Where's the Dumbass tag when you need it?

FTA:
didn't have the speed to clear the water trap,

Looks like a bogey.

They still make the Ford Falcon?

Wow what a D__ass...

Why cant people remember the park brake?

"The 22-year-old bricklayer was in a Portaloo when his parked car, unregistered and uninsured, rolled down the hill straight into another Warranwood property . . . the handbrake was off . . .police fined him $600 for driving an unregistered car for the second time in days . . . Mr Walker, who tried to start the car after it was fished out of the pool, said his mechanic had also delivered the news that his car was now a write-off."

Where's the stupid tag? This 22-year-old guy decided to buy a car, didn't insure or register it, got fined twice for being unregistered, parks it without the E-brake (and likely not in Park), dumps it into a pool. He later tried to start the waterlogged engine and is surprised it doesn't work?

The owners of the house aren't too happy at all? Wtf they have to be upset about? A clean new car fell into their dingy dirty pool water.

fark them

/shamelessly hot
//Loved Doris Day in the movie

Australian to english:

Portaloo -> portable toilet

tradies -> tradesmen

2m -> 6 ft

a write-off -> totaled

chippies -> carpenters

mum -> mom

This guy can't park, doesn't know how to register his vehicle or insure it, and expects a water-logged engine to start up with no problem.

Personally, I'm glad this guy's off the road.

SurfaceTension: Is this where I can use the infamouse line "OK, who's the U-boat commander?"



Our Porsches! Where are they? Answer that one, Herr Goering! The rich white kids have plenty of them! Talking big is all he's good for, that fat slob.

Who's the U-Boat commander?

Protip: If you can't afford registration and insurance, then you shouldn't be buying a car.

Mateorocks: Where's the Dumbass tag when you need it?

Dumbass tag is gone swimming with the car

It's just a little water, it's still good.

He should have spent his money on his own Portaloo

What a dickhead

Spanky3woods: Who's the U-Boat commander?



Kaleun, please.

It's OK, we'll just run it in reverse for awhile.

Anybody ask where the U-boat commander is yet?

That pool looks gross.

Was it this guy? (new window)

nytmare: Australian to english:

Portaloo -> portable toilet

tradies -> tradesmen

2m -> 6 ft

a write-off -> totaled

chippies -> carpenters

mum -> mom


Cabbage crates over the briney?

nytmare: Australian to english:

Portaloo -> portable toilet

tradies -> tradesmen

2m -> 6 ft

a write-off -> totaled

chippies -> carpenters

mum -> mom

I knew or could figure all of them out except for chippies. I've never heard that one before.

MrSteve007: "The 22-year-old bricklayer was in a Portaloo when his parked car, unregistered and uninsured, rolled down the hill straight into another Warranwood property . . . the handbrake was off . . .police fined him $600 for driving an unregistered car for the second time in days . . . Mr Walker, who tried to start the car after it was fished out of the pool, said his mechanic had also delivered the news that his car was now a write-off."

Where's the stupid tag? This 22-year-old guy decided to buy a car, didn't insure or register it, got fined twice for being unregistered, parks it without the E-brake (and likely not in Park), dumps it into a pool. He later tried to start the waterlogged engine and is surprised it doesn't work?

he's a bricklayer! you know how much that must hurt?

/never, not even with your dic

Dong? Dong? Where is my automobile?



AUTOMOBILE??

nytmare: a write-off -> totaled

Write-off is used in the US as well.

I said YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!

There's a hill in Australia?

Desmo: There's a hill in Australia?

Two movies came to mind when I read the headline. Risky Business and The Last Boy Scout.

NC140: Anybody ask where the U-boat commander is yet?



Found him.

Beerguy: lendog: That pool looks gross.

Exactly.

That pool is far from new and looks like it is horribly neglected.

Well, judging from the half-completed cinderblock wall around it, and the various "tradies" or "chippies" or whatever standing atop said wall, it looks like it was under construction/renovation.

I probably shouldn't be admitting this publicly, but I ran myself over with my own car before. Same deal - parked it without the e-brake on and walked away only to have it roll forward, knock me down, and run over my leg. At the time I wasn't much older than this guy is. That was the last time I didn't use the e-brake...

If only there was some kind of brake the driver could set that would stop the car from moving when parked on a hill.

How many fosters did this guy have before using the portajohn?

My dad drove a Porsche into a canal in Scottsdale once.

MrSteve007: Where's the stupid tag? This 22-year-old guy decided to buy a car, didn't insure or register it, got fined twice for being unregistered, parks it without the E-brake (and likely not in Park), dumps it into a pool. He later tried to start the waterlogged engine and is surprised it doesn't work?

My guess is it would be a standard. Most people don't put on the emergency brake for automatics, but most of the time when they get away from people they are running and slips into gear. I am not a mechanic but I would assume if it was an automatic it would have slipped into reverse and held fast since it looks like it rolled forward. BUT that is just my opinion and could be wrong. :)

The steering wheel was also missing but there was a spare on the passenger side. That would confuse anyone, especially if you needed a potty break.

A real Australian car would land upside down.

hutchkc: My guess is it would be a standard. Most people don't put on the emergency brake for automatics, but most of the time when they get away from people they are running and slips into gear. I am not a mechanic but I would assume if it was an automatic it would have slipped into reverse and held fast since it looks like it rolled forward. BUT that is just my opinion and could be wrong. :)

Without getting too technical, the primary difference between a standard and the usual type of automatic is that the latter has a set of permanently-interlocking gears that alter their ratios by freezing certain parts of the global gearing, and the former has an actual separate set of gears in different ratios on a pair of shafts that you actually swap between.

So in a standard, "neutral" is just what happens when you haven't set the mesh gear against an actual gear, which includes when you're not moving. This is why it was called a "parking brake" for most of a century before it became an "emergency brake". If you forget to put it on, or it's in bad condition and slips, your car is going to follow gravity, which was the cause of most zero-driver accidents before automatics became common.

In an automatic, "neutral" is a special separate thing that you have to do specifically to disengage the drive shaft and not just what happens whenever you're not in gear, so the neutral hill-roll doesn't happen very often. However, "park" is just all of the cogs being frozen with hydraulic pressure rather than an actual braking mode being engaged, so if you park on a steep enough slope without engaging the parking brake (which is and actual separate braking system) and turning your wheels into the curb, gravity can overcome the static resistance of your hydraulics and your vehicle's going to drift downhill anyhow. Happens all the time in San Francisco, for instance, when tourists from areas that are relatively flat assume that the "park" gear is actually the same thing as a parking brake.

Christ, I think trying to express that in a non-technical way made it more wordy. Short version: given a steep enough hill and a failure to understand how your various braking systems work, this can happen to either kind of transmission.

//There's a third transmission type, the semi-automatic, which is essentially a standard but with a computer of the mechanical (or sometimes electronic) variety to work the clutch for you. Left that out because if you're rich enough and into cars enough to have a paddle shifter then you probably know more about this than I do.

you know who else drove a Ford Falcon?

Jim_Callahan:
In an automatic... "park" is just all of the cogs being frozen with hydraulic pressure rather than an actual braking mode being engaged

Wrong. There is a physical pin (the parking pawl) which locks the output shaft when the transmission is in "P".