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Photographic evidence of Saturday’s kangaroo-induced Mitsubishi roll:
Lucky to stop where it did; that incline leads to a Flannery-filled local dam. Innocent dambeasts may have been harmed! In other crucial motoring news:
• Reader “Kaboom” sends these distressing images of a debased Bentley;
• And African-lake obsessives are furious about BBC wheel tracks.
I love the salt-flats one…
They are flat. Covered in salt. Nothing lives there. Make tracks, and once every now and then it rains and makes the salt flat again.
Someone should point out that the salt will assist in the corrosion process and the said vehicles will be returned to their native pure gaia iron oxide again…
Things crash in Canada too, even though we don’t have kangaroos here. (The comments are pretty funny too including a visit from Mr. Lefty’s leftarded Canadian cousin.)
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 07 09 at 06:56 PM • permalinkA roo jumped in between my bro-in-law’s Commadore and the caravan up QLD way quite recently.
The caravan is now air conditioned.
Posted by Admonkeystrator on 2007 07 09 at 07:07 PM • permalinkIn Canada, our roos are bigger than yours. The moose walk away leaving the car and driver wrecked.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 09 at 07:16 PM • permalinkBTW During the two times I’ve been to Oz, the only roos I’ve seen were flattened on the road or on my dinner plate.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 07 09 at 07:17 PM • permalinkI looked up the Makgadikgadi Pan in Wikipedia. According to the entry:
Commercial operations to mine salt and soda ash began in 1991.
And they’re worried about tyre tracks! Wonder what kind of tracks the mining operations leave?
and also:
The largest individual pan is about 5,000 km², and it is frequently covered with water.
I guess that means that the tyre marks will be washed away fairly soon.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 07 09 at 07:58 PM • permalink#26 We rednecked the moon.
*laughs herself into a coughing fit*
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 07 09 at 09:50 PM • permalink#29, noir:
You may be on to something there.
1. The door appears to have been blown open by an internal explosion.
2. The door frame that surrounded the window is charred black from an obviously intense heat. The rest of the paint job is, more or less, unaffected so that means it was a short duration burn and that means flash type explosion.
3. The window glass is missing from that door as well. That is common from an internal blast of this sort. The glass shards are not visible due to the explosion occurring prior to the vehicle inverting. That means the glass shards will be on the ground on the other side from the camera.
4. If you look to the rear of the vehicle, on the ground, there is an object that could easily be a severed leg that has been cauterized by the intense heat of the flash explosion.
5. If you look at the rear wheel that is farthest from the camera, you see what could only be a hole in the undercarriage of the vehicle. This is evidenced by the thin strip of light noticeable under the wheel in question. This is most defiantly the exit hole that the missile made. The ground crater is probably hidden from the camera by the vehicle body.
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Lucky to stop where it did; that incline leads to a Flannery-filled local dam.
“Lucky” is right! I mean, Flannery dams are just dry, rock-strewn ravines, aren’t they?