By the year 2007, I'm sure everyone has heard of the infamous Darwin Awards, awarded annually to people who unsanctimoniously remove themselves from the human gene pool.
I've always thought it a little silly when people with small cars insist on backing into parking places for a quicker get away, like they were robbing a bank everywhere they go. If you have a big truck and have a hard time backing out, that's one thing. But if you drive, say, a Ford Mustang, that should be plenty maneuverable to just park normally. There's a certain group of people who seem more likely to do so, but that's neither here nor there.
So here's my nomination for a Darwin Award this year. A man living in a high rise apartment complex said to have very narrow parking places was backing his Ford Mustang into a parking spot on the fifth floor of the parking garage. One would think that at normal parking velocities a solid cinderblock wall might be able to withstand impact with a car. Based on the fact that there are tire marks indicating he was backing up, one can only guess at what the driver was thinking about as they peeled out in reverse into a small tight parking space. Perhaps they thought, "Maybe this skinny pedal on the left is the brake". In any event, the driver managed to reach escape velocity and launched their car through the wall onto a building below. Upside down. Unfortunately, the driver did not survive his short flight, but such is the nature of natural selection.
I've always thought it a little silly when people with small cars insist on backing into parking places for a quicker get away, like they were robbing a bank everywhere they go. If you have a big truck and have a hard time backing out, that's one thing. But if you drive, say, a Ford Mustang, that should be plenty maneuverable to just park normally. There's a certain group of people who seem more likely to do so, but that's neither here nor there.
So here's my nomination for a Darwin Award this year. A man living in a high rise apartment complex said to have very narrow parking places was backing his Ford Mustang into a parking spot on the fifth floor of the parking garage. One would think that at normal parking velocities a solid cinderblock wall might be able to withstand impact with a car. Based on the fact that there are tire marks indicating he was backing up, one can only guess at what the driver was thinking about as they peeled out in reverse into a small tight parking space. Perhaps they thought, "Maybe this skinny pedal on the left is the brake". In any event, the driver managed to reach escape velocity and launched their car through the wall onto a building below. Upside down. Unfortunately, the driver did not survive his short flight, but such is the nature of natural selection.
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Hey, I think you should go and see if you can add that on the Darwin Awards website
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