe and Mail Update Published on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 11:13AM EDT
Charges have been laid against the 62-year-old woman who became a viral sensation after video of her painfully bad parking job made it onto YouTube.
In the video, captured by a surveillance camera, the woman's black BMW SUV is seen pulling into the parking lot of an Extreme Fitness location in Thornhill, Ont., north of Toronto. The car swings around into a parking spot, then suddenly accelerates, lurching forward and driving up onto the hoods of two parked cars in front of it.
It slowly backs off the crushed cars, pauses, then slinks away out of the camera's view.
The driver's face and license plate are not visible in the footage.
Tripta Kaushal, from Richmond Hill, has been charged with failing to remain at the scene of an accident.
She was identified when an Extreme Fitness staff member, whose own car had been crushed in the Oct. 22 incident, spotted a similar-looking SUV in the parking lot again Wednesday morning and called police.
Ms. Kaushal, who is a member of the fitness club, is expected in a Newmarket courtroom on Dec. 1.
The YouTube video, which was posted a day after the incident and named the Worst Parking Job Ever! has averaged almost one million views to date.
Here is another follow up to this story. Nice ending for the victim and kudus to Hyundai;
One victim in the YouTube hit "Worst Parking Job Ever!" found a brand new car in his parking space Friday.
Todd Jamison planned to take the day off to shop for a used vehicle one week after a driver, badly in need of a refresher course, trashed his 2004 Hyundai Elantra that he had just finished paying off.
But when colleagues called him into the office on a pretense, he found a shiny 2010 Hyundai Elantra in the lot along with a smiling Hyundai representative.
"She gives me the car," Jamison said in a phone interview. "I am just in shock. I say, `Thank you.'."
The Oct. 22 security video, viewed more than one million times on the video-sharing website, shows a vehicle approaching a parking curb at an Extreme Fitness location at 8281 Yonge St. in Thornhill.
The BMW mounts the curb and charges onto the front hoods and windshields of two facing cars - one white, one blue - smashing them. Jamison's car is the blue one, in the foreground. Then the BMW backs up and slinks away.
"My car was a write-off," said Jamison, an IT specialist serving 13 Extreme Fitness locations in the GTA.
Only upon checking the security video did he discover what happened. He shared the clip with others and a friend posted it to the Internet. A British website that tracks bad-parking videos quickly ranked it No. 1.
At first, Jamison was partly enjoying his accidental celebrity, he said, then began to tire of telling his story. He also faced spending $4,000 to $5,000 on a replacement car, perhaps a 2006 model, he said.
"Now I have a whole new story," he said, "and a happy ending."
"We wanted to help the guy," said Hyundai Canada representative Barb Pitblado. "This was our random act of kindness."
There was no word on the fate of the owner of the trashed white car.
Tripta Kaushal, 62, of Richmond Hill, is due in court Dec. 1 to face charges in the parking mishap.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/video...79/?view=picks
Update:
Globe and Mail Update Published on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 11:13AM EDT
Charges have been laid against the 62-year-old woman who became a viral sensation after video of her painfully bad parking job made it onto YouTube.
In the video, captured by a surveillance camera, the woman's black BMW SUV is seen pulling into the parking lot of an Extreme Fitness location in Thornhill, Ont., north of Toronto. The car swings around into a parking spot, then suddenly accelerates, lurching forward and driving up onto the hoods of two parked cars in front of it.
It slowly backs off the crushed cars, pauses, then slinks away out of the camera's view.
The driver's face and license plate are not visible in the footage.
Tripta Kaushal, from Richmond Hill, has been charged with failing to remain at the scene of an accident.
She was identified when an Extreme Fitness staff member, whose own car had been crushed in the Oct. 22 incident, spotted a similar-looking SUV in the parking lot again Wednesday morning and called police.
Ms. Kaushal, who is a member of the fitness club, is expected in a Newmarket courtroom on Dec. 1.
The YouTube video, which was posted a day after the incident and named the Worst Parking Job Ever! has averaged almost one million views to date.
Here is another follow up to this story. Nice ending for the victim and kudus to Hyundai;
One victim in the YouTube hit "Worst Parking Job Ever!" found a brand new car in his parking space Friday.
Todd Jamison planned to take the day off to shop for a used vehicle one week after a driver, badly in need of a refresher course, trashed his 2004 Hyundai Elantra that he had just finished paying off.
But when colleagues called him into the office on a pretense, he found a shiny 2010 Hyundai Elantra in the lot along with a smiling Hyundai representative.
"She gives me the car," Jamison said in a phone interview. "I am just in shock. I say, `Thank you.'."
The Oct. 22 security video, viewed more than one million times on the video-sharing website, shows a vehicle approaching a parking curb at an Extreme Fitness location at 8281 Yonge St. in Thornhill.
The BMW mounts the curb and charges onto the front hoods and windshields of two facing cars - one white, one blue - smashing them. Jamison's car is the blue one, in the foreground. Then the BMW backs up and slinks away.
"My car was a write-off," said Jamison, an IT specialist serving 13 Extreme Fitness locations in the GTA.
Only upon checking the security video did he discover what happened. He shared the clip with others and a friend posted it to the Internet. A British website that tracks bad-parking videos quickly ranked it No. 1.
At first, Jamison was partly enjoying his accidental celebrity, he said, then began to tire of telling his story. He also faced spending $4,000 to $5,000 on a replacement car, perhaps a 2006 model, he said.
"Now I have a whole new story," he said, "and a happy ending."
"We wanted to help the guy," said Hyundai Canada representative Barb Pitblado. "This was our random act of kindness."
There was no word on the fate of the owner of the trashed white car.
Tripta Kaushal, 62, of Richmond Hill, is due in court Dec. 1 to face charges in the parking mishap.
