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THINGS WE HADN'T STARTED WORRYING ABOUT YET
The Sun, UK - Smart car owners have been left smarting over a new craze - for chucking their motors into canals. Dutch pranksters in Amsterdam have dumped dozens of the tiny two-seater cars into the city's waterways. And now police fear the bizarre trend will spread to the UK and the rest of Europe.
Eco-friendly Smart cars are small enough to be picked up by just a few people and dumped into the Dutch capital's canals, reports De Telegraaf newspaper.
One Smart sales worker said: "We're not supposed to talk about this because the police don't want the craze to spread but we've had quite a few drowned cars returned to us."
Which brings to mind the time many years ago when your editor was helping three other guys lift a Volkswagon onto a sidewalk near Harvard Square one evening for no good purpose. A Cambridge cop happened along and one of the co-conspirators quickly and politely asked, "Officer, we found this car on the sidewalk and could you help us put it back on the street" He did.
Eco-friendly Smart cars are small enough to be picked up by just a few people and dumped into the Dutch capital's canals, reports De Telegraaf newspaper.
One Smart sales worker said: "We're not supposed to talk about this because the police don't want the craze to spread but we've had quite a few drowned cars returned to us."
Which brings to mind the time many years ago when your editor was helping three other guys lift a Volkswagon onto a sidewalk near Harvard Square one evening for no good purpose. A Cambridge cop happened along and one of the co-conspirators quickly and politely asked, "Officer, we found this car on the sidewalk and could you help us put it back on the street" He did.
posted by TPR | 3:49 PM
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One summer during college (I won't say how many years ago) I served as a dorm resident advisor for a high school theater workshop. One morning the students started making cryptic remarks about me having had a wild night, and difficulty parking. It took a lot of questioning before they finally admitted to having moved my small Datsun from its parking place to the sidewalk. Sadly for both them and some unknown owner of a similar vehicle, my car was exactly where I had left it.
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