Clown drives 400km in unsafe vehicle

[scumdog]

And if a 'big one' hit Waikenae what will they do???


(Just lucky for other road users they don't live in Whangarei huh?)

[SMOKEU]

Where's the pink sticker?

[oneofsix]

Where's the pink sticker?

They are only for boy racers, as he was the shirt and tie type from the photo they wouldn't dare!
It would be so funny if his insurance turned around and told him he had increased the damage to the Lexus by driving it and they were therefore only liable for half pay out

[White trash]

Big smiles and showing off bricks. Couple of "Look at me"s having their fifteen seconds of glory.

Retards.

[Smifffy]

Where's the pink sticker?

Yeah, I wonder how much longer he could get away with driving it before the cops realised he was taking the piss.

If one were to purchase this vehicle from the insurance company, would it be ok to drive on the road as is (providing rego was up to date)?

[davebullet]

He should be disqualified from driving. What they went through gives them no excuse to add to the danger of other road users.

The article said as it began to rain, it reduced visibility through the already dismal windscreen where the wiper blades weren't working either.

If they were that traumatised - I don't think even jumping in a perfectly good vehicle and driving 400kms is a wise idea.

He should have had the book thrown at him.

[pzkpfw]

If he'd had a head-on and killed someone, what would the headlines have been?

[Bren]

I understand he wanted to get out...Fuck I do too....

But to drive that distance with no visibility...as scummy said, he should have at least kicked out the windscreen....and the cops on the way should have told him to do that too!!!

[bogan]

I read the title and was expecting and actual clown car, with funny paper mache and comical horn etc. Seems to be a typical attitude among too many these days, as long as I get where I want to go, I don't care who else I put at risk. Also, I've driven paddock hacks with munted windscreens, it's not too bad, so he may be overstating how bad it was to drive. either way he seems like a bit of an ass. And I would have expected better from the cops that pulled them over, it clearly isn't up to snuff, so telling them to pull in at the nearest motel is the least they could have done I reckon.

[Banditbandit]

Where you read that fairfax want us to think they are some sort of heros beats me !

They own Stuff.co.nz and they are the ones that wrote it up that way.

As oneofsix says, it was written as if they were heros .. without actually using those words

Hey, I am not saying that it was right or wrong. It's not everyday that you experience such a traumatic event and see dead people lying there without being able to do anything. I am just saying that none of us really know how we'd react in the same situation is all.....

That's true .. but driving that wreck to Nelson and then Waikanae was even more dangerous than being in the earthquake ... I sincerely hope that none of us would react like that and put so many other people at risk.

[neels]

What a couple of fuckwits.

Probably fair enough driving the thing to somewhere safe, although it would have been nice to stop and check if there was anyone that needed help rather than just getting in and fucking off. But carrying on to nelson for a couple of days holiday with friends and then home to the north island is just retarded.

I sincerely hope someone somewhere can find something in the law books that they can send them a summons for, seeing has they have already confessed to whatever crime is applicable.

[merv]

Its a Lexus and that's a Toyota so he was only doing what Top Gear would have done, like they did with their Hi Lux. Now maybe he just needs to drop the Lexus off a tall building or something and drive it into the ocean.

[oneofsix]

Its a Lexus and that's a Toyota so he was only doing what Top Gear would have done, like they did with their Hi Lux. Now maybe he just needs to drop the Lexus off a tall building or something and drive it into the ocean.

Are you suggesting they shouldn't have bothered with the ferry?

[sinfull]

As oneofsix says, it was written as if they were heros .. without actually using those words

Depends on who's reading it i guess aye, some ppl are easily led

That's true .. but driving that wreck to Nelson and then Waikanae was even more dangerous than being in the earthquake ... I sincerely hope that none of us would react like that and put so many other people at risk.

You should be writing storys for the media !

Only thing he didn't do that i may have, apart from stay for a shift, would be kick the screen out ! All that car had was dents on top, were the bags deployed ?

Fuckin drama queens

[AllanB]

When you have experienced what they had then come back to us and tell us what you would've done.

I have experienced it. As have many KBers.

I understand the initial fleeing as does anyone in Christchurch. What I don't understand is many hours later after the initial panic is over, and the buggers were way out of town, why he/she did not stop and consider the possibility of them causing more deaths. FFS driving it in the rain!

Nope - after the point where they were 100's of KM's clear of Christchurch they turned into a pair of irresponsible fools. They had many options available to them that most of Christchurch City did not - they could have dumped their car in Nelson (or earlier) and got a rental, or flown out of the South Island.

I can't believe the police in Wellington letting them drive on - surely they should have escorted them to a rental car company or airport.

Pop a mono on your bike and you're in the shit.

Maybe I have a good excuse now in Christchurch to ride my bike like a dork - I'll just claim I'm still in shock.