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		Not news: Learner driver shows off new car to a friend. News: Then crashes car. Fark: Into a swimming pool (abc.net.au)		51
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Abstruse		2008-10-02 07:02:26 AM

Damn, I was hoping for a new FAIL pic...stupid ABC News...

CtrlAltDelete		2008-10-02 07:30:44 AM

Well, what did we learn today?

Zed-ex		2008-10-02 08:32:16 AM

CtrlAltDelete: Well, what did we learn today?

Water is bad for the engine?

Barfmaker		2008-10-02 08:33:12 AM

"I think there's water in the carburator"

cherryl taggart		2008-10-02 08:34:29 AM

I was going to bash 16 year old drivers and their parents, then RTFA. The driver was 31!! Dear God in Heaven!! Where's Darwin when you need him?

dittybopper		2008-10-02 08:34:32 AM

So who's the U-boat commander?

Richard Saunders		2008-10-02 08:36:41 AM

The learner driver had been displaying P plates.

Will someone please translate that to American. Thanks.

/P is for pool

bump		2008-10-02 08:37:31 AM

"The learner driver had been displaying P plates."

Well.... okay then.

ripple123		2008-10-02 08:39:11 AM

Thats so rock star.

allegedman		2008-10-02 08:39:35 AM

FAIL Tags should only be used for articles with fail.... FOLLOWING A PICTURE!

otherwise use the dumbass tag.

idrow		2008-10-02 08:42:26 AM

/Obligatory

lobotomy survivor		2008-10-02 08:47:11 AM

Another FAIL tag without FAIL picture... shame, failmitter and failmod

Archie Goodwin		2008-10-02 08:51:16 AM

Richard Saunders: The learner driver had been displaying P plates.

Will someone please translate that to American. Thanks.

/P is for pool

P plates indicate the driver is on a probationary licence.

Gordinho		2008-10-02 08:53:11 AM

They're gonna have to go re tune it!

www.dragonsdenuk.com

/hotlinked

Phil Herup		2008-10-02 08:53:34 AM

Nothing is better than this SV650 crash

SV650 crash (YouTube -pops)

Richard Saunders		2008-10-02 08:55:36 AM

Archie Goodwin - Thank you.

/P is for probationer pays for plying a pool

ScottMpls		2008-10-02 08:55:39 AM

CtrlAltDelete: Well, what did we learn today?

Cars don't float? Only witches float, right?

jejpu		2008-10-02 08:56:51 AM

Don't P in my pool.

/got nothing else

nobozo		2008-10-02 08:59:59 AM

_{"tastes like a baby ruth"}

JesterGirl		2008-10-02 09:02:24 AM

I peed in your pool yaaaaaay!

psyon		2008-10-02 09:02:33 AM

That has got to be the worse use of that headline meme ever.

boogie_down		2008-10-02 09:05:51 AM

unimpressed

ripple123		2008-10-02 09:12:11 AM

Welcome to our ool.
Notice theres no P in it.
We'd like to keep it that way.

yogaFLAME		2008-10-02 09:19:15 AM

Can we take it easy on the Not News: $x News: $y Fark: $z format? I mean, c'mon. Crashing a car is news?

/Yeah, my variables start with $
//Have been programming in bash recently

Linto		2008-10-02 09:21:13 AM

mrtk421		2008-10-02 09:24:39 AM

Was he trying to deliver a pizza?

SteelBeak		2008-10-02 09:28:15 AM

Nick Nostril		2008-10-02 09:29:56 AM

The man, 31, says he lost control of the car and managed to jump out just before it went into the pool, in Aberfeldy Avenue at Edwardstown.

1. "Learner" driver
2. Male
3. 31 years old

Add it all up, and just those three = FAIL

Ashion_Archanion		2008-10-02 09:40:28 AM

"Try it now..."

"I think the engine is flooded"

geetus		2008-10-02 09:42:05 AM

My wife's ex crashed his car while showing it off to a prospective buyer. Flipped the convertible, killed his friend, and put himself in a coma which lasted about 9 years before he finally died.

Hershey Highway Patrol		2008-10-02 09:43:20 AM

Hiro?

looky loo		2008-10-02 09:53:30 AM

FTFA:"I think you got to be lucky some time and I reckon this time I was lucky because I didn't think I would've had the chance to run away because it happened so quick."

Truly words to live by

trifthen		2008-10-02 10:11:27 AM

Look, I know this is in Australia, but could someone tell me why "learner" is magically grammatically correct there? Something wrong with "student?"

swaxhog		2008-10-02 10:14:31 AM

geetus: My wife's ex crashed his car while showing it off to a prospective buyer. Flipped the convertible, killed his friend, and put himself in a coma which lasted about 9 years before he finally died.

On the bright side, you did get to marry her.

/glass half full kind of guy..

aaparker07		2008-10-02 10:18:36 AM

FAIL

angrybeefbrisket		2008-10-02 10:25:11 AM

Look, I know this is in Australia, but could someone tell me why "learner" is magically grammatically correct there? Something wrong with "student?"

olapbill		2008-10-02 10:25:34 AM

for those wanting the pic... www.news.com.au

fail away

tbonetime		2008-10-02 10:26:14 AM

"Carpool" - you're doing it wrong

trifthen		2008-10-02 10:27:51 AM

angrybeefbrisket

Funny. Now how about you stop being an ass?

Mose		2008-10-02 10:28:53 AM

Came in for the swimming cars pictures.

/Did not leave dissapointed.

angrybeefbrisket		2008-10-02 10:29:43 AM

Kid, I did that for your own good. It was a stupid question in the first place, and we're all more stupid for having heard it.

Go play with some dolls.

TnJed		2008-10-02 10:34:59 AM

mrtk421: Was he trying to deliver a pizza?

I see what you did there.

I came to make a Y.T. reference.

/nice

hdhale		2008-10-02 10:35:20 AM

dittybopper: So who's the U-boat commander?

Miles: Sometimes you gotta say "What the fark", make your move. Joel, every now and then, saying "What the fark", brings freedom. Freedom brings opportunity, opportunity brings freedom. So your parents are going out of town. You got the place all to yourself.
Joel Goodson: Yeah.
Miles: What the fark.

hockeychick		2008-10-02 10:35:47 AM

boogie_down

That was an awesome episode. I've always wanted to do that with one of my old cars.

global wombats		2008-10-02 10:36:49 AM

trifthen: Look, I know this is in Australia, but could someone tell me why "learner" is magically grammatically correct there? Something wrong with "student?"

What's wrong with the word 'learner'?

It's a perfectly cromulent word!

rodeofrog		2008-10-02 10:41:35 AM

Guy Gadbois unavailable for comment.

GanjSmokr		2008-10-02 11:04:38 AM

FTFA:"I just turned around one second at first, bang there and then another," he said.

can someone translate this to english for me?

Mobkey		2008-10-02 11:22:45 AM

yogaFLAME: Can we take it easy on the Not News: $x News: $y Fark: $z format? I mean, c'mon. Crashing a car is news?

/Yeah, my variables start with $
//Have been programming in bash recently

Pretty much what I came in to say.

LittleIrishCarBomb		2008-10-02 11:34:02 AM

I've seen this happen before..except it was a snotty, spoiled sorority chick who drove her brand new Range Rover into the swimming pool of her apartment complex when she was dead-out drunk. I laughed when I saw her driving a Saturn POS two weeks later.