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Title: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: Ibanez on April 28, 2010, 03:10:01 PM
(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z211/wavoka/dumbass1.jpg?t=1272485577)
(http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z211/wavoka/dumbass2.jpg)
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: custosnox on April 28, 2010, 03:19:15 PM
ummm... ahhh... do what?
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: TheArtist on April 28, 2010, 03:25:09 PM
They should leave it like that as art.  8)
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: nathanm on April 28, 2010, 03:30:19 PM
Was that a toyota, or did they just mistake the gas pedal for the brake pedal again?  :o
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: custosnox on April 28, 2010, 03:40:48 PM
I reconize the building but can't place it.  Where is that?
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: Conan71 on April 28, 2010, 03:52:01 PM
Quote from: TheArtist on April 28, 2010, 03:25:09 PM
They should leave it like that as art.  8)

Beat me to it...
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: DolfanBob on April 28, 2010, 04:09:57 PM
Awsome pics. Are those yours Wavoka ?
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: Ihearttacos on April 28, 2010, 04:58:21 PM
It was a mercedes...Oops!
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: nathanm on April 28, 2010, 05:08:45 PM
Now if only someone had a picture of the license plate. ;)
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: Red Arrow on April 28, 2010, 06:16:35 PM
Quote from: nathanm on April 28, 2010, 05:08:45 PM
Now if only someone had a picture of the license plate. ;)

I heard on the evening news it has vanity plates from a local Mercedes dealership. It's a loaner.
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: Renaissance on April 28, 2010, 06:51:34 PM
Wow!  I bet somebody didn't know the brake from the gas.
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: custosnox on April 28, 2010, 06:56:13 PM
Quote from: Floyd on April 28, 2010, 06:51:34 PM
Wow!  I bet somebody didn't know the brake from the gas.

From what I'm hearing of it now, that's pretty much what happened.
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: dbacks fan on April 28, 2010, 07:56:10 PM
Quote from: custosnox on April 28, 2010, 03:40:48 PM
I reconize the building but can't place it.  Where is that?

Isn't the building in the backgroud the old Fourth National builing?

BofA building 6th & Boulder, parking garage on the east side.
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: dbacks fan on April 28, 2010, 08:28:49 PM
Now I know why that building really stuck out in my mind. In the 70's they imploded a building just to the north of it on Boulder, and when the building came down the top leaned to the south and took a chunk out of the parking garage on that side of the building.
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: sgrizzle on April 28, 2010, 08:49:53 PM
Pretty sure it takes some effort to back through a brick wall.
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: Red Arrow on April 28, 2010, 10:43:51 PM
If the mortar between the bricks isn't any better than the concrete on our streets, maybe not so big an effort.
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: custosnox on April 28, 2010, 10:59:59 PM
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20100428_11_0_Downto436318&rss_lnk=11

Complete with a video, though not exactly quality journalism on that part of it.
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: cynical on April 28, 2010, 11:40:22 PM
Not too much effort.  Benzes have crumple zones.  My daughter folded up a late '80s E-type pretty well running it into the back of a Taurus.  The Taurus was hardly scratched.  The Benz was totaled.  She was unhurt.

That car was hardly crumpled.  Here's a pic of the car that went through the wall after it was retrieved:

(http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs538.ash1/31516_802053501287_9607509_43846389_449428_s.jpg)

There's damage, but not much.  according to the paper, they were able to drive it back into the garage.  If he'd hit one of the columns in there the car would have been badly damaged.  As it was, the brick wall was the path of least resistance.

Quote from: sgrizzle on April 28, 2010, 08:49:53 PM
Pretty sure it takes some effort to back through a brick wall.
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: azbadpuppy on April 29, 2010, 12:20:48 AM
Quote from: TheArtist on April 28, 2010, 03:25:09 PM
They should leave it like that as art.  8)

Hah! When I first glanced at the photo I thought it was an installation piece.
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: Breadburner on April 29, 2010, 09:59:14 AM
Three Martini lunch..... ???
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: DolfanBob on April 29, 2010, 05:25:57 PM
You really know you have made the big time when the Daily Mail picks up your story.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1269697/Merecedes-smashes-wall-7-storeys-Oklahoma-car-park.html
Title: Re: New drive thru in downtown!
Post by: Ibanez on October 27, 2012, 10:29:25 AM
Quote from: DolfanBob on April 28, 2010, 04:09:57 PM
Awsome pics. Are those yours Wavoka ?

Sorry just saw this thanks to the other thread. A guy I work with took them. I was in my office when he called and said "look out your window." He was out on a smoke break and saw all the commotion so he walked over and took the pics.