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Old 21-05-2010, 03:18 PM   #1
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Default Globe journalist’s son crashes $180,000 Porsche
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe...rticle1574334/

and he did it all in the space of a few metres.

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Old 21-05-2010, 04:45 PM   #2
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Just like the dutch kid who was caught hooning in his fathers Veyron last month!!!!
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Old 21-05-2010, 05:04 PM   #3
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Funny and great story IMO very understanding father
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Old 21-05-2010, 07:11 PM   #4
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Funny and great story IMO very understanding father
As he said - his son was pretty good and was already stressing out from when he did it. The working to pay the parents' excess and 1 week working for the Porsche guy was a balanced method of penance - it also will show him how much effort it takes to make $500 - on junior wages. The article mentions he didn't know how to drive a "standard" transmission. I figure this means manual - should be "superior" transmission
Surely he would know he should not have been engaging any gears with the garage door closed!

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Old 22-05-2010, 04:26 PM   #5
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At a guess, started it in gear to turn on the stereo or something and it lurched forward.
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Old 22-05-2010, 05:36 PM   #6
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If I had an accident in a $250,000 truck ...
Would it be posted all around the world.. NO !!!
Sheesh there can't be any bad news around these days..
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Thoroughly enjoyed reading that article. Very well written.
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i found the article very long winded....

all i wanted to know was how he managed to crash it.. i got 3/4 the way thru and the question still hadn't been answered.. so i gave up..
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i found the article very long winded....

all i wanted to know was how he managed to crash it.. i got 3/4 the way thru and the question still hadn't been answered.. so i gave up..
Generation Y perhaps?
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Had that been me back in the day, my dad would have gotten out his broad leather belt and given me twenty lashes.
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Old 24-05-2010, 05:10 AM   #11
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Dont forget the guys is a journalist, who has to sell stories. That being said I wonder what his reaction would have been if it was his car and not a test drive? This makes me think of all the things and stories I could tell of my mishaps.

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Good article. But I have one problem... I'm pretty sure he didn't "accidentally" start the Porsche. The son sounds like your average novice - only interested in the stereo system and interior, obviously no idea how to operate a manual car. It happens though and I guess it could have been alot worse.

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backed the old mans datto thru the roller door when i was 13yo... gave the bumper a spitty finger rub.. the roller door a touch up.. he still doesnt know..... hehehehe
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i found the article very long winded....

all i wanted to know was how he managed to crash it.. i got 3/4 the way thru and the question still hadn't been answered.. so i gave up..
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Zing!!

Great article, and sounds fairly well handled by all parties concerned. The Porsche press guy sending that photo through is gold!

from a Gen Yer
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Old 26-05-2010, 01:56 PM   #15
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very well written article, and for once commonsence was used, he is right about the son punishing himself more than the dad ever could, he will never live that one down.
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